Movies In Other Words II Trivia Quiz

Answer: 12 Angry Men

The 1957 movie "12 Angry Men" stars Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Jack Warden, Jack Klugman, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, John Fiedler, Edward Binns, E. G. Marshall, Robert Webber, and Martin Balsam as twelve jurors. They have to decide the fate of an 18 year old accused of murdering his father. After a preliminary vote of 11 to 1 to convict, the lone hold out, juror #8(Henry Fonda) tries to convince the other jurors that they are making a mistake and there is not enough evidence to convict.

Answer: Blackboard Jungle

The 1955 movie "Blackboard Jungle" stars Glenn Ford as teacher Richard Dadier, Sidney Poitier as student Gregory Miller, Anne Francis as Mrs. Dadier , and Vic Morrow as student Artie West. The story is about a new teacher sent to an inner-city school who tries to get through to a bunch of students with anti-social behavior.

He manages to get through to some students but finds that Artie is the main instigator and bad apple of the class and is a lost cause.

Answer: How to Marry a Millionaire

The 1953 movie "How to Marry a Millionaire" stars Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall. The movie is about three gold-digging women who rent an expensive apartment so they can lure rich men in for a possible marriage proposal.

Answer: The Man Who Knew Too Much

The 1956 movie "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is about an American family, Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna (James Stewart), his wife, singer Josephine Conway "Jo" McKenna (Doris Day), and their son Henry "Hank" McKenna (Christopher Olsen) who are vacationing in Morocco and inadvertently stumble across a plot to assassinate a foreign statesman.

The conspirators kidnap Hank in order to keep the his parents from interfering in the plot.

Answer: House of Wax

The 1953 "House of Wax" stars Vincent Price as wax sculptor Professor Henry Jarrod who is forced by his business partner to create a chamber of horrors room in his wax museum in order increase profits. When Jarrod refuses, his partner sets fire to the museum in order to collect insurance money and kill Jarrod in the process. Jarrod reappears 18 months later and creates the chamber of horrors and fills it by killing people and waxing over their bodies.

Answer: The Great Escape

The 1963 movie "The Great Escape" stars Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, and James Garner. It centers around the true story of a group of allied prisoners of war who devise an underground tunnel escape from German P.O.W. camp Stalag Luft III during WWII, and the aftermath of the escape.

Answer: Ice Station Zebra

The 1966 movie "Ice Station Zebra" stars Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine, and Jim Brown. The movie is about a race by the Americans and Russians to the Arctic to retrieve secret photographic microfilm from a Russian satellite that accidentally landed near an Arctic weather station.

The reason both sides want the film is because the satellite accidentally took pictures of both U.S. and Russian military installations.

Answer: Dirty Dancing

The 1987 "Dirty Dancing" stars Patrick Swayze as dance instructor and "boy toy" Johnny Castle and Jennifer Grey as Frances "Baby" Houseman. It is a story about a 17 year old girl vacationing with her well to do parents at a resort in the Catskill Mountains. Because of Johnny's usual dance partner's unexpected condition, Baby volunteers to fill in as his partner and ends up falling in love with Johnny.

Answer: Dune

The 1984 movie "Dune" stars Kyle MacLachlan, Max von Sydow, Patrick Stewart, and rock star Sting. It is a Sci-Fi movie centering on the acquisition and control of a drug known as melange or "the spice". The drug has special properties, such as extending life and properties that allow instantaneous interstellar travel.

Answer: School of Rock

The 2003 movie "School of Rock" stars Jack Black as Dewey Finn, an out of work musician who takes a job as a substitute teacher in an upscale school in order to help pay bills. He finds that some of the students in his class are exceptional musicians, so he decides to transform the class into a rock band in order to compete in a "Battle of the Bands" competition.