A Movie Scene Quiz

Here I am Wandeljw. I'm just waiting for Yellowdog, or Mac, or you to answer Bree's question. We're not in any hurry.

If I may say so, it will have only been seven days from tomorrow since Bree presented her question. :wink:

Hard to believe it is taking this long. You would have answered it within an hour.

hmmmm. I'm wondering. Does Wandeljw know the answer?

"The Magnificent Seven" (McQueen)
"Around the World in 80 Days" (Niven)
In
"What Dreams MayCome" (Gooding)

At the time, I didn't realize that Raggedy was giving a hint!

Oh, Raggedy is very subtle, wandeljw -- her posts are masterpieces of concealed information!

Seven Days in May is correct, of course. Your turn.

I should have realized Raggedy was giving a hint. (She is never intentionally rude or snide!)

It will take me a while to come up with a question, bree. Yours was excellent!

Thanks. If I may speak for Raggedy, I don't think we're confined to the format we've been using recently, so if you want to ask a new kind of question, no one would object.

NEW QUESTION

I am thinking of a novel that was produced in 2 different film versions. The titles referred to below are from unrelated films.

("The" is the first word of the novel's title. There are only two more words in the novel's title.)

Albert Finney (One word from movie title)
Danny Glover (One word from movie title)

Aaah. I just saw the Bogart version, if I'm thinking of the same movie, Wandeljw. (Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe)

TheBig Fish (Albert Finney) + To Sleep With Anger(Danny Glover)(I've not seen that one)

Raggedy! (We were just talking about you!)

"The Big Sleep" is correct. Chandler is one of my favorite authors.

Yes, I heard you talking about me, but I was in such a hurry to post the answer, I forgot to thank you all for the nice things you said.

That was a good question, Wandeljw. It made me immediately think of another novel made into a movie.

A three word title.

First word is in a movie title in which Gary Cooper and Rock Hudson both appeared at different times.

Second and third words are in a movie title in which Robert Ryan appeared. Thus,

Gary Cooper or Rock Hudson (1 word from title) + Robert Ryan (2 words)

The 1944 version of this movie had a different title than the book.
The 1975 version had the same name as the book.

A Farewell to Arms (Cooper and Hudson) + Beware, My Lovely (Ryan)

The 1944 version of Farewell, My Lovely was (for some inexplicable reason) called Murder, My Sweet.

bree,

Not inexplicable: Dick Powell was trying a dramatic role and wanted the title changed so that people didn't think it was another one of his musicals!

That makes sense. And I guess he had enough clout that the studio was willing to accomodate him by changing the title.

You got it, bree.

I read that about Powell requesting a change in title, too, but, I can see no other movie that Powell was in that has a title in any way similar to "Farewell, My Lovely".

I think Powell thought that "Farewell, My Lovely" sounds like the title of a song he would sing.

A good point, Wandeljw.

There was a song by that title by Dietz and Schwartz written in 1935, and maybe Dick Powell was considering singing it; however if he ever did perform it, it wasn't one of his hits.

My mother went frequently to the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh for a movie and stage show when Dick Powell was Master of Ceremonies there.

"In his late teens, he (Powell) joined Kentucky's Royal Peacock Orchestra, and during the late '20s sang and played with Charlie Davis, with whom Powell made a number of early recordings. By the early '30s, he had relocated to Indianapolis to serve as Master of Ceremonies at the Circle Theater, later assuming the same duties at Pittsburgh's Stanley Theater; there Powell was discovered by a Warner Brothers talent scout, and quickly signed to a movie contract."

Just a note:

I read somewhere on the internet that 40% of the Oscar winning movies were adapted from novels, but I can't remember where I saw that so I can't prove it. I think that's an impressive percentage.

I also found this:

"Based on the Book' is a compilation of over 1,100 books, novels, short stories, and plays that have been made into motion pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie Database as the authority, all movies in this collection have been released as feature-length films in the United States, in English, since 1980."

Now that doesn't seem like a lot considering that Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide contains more than 18,000 entries. Of course some of the entires are Made for TV films, but still.......

This is somewhat related to what Raggedy just talked about.

Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature! I realize he is a playwright, but I have always admired him for his movie screenplays.