My Favorite Movies of 1973 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Charley Varrick

"Charley Varrick" stars Walter Matthau as a crop duster and former stunt pilot who robs a bank with his wife and two accomplices. They find much more money than they expected, as the bank manager was laundering it for the mob. The gangsters soon come after Varrick and his gang.

Answer: Westworld

In 1983, an amusement park consisting of three sections, Roman World, Medieval World, and Westworld promises a vacation you'll never forget. The trouble begins when the androids stop following their programming and defy, disobey, and kill guests. The film stars Yul Brynner, James Brolin, and Richard Benjamin.

Answer: Dillinger

Warren Oates stars as John Dillinger, an American bank robber who was active in the Depression era. The film follows him from the "Kansas City Massacre", a 1933 shootout with the FBI, to Dillinger's death in an ambush in Chicago in 1934.

Answer: The Sting

Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as two grifters in 1930s Chicago who scheme to take half a million dollars from mobster Doyle Lonegan with a phony horse betting parlor. This is in retaliation for Lonegan killing a friend of theirs after he beat one of Lonegan's numbers runners for a large sum of money.

Answer: Badlands

A fictionalized account of the 1958 crime spree of Charles Starkweather and his teenaged girlfriend Caril Fugate in Nebraska, "Badlands" follows a South Dakota couple as they kill, rob, and terrorize people until they are captured. The film stars Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

Answer: Soylent Green

In a dystopian New York City of 2022, global warming and overpopulation have resulted in shortages of food and housing. A detective investigates the murder of a prominent citizen, which leads him to discover a horrible secret about the world's food supply.

Answer: The Day of the Dolphin

A married couple of scientists have great success teaching a pair of dolphins to talk. When the couple attends a press conference to announce their project, the animals are stolen by government agents who hope to use them as assassins. The film stars George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere.

Answer: Sleeper

Woody Allen stars as a man who is mistakenly cryogenically frozen after an unsuccessful operation and wakes up in the year 2173. America is now a badly run police state, and Allen gets recruited by a resistance organization trying to overthrow the government.

Answer: Electra Glide in Blue

Robert Blake plays a motorcycle cop in Arizona who gets his chance to be a detective when he is assigned to assist on a murder case. The investigation uncovers corruption and graft in his department, which ultimately threatens his job and his life.

Answer: Serpico

Al Pacino stars as Frank Serpico, an honest New York City policeman who was appalled by the rampant corruption he saw in his department. After being shot during a drug raid by a fellow officer, Serpico exposed the rampant graft and corruption in the department to Federal authorities.

Answer: The Exorcist

A pre-teen girl's bizarre behavior leads her actress mother to consult her priest and have an exorcism performed. An horrific ordeal ensues as two priests perform the ritual on the girl. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, and Linda Blair.

Answer: Papillon

French convict Henri Charriere is sentenced to prison in French Guiana in the 1930s. He befriends a fellow inmate, a counterfeiter, and protects him in exchange for money to finance his escape attempts. The film stars Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, and Anthony Zerbe.

Answer: Massacre in Rome

"Massacre in Rome" is a dramatized account of an incident in 1944 wherein a German SS unit executed 335 civilians in retaliation for an attack by Italian partisans. The film stars Richard Burton, Peter Vaughn, and Marcelo Mastroiani.

Answer: Paper Moon

A con man meets a nine year old Kansas girl at her mother's funeral. He agrees to take her to her aunt in Missouri, first obtaining 200 dollars from the brother of the man who accidentally killed her mother. The girl refuses to leave without what she says is her money, and she and the grifter become a team. The film stars Ryan O'Neal and Tatum O'Neal.

Answer: Mean Streets

Martin Scorsese directed this tale of a Mafia foot soldier and his best friend, an unlucky gambler who owes money to loan sharks and eventually runs afoul of his friend's employers. The movie stars Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel.