By Donald Clarke

Questions

1. Which franchise is about to be restarted (again) with The Clone Wars?

2. Which waste disposal unit has a taste for the film version of Hello, Dolly!(1969)?

3. Who made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me?

4. Who's that rowing through the rain in the picture?

5. "Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven." The tagline for which film?

6. Who links George Bailey, Glenn Miller, Scottie Ferguson and LB Jefferies?

7. "What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, The Beatles, and me?" Which smash hit began thus?

8. The plot of which recent film is loosely based on that of the 1968 Gina Lollobrigida comedy Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell?

9. What links the films Thunderpantsand December Boyswith the TV movie Ballet Shoes?

10. What links The Last Laugh(1922), Don't Look Back(1967) and The Birth of a Nation(1915)?

Answers

1. Star Wars

2. Wall-E

3. Clint Eastwood

4. It's Jodie Foster in Nim's Island

5. A Clockwork Orange

6. Jimmy Stewart. He played those roles in It's a Wonderful Life, The Glenn Miller Story, Vertigoand Rear Window.

7. Love Story

8. Mamma Mia!

9. Non-Harry Potter films starring the three juvenile leads of the franchise. Rupert Grint was in Thunderpants, Daniel Radcliffe in December Boysand Emma Watson in Ballet Shoes.

10. They are all directed by men who identify themselves by their initials: FW Murnau, DA Pennebaker and DW Griffith.