Lights, Camera, Action!

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
© Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved
  1. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart made their first film together, To Have and Have Not, on which Caribbean island?

    A. Aruba
    B. Barbados
    C. St. Kitts
    D. Cuba
    E. Martinique

  2. In the 1962 epic Taras Bulba, the country that doubled for medieval Poland was:

    A. Spain
    B. Argentina
    C. Scotland
    D. Nicaragua

  3. The 1969 classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid opens in the American West but ends in a fatal shootout in South America. True or false: Butch and Sundance (in both the film and real life) were killed in Bolivia.

  4. The 1965 comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines chronicles an airplane race between which two cities?

    A. San Francisco to New York City
    B. New York City to London
    C. London to Paris
    D. Rome to Berlin

  5. Several James Bond films, including Dr. No (1962), Thunderball (1965), and Never Say Never Again (1983), were filmed partially in Jamaica. True or false: Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, often used Jamaican locations because he had a vacation house on the island.

  6. True or false: The 1966 film Hawaii was set solely on the Big Island of Hawaii.

  7. One of the lesser-used film genres is the education form, in which the plot focuses on the main character learning about life. Match the following education films with the countries in which they take place:

    A. Peppermint Soda (1977) 1. Brazil
    B. Educating Rita (1983) 2. England
    C. Blame It on Rio (1984) 3. Australia
    D. The Mango Tree (1977) 4. France

  8. True or false: The source for the 1990 film Tune in Tomorrow ... (which features Peter Falk and Keanu Reeves) was Eva Luna, by Chilean author Isabel Allende.

  9. Filmmakers sometimes choose movie titles too long for movie marquees. Match these overlong titles with their locales:

    A. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1966) 1. Wales
    B. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) 2. Germany
    C. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain (1995) 3. United States

  10. Italian film director Federico Fellini used Marcello Mastroianni as the leading man in several of his most famous films. Which film was not directed by Fellini?

    A. City of Women (1981)
    B. Ginger and Fred (1986)
    C. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964)
    D. La Dolce Vita (1960)

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