Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1Which film involves the turbulent romance between Sean Thornton and Mary Kate Danaher?

2I have an Uncle Scrooge, a girlfriend named Daisy and three rhyming nephews. Who am I?

3Jessica Tandy and Henry Fonda were the oldest people to achieve which linked feats?

4What was Baby in Bringing Up Baby(1938)?

5Which film is Stanley Kubrick preparing in the photo (below)?

6"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle." Who was correcting (or compounding) a much- levelled accusation?

7Which cinema pioneer links Paul Masson wine, Carlsberg beer and Domecq sherry?

8Two fours. A Heatwave tune. A flower. Affection from a boxer. (In that order.) Who are we thinking of?

9Steven Spielberg, David Cronenberg and Jonathan Weiss are, somewhat surprisingly, the only directors to have done what?

10Which popular 1980s film was named for a brand of chewing tobacco?

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1 The Quiet Man

2 Donald Duck

3 Winning, respectively, the Oscar for best actress and best actor

4 A leopard

5 The Shining

6 Alfred Hitchcock
 
7 Orson Welles (he was involved in commercials for all three products)

8 Paul Thomas Anderson ( Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love)

9 Adapted novels by J G Ballard for the big screen ( Empire of the Sun, Crash, Atrocity Exhibition)

10 Bull Durham