Although I specialize in vignettes and quotes, this week we’re doing real trivia. Because real trivia is harder to assemble and harder (I think) to solve, you’re only getting five questions.
1. In this courtroom drama, the two leads had each played the same role in two different film versions of the same story, ten years apart.
Solved by Evn (comment #11).
2. The star of this movie is the son of an Oscar-winning actor and a famous singer. His even-more-famous first cousin appears in the credits as “Lip Syncing Transvestite.” (You can’t make this shit up.)
Solved by Evn (comment #5).
3. This all-star, testosterone-laden extravaganza features a James Bond, two Bond villains, a famous “thief,” a Rat Packer, two famous singers, and two actors arguably more famous for their marriages than their work.
Solved by George (comment #8).
4. The two leads of this Western buddy pic were originally cast in each other’s roles. Two minor roles are played by Mel Brooks stock players.
Solved by Ken (comment #3).
5. In this adaptation of a novel, involving (in part) a love triangle, the star had worked with the director twice before, once in an Oscar-nominated ensemble piece. The “other woman” in this movie’s triangle was married, at the time of filming this movie, to a co-star of that ensemble piece. The wife in this movie’s triangle has played a novelist, a killer, a femme fatale, and an animated sexpot.
Solved (unseen) by Roberta (comment #1).
#5 is the Accidental Tourist. Which I’ve never seen.
Is number 3 Ocean’s 11?
#4 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with Cloris Leachman and Kenneth Mars as the “Mel Brooks stock players”.
Evn, no, Ken, yes.
Blast and Tarnation. Well, then is #2 The Harvest?
Beautiful! I honestly didn’t think anyone would get that.
What can I say? I smelled Clooney.
#3 is The Longest Day, I think, but I’m short a Bond villain.
Bond–Sean Connery
Bond villains–Gert Frobe & ?
thief–Arletty
Rat Packer–Peter Lawford
two singers–Paul Anka & Fabian
two famous for their marriages–Robert Wagner & Richard Burton?
Lovely, George. The second Bond villain is Curt Jurgens. The “thief” is Robert Wagner (of “It Takes a Thief”) the marriages are Richard Burton’s to Liz Taylor, and Mel Ferrer’s to Audrey Hepburn.
I missed Jurgens in The Spy Who Loved Me–those IMDB lists get long. Oherwise I’d still argue for my other answers. Arletty’s most famous role is in Children of Paradise in which she is accused of stealing a watch (an action on which much of the plot hinges). And Robert Wagner, of course, was married to Nathalie Wood, who in my book is a bigger star.
That way Mel Ferrer matters to only one of your questions….
Okay, now I want to see #1 solved. I’m going to fling myself into left field and go with Inherit The Wind.
George, I can see where you got your answers. I forgot about Arletty and I originally meant to put “thief” in quotations (thus pulling it out of a title). But Mel Ferrer is not related to Miguel Ferrer or his father Jose, as far as I can tell.
Evn, very fertile left field you got there.
Oh, Evn, I bet you’re right. It smells like Wind, and Deb and Arth just watched it this last week.
And look, Deb already posted that you were right. So I’ll just crawl back into my whatever it is I should crawl back into.
AAAHHH!!! It was just a wild guess! Honest!
Then you are impressively psychic.
Oops, a Ferrer to Far on my part.
Nah. If I was impressively psychic, I would’ve gotten #3 right, too.
I’m just a lil’ psychic.