The highly anticipated World War II Blogathon will be arriving this weekend. So to get us all in the mood, here's a quiz featuring classic war movies.
Some of these are relatively easy - and some of them aren't. There are 20 films in total, all made before 2000 and all set during World War II. How many can you name?
1.
Answer:
A Bridge Too Far (1977) (and yes, that's Robert Redford)
2.
Answer:
Stalag 17 (1953)
3.
Answer:
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
4.
Answer:
From Here to Eternity (1953)
5.
Answer:
The Cruel Sea (1953)
6.
Answer:
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
7.
Answer:
The Dam Busters (1955)
8.
Answer:
Das Boot (1981)
9.
Answer:
The Longest Day (1962)
10.
Answer:
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (1983)
11.
Answer:
In Which We Serve (1942)
12.
Answer:
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
13.
Answer:
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
14.
Answer:
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
15.
Answer:
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
16.
Answer:
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
17.
Answer:
49th Parallel (1941)
18.
Answer:
The Desert Fox (1951)
19.
Answer:
The Great Escape (1963)
20.
Answer:
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
How did you do?
16-20 Points: War film expert
11-15 Points: War movie fan
6-10 Points: Casual war movie watcher
0-5 Points: You don't really like war films, do you?
I scored lower on this than I thought I would, but the movie I'm dong for this blog-a-thon is a bit more obscure; I bet a lot of people wouldn't get it :)
Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 classic The 39 Steps is one of his best films of the 1930s. It's also been a highly influential one, influencing not only Hitchcock's later films, but also those of just about anyone else who has made a thriller in this vein since.
British film, theatre and television have found it almost impossible to leave the story alone, so enamoured are they with the Hitchcock film. There have been an additional two film versions, one in 1959 and one in 1978, a TV film in 2008, and a popular tongue-in-cheek stage version in the 2000s. Although The Thirty-Nine Steps was originally a popular novel by John Buchan, most of the subsequent versions have patterned themselves more on Hitchcock's film than on the original book.
The 1959 film stars Kenneth More as Richard Hannay, the lead role played in the Hitchcock film by Robert Donat. Hannay is out for a pleasant stroll in Regent's Park in London one day when he runs into a nanny pushing a pram, supposedly w…
Following the success of the all-star murder mystery Murder on the Orient Express (1974), that film's producers, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, followed up with another lavish Agatha Christie adaptation, 1978's Death on the Nile.
Linnet is later murdered while on board the boat, shot at close range with a pistol. Unfortunately for the murderer, the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), is also on board. When he investigates, with the aid of an old asso…
If I asked you to name the biggest film at the US box office in 1977, you might well guess (correctly) that it was Star Wars. But if I asked you to name the second biggest, you might struggle a little. Was it Close Encounters of the Third Kind ... or maybe the James Bond epic The Spy Who Loved Me? Nope. It was a cross-country car chase comedy called Smokey and the Bandit, a film as divorced from the era of modern blockbuster cinema as its box office rival Star Wars is inextricably linked to it.
I scored lower on this than I thought I would, but the movie I'm dong for this blog-a-thon is a bit more obscure; I bet a lot of people wouldn't get it :)
ReplyDelete16 is very good. Wolfman got the same.
DeleteNo, I hadn't heard of Fighter Squadron. But it's one of those titles that sounds like it must have been a film at some point!
Hi there, here's my post for the blogathon...
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from Gill at Realweegiemidget Reviews
I watch way too many movies. I scored a 14 out of 20, and can't believe how far off some of my guesses were!
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty good. Maybe I should create a reward for "Most wayward guess".
DeleteI got ten, I can't believe that. Don't even know that many war movies.
ReplyDeleteNot bad! Which ones did you find difficult?
DeleteDidn't get 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17.
DeleteSo it's really the British ones you struggled with. But you did get 20, which is interesting.
DeleteMaddy wrote about no.20 and it sounded so good I had to track it down. It's very good.
DeleteYes it is. That's really great that she inspired you to track it down. I assume it's pretty obscure in the US.
DeleteHere's my entry: https://thoughtsallsorts.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/kellys-heroes-good-fun/
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for hosting
Sorry...I'm Thoughts All Sorts. Struggle to post with my Wordpress account on non-Wordpress blogs these days.
DeleteThanks. I look forward to reading it.
DeleteAck, I got only 14 correct. Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do!
ReplyDeleteI think that's pretty good.
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