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Movies 2025-11-19 (Season 42)

MOVIE CHARACTERS

The novelization of a 1977 movie awarded this character a medal at the end, righting a perceived wrong

Movies 2025-11-07 (Season 42)

1960s MOVIES

Producer Arthur Jacobs told Rod Serling he'd win an Oscar for his script for this; Serling asked instead for a crate of bananas

Movies 2025-09-09 (Season 42)

CLASSIC ROCK & CLASSIC FILMS

In 1976 Groucho Marx sent this band a telegram congratulating them on their "sage choice" in album titles

Movies 2025-06-09 (Season 41)

MOVIE TITLES

This title of a Hollywood blockbuster is a national symbol of Gabon

Movies 2025-05-28 (Season 41)

CARS & THE MOVIES

A fake speedometer was used in this make of car from a 1980s movie since the actual car's speedometer didn't go high enough

Movies 2025-05-08 (Season 41)

MOVIE DIRECTORS

As of 2025 this director has made just 4 feature films; 3 were Oscar nominated for Best Picture

Movies 2024-12-26 (Season 41)

MOVIES & THEIR SOUNDTRACKS

"Catch It" was a tagline for this 1970s film whose iconic soundtrack became one of the bestselling albums of all time

Movies 2024-12-20 (Season 41)

MOVIES & THE LAW

"Drafters... have to have a little fun sometimes", said the author of this law when asked if he was inspired by 1931's "Little Caesar"

Movies 2024-10-10 (Season 41)

MOVIES

More than 25 cast members from this 1990 film drama would later appear on an HBO series with a similar theme

Movies 2024-09-19 (Season 41)

NEW YORK MOVIES

Frank Sinatra got upset that a photo of him caught fire in a Brooklyn pizzeria in this film

Movies 2024-09-18 (Season 41)

THE MOVIES

Hewlett-Packard's first big customer was Walt Disney, who purchased special sound equipment for the making & showing of this film

Movies 2024-07-02 (Season 40)

STAGE & MOVIE CHARACTERS

Acquitted of shooting her lover in 1924, Beulah Annan was the inspiration for this character in a play, film & musical

Movies 2024-05-21 (Season 40)

THE MOVIES

Louise & Lisa Burns, twins featured in this 1980 film, told a magazine, "We're naturally spooky!"

Movies 2024-04-10 (Season 40)

ANIMATED FILM CHARACTERS

In this 2017 film Dante is a hairless breed known as a Xolo dog

Movies 2023-06-29 (Season 39)

THE MOVIES

Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s

Movies 2023-03-16 (Season 39)

1980s MOVIES

A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, "only it takes place in the '30s"

Movies 2023-01-05 (Season 39)

THE MOVIES

Laurence Olivier & Ernest Borgnine were considered for the lead role & Sergio Leone to direct for this film that turned 50 in 2022

Movies 2022-12-15 (Season 39)

ACTION MOVIES

Its last line is "If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's"

Movies 2022-12-09 (Season 39)

1970s MOVIES

A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience

Movies 2022-10-13 (Season 39)

DOCUMENTARIES

In this 1970 film, Max Yasgur says, "I'm a farmer... I don't know how to speak to 20 people... let alone a crowd like this"

Movies 2022-03-16 (Season 38)

MOVIE STARS

Matthew McConaughey said, "'Dazed & Confused', the first words I ever said on film were" these

Movies 2021-09-20 (Season 38)

1980s MOVIES

The Dip used to kill characters in this 1988 film consisted of acetone, benzene & turpentine, ingredients of paint thinner

Movies 2021-08-12 (Season 37)

BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES

Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick"

Movies 2021-07-22 (Season 37)

1970s MOVIE SCENES

Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out

Movies 2021-06-16 (Season 37)

MOVIE CHARACTERS

A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person

Movies 2021-04-23 (Season 37)

MOVIE TITLE CHARACTERS

In this 2012 film set just before the Civil War, a German dentist declares that the title character's surname is Freeman

Movies 2021-02-23 (Season 37)

MOVIE DIRECTORS

Along with his writing partner, this director is the only person to win screenwriting Oscars for both a film & its sequel

Movies 2021-01-18 (Season 37)

MOVIE SETTINGS

In 2017 this New York City luxury store opened its first cafe, with truffle eggs, waffles & croissants on the menu

Movies 2021-01-06 (Season 37)

BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES

Released in 2017, this movie is the highest-grossing film in the U.S. that's set during World War I

Movies 2020-11-30 (Season 37)

COMEDY MOVIES

In the original script for this 1975 film, the title object was finally found in London's Harrods department store

Movies 2020-10-14 (Season 37)

MOVIE APPEARANCES

Not an actor, this man who died in 2018 appeared briefly in some 40 mainly action films with a combined $30 billion worldwide gross

Movies 2020-04-28 (Season 36)

1950s FILMS

The last line of this epic film was "Go--proclaim liberty throughout all the lands unto all the inhabitants thereof"

Movies 2020-01-21 (Season 36)

CLASSIC MOVIES

This 1939 film was loosely based on Senator Burton Wheeler, victim of a sham investigation for looking into the Justice Department

Movies 2019-12-10 (Season 36)

OSCAR-WINNING FILMS

The first words spoken in this 1970 Best Picture Oscar winner are "Ten-hut!" "Be seated"

Movies 2019-10-17 (Season 36)

MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS

The soundtrack of this 2018 film has "Material Girl" & "Money (That's What I Want)" in Chinese & English

Movies 2018-11-22 (Season 35)

1980s MOVIES

Ebert: This film "works as science fiction, it's sometimes as scary as a monster movie & at the end...not a dry eye in the house"

Movies 2018-10-31 (Season 35)

1960s FILMS

Chocolate syrup, casaba melon & Playboy model Marli Renfro were enlisted to create an iconic scene in this film

Movies 2018-09-28 (Season 35)

CLASSIC FILMS

In this '70s Oscar-winning film, the title character's 1st words are "Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?"

Movies 2018-07-19 (Season 34)

1970s MOVIES

Earning its director the first of many Oscar nominations, this 1977 film had the working title "Watch the Skies"

Movies 2018-06-13 (Season 34)

1990s ANIMATED FILMS

Though it draws elements from "Hamlet", Disney says this was their first all-animated feature based on an original story

Movies 2018-05-03 (Season 34)

FILM & WAR

The New York premiere of this film was on Thanksgiving, 15 days after the liberation of its title place

Movies 2018-01-11 (Season 34)

THE MOVIES

It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be produced by an internet streaming service

Movies 2017-12-15 (Season 34)

MOVIE SETTINGS

The setting for this 1994 Oscar-winning animated film was inspired by Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park

Movies 2017-10-05 (Season 34)

ACTORS & THEIR MOVIE ROLES

He played Shakespearean title characters 4 times, receiving Best Actor Oscar nominations each time

Movies 2017-04-12 (Season 33)

SCARY MOVIES

A remake of this scary movie was released on 6/6/2006, 30 years to the day after the release of the original

Movies 2017-01-04 (Season 33)

CLASSIC MOVIE ROLES

A letter to the director that said, "Dear sir, I am fat & wear spectacles" got a young actor a role in this 1963 film

Movies 2016-11-02 (Season 33)

EW's 50 GREATEST MOVIE DIRECTORS

He "inaugurated a new depth--both visually... and emotionally... and (had) a voice that paid the bills until he died"

Movies 2016-09-16 (Season 33)

FILM ADAPTATIONS

In a 2011 slate.com survey of movie credits, of the top 25 most adapted writers, this novelist is the only one living

Movies 2016-06-30 (Season 32)

INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS

Released in 2011, it's the only film that has won both the Oscar & France's Cesar for Best Film of the Year

Movies 2016-06-15 (Season 32)

CLASSIC MOVIE SCENES

The director said it took 70 camera setups & 7 days to shoot the classic murder scene in this film that celebrates its 55th anniversary in 2015