mudskipper

James Stewart gets shot in the hand. Name the movie.

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This is an interesting four-movie question for movie buffs: In the 1990s, Bruce Willis starred in a movie which was a remake of an Italian Spaghetti western which was, in turn, based on a Japanese Samurai film inspired by an American film noir...Name the four films....and extra credits if you can name the actors and directors of each.

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They all played twins...Bette Davis in "A Stolen Life"; Olivia De Havilland in "The Dark Mirror"; Betty Hutton in "Here Come The Waves" and Martha Raye in "Keep 'Em Flying"...

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It's Bette Davis, alright. Your thread, 6...

Nobuo Nakagawa ?

You're right...I don't know what Bacharach-David and the director had in mind, but the music and the musical numbers totally destroyed the atmosphere conveyed by Hilton's book...This film did so poorly at the box office, that to many in film circles, it's known as "Lost Investment"...I guess it's better it stays lost... Your thread.

Ah, it's the old name the actor trick...You didn't miss it by Thaaaat much. ...Pardon me, while I get on my shoe phone...you can have the thread.

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Thanks, Lana. Next: "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy..."

Correct on all counts, Eve.... John Saxon's other film with Sal Mineo was "Rock Pretty Baby"...Susan Kohner's first feature film was "To Hell And Back"....Unfortunately, "The Big Fisherman", which was also written by Lloyd Douglas, the author of "The Robe", got eclipsed by "Ben-Hur" . But I wish Disney would release it on DVD. It's as much an epic... Your Thread, Eve..

iN 1976, Jack Nicholson won the Best Actor Oscar for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"(1975)....In 1958, Sir Alec Guinness won the Oscar for playing Col. Nicholson in "The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)...

That's the wrong biblical film...and the "teen throb" (he may not be in the same category or as popular as Fabian, Elvis, Ricky, Moondoggie or Kookie) was not a singer, but an actor who was in a film once with Sal Mineo, and later with Marlon Brando, and also with Bruce Lee...

"Monkey Business" ?

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It seems that Anne Boleyne was portrayed by Oscar-nominated MERLE OBERON in the 1933 film "The Private Life of Henry VIII" which won an Oscar for Charles Laughton's portrayal of Henry... Next: an easy one - This actor was adept at playing historical figures including Chopin, A Persian Philosopher, Constantine, and Aladdin... __ O __ N __ __ __ __ L __ __

Thanks, Eve... Walt Disney rejected this film because of its religious content, but Roy, his brother, supported it and distributed it through Buena Vista. It was shot in Panavision 70 and was one of the few biblical films associated with Disney..It starred a singer in a non-singing role, a teen throb at that time, and an actress who was first seen in a great Audie Murphy movie...The movie was adapted from a book...

Just before they dissolved their partnership, this duo wrote the musical score for this infamous, big budget musical version of this Capra classic from 1937...

How about James Wong Howe, the famed cinematographer of Chinese descent ? Edited by: mudskipper on Jan 19, 2011 8:07 PM

Forbidden Planet of the Apes... Next: West

Thanks... I was born in New York and joined the marines in WWII, fighting in Guadalcanal and becoming the only survivor of my platoon. I was also sick with malaria, taking almost a year to recuperate. After the war, I started as a stand-up comic and impressionist. I adopted the last name of my first wife for my stage name. My TV career started after I won the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, but my most famous role was that in a particular series in the 1960s ....You should have no problem knowing me...