Movies Pub Quiz 260413

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1. Q: James Dean’s career lasted only five years, and he appeared in just three major films before sustaining fatal injuries in a car crash on September 30, 1955. What three films?
   A: East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, Giant.
2. Q: Which silent era actor earned the nickname “The Man of a Thousand Faces”?
   A: Lon Chaney (Leonidas Frank Chaney). He was renowned for his extraordinary versatility, characterisations of tortured, grotesque characters, and his groundbreaking, self-applied makeup techniques.
3. Q: Which French actress caused a sensation by appearing naked in the opening scene of the 1957 film “And God Created Woman”?
   A: Brigitte Bardot. She portrayed the character Juliette Hardy. Furthermore, the film introduces her sunbathing naked on her stomach, which exposes her bare back and derrière to the audience.
4. Q: Which 1958 Hitchcock film has a one-word title?
   A: Vertigo. Often considered one of Hitchcock’s masterpieces, topping the British Film Institute’s 2012 Sight & Sound critics’ poll.
5. Q: Which actor played George III in the 1954 film “Beau Brummell”?
   A: Robert Morley. Morley portrayed the “mad” monarch in a notable scene in the movie, which starred Stewart Granger in the title role and Peter Ustinov as the Prince of Wales.
6. Q: Which Scottish actor played the first screen incarnation of Dr Hannibal Lecter in the 1986 film “Manhunter”?
   A: Brian Cox. Manhunter was an adaptation of Thomas Harris’s 1981 novel Red Dragon. In this film, the character’s name is spelt Lecktor. Although Anthony Hopkins’s portrayal in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) is more iconic and widely celebrated, Brian Cox was the first to portray the character in cinema.
7. Q: Who played the monster in the 1931 film “Frankenstein”?
   A: Boris Karloff. His iconic portrayal, featuring makeup designed by Jack Pierce, transformed him into an overnight superstar.
8. Q: Who played the younger Scrooge in the 1951 classic film with Alastair Sim?
   A: George Cole. Alastair Sim mentored Cole and worked with him on several films.
9. Q: Which horror film franchise features the Character Leatherface?
   A: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The character is a chainsaw-wielding, mask-wearing cannibalistic murderer, often portrayed as a mentally disabled member of a deranged Texas family.
10. Q: Which 1968 science fiction film features the HAL 9000 computer?
    A: 2001: A Space Odyssey. The iconic AI controlling the Discovery One spacecraft, HAL 9000 malfunctions during a mission to Jupiter.