APITop100_Part2 Flashcards
Sam Peckinpah
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Dustin Hoffman
All the President’s Men (1976)
“I’ve grown accustomed to her face” song
My Fair Lady (1964)
Won 11 Academy Awards (tied by Titanic and LOTR: Return of the King)
Ben-Hur (1959)
“Eye Of The Tiger” song
Rocky (1976)
Conflict (and killing each other) arises amongst men within the ____ as well as enemies in the Vietnam War
Platoon (1986)
last movie feautring the little Tramp
Modern Times (1936)
George Lucas
American Graffiti (1973)
gladiator leads a slave revolt that ends with his death in battle in 71 BC
Spartacus (1960)
“That is one nutty hospital”
Tootsie (1982)
guy strains spaghetti through his tennis racket
The Apartment (1960)
Laurence Olivier
Wuthering Heights (1939)
“It isn’t that I don’t like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I’m strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven’t been any quiet moments!”
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
3 Russian steelworkers serve in Vietnam War, get captured, Saigon falls
The Deer Hunter (1978)
“You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man”
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Uma Thurman
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Sal’s Famous Pizza
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Frau Blucher (horses neighing)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
“follow the money”
All the President’s Men (1976)
Dustin Hoffman
Tootsie (1982)
“I love you. I’ve loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe I’ve even loved you before I saw you.”
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Laurence Harvey
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Red Dragon, Hannibal
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur (1959)
Judah is a bigwig of Judea, meets Jesus, becomes a rower, wins a race, rescues family, meets Jesus
Ben-Hur (1959)
Bill Murray
Tootsie (1982)
Fletcher Christian
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
POWs are forced to play Russian roulette
The Deer Hunter (1978)
2 films to be nominated for every eligible category in the Academy Awards
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1966) and “Cimarron” (1931)
Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
a botched kidnapping causes someone to end up in the wood chipper
Fargo (1996)
an adrenaline shot to the heart of Uma Thurman
Pulp Fiction (1994)
“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Groucho, Harpo, Chico, & Zeppo Marx
Duck Soup (1933)
Laurence Olivier
Spartacus (1960)
Jack Lemmon
The Apartment (1960)
Sidney Poitier
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Ginger Rogers
Swing Time (1936)
Harrison Ford
American Graffiti (1973)
Al Jolson in blackface
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Eliza Doolittle
My Fair Lady (1964)
Won the most academy awards (8) without winning Best Picture, lost to The Godfather
Cabaret (1972)
Cybil Shepherd
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Spencer Tracy
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Captain William Bligh
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Tramp falls in love with a blind girl and develops a turbulet friendship with an alcoholic millionaire
City Lights (1931)
based on Oliver Stone’s experience in Vietnam War
Platoon (1986)
George and Martha enterain Nick and Honey and host an evening of fun and games, black comedy
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
describes the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid 20th century
Pulp Fiction (1994)
a snowstorm blows a prospector’s cabin to the edge of a cliff
The Gold Rush (1925)
based on Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward’s investigations of the Watergate scandal
All the President’s Men (1976)
Meryl Streep
Sophie’s Choice (1982)
Steve Buscemi
Fargo (1996)
Frances McDormand is married to director Joel Coen
Fargo (1996)
The first R-rated movie to win Best Picture
The French Connection (1971)
sea captain cares more about his cargo of breadfruit trees then the crew, crew mutinies
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
“Maybe This Time” song
Cabaret (1972)
Frank Sinatra
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Christopher Walken
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Steven Spielberg
Close Encounters of the Third King (1977)
____ : A Tale of the Christ
Ben-Hur (1959)
Denzel Washington
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Rocky Balboa
Rocky (1976)
Edna Ferber
Giant (1956)
Two bikers Billy & Captain America travel the Southwest, features 60’s hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle
Easy Rider (1969)
heavy Northern accent saying e.g. “Yah, you betcha” and “don’t cha know”
Fargo (1996)
John Wayne
The Searchers (1956)
Roy Neary, everyday blue collar worker, seeas a UFO
Close Encounters of the Third King (1977)
Jodie Foster
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Angela Lansbury
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
“I do wish we could chat longer, but I’m having an old friend for dinner.”
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Lerner & Loewe
My Fair Lady (1964)
based on a novel by William Styron
Sophie’s Choice (1982)
also written by Sylvester Stallone
Rocky (1976)
Peter Fonda
Easy Rider (1969)
black police detective becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in Mississippi
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Meryl Streep
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Elizabeth Taylor
Giant (1956)
Ron Howard
American Graffiti (1973)
Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958)
“Yo, Adrian!”
Rocky (1976)
D.W. Griffith
Intolerance (1916)
Sidney Poitier
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
“I’m Spartacus! I’m Spartacus!”
Spartacus (1960)
William H. Macy
Fargo (1996)
George Gershwin
An American in Paris (1951)
Fred Astaire
Swing Time (1936)
Robert De Niro
The Deer Hunter (1978)
James Dean died 2 weeks after wrapping shooting for this movie
Giant (1956)
Henry Higgins
My Fair Lady (1964)
Clark Gable
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
follow up to “The Birth of a Nation” after racial criticism, features 4 distinct stories about mankind’s ____ throughout the ages
Intolerance (1916)
“I Got Rhythm”
An American in Paris (1951)
his hunchbacked assistant named Igor (although not actually called that until “Son of Frankenstein” in 1939)
Frankenstein (1931)
Gene Hackman
Unforgiven (1992)
also Kevin Costner’s directorial debut (oscar)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Jimmy Stewart
Vertigo (1958)
Katharine Hepburn
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Elizabeth Taylor
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
famous dance scene with John Travolta and Uma Thurman doing the twist
Pulp Fiction (1994)
working class young man who is entangled in love triangle - one who works in his wealthy uncle’s factory and the other a beautiful socialite
A Place in the Sun (1951)
chariot race scene
Ben-Hur (1959)
Most famous mutiny in history, Fletcher Christian & his mates seize control of the HMS Bounty outside Tahiti in 1789
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
“Funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?”
Goodfellas (1990)
This person is responsible for killing replicants (human robots) that are banned on earth, Harrison Ford comes out of retirement for one more assignment in LA on a rainy day
Blade Runner (1982)
“You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Sanity Claus” (reference to a sanity clause in a contract)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
musical where man bets that he can take flower girl and turn her Cockney accent into a proper English one for high society in London
My Fair Lady (1964)
Judah Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Tramp gets caught in the wheels/gears of a machine
Modern Times (1936)
also directed by Clint Eastwood
Unforgiven (1992)
a powerful Texas ranching family is challenged by the coming of big oil
Giant (1956)
Faye Dunaway
Network (1976)
white girl brings black boyfriend home to meet the parents for the first time
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
Charlie Chaplin
Modern Times (1936)
Clarice, a young FBI trainee, seeks the help of a cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter to catch another serial killer “Buffalo Bill”
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
patriotic biographical musical about George Cohan, “The Man Who Owns Broadway”
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Audrey Hepburn
My Fair Lady (1964)
Peter Finch
Network (1976)
“It’s a hell of a thing killin’ a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.”
Unforgiven (1992)
Kirk Douglas
Spartacus (1960)
William Holden
The Wild Bunch (1969)
John Wayne’s breakout film
Stagecoach (1939)
“Gonna fly now” song
Rocky (1976)
“Shane. Shane. Come back!”
Shane (1953)
Montgomery Clift
A Place in the Sun (1951)
“Born to be wild” song
Easy Rider (1969)
a pregnant police chief investigates a series of homicides in Minnesota (despite the title) & a struggling car salesman hires 2 criminals to kidnap his wife
Fargo (1996)
first Marx brothers movie without Zeppo
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti (1973)
Warner Brothers produced this first talkie, about a man who rejects his Jewish heritage to become a ____
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Peter Bogdanovich
The Last Picture Show (1971)
who is hanging from a clock and what is the film?
Harold Lloyd in “Safety Last” (1923)
Charlton Heston
Ben-Hur (1959)
Quentin Tarantino
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jessica Lange
Tootsie (1982)
“No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me - now - standing on this hill with you. This is me, forever.”
Wuthering Heights (1939)
John Ford
Stagecoach (1939)
Joel & Ethan Coen
Fargo (1996)
Life is a _____ old chum
Cabaret (1972)
Boris Karloff
Frankenstein (1931)
John Travolta
Pulp Fiction (1994)
A television network struggles with poor ratings
Network (1976)
Shirley MacLaine
The Apartment (1960)
known for his deadpan silent comedy
Buster Keaton
group of 9 strangers ride on a stagecoach in dangerous Apache territory
Stagecoach (1939)
Kim Novak
Vertigo (1958)
James (Jimmy) Cagney
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
James Dean starts an oil empire
Giant (1956)
Gene Wilder
Young Frankenstein (1974)
“Where were you in ‘62?” was the tagline
American Graffiti (1973)
several connecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase (we never find out whats inside - code is “666”)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family in this Western, but is drawn in to a settler/rancher conflict
Shane (1953)
Elsa Lancaster
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
“They call me Mister Tibbs!”
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Robert Redford
All the President’s Men (1976)
Jeff Bridges
The Last Picture Show (1971)
movie about “a type of restaurant with a dance floor, music & a show” set in The Kit Kat Club in Berlin in 1931
Cabaret (1972)
“You’re A Grand Old Flag” song
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Cary Grant
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
____ song, about a pony-riding gentlemen
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
skrewball comedy where a paleontologist gets involved with a woman and a leopard named Baby
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Martin Scorsese
Goodfellas (1990)
The Tramp
Charlie Chaplin’s on screen character
Suicidal Union Army lieutenant travels to the American frontier to find a military post, joins Sioux Indians, sights a stampede of buffalo
Dances with Wolves (1990)
The Ringo Kid
Stagecoach (1939)
based on “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” novel by Philip K. Dick
Blade Runner (1982)
Polish Auschwitz survivor is forced to chose which child will be sent to death to avoid both of them being killed (she chose the boy)
Sophie’s Choice (1982)
3 great silent film comedians
Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd
based on a novel by Larry McMurtry
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Meryl Streep
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
overcrowded stateroom gag where they all fall out when the door opens
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Richard Condon
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Charlie Chaplin
The Gold Rush (1925)
Anthony Hopkins
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
a group of teenagers and their adventure one night, shows the cruising/rock and roll culture
American Graffiti (1973)
“I Could Have Danced All Night” song
My Fair Lady (1964)
Jack Nicholson
Easy Rider (1969)
“Money, Money” song (“money makes the world go round”)
Cabaret (1972)
Robert De niro
Goodfellas (1990)
Groucho, Harpo, & Chico Marx
A Night at the Opera (1935)
tough cop stops French from smuggling Heroin into the US
The French Connection (1971)
Story of tough NY police detectives “Popeye” and “Cloudy”, based on real life Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso
The French Connection (1971)
“It’s alive! It’s alive!”
Frankenstein (1931)
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
Network (1976)
Joel Grey is the MC
Cabaret (1972)
the last movie in black and white to win Best Picture
The Apartment (1960)
Richard Dreyfuss
Close Encounters of the Third King (1977)
Mirror scene where one Marx pretends to be the reflection of the other
Duck Soup (1933)
based on “An American Tragedy” novel
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Ned Beatty
Nashville (1975)
Liza Minnelli
Cabaret (1972)
sequels “Bride of Frankenstein”, “Son of Frankenstein”, “The Ghost of Frankenstein”, “Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man”, “Young Frankenstein”
Frankenstein (1931)
Charlie Sheen
Platoon (1986)
based on a play by Edward Albee
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Police Chief Bill Gillespie and Detective Virgil Tibbs
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
an aging outlaw and killer takes on one more job years after he had turned to farming
Unforgiven (1992)
Billy Wilder
The Apartment (1960)
John Williams
Close Encounters of the Third King (1977)
“Willkomen” song
Cabaret (1972)
also played by Marlon Brando (1962) & Mel Gibson (1984)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
people in country and gospel music come together for presidential primary for an outsider from the populist party
Nashville (1975)
“The Rain in Spain” song
My Fair Lady (1964)
book sequels are “Men Against the Sea”, and “Pitcairn’s Island”, they find the island at the end of the movie
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
C.C. loans out his dwelling to his superiors for their trysts; falls for Fran, an elevator operator
The Apartment (1960)
Harrison Ford
Blade Runner (1982)
inspired by “The Great Locomotive Chase”
The General (1926)
elizabeth taylor
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Ridley Scott
Blade Runner (1982)
Samuel L. Jackson
Pulp Fiction (1994)
silent film comedy about a train called _____ which is stolen by Union troops to disrupt railway lines used by the Confederate army during the Civil War
The General (1926)
Joe Pesci
Goodfellas (1990)
Western about aging outlaws on the Texas/Mexico border in 1913
The Wild Bunch (1969)
the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill and his friends
Goodfellas (1990)
“Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?”
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
“My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.”
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The son of a prominent right-wing polical family as an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Morgan Freeman
Unforgiven (1992)
Willem Dafoe
Platoon (1986)
“You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!”
The Jazz Singer (1927)
stuck in the wilderness, he boils his boot for dinner
The Gold Rush (1925)
guy with fear of heights and vertigo hired to follow someone’s wife who is behaving strangely
Vertigo (1958)
Robert Altman
Nashville (1975)
Ray Liotta
Goodfellas (1990)
the 3rd kind means an encounter where a human actually sees an alien
Close Encounters of the Third King (1977)
also directed by Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing (1989)
The first live action film with sound for dialogue (started the “talkies”) and the decline of the silent film era
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Gene Hackman
The French Connection (1971)
Charlie Chaplin
City Lights (1931)
Stingo
Sophie’s Choice (1982)
Western where a middle-aged civil war veteran / obsessed Indian hunter, looks for abducted niece
The Searchers (1956)
Stanley Kubrick
Spartacus (1960)
sequel was Texasville in 1990
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Gene Kelly
An American in Paris (1951)
based on Pygmalion
My Fair Lady (1964)
“Puttin on the ritz”
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Movie about an expatriate, based on Gershwin’s 1928 orchestral work, featured in the climax of the film, lots of other dance numbers as well
An American in Paris (1951)
Buster Keaton
The General (1926)
Brooklyn’s simmering racial tension comes to a head when a police officer kills a black guy on the hottest day of summer, then riots ensue
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Alan Ladd
Shane (1953)
Dennis Hopper (also Directed by)
Easy Rider (1969)
remade in 1980 featuring Neil Diamond and “America” song
The Jazz Singer (1927)
young debt collector for a loan shark becomes a major boxer in Philadelphia
Rocky (1976)
“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” song
My Fair Lady (1964)
last film with Zeppo Marx (the un-zany one)
Duck Soup (1933)
“Heeey, maaan!”, and “Be cool, man”
Easy Rider (1969)
“Popeye” Doyle
The French Connection (1971)
Peter Boyle
Young Frankenstein (1974)
steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rocky (1976)
Sally Bowles
Cabaret (1972)
Everyone is drawn to a remote Wyoming mountain (Devils Tower) to see the alien, Roy goes with them
Close Encounters of the Third King (1977)
Katharine Hepburn
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Rex Harrison
My Fair Lady (1964)
The Tramp struggles to live in an industrial society
Modern Times (1936)
Actor with reputation for being difficult is forced to act as a woman to land a job on a soap opera
Tootsie (1982)
