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Movies by Year, 1950–1969

One question per year about movies and actors. Can you answer them all?
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First submittedAugust 26, 2013
Times taken19,680
Average score75.0%
Rating4.48
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1969
Followers of this madman murder actress Sharon Tate
Charles Manson
1968
Charlton Heston visits this planet, only to find out that it was Earth all along
Planet of the Apes
1967
This movie features a soundtrack by Simon & Garfunkel
The Graduate
1966
Clint Eastwood stars in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", by this Italian director
Sergio Leone
1965
Julie Andrews stars in this movie about a musical Austrian family
The Sound of Music
1964
This actress marries Richard Burton for the first time
Elizabeth Taylor
1963
This desert epic, starring Peter O'Toole, wins an Oscar for Best Picture
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
Dr. No becomes the first movie to feature this character
James Bond
1961
This film, based on a Leonard Bernstein musical, hits theaters
West Side Story
1960
This director fights with censors to allow "Psycho" to be released
Alfred Hitchcock
1959
Charlton Heston stars in this movie about a charioteer in the time of Jesus
Ben-Hur
1958
This actress is born to Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh (give her first name)
Jamie Lee Curtis
1957
This "Casablanca" actor dies of cancer
Humphrey Bogart
1956
This singer stars in his first film, "Love Me Tender"
Elvis Presley
1955
This rebel without a cause dies in a car crash
James Dean
1954
Marilyn Monroe marries and divorces this baseball player
Joe Dimaggio
1953
This actress has her first starring role in "Roman Holiday"
Audrey Hepburn
1952
"What a glorious feeling" sings Gene Kelly in this movie
Singin' in the Rain
1951
This actor stars as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Marlon Brando
1950
This comedian stars alongside Dean Martin in "At War with the Army"
Jerry Lewis
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32 Comments
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Dec 6, 2013
haha... I missed Singin' in the Rain... I think because I typed in "Dancing in the Rain." d'oh
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Dec 6, 2013
Considering what they had to use to make the "rain" show up on film, "Singin' in the Milk" would be more apropos. Gross!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Dec 7, 2013
It's so hot! Milk.. was a bad choice..
MattLocke
+3
Level 84
Jun 23, 2016
I just went to a screening of Singin in the Rain with the widow of Gene Kelly (Patricia Ward Kelly) who said that's an old urban legend. They backlit the water with a complicated setup of stage lights. No milk required!
DonTheLamplighter
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Level 85
Sep 2, 2016
Had they used milk, Gene Kelly would've been splashing around in white puddles.
camus
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Level 78
Dec 6, 2013
100%! But I'm really surprised so few people know Sergio Leone while 95% knew Sound of Music.
rabidreader
+1
Level 39
Dec 9, 2013
Sergio Leone was the only one that slowed me down.
burntfrost
+2
Level 48
May 6, 2014
I was just telling my husband that I don't know who directed anything.
joeythelemur
+4
Level 83
Sep 15, 2014
Big difference between knowing the name of a movie and knowing who directed it. Do you know who directed Sound of Music?
ander217
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Level 74
Jun 23, 2016
Good analogy. I don't.
theguy316
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Level 41
Oct 11, 2017
Robert Wise ha
camus
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Level 78
Aug 19, 2018
Robert Wise was surely a competent craftsman but he didn't have any distinctive trademarks. On the other hand, Sergio Leone's films are identifiable within a few minutes, if not seconds.

There may be a difference between the USA and Europe though which explains my surprise. In Europe, when people think of westerns, what they have in mind are Spaghetti westerns rather than John Wayne or Gary Cooper movies (remember that scene from Die Hard when Hans Gruber confuses the two?). And when you ask European non-movie buffs which directors they can name, Leone would likely be in the top 3, along with Hitchcock and Spielberg. Another funny thing from this side of the pond: Very few Germans have heard of The Sound of Music. But the older generations all know Doctor Zhivago.

Djilas
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Level 83
Nov 18, 2019
In Austria even fewer people know Sound of Music, unless you live in Salzburg. They like to say it's because they have an older more accurate movie about von Trapps, but Mir likely it's because they're not keen on watching how easily their country became Nazi.
Jacktheguy
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Level 91
Apr 21, 2021
Same guy who directed the first Star Trek movie.
blinky
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Level 58
Feb 12, 2017
I was a big fan of the Eastwood spaghetti westerns so I knew Sergio Leone. Also the soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone.
LVSAS
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Level 43
Nov 5, 2017
just watched the Hateful 8 again, so deserving of his Oscar for the score. what's crazy is that Bernard Hermann never won an Oscar for any of his Hitchcock scores, which are some of the best in history!
Halebopp
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Level 58
Apr 21, 2021
Yep, that's odd, when you think about westerns, you think of two names, Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone. Or three including Ennio Morricone.
sillie
+1
Level 76
Dec 31, 2014
The first one was the only one I didn't get.
interopia
+1
Level 85
Jun 23, 2016
The last one was the only one I didn't get.
Instrumental
+1
Level 56
Jun 23, 2016
Got a grand total of five. My movie knowledge drops off hard before the 1980s.
blinky
+1
Level 58
Feb 12, 2017
Got them all with 3:08 left.
theguy316
+1
Level 41
Oct 11, 2017
finished with 2.08 left not bad considering I was born in 1985
Tomtrific
+1
Level 83
Nov 29, 2018
Only 54% got West Side Story? Wow.
divantilya
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Level 36
Sep 17, 2019
Could not think of Sergio Leone to save my life. Th only one that kept popping up in my head was Fellini, though I knew that he was the wrong answer.
SpartanLlama
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Level 70
May 14, 2020
Wow 11 is way better than I was expecting to do, this stuff is way before my time
cosenza
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Level 67
May 27, 2020
remembered the first one because of "once upon a time in hollywood"
Jacktheguy
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Level 91
Apr 21, 2021
Even though it doesn't actually happen in that movie. Sorry for the spoilers.
jmellor13
+3
Level 67
Apr 21, 2021
Ooh, help me, Dr. Zaius!
Dimby
+4
Level 79
Apr 21, 2021
Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius, Dr Zaius! O, Dr. Zaius!
redsplat
+1
Level 73
Apr 22, 2021
Any chance you can accept "apes" for "planet of the apes"? Since you ask us for the name of the planet, it seems rather redundant.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 70
Dec 31, 2021
17
DictatorTal
+1
Level 88
Apr 26, 2023
The "M" in "Joe DiMaggio" isn't capitalized. Otherwise, nice quiz (even though I did horribly)!
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