Sunday 14 February 2021

Too cold for a walk? Try a quiz

Dear Blogger

No prizes, just self satisfaction!

The Silver Screen

 Film star Marion Morrison was better known as - -

What instrument was the Harry Lime theme played on in the film The Third Man

In which film is Carry Grant attacked by a low flying aircraft in a Maize field?

How many films has Meryl Streep been nominated for an Oscar? 

How many has Meryl Streep won?  

Who played and composed the theme tune for Genevieve on a mouth organ?

Who said," When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad I'm better?"

Who said, " Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse - all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic."

An elderly school governess Miss Froy disappears on a train journey across Europe causing consternation aboard - what is this 1938 film starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave?

The first of three versions, this launched the Hollywood career of which British director?

Based on a Daphne du Maurier story which 1963 film directed by him had an unusual avian menace?

Which British film of 1962 saw a world where alien plants took over?

What alien invasion commenced on Horsell Common near Woking in Surrey?

Considered one of the great Science Fiction films of the 1950s, and starring Walter Pidgeon, it is said to be loosely-based on Shakespeare's The Tempest?

What series of sci-fi dramas by Nigel Kneale were produced by the BBC from 1953?

What popular American series of the 1950s and 1960s, starring Ward Bond, told the story of early settlers migrating west?

Which 1952 US film starring Gary Cooper featured a small town Marshall's dilemma as to other to flee or face up to a gang of desperados?

Which film, based on a Tennessee Williams play, about tensions in a dysfunctional Southern US family starred Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives and Paul Newman?

What 1945 film, based on a screenplay by Noel Coward, features a married woman's dilemma after a chance meeting at a railway station?

Which greatly acclaimed British film by David Lean begins with the hero's death in a motor cycle accident in 1935?

Another quiz on another boring day