'60s Flashcards
By the end of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, after a full evening of trick-or-treating, Charlie ends up with a bag full of what?
Rocks
What award-winning film starred an actor whose name at birth was Issur Danielovitch; included a feature role for an actor born Bernard Schwartz; and was written by a man who had recently won an Academy Award under the pseudonym Robert Rich?
Spartacus
Bernard Herrmann scored this 1960 black and white thriller using only the string section of an orchestra.
Psycho
During filming for Doctor Zhivago, extras caused panic in this country by singing “The Internationale,” which at the time was banned by its fascist government.
Spain
Hari Kondabolu described Hank Azaria’s performance of Apu on The Simpsons as “a white guy doing an impression of a white guy making fun of my father.” What “white guy” donned brownface and imitated a South Asian accent in the 1968 Blake Edwards comedy The Party, partly inspiring Azaria?
Peter Sellers
In a famous 1961 action adventure film, a group of Allied and Greek commando specialists are assembled by British intelligence to destroy Nazi artillery cannons concealed within the solid rock of what fictional Greek island?
Navarone
This is a still from the boring film Sleep, which is, per its title, 321 minutes of a man sleeping. Name the film’s director—better known for his work in another field—who also helmed Eat (45 minutes of a man eating a mushroom), Empire (an eight-hour uninterrupted shot of the Empire State Building), Chelsea Girls, and more than 100 other films in the 1960s.
Andy Warhol
Released in 1963, this was the final Disney animated film to be released before Walt Disney’s death. It was based off a T.H. White novel of the same name that was released in 1938.
The Sword and the Stone
Dozens if not hundreds of squealing British youths are among the cast (though they were probably not acting) in what lively 1964 musical comedy directed by Richard Lester?
A Hard Day’s Night
A 1963 film, directed by Stanley Kramer and featuring a star-studded ensemble cast, is likely the most successful film in Hollywood history whose title includes the same word repeated four times. What is that film’s full title?
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The murder of Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque separatists was realistically portrayed in the film Ogro by Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, who is much better known for which earlier film, similarly depicting an urban insurgency?
The Battle of Algiers
In 1960 this The Three Faces Of Eve actress received the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Joanne Woodward
Christopher Plummer has played King Lear, Hamlet, Oedipus, Pizarro; but perhaps his most challenging role was in this 1965 movie that for a while was the top-grossing film of all time.
The Sound of Music
In the 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story, a young actress of Puerto Rican descent named Chita Rivera shot to stardom in the second-billed female role. In the 1961 film, young Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno did the same in the same role. Name the character.
Anita
Donald Pleasance played the devil in the form of a music promoter in Paganini Horror and fought Lucifer in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness. Max von Sydow played the devil in the form of a shopkeeper in Needful Things and fought Pazuzu in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist.
The two actors appeared together in only one feature film, a 1965 all-star epic in which von Sydow played Jesus and Pleasance played “the Dark Hermit.”
Name that movie.
The Great Story Ever Told
1966’s The Fortune Cookie was the first of 12 films over a 32-year period in which two beloved Hollywood legends appeared—often as antagonists, though they were dear friends in real life. Name either of these two men.
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau
