Ramsdencon September 1999 Film Quiz

Section 7

Action Films

Questions

A common theme of recent action films is the single handed, or nearly single handed, defeat of the villains, rescue of the hostages, recovery of something captured or so on. Which actor plays the hero who

Recaptures a U.S. battleship from a group of terrorists?
Defeats two gangs of terrorists who are threatening his wife, among others, in both cases just before Christmas?
Prevents his commander in the US Air Force from getting away with the theft of two thermonuclear devices? (Will also accept the name of the actress playing the new partner he teams up with as she does as much of the work as he does.)
Prevents a terrorist group called Crimson Jihad, with leader played by Art Malik and assisted by an antiquities dealer played by Tia Carrere, from taking advantage of four nuclear warheads?
Rescues himself and his staff when terrorists capture his plane?
Prevents a U.S. Senator from becoming President by making a younger version of himself extremely rich, and saves himself and his wife from being killed while he was still an obscure policeman?
With some help from the rest of the LAPD, rescues an elevator load of people from a rapid descent, and saves all but one of a busload of passengers from an explosion, but loses his partner, whom he'd shot earlier?
As a U.S. Marshall in the Witness Protection Program has to save the witness, go on the run (more trouble with former colleagues) and foil the conspiracy? However if you buy the video you'll find the censor has deprived you of three minutes including the end of the film where the bad guys get their just deserts. This refers to the video in the U.K. of course.
With a little more help than the other heroes in this section saves a president from an assassin played by John Malkovich, having failed to save another president thirty years earlier?
And finally a pair of heroes, one a self-confessed Beatlemaniac "chemical superfreak", the other a former SAS captain, who, after losing a SEAL team, save San Francisco from a gas attack?