One of the best in-jokes in movie history is the casting of Bernard Lee as a shopkeeper who gets beaten up in this film. The main character describes members of his profession as “seedy, squalid bastards,” and while working at the Blantyre Institute of Psychical Research he is approached by the homosexual Ashe, who then passes him along to Carlton and Peters. Eventually he discovers that Nan Perry, his innocent love interest, has been manipulated in order to discredit Fiedler’s prosecution of the ex-Nazi Mundt, and the whole plot was orchestrated by George Smiley. FTP, name this cynical 1965 drama that earned Richard Burton an Oscar nomination as Alec Leamas and was based on the acclaimed espionage novel by John le Carré.

ANSWER: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

First and last name required. This name is shared by two completely unrelated FICTIONAL characters. Lesley Ann Warren sang “What I’ve Always Wanted” and “I’m Not Finished Yet” as one of them in a 1975 telefilm based on a Broadway musical; also, Joan Alexander played her in a series of movies beginning in 1941. The other flirtatiously tells Bill Calhoun that she is “Always True to You in My Fashion” and asks him, “Why Can’t You Behave?” after learning that he owes $10,000 to gangsters. She also shows off her legs singing “Too Darn Hot” to get Cole Porter to cast her as Bianca in one of his musicals. FTP, the actress portrayed by Ann Miller in 1953’s Kiss Me Kate shares what name with a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist depicted onscreen by Kate Bosworth and Margot Kidder?

ANSWER: Lois Lane (prompt on partial answer)

This movie was based on a non-fiction book by Kenyon J. Scudder, a former supervisor at the California Institution for Men. Legendary jazz musician Dexter Gordon, who was serving time in Chino during filming, can be seen in a bit part, while the lead role of Steve Davitt was played by NFL star Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch. The sole element that has saved it from obscurity – a song performed by Todd Duncan and later covered by Les Baxter, Al Hibbler, and Harry Belafonte – earned an Oscar nod for Hy Zaret and Alex North. A famous Phil Spector-produced version of that ballad, with Bobby Hatfield vocals, was sent back up the charts by the 1990 film Ghost. FTP, name this 1955 men-in-prison drama whose namesake “Melody” became a huge hit for the Righteous Brothers.

ANSWER: Unchained (do not accept “Unchained Melody”)

Lee Grant and Chad Everett appear at an unexpectedly erotic moment in this movie, and a sex scene is shot as an homage to Persona. Among the characters are a neighbor who talks about a “prize-fighting kangaroo,” a mobster – played by a composer – who spits out espresso, a man who collapses after seeing a bum behind a dumpster, a hitman who shoots a fat woman and a janitor, and a pool cleaner portrayed by Billy Ray Cyrus. Central events include a car crash, a cowboy’s speech, the discovery of an oddly-shaped blue key, and a performance of “Crying” at Club Silencio. Eventually Betty becomes Diane, and Rita becomes Camilla, or something like that, in, FTP, what enigmatic 2001 film starring Laura Harring and Naomi Watts as lesbians, from the mind of David Lynch?

ANSWER: Mulholland Dr.

This actress made her debut as a young girl whose sister is targeted by the Palladists, a Satanic cult, in the Val Lewton-produced The Seventh Victim.In another film, a British fighter pilot played by David Niven manages to escape death because she loves him. One of her characters gets killed shortly after giving birth to a baby that repeats the word “Mama” as the credits roll; in an earlier movie, that character had kissed the hero despite calling him “so damn ugly.” In her most famous role, she dumps her husband for raping Blanche, even though he stands outside her window in the rain yelling her name. FTP, name this A Matter of Life and Death co-star who portrayed Dr. Zira in Planet of the Apes and won an Oscar as “STELLA!!!!” Kowalski in 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire.

ANSWER:Kim Hunter

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This man cast Robert Mitchum as an arrogant doctor in Not As a Stranger, his directorial debut, and Dick Van Dyke played a priest in hislast movie, The Runner Stumbles. He produced the Broadway adaptations Cyrano de Bergerac and The Caine Mutiny, as well as films about racism in the military, handicapped veterans, and teenage motorcycle gangs, while as a director he tackled nuclear war in On the Beach and brought to the screen Abby Mann’s teleplay about Nazi atrocities. Spencer Tracy starred as a corrupt detective in one of his few comedies; he also used Tracy as Clarence Darrow manqué and as a liberal whose daughter marries a black man. FTP, name this socially conscious filmmaker whose 9 Oscar nods came for works like Ship of Fools, Judgment at Nuremberg, and Inherit the Wind.

ANSWER: Stanley Kramer

From 1982, when this recognition was first given on a regular basis, until 2005, Cyrano de Bergerac was the only foreign-language film nominated for it; however, both of the past two winners have been in a foreign language. As of 2008, Greg Cannom and Ve Neill have each been nominated for it eight times. There have been two honorary recipients: William Tuttle, for 1964’s 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, and John Chambers – who later helped the CIA get Americans out of Iran – for 1968’s Planet of the Apes. The only non-acting Oscar lost by Titanic, this is, FTP, what Academy Award that has been given a record 6 times to Rick Baker?

ANSWER: the Academy Award (or Oscar) for Best Makeup

The protagonist of this movie refers to an opponent as a “Saracen pig” and “Spartan dog,” while the villains are described as people who “call information for numbers they could easily look up in the book” by the High Macha of Raspur. The filmmaker makes an appearance to describe “death and danger” as his “various breads and various butters,” and when asked if can help the audience by summarizing the plot, replies, “No.” Playboy Playmate China Lee does a striptease over the closing credits, and two actresses who starred in You Only Live Twice appear as Teri and Suki Yaki, a pair of sisters who aid Phil Moscowitz in retrieving a top-secret egg salad recipe. Derived from the Japanese thriller Key of Keys, this is, FTP, what 1966 Woody Allen classic of re-dubbing?

ANSWER: What’s Up, Tiger Lily?

According to a 2006 Seth Green interview, this man inspired the voice of Chris on Family Guy. After an early part as Pocono Pete in Ironweed, he lent support to Mare Winningham’s Oscar-nominated performance by playing her husband in Georgia, and he was a Confederate general hypnotized into barking like a dog in Wild Wild West. Also memorable in both a film and an (unrelated) TV series called Wonderland and as the voice of evil trucker Rusty Nail in Joy Ride, he appeared in 2007 as three law enforcement officials: asheriff in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a detective in American Gangster, and his regular television role. FTP, name this actor who said, “It puts the lotion in the basket” in TheSilence of the Lambs and portrays Leland Stottlemeyer on Monk.

ANSWER: Ted Levine

One character in this movie is told not to worry because “Hitchcock will stay with you.” The protagonist calls his nemesis “greedy, unfeeling, inept, indifferent, self-inflating, and unconscionably profitable,” but he chooses to go back to his job at the end despite it being “like pissing in the wind.” The opening narration describes how the death of Guernsey due to incompetence allowed Dr. Schaefer to find a place to have sex. Mrs. Christie is asked, “Where do you train your nurses – Dachau?”, and the “Paraclete of Caborca” inspires Drummond to take revenge by making physicians victims of their own bureaucracy. Co-starring Diana Rigg as a hippie chick who restores the potency of Dr. Herbert Bock, played by George C. Scott, this is, FTP, what 1971 Arthur Hiller-directed black comedy, a trenchant satire of the state of modern health care that won an Oscar for screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky?

ANSWER: The Hospital

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Mischa Auer appears in this film as the operator of a flea circus, while Michael Redgrave plays Burgomil Trebitsch, an Amsterdam antiques dealer. It begins with an epigraph containing the phrase, “Anything, sir ... except your secret” and a description of an empty plane flying itself to Paris. The title character is first seen telling the story of “The Scorpion and the Frog” at a costume party. The protagonist visits Sophie in Mexico, tries to save Jacob Zouk in Vienna, and eventually ends up in Spain, where he reveals to Raina – played by the director’s wife, Paola Mori – the truth about her father. Robert Arden starred as Guy von Stratten in, FTP, what movie adapted from three episodes of the radio series The Adventures of Harry Lime, a 1955 work by Orson Welles?

ANSWER: Mr. Arkadin or Confidential Report

This man’s film debut was as a movie-house usher in They Might Be Giants, and he had an uncredited role as the title character’s partner in Serpico. He has appeared as moral exemplars like Abraham Lincoln and the Biblical figures Mordecai, Lot, and – in Muppets in Space – Noah; on the other hand, he also played real-life gangsters Arnold Rothstein and Al Capone, as well as Stalin (twice!) and a parody of Hannibal Lecter in National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1. He replies, “You know, I kill a lot of people; I can’t remember half of them” after Arnold Schwarzenegger in Last Action Hero references his Oscar-winning performance. FTP, name this portrayer of Ad’har Ru’afo in the Star Trek universe who shouted, “I absolve you!” as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus.

ANSWER: F. Murray Abraham

This man’s last part was, believe it or not, the voice of a scientist on a 1992 episode of Goof Troop. He also voiced Wylie Burp in Fievel Goes West and co-starred with another well-known dog in The Magic of Lassie. Other roles include General Sternwood in the 1978 remake The Big Sleep, a cowboy whose brother dies and leaves him a brothel in The Cheyenne Social Club, the father of a kid with a crush on Brigitte Bardot in Dear Brigitte, a crusading reporter who gets an innocent man freed in Call Northside 777, the pilot of a plane that crash-lands in the desert in The Flight of the Phoenix, and a clown in The Greatest Show on Earth. Also memorable as real-life figures Monty Stratton, Charles Lindbergh, and Glenn Miller, he worked 8 times with Anthony Mann, plus 4 with Alfred Hitchcock and 3 with Frank Capra. FTP, name this star of Rope, Harvey, Anatomy of a Murder,and Vertigo.

ANSWER: James Stewart

This director helmed a famously open-ended movie starring Philip Hubbard as an impoverished professor and Louis Calhern as one of his students, The Blot, as well as making two films based on Clara Louise Burnham’s Christian Science novel Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life and supervising Anna Pavlova’s only onscreen acting role, as an Italian waif whose affair with a Spanish nobleman triggers a revolution, in the epic The Dumb Girl of Portici. Known for tackling hot-button issues like abortion in Where Are My Children?, the death penalty in The People vs. John Doe, and alcoholism in Hop – The Devil’s Brew, this is, FTP, what pioneering silent-era filmmaker whose 1914 The Merchant of Venice is considered to be the first full-length feature directed by a woman?

ANSWER: Lois Weber

Located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard, this entity was originally established in 1899. In 1998, it was bought for $375,000 by Tyler Cassity, whose family owns several similar venues in Missouri. Its website describes “concierge services” including “freshly baked cookies” and “laminated keepsakes,” and it is the site of John Wyatt’s Cinespia film screening series. Known as one of the few institutions of its kind open to public tours, this is, FTP, what Los Angeles landmark lying directly adjacent to the north wall of Paramount Studios, where you can go to visit Johnny Ramone, Cecil B. DeMille, Rudolph Valentino, and countless other resting luminaries?

ANSWER: Hollywood Forever Cemetery

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This woman portrayed a lesbian schoolgirl on Inspector Morse and the girlfriend of Nigel Timson in an episode of Rumpole of the Bailey. She made her acting debut in Bruce Beresford’s segment of Aria and played the wife of heroin-addicted sitcom writer Jerry Stahl in the film version of his memoir Permanent Midnight. One role sees her as a South African stripper who tells a drug dealer, “I’ve got something that’ll wake you up” before kicking him in the genitals and threatening to “shock his dick!”, while in another she aids the escape of her villainous boyfriend by posing as a stewardess and shooting two FBI agents. Though she appeared topless in 2000’s The Weight of Water, in her most famous part she and her co-star studiously avoid onscreen nudity in hilarious ways. FTP, name this devilish co-star of Dangerous Ground, Passenger 57, Bedazzled,and the first Austin Powers movie.

ANSWER: Elizabeth Hurley

One director with this distinction is known for the 2003 BBC miniseries State of Play. A man not part of this group – but who has worked closely with it – helmed 1989’s The Fabulous Baker Boys and got an Oscar nod for Wonder Boys. A second member made a movie starring Maribel Verdú that a Palo Alto theater advertised as “98% gratuitous sex, 2% redeeming plot,” while a third directed Donnie Brasco, Pushing Tin, and, right before he joined this group, Mona Lisa Smile. The first of them scripted Gremlins and founded 1492 Pictures. Four Weddings and a Funeral, Home Alone, and Y tu mamá también are among the previous projects of filmmakers like David Yates, Mike Newell, Alfonso Cuarón, and Chris Columbus, who then worked on, FTP, what fantasy franchise?

ANSWER: people who have directed Harry Potter movies

This actor yells, “Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it!” before being gunned down by Burt Lancaster in The Train; he later reunited with Lancaster as a Soviet spymaster in Scorpio. After making his screen debut playing King Philip II of Spain in That Lady, he starred opposite Katharine Hepburn in a film of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance and portrayed King Lear for Peter Brook. He states, “$64,000 for a question? I hope they are asking you the meaning of life” in his Oscar-nominated performance as Mark Van Doren in Quiz Show, while his most well-known character stands on silence and describes himself as “His Majesty’s good servant, but God’s first” before losing his head. FTP, name this British thespian who won an Academy Award as Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons.

ANSWER: Paul Scofield

This actress made her film debut as Lola in the ‘50s-set period piece The Delinquents. She played a scientist with the Fassbinder-inspired name “Petra von Kant” in a famously unfunny 1996 “comedy,” while in another movie she does her character’s signature “thrust kick.” Her breakthrough came as the mechanic Charlene on a TV series, and the role of Astrid Peth, a waitress who gives her life to save the hero, was written especially for her by Russell Davies on Dr. Who. FTP, name this Bio-Dome and Street Fighter co-star who performed a medley of “The Sound of Music” and “Children of the Revolution” as the Green Fairy in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!

ANSWER: Kylie Minogue

One of the few things we learn about this character is that his wife is in an institution. It is unknown what he thinks of his daughter’s husband Philip, but he is unperturbed when he catches a half-naked man sneaking out of her room. That boyfriend breaks into the library in order to see the “Red Set” containing this man’s notes from when he was a student, and later publicly calls him a “son of a bitch,” earning the response, “That is the most intelligent thing you’ve said all day.” This occurs directly after his most famous quote: “Mr. Hart, here is a dime. Take it, call your mother, and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer.” John Houseman won an Oscar as, FTP, what crusty Harvard Law School professor from the film and TV series The Paper Chase?

ANSWER: Professor Charles Kingsfield

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This man’s acting roles include Charlie Trask in The Affairs of Dobie Gillis and Frank Lippincott in My Sister Eileen. He helmed five movies, including one about murdered centerfold Dorothy Stratten, and earned Academy Award nominations for three of them.Stanley Donen cast him as a snake in The Little Prince, but many consider the turning point of his career to be the “From This Moment On” number he performed alongside longtime collaborator Carol Haney in Kiss Me Kate. In addition to Star 80 and Lenny, he made two Fellini-inspired musicals, one based on Nights of Cabiria and the other an autobiographical gloss on 8½, and won an Oscar for staging a work by Kander & Ebb. FTP, name this director of Sweet Charity, All That Jazz, and Cabaret.