A Do You Know Your Classic Movies Quiz.

HONDO

A clue for the above C473 image is an academy award winning actor appears in the pictured scene.

Bruce

Is C473 I Accuse (or some other movie based on the Dreyfuss case)?

HONDO

Bruce said:

Is C473 I Accuse (or some other movie based on the Dreyfuss case)?

Correct with your first answer. I Accuse! from 1958.

Based on the real life happening known as ''The Dreyfus Affair''. Jose Ferrer starred as Captain Dreyfus, and he also directed the film. An excellent film that was a failure at the box office when first released and unfortunately little remembered today. 

Well worth seeking out for a viewing.

  

HONDO

 C475  C476  
Two all time favourite  classic film acenes this time around.

HONDO

A larger than usual in numbers connected quiz coming soon. There will be parts one and two.

dedeposter

C475 - I was going to say Miracle on 34th Street, but then realised it's Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939). I know the other one but will leave it to someone else.

jayn_j

dedeposter said:

 I know the other one but will leave it to someone else.

Ditto

HONDO

dedeposter said:

C475 - I was going to say Miracle on 34th Street, but then realised it's Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939). 

Correct. James Stewart and Claude Rains appear in the below featured memorable scene from the great classic Frank Capra film Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. 
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HONDO

jayn_j said:

dedeposter said:

 I know the other one but will leave it to someone else.

Ditto

I knew that C476 would surely be recognised.
Hoping someone will provide the answer shortly. so I can then move on in presenting part one of my jumbo connected themed entries.

Bruce

My immediate thought for C476 was Casablanca, but I don't recognize the pictured people.

theartofmovieposters

Bruce said:

My immediate thought for C476 was Casablanca, but I don't recognize the pictured people.

I think you're right!

dedeposter

Definitely!

HONDO

Bruce said:

My immediate thought for C476 was Casablanca, but I don't recognize the pictured people.

theartofmovieposters said:

Bruce said:

My immediate thought for C476 was Casablanca, but I don't recognize the pictured people.

I think you're right!

dedeposter said:

Definitely!

You are all spot on. Casablanca from 1942, From the scene below anything more would have been far too obvious.

One of my all time favourite movie scenes. The extras in this film scene were mainly French or other European refugees in real life.

HONDO

  PART ONE OF CHALLENGING WATER SCENES IN FILM IMAGES.

 C477  C478   

 C479  C480
The first four of eight images for you to attempt to figure out.

Rick

One of them is likely Niagara,so I'll guess 480

Bruce

I'm thinking River of No Return and How the West Was Won figure to be there too!

HONDO

Rick said:

One of them is likely Niagara,so I'll guess 480

Sorry 480 isn't, or in fact are any of the other three Niagara. Good guess though.

HONDO

Bruce said:

I'm thinking River of No Return and How the West Was Won figure to be there too!

One answer is correct with River Of No Return. Which image though?

How The West Was Won isn't one of the four film images though.

Three of the four posted images has some clue to be seen in the water.

jayn_j

River ofno return is c477.

However, I did stumble across c479 while looking for something else.  Unconquered (1947).  A very bad CB DeMille effort that I am betting nobody has seen.

HONDO

jayn_j said:

River ofno return is c477.

However, I did stumble across c479 while looking for something else.  Unconquered (1947).  A very bad CB DeMille effort that I am betting nobody has seen.

Correct answer for C477 received from both Bruce and Jay. River Of No Return from 1954. Three people are seen in the below image.

 

Correct answer from Jay also for C479 in it being Unconquered. from 1947. Mixed reviews, but one of the main box office attractions when originally released.

 In the image below that I had originally posted Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddards's characters are seen clinging onto an overhanging branch.

Sven

C480 African queen ?

HONDO

Sven said:

C480 African queen ?

Yes it certainly is The African Queen from 1951. Well spotted.

 

HONDO

A clue for the remaining unanswered C478  image is no intended sequel film made.

Bruce

Northwest Passage?

HONDO

Bruce said:

Northwest Passage?

Yes C478 is Northwest Passage from 1940. The difficult and exhausting water crossing was all done by the actors themselves. No stunt doubles were used at all.

The film is also known as Northwest Passage (Book One Roger's Rangers). An intended part two was never made.  

    

Bruce

I read both Northwest Passage and the Bounty trilogy in high school (us nerds who were terrible at sports and girlfriendless had plenty of time for reading).

I thought Northwest Passage was a great book, and the author wrote only historical fiction (Sinclair Lewis did this with his second to last book, The God-Seeker). It is a neat trick. You take a completely fictional person and use historically accurate settings and events, so the reader learns a LOT about that place and time, while enjoying the novel. Recently Taylor Sheridan has done the same multiple times, as does Shogun, and I highly recommend them all.

Northwest Passage was as Lawrence states intended to be followed by a second part, and the movie covers only the first half of the novel.MGM told the author they would film the second half as a separate movie, so they could recoup the large production costs from filming on location. When the film did poorly, they pulled the plug on the sequel, and the author thought that was their plan all along, to give it a "happy ending", which he did not want.

As Lawrence correctly states, filming it was indeed grueling for the cast, and when it did not perform well at the box office, and no one involved wanted to go through that again, they cancelled the second part, so maybe MGM HAD intended to film it after all. .

I will look to pick it up and re-read it, and see if it plays half as well to an old man as it did to a teen boy!

HONDO

Interesting information Bruce.

Actually the film performed very well at the box office. It was the high production problems and costs that would have definitely decided the fate of a second film. 

As you are thinking of re-reading the book, I am thinking that a revisiting of film would also be a plan.

HONDO

PART TWO OF CHALLENGING WATER SCENES IN FILM IMAGES.

 C481
 C482
 C483

 And far from being a classic the following film certainly contains some great scenes in it including the one below.

 C484
The remaining four of the earlier announced eight water connected images.

dedeposter

Is C484 Deluge (1933)? I have the bluRay but haven't watched it yet, I was expecting it to show up in one of these images. Is it this one?

C483 is from one of my favourite films and I recognised it straight away, I'll let someone else have a go before I answer.

HONDO

dedeposter said:

Is C484 Deluge (1933)? I have the bluRay but haven't watched it yet, I was expecting it to show up in one of these images. Is it this one?

Firstly yes C484 in Deluge. Long thought to be a lost apocalyptic science fiction film. The story has a massive earthquake strike the U.S.A. that causes massive title waves. 

Curious to know when to get to see it what your thoughts are about it.

dedeposter said:

C483 is from one of my favourite films and I recognised it straight away, I'll let someone else have a go before I answer.

Apart from you, and me as well, I know that it is a favourite film also by another member of the forum as well. Good to know I will get an answer from someone or another.