In this movie trivia game you'll be presented with ten photos from ten different movies. If you can, name the actors, the characters they play and the titles of the movies. For those in the OCD crowd, there are bonus questions you can also answer. Each correct answer earns you one point and there are NO penalties for wrong answers. (Yea!)

Write your answers down as you go along, then self-score at the end. (The answer key appears at the end.) The scoring is on the honor system - after all, you didn't get where you are today without your honor. Send a PM to GeorgePlant and I'll send you a reply to tell you all about your prize. That's right, there are real prizes (and valuable too!) Ready? Here We Go!


Movie #1: ↓



It's Christmas Eve, 1953, and Bing Crosby is crooning on the radio, cops are picking up cases of free booze for their holiday parties, and there are villains all over the place. It turns out, what the cops are really fighting is rampant corruption in their own L.A. Police Department.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Point: Name the narrator who introduces the story at the beginning of the movie.

Total points available: 10



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This is the story of an Italian hitman and the young neighbor girl he saves from certain death in this action thriller.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Point: Name the actor who plays the drug-addict DEA agent character in this movie.

Total points available: 6



Movie #3: ↓



This drama tells the story of an organized crime family, and it's considered one of the great American films and one of the most influential in the gangster movie genre.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Points: Name the character who is the aging family patriarch, and the actor who plays him.

Total points available: 9



Movie #4: ↓



This pair of bank robbers went into the history books as the most entertaining and lethal two-bit crooks of the Depression Era.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Point: What classic bluegrass instrumental song gained a second life by its use in this movie?

Total points available: 12



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A New York advertising executive is mistaken for a govern-ment agent by foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Points: Name the location of the climactic scene at the end of the movie and name the famous director of the movie.

Total points available: 9



Movie #6: ↓



One of the greatest of all the film noirs, this is the story of a man who tries to break with his past and start over again with a new job, a new town and a new girl.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Point: Name the actor who plays gangster Whit Sterling.

Total points available: 8



Movie #7: ↓



This movie is about the investigation process and how confusing it all can be when everyone is guilty of something.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Point: Who killed book dealer A.G. Geiger?

Total points available: 10



Movie #8: ↓



Some people claim they’ve seen this movie 100 times. I confess that, as a kid, I tried to act like the male lead. After all, it’s what dreams are made of.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Point: What is the iconic bird made of?

Total points available: 10



Movie #9: ↓



Two New York slum kids get into trouble with the law. One grows up to be a priest and the other grows into a life of crime.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

Bonus Point: Name the Christmas movie that samples this movie.

Total points available: 10



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This murder mystery defined movie detective banter for every movie that followed. The mystery is second to the dialog and the personal styles of the lead actors. He's a retired detective. She's his wife and a wealthy heiress, and they're both always just a little more than half drunk.

Name the actors, their characters and the movie's title.

7 Bonus Points: (that's right, seven!)
What is the first line of this movie? It's delivered by the male lead to a bartender.

Total points available: 15 Stop Scrolling!
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Stop I say! ANSWER KEY:

Movie 1:
Guy Pearce as Police Detective Edmund Exley and Kevin Spacey as Detective Jack Vincennes confront Paolo Seganti as gangster Johnny Stompanato and Brenda Bakke as Lana Turner in the 1997 movie, L.A. Confidential. Danny Devito narrates the introduction of the movie.

Movie 2:
Natalie Portman as Mathilda and Jean Reno as Leone Motana in the 1994 movie, The Professional (aka: Léon: The Professional) Gary Oldman plays Norman Stansfield.

Movie 3:
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, Sterling Hayden as Police Capt. McCluskey and Al Lettieri as crime boss Sollozzo in the 1972 movie, The Godfather. Don Vito Corleone is played by Marlon Brando.

Movie 4:
Michael J. Pollard as C.W. Moss, Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker, Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow, Estelle Parsons as Blanche Barrow and Gene Hackman as Buck Barrow in the 1967 movie, Bonnie and Clyde. The song in the big chase scene is “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

Movie 5:
Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall and James Mason as Phillip Vandamn in the 1959 movie, North by Northwest. The big finale is on the face of Mt. Rushmore. The director was Alfred Hitchcock.

Movie 6:
Virginia Huston as Ann Miller, Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey and Paul Valentine as Joe Sefanos in the 1947 movie, Out of the Past. Kirk Douglas plays gangster Whit Sterling.

Movie 7:
Humphrey Bogart as Phillip Marlow, Lauren Bacall as Vivian
Sternwood Rutledge, Sonia Darrin as Agnes Lozier and John Rodgely as Eddie Mars in the 1946 movie, The Big Sleep. Owen Taylor (played by Dan Wallace), the Sternwood’s chauffeur, killed the book dealer.

Movie 8:
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, Mary Astor as Ruth Wonderly/Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Gladys George as Iva Archer, Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo and Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman in the 1941 movie, The Maltese Falcon. The falcon is made of lead, but described by Spade as “the stuff that dreams are made of.”

Movie 9:
Ann Sheridan as Laury Ferguson, Pat O'Brien as Jerry Connolly, James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan, and Humphrey Bogart as James Frazier in the 1938 movie, Angels with Dirty Faces. Home Alone samples this movie in several of its scenes.

Movie 10:
William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, with Skippy as their dog Asta in the 1934 movie, The Thin Man. The opening line of the movie: “Have rhythm in your shaking … a dry martini ... you always shake to waltz time."

THE AWARD LEVELS:
00-19 points: Sorry, You need to watch way more old movies!
20-29 points: The Jacques Clouseau Award
30-39 points: The Rigby Reardon Award
40-59 points: The Nick and Nora Charles Award
60-69 points: The Tony (Monk) Shaloub Award
70-79 points: The Philip Marlow Award
80-99 points: The Sam Spade Award

Send a PM to GeorgePlant to claim your prize! Featured audio: "Speak Softly, Love" is the theme song from the movie, The Godfather, written by Larry Kusic and Nino Rota.