Spy Who Came in from the Cold



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The opening bars of this song are plagiarized from the chauffeur Norman. When it is performed at Exit In by Tom Frank, the dedication to “someone kinda special who just might be here tonight” leads Opal, Linnea, and LA Joan to all believe that it is meant for them. The lyrics “It’s not my way to love you just when no one’s looking” and “Don’t lead me on if there’s nowhere for you to take me” are especially ironic given that the singer is a cruel womanizer. Keith Carradine begs, “Give the word and I’ll play your game, so that’s how it ought to be” in, FTP, what Oscar-winning ballad from the 1975 Robert Altman movie Nashville, whose title phrase was also sung by Willie Nelson in drawing a comparison to Sunday morning?

ANSWER: “I’m Easy


Thomas Ince’s production of The Typhoon made this University of Chicago dropout a star. He formed his own Hollywood production company, Haworth – which earned $2 million a year – and cast Marin Sais opposite himself in such films as The City of Dim Faces and Bonds of Honor. He portrayed an artist who thinks that his wife is a mythical beast in The Dragon Painter and became a sex symbol with the role of Hishuru, who declares Edith Hardy to be his property after branding her. Remembered today for an Oscar-nominated performance in which he uses a copy of the Geneva Convention to slap Nicholson across the face, this is, FTP, what leading man of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat, a Japanese onetime matinée idol who played Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai?

ANSWER: Sessue Hayakawa


This character’s last film saw him thwart a plan to use beautiful female robots to sabotage a supersonic airliner, in 1969’s Some Girls Do. Richard Johnson played him in both that work and its prequel, Deadlier than the Male, in which he is outwitted by the sexy female assassins Irma Eckman and Penelope. The first movie about him was a 1923 silent starring Carlyle Blackwell, and he has also been portrayed onscreen by, among others, Ralph Richardson, Ray Milland, Walter Pidgeon, and 7 times by John Howard. A 1929 classic cast Joan Bennett as his girlfriend Phyllis, Montagu Love as his nemesis Carl Peterson, and Claude Allister as his sidekick Algy Longworth. Ronald Colman got an Oscar nod for a definitive turn as, FTP, what Sapper-created adventurer?

ANSWER: Hugh “BulldogDrummond (accept either underlined name)


In one film, this actress twirls around in imaginary snow accompanied by the song “Blinded by the Light.” In another, her debut, she freaks out about a bat in her cabin. She played the wife of a director targeted by HUAC in Guilty By Suspicion and has an All About Eve-type relationship with Avice in a movie based on a W. Somerset Maugham novel. Two of her onscreen romantic partners have been Las Vegas property developers: one is vaporized by Martians, while the other names the Flamingo for her. In yet another role, she has an affair with Buddy Kane, the “Real Estate King.” Oscar-nominated as Myra Langtry in The Grifters, this is, FTP, what co-star of The Great Outdoors, Mars Attacks!, Running with Scissors, and Being Julia who portrayed potential First Lady Sydney Ellen Wade in The American President and appeared in Love Affair and Bugsy opposite her husband, Warren Beatty?

ANSWER: Annette Bening


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The actor behind Boba Fett appears in this movie as a sandwich-board man the protagonist meets at a low point in his life, while the portrayer of My Fair Lady’s Mrs. Pearce plays a dominatrix (!) and Christine Noonan reprises her role from the prequel. Arthur Lowe dons blackface as an African dictator, and an old guy who advises the hero, “Try not to die like a dog” is one of Ralph Richardson’s two parts. Musician Alan Price performs several numbers commenting on the action, and the main character ends up bedding one of Price’s groupies, played by Helen Mirren. Eventually Mick Travis goes to audition for a film with the same title as the one he is in and meets director Lindsay Anderson – who slaps him across the face. FTP, name this surreal 1973 British satire that serves as a sequel to If....

ANSWER: O Lucky Man!
This woman played a children’s book author accused of subverting the government in Radha Bharadwaj’s two-actor film Closet Land. She was Anthony Quinn’s Mexican trophy wife in Revenge and a once-blind musician stalked by a killer in Michael Apted’s Blink. Her Blink co-star was also her criminal ex-boyfriend in a popular 1987 action-comedy that cast her as half-Latina waitress Maria Maguire. James Stewart’s blonde love interest in Vertigo shares her first name, and one of her most famous roles sees her don a blonde wig and kiss a character named James in a Hitchcock homage. In another movie, she is told, “Stay alive! No matter what occurs, I will find you.” FTP, name this Stakeout actress known as Cora Munro in The Last of the Mohicans and Kathryn Railly in Twelve Monkeys.

ANSWER: Madeleine Stowe


This man’s last film performance was as King Herod in The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his first starring part was every thespian’s dream: the lead in The Invisible Man. He also played title roles in Mr. Skeffington, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, and 1943’s Phantom of the Opera, as well as Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia and Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood. One movie ends with him attempting suicide before confessing that he is a pawn of James Taylor, while in another Devlin and Alicia lock him out and leave him to be killed. Most famously, he is shocked – shocked! – to find out about gambling, and at the end he rounds up the usual suspects and is told, “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” FTP, name this distinguished character actor known as Alexander Sebastian in Notorious, Senator Paine in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Louis Renault in Casablanca.

ANSWER: Claude Rains


This film inspired the hairstyle of the lead character in The Legend of Billie Jean. Antonin Artaud can be seen in it as a bailiff, and Richard Einhorn’s oratorio Voices of Light was composed as an homage. The star, who had previously appeared in La Comtesse de Somerive, never made another movie; Pauline Kael described her as giving what “may be the finest performance ever recorded on film.” Thought lost for decades, it was discovered in 1981 in a closet at a Norwegian insane asylum. Shot almost entirely in close-ups and featuring Michel Simon as Brother Jean Lemaître, this is, FTP, what 1928 Carl Thedor Dreyer-directed silent classic with Falconetti as the title martyr?

ANSWER: The Passion of Joan of Arc (or La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) (do not prompt on “Joan of Arc”)


This character waves goodbye to Jos Jones after he jeopardizes Sarah’s future by taking his clothes off in front of a social worker. She envies her bitchy roommate, played by Charlotte Rampling. A song about her earned Jim Dale an Oscar nod for lyrics like “Who needs a perfect lover when you’re a mother at heart?” and “Though he’s not a dream come true, at least he’s a millionaire,” referencing her loveless marriage to a man played by James Mason. A less cynical version of that song was a #2 US hit for The Seekers and asked, “Why do all the boys just pass you by? Could it be you just don’t try, or is it the clothes you wear?” FTP, name this title heroine of a 1966 Silvio Narizzano comedy-drama whose portrayal earned an Academy Award nomination for Lynn Redgrave.

ANSWER: Georgy or Georgina or Georgy Girl


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One character portrayed by this man earns a date with Meredith by using the phrase “pre-emptive strike against litigation” but threatens to jump overboard after she describes him as a “nice guy.” Another film sees him as a teacher who tells his students “This will be over quite quickly” before throwing one of them across the room. He insists that his fiancée be referred to as “Dr. Big Boobs McGee” in one role, and in another he defines an acronym as standing for “Liberate Apes Before Imprisoning Apes.” Perhaps his most treasured performance is as Marion Stokes, the slimy TV executive who betrays Rainbow Randolph. FTP, name this co-star of Playing By Heart, The Faculty, and Death to Smoochy who is better known for hosting the Oscars and The Daily Show.

ANSWER: Jon Stewart

On an episode of Happy Days, Fonzie draws parallels between this film’s protagonist and a character played by guest star Tom Hanks. A future Bond girl appears as the younger version of her more famous sister. Scripted by New York Times movie critic Frank Nugent, it was the source of the shot in Star Wars where Luke discovers that his aunt and uncle have been killed, and its opening and closing images are nearly identical: both show a man standing in a doorway. Ethan shoots the eyes out of a corpse, condemning the spirit to “wander forever between the winds,” but in the end he cannot bring himself to kill his niece Debbie even though she has lived with the Native Americans he despises. FTP, name this 1956 John Ford Western starring Natalie Wood and John Wayne.

ANSWER: The Searchers


This woman co-wrote a movie in which Sally Kelton is impregnated by good-for-nothing musician Steve Ryan, Not Wanted, and worked with much of the same cast – including her sister Rita – on a drama released that same year about a dancer struck with polio, Never Fear. Her last directorial effort starred Hayley Mills as a mischievous girl in Catholic school, while in her quite different Outrage, Mala Powers played a rape victim. Her most famous film, inspired by the true story of Billy Cook, featured Perry Mason’s TV foil William Talman as a psychopathic serial killer who kidnaps two men while they are on a fishing trip. FTP, name this noted Hollywood actress who helmed The Trouble with Angels and what one critic called the “only true noir directed by a woman,” The Hitch-Hiker.

ANSWER: Ida Lupino


This director’s first feature was a Joseph Conrad adaptation produced by David Puttnam, The Duellists. Among the films he’s produced are Monkey Trouble, The Browning Version, and HBO’s The Gathering Storm. A New York cop falls in love with a murder witness in his Someone to Watch Over Me, while two others take on the yakuza in his Black Rain; in 2007, he returned to Big Apple law enforcement with the story of Detective Richie Roberts. Other of his movies feature Ray Liotta as a man fed his own brain, Gérard Depardieu as Christopher Columbus, Russell Crowe as an oenophile, Brad Pitt as a duplicitous hitchhiker, and Demi Moore as a Navy SEAL. FTP, name this Matchstick Men filmmaker with Oscar nominations for Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, and Gladiator.

ANSWER: Ridley Scott (prompt on “Scott”)


This man was first portrayed onscreen by Austin Trevor in 1931’s Alibi; Trevor also had a small role in a 1965 Frank Tashlin comedy that cast Tony Randall as him. Another version of this character, played by Hugh Laurie, is bewitched by Emma Bunton’s cute smile in a fantasy sequence from 1997’s Spice World. In a 1982 film, a joke about how Giuseppe Verdi means “Joe Green” allows him to figure out Patrick Redfern’s identity. Albert Finney got an Oscar nomination as him in a 1974 Sidney Lumet movie, and Neil Simon spoofs him in Murder By Death by having Milo Perrier exclaim, “I’m not a Frenchie, I’m a Belgie!” FTP, name this fictional detective incarnated by Peter Ustinov in Evil Under the Sun and Death on the Nile, a creation of Agatha Christie.

ANSWER: Hercule Poirot (accept first or last name)


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A real-life winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service in the US Army Air Force during WW2, this man’s last role was in the 1964 Disney adventure A Tiger Walks. In one movie, he is about to thrash Jean Simmons, but instead decides to marry her. A perfume imported by his character in that film supplies its title, Black Narcissus. The monkey in Disney’s Aladdin took its name from this actor’s part in Alexander Korda’s super-production The Thief of Baghdad, and he also played Mowgli in Zoltán Korda’s Jungle Book and the title figure in another Kipling adaptation, Robert Flaherty’s Elephant Boy. FTP, when Maxwell Smart heard that KAOS had taken the “Star of India,” he thought that they had kidnapped whom, the first South Asian Hollywood star?

ANSWER: Sabu Dastagir


In one early film, this man stated, “Generals without armies are naked indeed,” while in another he says, “Your crimes are so many I scarcely know where to begin” – to Jesus! He first gained attention as a neatness-distrusting character who compares truth to “a mouthful of worms” and possibly hints at homosexuality by referring to his “women’s intuition.” After a long fallow period in the ‘70s and ‘80s reduced him to a villain in The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island – which, like Space: 1999, cast him opposite his wife, Barbara Bain – he came back with 3 Oscar nods in the ‘90s for roles as an automaker’s financier, an eye doctor who arranges his mistress’ murder, and a cult actor who labels Boris Karloff a “limey cocksucker.” FTP, name this Cleopatra, Tucker, North by Northwest, and Crimes and Misdemeanors co-star whose Academy Award came as Béla Lugosi in Ed Wood.

ANSWER: Martin Landau

This actress’ role as Josie in I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname made her the first person to say the f-word in a mainstream film. She starred in a movie called Ghost Story and narrated a 1994 version of The Turn of the Screw, in addition to portraying Lilith in Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising and appearing as God on Absolutely Fabulous. More prominently, Sofia Coppola recently cast her as Maria-Theresa, the title character’s mother, in Marie Antoinette, and she was Ophelia opposite Nicol Williamson in Tony Richardson’s Hamlet. FTP, name this woman best known for a music career that includes the hit “As Tears Go By” and for an urban legend involving a Mars bar and Mick Jagger.

ANSWER: Marianne Faithfull


This man played the title character in the horror flick The Return of Doctor X and a sympathetic stablehand who comforts the dying heroine in Dark Victory, as well as a has-been movie director in The Barefoot Contessa. A 1955 television production saw him reprise his breakthrough role as Duke Mantee, and his last film was the 1956 boxing exposé The Harder They Fall. In the 1950s, he romanced first Katharine and then Audrey Hepburn onscreen – definitely a step up – and won an Oscar for the former. FTP, name this portrayer of charismatic hoods in The Desperate Hours, The Petrified Forest, and High Sierra who was paranoid about the thefts of strawberries in The Caine Mutiny and gold in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

ANSWER: Humphrey Bogart


One character in this movie is working on a manuscript that mentions “the continuous mysterious, maddening flight of the nurse over the cradles,” and he also teaches his daughters how to differentiate poisonous and edible mushrooms. The protagonist’s sister tries to strangle a cat, and in one memorable scene several children jump over a fire. At the end, a young girl creepily repeats the phrase, “It’s me, Ana.” Earlier, the sight of her father’s watch caused her to realize that the fugitive she was sheltering had been killed, and she runs into the woods, where she has a vision of Frankenstein’s monster. The vivid imagination of Ana, the child of an apiologist, is a metaphor for survival under the Franco regime in, FTP, what 1973 classic of Spanish cinema, the first film of Victor Erice?

ANSWER: The Spirit of the Beehive (or El Espíritu de la colmena)


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This woman, who – in real life – broke up Diana Rigg’s marriage, played the younger version of her mother’s character in David Hare’s Wetherby and appeared as the third of the murderous Cissie Colpitts in Peter Greenaway’s Drowning By Numbers. She was the Finnish Princess Anna in King Ralph and joined Melanie Griffith as a spy in Nazi Germany in the awful Shining Through. Hugh Laurie strove to get her pregnant in Ben Elton’s directorial debut, Maybe Baby, and she comforted Mel Gibson with, “You have done nothing for which you should be ashamed” in The Patriot. Also memorable as the “mother” of the title brood stolen by Cruella De Vil in 1996’s live-action 101 Dalmatians, this is, FTP, what daughter of Vanessa Redgrave who stars as Julia McNamara on Nip/Tuck?

ANSWER: Joely Richardson (prompt on “Richardson”)


One key turning point in this film is the discovery of surveillance devices in aquariums supplied by the protagonist’s girlfriend. The title derives from a fish with the scientific name Coreoleuciscus splendidus and references that fish’s ability to swim between two countries. At the climax, the villains are stopped from detonating “CTX” at a crowded soccer match, but the more important conflict lies in the heart of a deadly female assassin and deep cover agent who has fallen in love with her opposite number on the other side of the 38th parallel. Kang Je-gyu directed Lost’s Yunjin Kim in, FTP, what 1999 action movie that broke box office records in South Korea?

ANSWER: Shiri (or Swiri)


This man runs a consulting firm called Deceptive Practices that provides “arcane knowledge on a need-to-know basis,” and a collection of his dice could be seen at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City. Along with Crispin Glover, he had a cameo as one of Werner Herzog’s dinner guests in Incident at Loch Ness. In one movie, he calls a plan “cute as a pail full of kittens,” while another opens with him narrating 3 urban legends. An auctioneer in Heartbreakers, a business agent in Mystery Men, and a rocket scientist in Tomorrow Never Dies in addition to those Heist and Magnolia roles, he was cast ironically in The Prestige as an incompetent magician. A consulting job on House of Games led to the acting career of, FTP, what famed card sharp and associate of David Mamet?

ANSWER: Ricky Jay

This man played Harry Houdini in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2. D.A. Pennebaker scripted a 1968 movie he directed about three gangsters in a New York City apartment, Wild 90, and he cast himself as a Manhattan police lieutenant in another work he helmed that year, Beyond the Law. His 1970 Maidstone saw him as a famous film director who runs for president. Also known for appearing in Jean-Luc Godard’s bizarre version of King Lear (as himself) and portraying architect Stanford White in Ragtime, he earned the Worst Director Razzie Award for 1987’s incomprehensible Tough Guys Don’t Dance. FTP, name this narcissistic filmmaker who received a 1983 Emmy nomination for a teleplay based on his Pulitzer-winning novel about Gary Gilmore, The Executioner’s Song.

ANSWER: Norman Mailer


While eating baby food, the protagonist of this movie describes to her roommate how her mother abandoned her family on Christmas Day. The headmistress asks her, “Do you take – do you understand – drugs?” after she nearly dies while sleepwalking, and in another scene, filmed at the home of Richard Wagner, she stands up to bullying schoolmates while creepily repeating, “I love you all.” At the end, Morris gets decapitated by Frau Brückner, who is out to protect her hideously disfigured son, but the heroine is saved at the last second by a razor-wielding ape that had belonged to her late friend, the wheelchair-bound entomologist John MacGregor, played by Donald Pleasance. FTP, name this 1985 Dario Argento film starring Jennifer Connelly as a girl who can communicate with insects.

ANSWER: Phenomena (reluctantly accept Creepers)


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This technique was used for The Plainclothesman, a live DuMont network detective series that ran from 1949 to 1954, as well as the first hour of the thriller Dark Passage, before Vincent Parry gets plastic surgery. Thanks to the SQUID technology, the death of Iris in Strange Days is viewed like this. The only Hollywood movie to employ it all the way through sees Chris Lavery’s murder solved by Philip Marlowe; that film, directed by Robert Montgomery, is the 1947 noir Lady in the Lake. It is not used to show Laurie Strode stalked by Michael Myers in Halloween, because she is clearly being watched from the back of a car; however, an earlier sequence in which Michael kills his sister was shot this way. FTP, name this device of filming a scene through the eyes of a character.

ANSWER: first-person or subjective or point-of-view (or POV) camera (accept clear knowledge equivalents)


After Diane Keaton pulled out of this man’s adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping, Lord David Puttnam rescued the project. His Being Human featured Ewan McGregor’s first film role, but a misbegotten 1999 sequel to an early hit destroyed his career. He cast Bill Paterson as a DJ dumped at Christmastime in a movie inspired by the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, Comfort and Joy, while Robert Buchanan played a boy who plots to steal several cast-iron sinks in his directorial debut, That Sinking Feeling. John Sinclair, the star of his Gregory’s Girl, appeared as a rogue motorcyclist and drummer in his most famous work, which sees a Russian fisherman perform “Lone Star Man” at a ceilidh [KAY-lee]. FTP, name this filmmaker best known for a 1983 comedy with Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster as oil executives out to buy a Scottish village, Local Hero.

ANSWER: Bill Forsyth


This film begins with the death of Rose Cheramie, played by Sally Kirkland, and one character shouts, “I am not resisting arrest!” as he is taken in by police. Al, Susie, and Numa remain loyal, but the protagonist fires Lou and is betrayed by Bill. The director’s cut adds scenes with Ron Rifkin and John Larroquette and introduces a continuity error by referring to a man as “Bertrand” before revealing what his alias is. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau both appear, while several actors, including Vincent d’Onofrio, play the same roles as in Malcolm X. A source identified only as “X” tells the hero, “People are suckers for the truth. And the truth is on your side, Bubba,” at a clandestine Washington, D.C. meeting. References to Hamlet abound in the dialogue of crusading New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, portrayed by Kevin Costner, in, FTP, what 1991 Oliver Stone political thriller?

ANSWER: JFK


Angelo works in a Renault factory. Landry is a student from West Africa. Marilù, an Italian immigrant, works as a secretary at Cahiers du cinéma. Marceline, who would later marry filmmaker Joris Ivens, is a Holocaust survivor. At the end, all of these people are shown the film they appeared in, and their reactions and discussion are included in it as well. Beginning with several passersby being asked the open-ended question, “Are you happy?”, this is, FTP, what 1961 French documentary made by sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist Jean Rouch, a key example of the frequently misunderstood technique known as cinéma vérité?

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