A Movie Scene Quiz

That's funny, Wandeljw.
We don't use TV movies in this game, and I didn't see the TV version of Samson, but I remembered reading that Mature would be in it.

Prizefighter
Real-life artist
Newspaper reporter
Movie producer

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Ciao, tutti!

COuld it be Kirk Douglas?
Champion--prizefighter
Lust for Life-Van Gogh

The Bad & the Beautiful-Producer (Just saw this - it's great!) and Once is NOt Enough...and I think there's another one...

But I'll admit the reporter has me stumped...am I on the right track? can I get a clue?

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I think you're right, lois, because Kirk Douglas played a newspaper reporter in Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival).

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Yes, Loislane, Kirk Douglas is the actor and you got all but one. Very Happy

I can't think of another in which he was a producer. I loved the "Bad and the Beautiful". I thought the cast of supporting players was excellent.

Kirk Douglas was a sleazy, cynical, self-serving reporter in Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole", aka "The Big Carnival". In order to get a story, he lets a young man trapped in an ancient Indian Ruin (hole) die. A rather daring movie for the fifties.

Do you have a question for us?

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Ah, I think I was thinking of the Kirk where he plays a director driven to a nervous breakdown. He comes back and directs a film (in Italy-so I had to watch!); just big 50's fun.

Well, I could do another Kirk and ask for all the roles he played in Adrian Messenger! Just love this guy!

Hmmm. Let me think!

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OK, I've got an easy one to ease me into this!

An alcoholic
A Baseball Player
A Count
A Judge

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Oooh, yes Kirk was a director who goes to Rome in "Two Weeks in Another Town".

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Raggedyaggie wrote:

Oooh, yes Kirk was a director who goes to Rome in "Two Weeks in Another Town".

Ahhh, yes, that's the one! You know he's really quite an actor! What a range!

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I always liked Kirk, and think my favorite Kirk role was "Spartacus".

Good question, Loislane. I have no clue at the moment.

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Well, Tommy Lee Jones played an alcoholic baseball player in Cobb, but somehow I don't think we can count that as two roles -- and besides, I can't think of any movies in which he played a count or a judge!

So to get a clue, I'll guess the actors who played the three most famous movie-alcoholic roles I can think of:

Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
Jack Lemmon (Days of Wine and Roses)
Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)

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bree wrote:

Well, Tommy Lee Jones played an alcoholic baseball player in Cobb, but somehow I don't think we can count that as two roles -- and besides, I can't think of any movies in which he played a count or a judge!

So to get a clue, I'll guess the actors who played the three most famous movie-alcoholic roles I can think of:

Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
Jack Lemmon (Days of Wine and Roses)
Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)

Ray Milland played a baseball player in "It Happens Every Spring".

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Oh, you're right -- I had a picture in my mind of him in a baseball uniform, but I couldn't find the movie! Did he ever play a count or a judge?

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I had the baseball player and alcoholic for Milland, but can't think of a movie where he played a count or judge.

I'm wondering if the "count" could have something to do with Dracula. None of the "Counts" of Monte Cristo fit that I can see.

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bree,

The count and judge part has me stumped.

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Lois -- we need a clue!

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Fredric March fits three of the categories. But not baseball player. This one's driving me crazy. Ugh.

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OK, here's a big clue, and I'm pleased to have stumped you razor sharp movie buffs!

Also--Circus performer! Pirate!

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So I think of Burt Lancaster right away, (Come Back Little Sheba - alcoholic) but
I still can't get a judge, or baseball player (unless it's Field of Dreams, Dr. and ex-ballplayer) or Count (unless it's The Leopard)--
so I guess it's not Burt. Confused

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Jim Thorpe played baseball, among his other sports, so "Jim Thorpe: All-American" could count as Burt Lancaster's baseball player role. And I think his character in "Judgment at Nuremberg" was a judge. So if the character he played in "The Leopard" was a count (I always thought he was a prince, but maybe the titles are interchangeable in Italian), then we've got it.

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Bree: Burt was a German scholar on trial for war crimes in Judgment at Nuremberg. Spencer Tracy was the Judge. I just can't think of any movie where Burt played a judge.

I remember him playing football, and track, pole vaulting and discus throwing in Jim Thorpe, but don't remember him in a baseball suit. But back then, maybe they didn't have baseball suits. (lol)

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