Movies from 1974 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: Blazing Saddles

"Blazing Saddles" is a Western comedy starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. Cleavon plays a black railroad worker named Bart who suddenly becomes the sheriff of a town where everyone is basically bigoted. With help from Jim the "Waco Kid" (Gene Wilder), Bart manages to get support from the townspeople and stop the town from being torn down by a ruthless hired gang.

Answer: The Towering Inferno

"The Towering Inferno" is a disaster movie about a skyscraper catching fire on the upper floors. Unable to reach all the people on the upper floors, fire chief O'Hallorhan (Steve McQueen) and building architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) come up with a plan to blow up the water tanks on top of the building in hopes of drowning out the fire.

Answer: Young Frankenstein

"Young Frankenstein" is a horror comedy starring Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of Victor Frankenstein. Frederick creates a monster in the same manner as his grandfather but he implants an abnormal brain into the monster that is supplied to him by his goofy hump backed assistant Igor (Marty Feldman).

Answer: The Longest Yard

"The Longest Yard" Is a football movie about an ex-superstar football player named Paul Crewe (Burt Reynolds) who goes prison for stealing a car. In prison, the warden forces Paul to put a football team made up of prisoners together so that his semi-pro team consisting of the prison guards can have a warm up game before they start the season.

Answer: Death Wish

"Death Wish" is an action movie about an architect named Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) who turns into a vigilante when his wife is murdered by punks that break into his apartment. Kersey goes out at night in search of and kills hoodlums before they can harm others.

Answer: It's Alive

"It's Alive" is a horror movie about a deformed monstrous newborn that attacks and kills anyone it comes in contact with. Doctors determine that the cause of the deformity was due to fertility drugs that the mother was taking. When the baby is finally killed by police, they find out that another monster baby was born in the city.

Answer: The Lords of Flatbush

"The Lords of Flatbush" is a drama about group of Brooklyn teenagers who have a club known as The Lords of Flatbush. The gang does all the stereotypical things that street gangs did in the late '50s and early '60s. It stars Sylvester Stallone in one of his first movie roles. Stallone plays Stanley Rosiello, the tough guy of the gang. Stallone is also credited with writing some of the dialogue for the movie.

Answer: Earthquake

"Earthquake" is one of the big budget big name disaster films that were popular in the '70s. It stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, and many others. It is about an earthquake that hits the Los Angeles area. It deals with multiple personal stories about the lives of the people in the movie along with dealing with the quake itself.

Answer: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

"Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" is a crime movie about an ex-combat soldier and bank robber named Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) and a drifter named Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) who team up to rob a bank depository using a military cannon to open the vault. Thunderbolt had successfully committed the same crime years earlier but ended up losing the money because the building where he hid the cash disappeared.

At the end of the movie, Thunderbolt discovers that the building had been moved to a different location and still contained the stolen cash.

Answer: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is a horror film about a group of young adults that wind up at a house of horrors when their van breaks down. The people get killed off one by one in a variety of fashions. The main killer is a huge man in a leather mask that wields a chainsaw.