Australian Competitions Club

The November questions are already in the latest Stack magazine on page 73, before being on the website.
It doesn't look like anyone got all answers for the October quiz, which are below.

1} What re-released historical film, had an additional prologue inserted, showing US servicemen on
board an aircraft, discussing Roman history.
 
2} What's the role link : Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Sandy Dennis, Jennifer Jones, Sidney Poitier, Bette Davis.
 
3} Whose hero turns out to be just a humble hotel bellboy ?
 
4} What famous US producer had to visit a UK prison, to get his film back on track ?

5} In what movie does does a character ask for the moon to be put in their bubbly ?
 
6} What's the curious Western, where a tough guy and his travelling companion, get mistaken for train robbers ?
 
7} What happens after a hopeless attack on 'The Anthill' ?

8}  What 2001 film depicts 2 brothers with a troubled upbringing, steeped in madness and Old Testament fervour ?
 
9} What director's last film, was a straight remake of his 1933 original, with a different title ?

10} What film features an actress wearing an extremely long head veil, that appears to float during a dance sequence.
 
 
October answers.
1} Harold Lloyd's 'The Milky Way'.   
2} Bulldog Drummond and Carl Petersen, Deadlier than the Male.
3} Robert Keith,  Young at Heart.  A remake of Four Daughters.
4} Faye Emerson married Elliot Roosevelt (1944-1950).
5} Priest.
6} Nazi Agent (1942),  Conrad Veidt.
7} It Grows on Trees (1952).
8} Lee Patrick Elisha Cook played their same roles in The Maltese Falcon, in  The Black Bird (1975).
9} She was then Hollywood's oldest working actress.
10} The African Queen.

5} In what movie does does a character ask for the moon to be put in their bubbly ?

Trouble in Paradise

http://www.filmsite.org/moments00.html

6} What's the curious Western, where a tough guy and his travelling companion, get mistaken for train robbers ?

Run For Cover

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048570/


7} What happens after a hopeless attack on 'The Anthill' ?

The survivors are court martialled/executed ???

http://hopelies.com/2011/05/24/the-brutal-absurdity-of-war-paths-of-glory/



9. What director's last film, was a straight remake of his 1933 original, with a different title ?

Frank Capra chose to remake his delightful Damon Runyon based comedy Lady for a Day (1933) as his last production Pocketful of Miracles (1961),

http://www.classicfilmguide.com/indexaccd.html

3} Whose hero turns out to be just a humble hotel bellboy ?

Le Roi De La Pedale

http://books.google.com/books?id=M-vUF6Y_4RUC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=le+roi+de+la+pedale+humble+bellhop&source=bl&ots=AkopfDApgh&sig=I8a1BXPN_bTPf4X5LuMcNdMaonM&hl=en&ei=nWGzTojAD-eziQKr97Rt&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=le%20roi%20de%20la%20pedale%20humble%20bellhop&f=false (http://books.google.com/books?id=M-vUF6Y_4RUC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=le+roi+de+la+pedale+humble+bellhop&source=bl&ots=AkopfDApgh&sig=I8a1BXPN_bTPf4X5LuMcNdMaonM&hl=en&ei=nWGzTojAD-eziQKr97Rt&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=le%20roi%20de%20la%20pedale%20humble%20bellhop&f=false)


Looks right - are the films usually this obscure  :?:

The answer appears to require a CHARACTER whose HERO turns out to be the bellboy. 

And yes, they are often very obscure!!!!

AFRAID TO TALK apparently has a bellboy hero:

http://mikegrost.com/cahn.htm

10} What film features an actress wearing an extremely long head veil, that appears to float during a dance sequence.

Singin in the Rain


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc16m2B2K1g

The answer appears to require a CHARACTER whose HERO turns out to be the bellboy. 

Yes, it's a diificult parsing of language. To me "Which hero" would suggest a character and "Whose hero" suggests a film. Not sure to be honest.

2} What's the role link : Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Sandy Dennis, Jennifer Jones, Sidney Poitier, Bette Davis.

They've all won Golden Glode Awards.

I'm not sure if this is what they mean? My source is googling each name and "golden globe wiki". You'll find each has won a Golden Globe.

Good point, "whose hero" could mean the actor, or the director, even the writer!

Strictly speaking, Cyd Charisse is wearing a long scarf, not a head-dress or veil. I wonder if it makes any difference? Is there another film out there that is a better fit?

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The quiz is now online at http://www.stack.net.au/comp.php?goto=280 (http://www.stack.net.au/comp.php?goto=280)

Again it's only $250 this month so it looks as though they've given up on the jackpots- even though they did not have a July winner. Plus they have yet to announce winners for August, September & October.

I agree with Marcoz 10. is Definitely Singin In The Rain

Check out the picture here:

http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=cyd-charisse-and-%E2%80%9Csingin%E2%80%99-in-the-rain%E2%80%9D
 

But even the article accompanying the text saysIf you watch the whole sequence, the floating fabric is attached to Cyd Charisse's shoulder and is tugged with sufficient force by Gene Kelly to dislodge a head-piece or veil. Is there another film with a long floating veil?

no, Sandy Dennis was only nominated for a Golden Globe (She did win an Oscar though). It must be something else...

Darth,

What's the role link : Glenn Ford, Shirley Maclaine, Sandy Dennis, Jennifer Jones, Sidney Poitier, Bette Davis.

"They were all nominated for Golden Globes" ???????

I have no idea if it is right but:

The movie Singin' In the Rain is such a wonderful experience it .... Dali-inspired set, Charisse in a white outfit with a fifty-foot white veil that ...

Regarded by many as the finest movie musical, Singin' in the Rain is a ... a guest appearance by Cyd Charisse with a 25-foot long white silk veil - gorgeous. ...

Singing in the Rain is a great ....for the artistic control that allowed Kelly to keep the "crazy veil" number in the picture. ...

Singin' in the Rain, 1952, directed by ... an enormous fifty-foot veil of white China silk attached to Cyd Charisse's costume.

Singin in the Rain. ... We rehearsed the Salvador Daliesque 'Crazy Veil' sequence until my shoulders were chapped

The beautiful, long-limbed Cyd Charisse ... is seen as a warm and inviting vision, her long white veil blowing in the wind.

The only role/s I can remember theem having in movies was a religious one..ie..they played a priest/Nun..etc etc...however still trying to find one with Bette Davis in it??? there must be one??...surely????..

I'll pay "Singin' in the Rain" for Q10, partly because I can't find anything else that remotely fits. While Rita Hayworth dances with seven veils in "Salome" and Jessica Lange has a veil as the Angel of Death in "All That Jazz", neither of their veils are "extremely long" or "appear to float" in the same way that Cyd Charisse's does. Dance nomenclature seems to call any fabric used to drape or conceal the figure as veils Funny how the length of Cyd Charisse's veil varies between twenty-five and fifty feet. At least everybody agrees that it was white silk...

They've finally announced winners for August, September and October -congratulations to all concerned (envy, envy... ).

Bette Davis was cast as a Nun in "The Miracle" (see Louella Parson's column here http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19380602&id=3YUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=134FAAAAIBAJ&pg=970,4058782 ) but apparently the film was never released. Publicity stills from the film showing Bette Davis dressed as a nun have appeared however... http://stills-stills-stills.tumblr.com/post/956255700/bette-davis-in-costume-as-a-nun-for-a-film-that
So it seems that strikes out this option as well  :( Still looking...

I'm not sure you can call him a hero since he ends up getting framed for the murder.

How hard are these Stack quizzes now!!

No. 8 is Frailty.  I enjoyed this one and it fits the description perfectly.

2) They have all played school teachers

Glenn Ford in  Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green (1945)
Jennifer Jones in Good Morning Miss Dove (1955)
Sandy Dennis in Up The Down Staircase (1967)
Shirley Maclaine in The Children's Hour (1961) Two Loves (1961)
Sidney Poitier in To Sir With Love (1967)

Good spotting grizzly1.  I was going to give up and just put 'nuns', but now that you've listed the right answer, it all makes sense.  Thanks.

1 and 4 still elude us! :(

The December Quiz is up already. http://compingclub.com/index.php?topic=205803.0

and the answers have appeared in the newsletter:

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