Donald Clarke's weekly movie quiz

1Who had friends called Thumper and Flower?

2Only one director has seen three of his films take the title of most successful ever at the box office. Who?

3The soundtrack LP to which shocker features titles including Laurie's Theme, Meyers' House and Loomis and Shape's Car?

4Ray Milland is an alcoholic (pictured, with Jane Wyman). Godard films a traffic jam. Bernie is dead. When?

5Who will reportedly follow in the footsteps of Alan Ladd and Robert Redford by playing Jay Gatsby?

6Who was known as "the Man of a Thousand Faces"?

7"Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous." The tagline to which perverse Christmas classic?

8Joel Schumacher and Norman Jewison are (perhaps surprisingly) the only directors to have filmed musicals by which theatre composer?

9"And when the Lamb had opened the XX, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." Name the missing words in the biblical quote and identify a classic.

10The finale of which profoundly creepy 1980 British drama takes place to the accompaniment of Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert?

Answers:

1.

Bambi

2.

Steven Spielberg (

Jaws, ET

and

Jurassic Park

)

3.

Halloween

4.

At the weekend (

The Lost Weekend, Week End, Weekend at Bernie’s

)

5.

Leonardo DiCaprio

6.

Lon Chaney

7.

Gremlins

8.

Andrew Lloyd Weber (

Phantom of the Opera

and

Jesus Christ Superstar

)

9.

The Seventh Seal

10.

Nicolas Roeg’s

Bad Timing