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1) Who gave Mel Brooks the idea for "Young Frankenstein"?
2) What famous actor turned down the role of "Big Joe" in "Kelley's Heroes"? (answered)
3) Name one of the three SNL cast members who turned down the chance to be in Animal House (Two left)
4) What was the name of the motel in Psycho? (answered)
5) What was the name of the hotel in Barton Fink?
6) What was the original title of American Graffiti?
7) Who was Mel Brooks' original choice to play Sheriff Bart in Blazing Saddles? (answered)
8) What was the name of the other band that played the roller rink in "The Commitments"?
9) What was the name of the hooker who got cut in Unforgiven? (answered)
10) What movie was Robert De Niro's first major role? (answered)
11) What was the most expensive movie ever made?
12) What was Harold Ramis' last movie? (He was director, producer, writer & star)
13) What was the name of the character in "Never Grow Old" whose tongue had been cut out?
14) What horror movie was produced for only $15,000 but eventually had six sequels?
15) Who directed "The Hunt for Red October"?
16) Who was the original director of "Tombstone"?
More movie questions from Part 1
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Peregrine Took
(7,414 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)Beartracks
(12,816 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Beartracks
(12,816 posts)Richard Pryor!
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red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Bates Motel.
Harker
(14,022 posts)14. Night of the Living Dead?
Response to Harker (Reply #5)
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red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Mister Ed
(5,940 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,565 posts)Pretty Baby. Do I get half credit?
Mister Ed
(5,940 posts)..."King of the Gypsies."
Mister Ed
(5,940 posts)..."King of the Gypsies".
Ghostbusters?
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Bayard
(22,099 posts)Did Kevin Costner's lieutenant character give the mule team driver?
Walleye
(31,028 posts)Mean Streets?
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Beartracks
(12,816 posts)Halloween.
I seem to recall reading once that John Carpenter even saved money on scoring the film since "no one worked as cheap as" himself.
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red dog 1
(27,817 posts)miyazaki
(2,244 posts)guessing.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)DeeNice
(575 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)He was also great in "Bound For Glory" (about Woody Guthrie)
Paladin
(28,264 posts)Where his arm is wrenched around his head? That was no fake limb, that was Cox's actual arm. He suffered a dislocation accident when he was young which allowed him to stretch that arm out and about. I only found out that bit of gruesome trivia recently.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(Tarantino's spelling of the movie)
red dog 1
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red dog 1
(27,817 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)"Nashville"?
(Henry Gibson ended up playing the role instead)
red dog 1
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(Hint: he was a cop)
Harker
(14,022 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Have you seen "Zodiac"?
(Toschi was the lead detective on the Zodiac case at SFPD)
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Have you seen "Zodiac"?
(Toschi was the lead detective on the Zodiac case at SFPD)
red dog 1
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(27,817 posts)ruet
(10,039 posts)Is that the Johnny Depp and ,IIRC, Mary Stewart Masterson movie ? ...or some other 3-name celeb?
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)ruet
(10,039 posts)Guesses all...
red dog 1
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(27,817 posts)ruet
(10,039 posts)2nd guess - Tom Cruise?
Bruce Willis is correct.
Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)what state was Luke from?
Harker
(14,022 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)I had heard that Paul Newman spent some time in West Virginia among the locals to get the accent down. The context was that that's where he thought the Luke character came from. The author of the book, which was somewhat autobiographical, Donn Pearce, was born in a suburb of Philadelphia, but did time on a chain gang in Florida. Thanks for your answer.
Harker
(14,022 posts)That's probably where that answer came from.
I haven't seen the film in probably ten years, so can't recall a license plate or other definitive cue.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(Whoopi Goldberg won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress)
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(The role Yul Brynner ended up playing)
Harker
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(27,817 posts)Harker
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(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)Something Pike-ish about it.
ruet
(10,039 posts)Total guess.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)skypilot
(8,854 posts)"Hi, Mom" ???
On edit: Or it might be "Greetings". I know that it's an early Brian DePalma movie.
red dog 1
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That year, the regular players walked out after week three, and replacement players were hired by the owners to play for the next 3 weeks until the strike was settled by week seven.
The Washington Redskins replacement players won all three games they played in
(weeks 4,5 & 6)
Name one of the three NFL teams they defeated during that 3-week period.
The last game they played as replacements was on Monday Night Football (ABC)
Harker
(14,022 posts)That strike pissed off my store manager enough that I was able to purchase his two season tickets to Mile High Stadium for two years, thus being witness to the coming of John Elway.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)the story was supposed to set in the central valley town Lucas grew up in. Modesto would be my guess without jumping into Wiki.
Pat Paulsen played basketball in the same gymnasium when they held the sock hop.
Pat scored 36 points that year, second highest on the team. They passed the ball around a lot.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Which one is Pat Paulsen?
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)It's a photo he posted on one of presidential campaign web pages years ago. It's definitely from Tamalpais High school because I recognize the coach, George Gustafson, my freshman gym teacher. Kinda off topic, but George Gustafson mentored Jack LaLanne way, way back in the day.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(I wish I'd grown up in Marin County, instead of S.F.)
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Can you name one?
ruet
(10,039 posts)#11 Heavens Gate?
#14 A Nightmare on Elm Street?
#3 Bill Murray?
#9 (don't have to guess this) is Delila.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)You got #3 and #9
ruet
(10,039 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)skypilot
(8,854 posts)*
ruet
(10,039 posts)I'm surprised anyone got this so quickly. I don't think it's indexed on Google.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...a couple months ago. It was either on Cracked.com or some gossipy kind of site.
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red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(I hadn't heard about Bill Murray throwing a glass ashtray at Dreyfuss)
Great little video!
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)Come the revolution, Ill buy you a new hat? And in what movie?
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)
in a movie in which he uttered a single word.
What was the movie, and what was the word?
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)We saw that film a long time ago, and I think it had to do somehow with South American Jesuit Settlements
and Fr. Berrigan was a Jesuit, so that's my guess.
((I can't remember what he said)
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)He says, "no".
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)There is only one spoken word.
What was it and who spoke it?
Harker
(14,022 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)Hadn't thought of that until now.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)VGNonly
(7,495 posts)MM was considered "difficult".
red dog 1
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(27,817 posts)ruet
(10,039 posts)George Clooney?
red dog 1
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(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)happy with one aspect of it....What was his objection? What didn't he like about it?
VGNonly
(7,495 posts)I've heard that Jack Warner was a notorious cheapskate.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)He thought it was costing too much.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)VGNonly
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(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 26, 2021, 03:53 PM - Edit history (1)
Can't make a ç in the reply title block.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(The role went to Steve Martin)
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)VGNonly
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(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)red dog 1
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(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)The Doobie Brothers was already taken...
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)By the time of the Rock Fight, they had named themselves Alice Bowie.
red dog 1
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(Donald Sutherland ended up playing the general)
Harker
(14,022 posts)I think.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)general, and he declined.
Harker
(14,022 posts)Jim Brown?
Response to Harker (Reply #114)
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Harker
(14,022 posts)No, (good guess though)
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)(Very good guess)
Harker
(14,022 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)That happened at the Dozens camp, when Breed had broken in to try to find out what the mission was. Breed first started in on Pinkley. After Franko told Pinkley not to tell Breed anything, Breed turned his attention on Franko.
Harker
(14,022 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Reisman asked him if he wanted to be a general. He said, Id rather be a civilian. Reisman made him do it anyway.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)he thought that since his character was a Native American, it would be inappropriate for him to impersonate a general.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(Telly Savalas ended up with the role)
VGNonly
(7,495 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(Jerry ended up being played by Jack Lemmon)
VGNonly
(7,495 posts)Good thing it was changed, I can't see Frank dressing in drag.
Harker
(14,022 posts)Close, though.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(It was also offered to John Wayne)
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)tore apart a studio office, and reportedly threw the film's transportation manager into
San Francisco Bay when they didn't have a car waiting for him?
Harker
(14,022 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(I think McQueen threw some movie person into the SF bay too)
Harker
(14,022 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Caught by Chong.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Hint: it comes in two parts.
Harker
(14,022 posts)"Shine On, You Crazy Diamond"?
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)The song is When The Tigers Broke Free. Its how Rogers father died. The rest of the band didnt want it on the record because it was too personal. It got in the movie to explain why Pink was the way he was.
Harker
(14,022 posts)I thought maybe they snuck in an "oldie."
Thanks!
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(Not the last movie he starred in)
Harker
(14,022 posts)Which, coincidentally, is the answer to one of the character name posts I put up on the "name the movie" board.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(Denzel Washington ended up starring in it)
Harker
(14,022 posts)Shot in the dark.
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(I guess all the time & usually I'm wrong)
Harker
(14,022 posts)I'll go out on a limb!
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)of Opal, The British woman who claimed to be from the BBC....(Jennifer Jason Leigh got the part)
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)and turned it down..Can you name one of them?
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Harker
(14,022 posts)red dog 1
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(27,817 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)"The Hunt for Red October"
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(She turned down both roles)
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)(To do another film)
Dunsterville
(12 posts)Night of the Living Dead?
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Welcome to DU!
red dog 1
(27,817 posts)red dog 1
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(27,817 posts)(Henry Gibson's role)