Donald Clarke's weekly movie quiz

Questions

1 "You'll believe a man can fly". Which blockbuster?

2 Which defoliant did Colonel Kilgore enjoy smelling before lunch?

3 The upcoming book Me Cheetapurports to be the autobiography of which action hero's animal companion?

4 Rusty Ryan, Jesse James, Tyler Durden and, shortly, Benjamin Button. Which hunk?

5 Gregory's Girl, Roman Holidayand Bringing Up Babyare linked by which surname?

6 The title of which current film is a distortion of the name of a self-help book by Dale Carnegie?

7 Sheen/Langella. Which upcoming prestige release?

8 Who resulted from the romantic union between the star and director of Meet Me in St Louis?

9 Welles's incomplete second. The Seven Samuraire-imagined. Morecambe and Wise on the big screen. What superlative?

10 "You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles." Which parody?

Answers

1. Superman

2. Napalm.

3. Tarzan

4. Brad Pitt

5. Hepburn. Dee Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn starred in those films.

6. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

7. Frost/Nixon

8. Liza Minnelli. She was the daughter of Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland.

9. Magnificent. The question refers to The Magnificent Ambersons, The Magnificent Sevenand The Magnificent Two.

10. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.