Ramsdencon September 1999 Film Quiz

Section 4

Westerns and Gangster Films

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  1. What happens at exactly noon in "High Noon"?

  2. What is the name of "The Man With No Name" in "A Fistful of Dollars"?

  3. I couldn't find "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." on the Internet Movie Database but I did find "A man's gotta be what he is." although only by watching the film to just before the hero rides off into the distance. Which film?

  4. How many actors who played members of the Magnificent Seven can you name?

  5. "Stagecoach", "The Searchers", "The Alamo" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance". No points for naming the actor who appears in all four of these films. Three of the four were directed by the same director. Identify any two of that director, the odd one out and its director. (You are allowed to guess all three.)

  6. Four actors have played three Godfathers of the Corleone family in the three "Godfather" films. Name two of them other than Marlon Brando.

  7. Two gangster movies made over fifty years apart share the nickname of probably the most famous real life Italian American gangster, but neither is about him; in fact the newer film is about Cuban immigrants, even though one of the actors also played the Godfather. What is the common name of the films?

  8. Most of the narration by Ray Liotta's character describes himself and his friends, notably characters played by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, as "wiseguys" (from the original novel title) but, as that title had already been used for an earlier film, what was the later film's title?

  9. After Eliot Ness's first successful liquor raid in "The Untouchables" Al Capone gives an inspirational speech about teamwork to a dinner of his associates. What relevant object does he hold during the speech?

  10. Which musical gangster film, directed by Alan Parker and mainly memorable for its unusual choice of cast, shows a gang war between Dandy Dan and Fat Sam where the high technology weapon of choice is the splurge gun?

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