'70s Flashcards
Although film adaptations of novels are common, the less frequent reverse—a novel adapted from a screenplay—occurred with what romance best-seller released on February 14, 1970? The novel kept the name of the film version released that same year.
Love Story
The shocking stabbing death of Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old African American man from Berkeley, California, is central to what 1970 documentary film, which includes footage of the incident?
Gimme Shelter
What 1976 Disney movie began with the title song “I’d Like to Be You for a Day,” sung by Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster?
Harris and Foster got to take a turn being each other for the day in the first screen version of Freaky Friday.
Dersu Uzala, which won the Soviet Union’s second Oscar for Best Foreign Language film, was directed by this (non-Russian) painter, screenwriter, and director.
Akira Kurosawa
In Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first feature film role, in which he was credited as “Arnold Strong,” he portrayed Hercules visiting—per the 1970 film’s title—what location?
New York
Who is the composer of the music playing during this movie attack in Vietnam?
Richard Wagner
A wah-wah pedal gives the funky tone to the guitar on the Oscar-winning “theme from” this 1971 private-eye movie.
Shaft
After a three-year film absence, Tatum O’Neal received $350,000 and a percentage of the net profit—becoming the highest-paid child in film history—to play a reluctant tomboy in what 1976 comedy film?
The Bad News Bears
Composer Bill Conti won an Oscar for his score to 1983’s The Right Stuff, but his signature work may be the inspirational theme song for what Oscar-winning film from the previous decade?
Rocky
“Be seated. Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” So begins the famous opening monologue from what 1970 biopic?
Patton
This was the nickname of the NYC detective played by Gene Hackman in 1971’s “The French Connection”
Popeye
