A Movie Scene Quiz

43. Something Wicked This Way Comes
44. Stanley and Iris

Recap:

L = Library/librarian

1. The Music Man
2. Chances Are
3. The Philadelphia Story
4. Philadelphia
5. Regarding Henry
6. It's A Wonderful Life
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Fatal Attraction
9. Fahrenheit 451
10. The Librarian (2004), B-film, action adventure
11. Wilderness (1996), Amanda Ooms turns werewolf in a library
12. Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone (2001), Hermione looks up sth in the library at Hogswart.
13. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), prisoner loans many books from prison library.
14. The Ninth Gate (1999), rare book collector visits many private libraries.
15. The Return of the Unnamable (1993), heroes and police chase demon through university library.
16. The Name of the Rose (1986), mystery thriller in and around a medieval monastery library.
17. Hellbreeder (2004), heroine sees demon in city library.
18. The Time Machine (1960, 2000), hero visits age old library in the future.
19. Battlefield Earth (2000), hero is shown dilapidated library of Congress.
20. Primal Fear
21. IT (1990), one of the heroes is a librarian and a bloody scene plays out at the library.
22. The Breakfast Club (1985), the students have detention in the library.
23. Elephant (2003), school library is featured
24. Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth, 1972), hero is interrogated by secret service when looking up info about pregnancy and childbirth at the library.
25. Dreamcatcher (2003), one of the protagonists possessed by an alien moves around his own mind which has the form of a library.
26. The Mummy (1999), the female lead is a librarian (at the Britsh Museum I believe).
27. LOTR, the Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Gandalf looks up information in the library/archive of Gondor.
28. Xing xing wang (The Great Peking Man, 1977)
29. You're a Big Boy Now
30. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
31. The Paper Chase
32. Ghostbusters (brilliant opening scene)
33. Threesome (not porn but a early nineties film with one of the Baldwin brothers in it)
34. Storm Center (Doris Day was a librarian opposing censorship.)
35. Beauty and The Beast (if cartoons are allowed)
36. Cabaret (when Sally tells Brian she is pregnant)
37. Wings of Desire - several scenes in a library where the angels read over people's shoulders
38. City of Angels - a sort-of remake of Wings of Desire that uses the library again
39. Lost Souls (2000), Winona Ryder waits for Ben Chaplin in front of the City Library.
40. The Last Embrace (Roy Scheider discovers Janet Margolin's secret in the library of the university where she is a graduate student)
41. Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman is also a graduate student who does research in the university library)
42. Seven (Morgan Freeman in the library)
43. Something Wicked This Way Comes
44. Stanley and Iris


Want to guess the Alfred Hitchcock movie that was one of my first thoughts?

I'd say "North By Northwest" when Grant is being held by James Mason and his henchmen in the mansion's library. I thought about adding personal home libraries to this list, but only as a last resort.

45. Love Story

"Shadow of a Doubt", Raggedy?

Good guess eoe, but No home libraries allowed. Wandeljw got it.

46. Shadow of a Doubt

Watching "Beaches" on AMC. Hillary spends time in the library researching her illness.

47. Beaches

Did it make you cry again?

Finally, I could squeeze another library scene from my memory:
48. Logan's Run (1976), Logan 5 and Jessica 6 find information about the history of the planet in a large abandoned library.

Of course. Doesn't take much these days.

Wow. Two more and we'll reach 50. I'm trying to decide whether "mountain climbing" or "masquerade party/ball" should be next.

49. The Pagemaster (children's movie about adventures at the local library)

Yea! One to go

L = Library/librarian

1. The Music Man
2. Chances Are
3. The Philadelphia Story
4. Philadelphia
5. Regarding Henry
6. It's A Wonderful Life
7. The Shawshank Redemption
8. Fatal Attraction
9. Fahrenheit 451
10. The Librarian (2004), B-film, action adventure
11. Wilderness (1996), Amanda Ooms turns werewolf in a library
12. Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone (2001), Hermione looks up sth in the library at Hogswart.
13. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), prisoner loans many books from prison library.
14. The Ninth Gate (1999), rare book collector visits many private libraries.
15. The Return of the Unnamable (1993), heroes and police chase demon through university library.
16. The Name of the Rose (1986), mystery thriller in and around a medieval monastery library.
17. Hellbreeder (2004), heroine sees demon in city library.
18. The Time Machine (1960, 2000), hero visits age old library in the future.
19. Battlefield Earth (2000), hero is shown dilapidated library of Congress.
20. Primal Fear
21. IT (1990), one of the heroes is a librarian and a bloody scene plays out at the library.
22. The Breakfast Club (1985), the students have detention in the library.
23. Elephant (2003), school library is featured
24. Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth, 1972), hero is interrogated by secret service when looking up info about pregnancy and childbirth at the library.
25. Dreamcatcher (2003), one of the protagonists possessed by an alien moves around his own mind which has the form of a library.
26. The Mummy (1999), the female lead is a librarian (at the Britsh Museum I believe).
27. LOTR, the Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Gandalf looks up information in the library/archive of Gondor.
28. Xing xing wang (The Great Peking Man, 1977)
29. You're a Big Boy Now
30. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
31. The Paper Chase
32. Ghostbusters (brilliant opening scene)
33. Threesome (not porn but a early nineties film with one of the Baldwin brothers in it)
34. Storm Center (Doris Day was a librarian opposing censorship.)
35. Beauty and The Beast (if cartoons are allowed)
36. Cabaret (when Sally tells Brian she is pregnant)
37. Wings of Desire - several scenes in a library where the angels read over people's shoulders
38. City of Angels - a sort-of remake of Wings of Desire that uses the library again
39. Lost Souls (2000), Winona Ryder waits for Ben Chaplin in front of the City Library.
40. The Last Embrace (Roy Scheider discovers Janet Margolin's secret in the library of the university where she is a graduate student)
41. Marathon Man (Dustin Hoffman is also a graduate student who does research in the university library)
42. Seven (Morgan Freeman in the library)
43. Something Wicked This Way Comes
44. Stanley and Iris
45. Love Story
46. Shadow of a Doubt
47. Beaches
48. Logan's Run
49. The Pagemaster (children's movie about adventures at the local library)


The first person to make it no. 50 gets to choose "m". How about that?
(I thought of mountain climbing; masquerade party/ball; missionaries)

50. The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (Betty Lou is a librarian)


I'll go with masquerade for M and start us off with:

1. Amadeus

Way to go, Mac.

2. An American in Paris

3. Tom Jones
4. To Catch a Thief

5. The Phantom of the Opera

Darn, I should've save Logan's Run for last :wink: , would've chosen mountain climbing, but well...
One question: does masquerade include people dressing up as Santa Claus, or is it limited to special circumstances? What about Halloween?

6. Le Bal masqué (1981), about the assassination of Gustav III, king of Sweden, during a masquerade (in 1792)

7. Labyrinth (masquerade ball)

8. Dangerous Liaisons (1988), also a ball masqué
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971), thugs use masks as disguise (does that count?)
10. Domino (2005), a bunch of unfortunate robbers wears "First Ladies" masks
11. The Mask (1994), Jim Carrey putting on a show
12. The Cask of Amontillado (1998), masks during the Carnival of Venice

13. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (a masked Russ Tamblyn dances with Yvette Mimieux)