Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1Which series of action films focuses on the travails of Ethan Hunt?

2Which Stanley Kubrick film inspired a David Bowie song?

3"Her life was in their hands. Now her toe is in the mail." The tagline to which 1990s classic?

4What comes next: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo?

5Who's the (male) director and producer attending the premiere of his latest flick (pictured)?

6It starred Joseph Wiseman as the villain. It featured Under the Mango Treeon the soundtrack. Hawaii Five-O'sJack Lord played the American contact. Which huge hit?

7What links Tony Montana, Tony Camonte, The Lion Kingand The Searchers?

8Who is the only actor to receive two posthumous Oscar nominations (in the same year, unsurprisingly)?

9The second Cat People film. The first Hammer Frankenstein. The first post-Sellers Pink Panther. From what are we suffering?

10Why might Velma Kelly, St Bernadette and Harvey Dent make you think of a cat in a 1979 classic?

Answers:

1. Mission: Impossible

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey

3. The Big Lebowski

4. Bambi (Walt Disney animated features in order)

5. J J Abrams

6. Dr No

7. Scars (Montana and Camonte were the heroes of the two versions of Scarface. Scar is the villain in The Lion King. Scar is the charismatic Native American in The Searchers.)

8. James Dean

9. The Curse. (of the Catpeople, of Frankenstein and of The Pink Panther.)

10. They were all played by people named Jones (Catherine Zeta, Jennifer and Tommy Lee). Jones was the cat in Alien.