One Word Title Movies of the Seventies Quiz

Answer: McQ

John Wayne was cast as Seattle Police Detective Lieutenant Lon McQ in the 1974 film. His boss was played by Eddie Albert. The film centered around the murder of McQ's partner and an unfolding narcotics investigation. David Huddleston was cast as McQ's private detective associate and Diana Muldaur was his love interest in the film. John Wayne would star in only three more movies before he passed in 1979.
"Badlands" was a film based on the Starkweather-Fugate murders that took place in the fifties in the Dakotas.
"Companeros" was a 1970 Sergio Corbucci Western starring Franco Nero.
"Coonskin" was a controversial film dealing with racial inequality and mob characters featuring Scatman Crothers and Barry White with a supporting cast.

Answer: Airport

The original "Airport" was released in 1970. The movie was based on a 1968 book and centered around an airport manager's problems with a snowstorm and a suicide bomber on a plane. Burt Lancaster played the airport manager.
Four years later "Airport 1975" was released. The film focused on a mid-air collision and the efforts of the surviving crew to bring the plane to a safe landing. Charlton Heston and Karen Black headed the cast.
Jack Lemmon, Joseph Cotton and Brenda Vaccaro were among the cast of "Airport 77". The film featured a Boeing 747 that sank.
The final film of the series was "The Concorde: Airport '79" which starred Robert Wagner and Susan Blakely. In the film the Concorde crashed into the Alps. "The Concorde: Airport '79" was the final film in the series, making a total of four.
The only "Halloween" film released in the seventies was the 1978 original "Halloween". The 1971 film "Shaft" had only two sequels in the seventies, "Shaft's Big Score" (1972) and "Shaft in Africa" (1973). "Rocky" was released in 1976 and the only sequel done in the seventies was "Rocky II" in 1979. The rest were produced in the eighties.

Answer: Candleshoe

"Candleshoe" was a Disney release about clues and treasure hidden somewhere on the Candleshoe estate. David Niven and Jody Foster starred along with Helen Hayes. Hayes made her final big screen appearance in the film. The movie was adapted from a Michael Innes book titled "Christmas at Candleshoe".
National General Pictures released the 1970 film, "Scrooge", an adaptation of the Charles Dickens story "A Christmas Carol". David Collings was cast as Bob Cratchit while Albert Finney played Ebenezer Scrooge.
"Rollercoaster" was a 1977 Universal Pictures suspense film in Surround Sound set in amusement parks starring George Segal, Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark.
"Abby"(1974) was an American International Pictures suspense film about demonic possession and exorcisms featuring William Marshall.

Answer: Deliverance

James Dickey wrote the book which "Deliverance" was based on. He also had a bit part as a sheriff in the film. The movie featured a group of four friends who decided to canoe a river before it became dammed. They ran afoul of locals and ended up fighting for their lives.
"Black Snake" was a 1973 period film shot on location in Barbados that depicted a plantation owner's cruel treatment of slaves in the Colonial era.
"Piranha" was a 1978 film about piranhas being released into a lake near a youth camp. Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies topped the bill.
"Themroc" was a low-budget 1973 French film involving a working class individual who rebelled against society and eventually reverted to being similar to a caveman.

Answer: Hardcore

George C. Scott, Season Hubley and Peter Boyle starred in "Hardcore", a 1979 film concerning a man who ventured into the business of pornography filming, to find his runaway daughter. After encountering a lack of cooperation from the authorities, George C. Scott's character went underground posing as a producer and teamed up with a prostitute and porno actress in an effort to locate his daughter.
"Shivers" was a 1975 horror suspense film about a group of residents in a community who infected each other with a parasite.
The 1977 release, "Rabid", dealt with a girl who became bloodthirsty after an operation on her went awry.
"Blackula" was released in 1972. It featured a scenario where decorators purchased the coffin of one of Dracula's victims.
"Alien" (1979) and "Eraserhead" (1977" were other seventies suspense/horror movies.

Answer: Rats

In "Willard" the rat's name was Socrates. Willard was the eccentric man who befriended the rat. Bruce Davison played Willard and Elsa Lanchester was his mother. It was one of her last film appearances and the part of Joan was one of Sondra Locke's first roles.
A rat named Ben was introduced in "Willard" and the following year became the main character in the sequel by the same name. Lee H. Montgomery played a young boy who became Ben's friend and a source of comfort when the boy was the victim of bullying. The rat gradually became controlling, resulting in the police eliminating most of the colony, but Ben survived. Michael Jackson enjoyed his first solo Number One record with the theme song of the movie.
"Benji" (1974) was about a dog.

Answer: Bananas

After being spurned by his girlfriend, Woody Allen's character went to South America, joined a revolution and became president of the country of San Marcos. The actions impressed his political activist girlfriend and they reunited. Louise Lasser played Woody Allen's girlfriend, Nancy, in "Bananas". Howard Cosell played himself doing occasional play-by-plays in the revolution.
"Obsession" was a 1976 release starring Cliff Robertson who encountered and fell in love with a girl who reminded him of his wife who had been killed in a car crash.
"Stardust" starred David Essex in the 1974 film about a rock star named Jim Maclaine.
Koo Stark starred in "Emily", a 1976 release about a girl coming of age in the Roaring Twenties.
"Manhattan" was another seventies Woody Allen movie.

Answer: Westworld

Yul Brynner starred as a robot in a futuristic theme park with an ensemble of robots who interacted with visitors. It became difficult to tell the androids from real people. Yul Brynner's gunfighter android suddenly went on a rampage killing one guest and trying to track down another. A 1975 sequel, "Futureworld", featured Brynner returning as the Western gunfighter android.
"Amarcord" was a Federico Fellini movie released in 1976 about an Italian town set in the thirties.
"Blackenstein" was a 1973 film about a Vietnam veteran who lost his limbs in combat. His limbs were replaced but after receiving the wrong medication the veteran became a killer.
Michael Caine and Peter Ustinov starred in "Ashanti". The 1979 film centered around a doctor kidnapped in Africa by a slave trader.

Answer: Berlin

"Cabaret" was set in 1931 Berlin before the rise of dictator Adolph Hitler. The film was an adaptation of a Broadway play by the same name. In 1973 it earned eight of ten Academy Awards for which it was nominated. Bob Fosse received an Academy Award for Best Director, Minelli for Best Actress and Joel Gray for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

The film's main character was Sally, played by Liza Minnelli. She lived a carefree lifestyle and ended up pregnant. Not knowing who the father was, a male friend played by Michael York offered to marry her. Joel Gray played the emcee of the Kit Kat Club where Sally entertained.

The film featured a ten-song score written by John Kander and Fred Ebb. "(Life is a) Cabaret" is still a staple of Liza Minnelli concerts.

Answer: Lenny

Dustin Hoffman played Lenny Bruce in the 1974 film, "Lenny", about the life of the controversial comedian. The film traced Bruce's roots from a Catskills comedian through the controversial career he had performing what was deemed obscene comedy at the time. Valerie Perrine played Honey Bruce and Bob Fosse directed the film. In 2003 Lenny Bruce received a posthumous pardon from the governor of New York for his 1964 conviction on obscenity charges.
"Carrie" was a 1976 movie starring Sissy Spacek in the lead role of a horror film based on a Steven King novel.
The 1970 film "Joe" starred Dennis Patrick as a man who killed his daughter's junkie boyfriend. Afterward he met a man named Joe Curran who hated hippies, played by Peter Boyle and they struck up a friendship. Susan Sarandon made her big screen debut in the film.
"Bobby" was a 1973 movie about a love affair between people of two classes that was made and set in India.