60s Movie Trivia
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Q 01Which 1960 Hitchcock film cost under $1 million, was shot by his TV crew, and earned $50 million?
Psycho
Psycho was sold to US theatres on a strict rule that no one could be admitted after the film had started.
Q 02Jack Lemmon's clerk abets his bosses' affairs in which Billy Wilder film, Best Picture for 1960?
The Apartment
The Apartment later became the Broadway musical Promises, Promises, with songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and a book by Neil Simon.
Q 03Which 1960 epic did Stanley Kubrick take over after director Anthony Mann left the production?
Spartacus
When Spartacus was restored in 1991, Anthony Hopkins re-voiced his late mentor Laurence Olivier in a scene whose soundtrack had been lost.
Q 04Which Oscar-winning song from Breakfast at Tiffany's was written by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer?
Moon River
Moon River's songwriters won the Oscar again the very next year, for Days of Wine and Roses.
Q 05Which 1961 musical won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture?
West Side Story
West Side Story's co-director Jerome Robbins was fired partway through filming, yet he still shared the Best Director Oscar with Robert Wise.
Q 06Who directed Lawrence of Arabia?
David Lean
David Lean's first choice for Lawrence, Albert Finney, passed his screen test but refused a long contract, so the role went to Peter O'Toole.
Q 07Which character topped the AFI's list of the greatest movie heroes, ahead of Indiana Jones?
Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck's Oscar-winning role, was based on Harper Lee's father, an Alabama lawyer who once defended two Black men accused of murder.
Q 08Which 1962 film was the first in the James Bond series?
Dr. No
In Dr. No, every line Ursula Andress speaks as Honey Ryder was dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl, because of Andress's thick accent.
Q 09Hitchcock's The Birds unleashes its attacks on which California town?
Bodega Bay
The Birds' attacks on Bodega Bay were partly inspired by a real 1961 episode when seabirds dive-bombed homes and cars in Capitola, California.
Q 10Julie Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for her feature film debut in which 1964 film?
Mary Poppins
Julie Andrews was pregnant when Walt Disney offered her Mary Poppins, and he agreed to postpone filming until she had given birth.
Q 11Peter Sellers played three roles in which Stanley Kubrick film?
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove's Peter Sellers was also meant to play B-52 commander Major Kong, until an injury forced him out and Slim Pickens took over.
Q 12Who plays Professor Henry Higgins in the 1964 film of My Fair Lady?
Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison won Best Actor reprising his Broadway role as Higgins, but his stage co-star Julie Andrews lost the film's Eliza to a bigger name.
Q 13A Corgi toy of which Goldfinger car became one of the best-selling toy cars ever made?
Aston Martin DB5
Corgi's Aston Martin DB5 copied the film car's gadgets, including an ejector seat that fires out through a roof panel.
Q 21Stanley Kubrick's only competitive Academy Award came for which film?
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey won for its visual effects, and Kubrick threw out Alex North's commissioned score in favour of existing classical music.
Q 22Who won Best Supporting Actress for Rosemary's Baby?
Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon won at 72 as next-door neighbour Minnie Castevet, having earlier been Oscar-nominated three times as a screenwriter, including for Adam's Rib.
Q 23The desert sequences of Planet of the Apes were shot around which lake?
Powell
Planet of the Apes' spacecraft crash was partly filmed at Lake Powell, a reservoir that only began filling behind Glen Canyon Dam in 1963.
Q 14By November 1966, which musical had overtaken Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film in history?
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music ends with the von Trapps hiking over the Alps, but the real family left Austria by train, pretending nothing was happening.
Q 15Doctor Zhivago could not be shot in the Soviet Union, so it was filmed mostly in which country?
Spain
Doctor Zhivago was shot mostly in Spain because Pasternak's novel was banned in the Soviet Union, where it wasn't published until 1988.
Q 16Who plays "the Ugly" in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach nearly died more than once playing Tuco: he accidentally drank acid left beside his soda, and a train's jutting steps almost decapitated him.
Q 17Who plays Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate?
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft was only about six years older than Dustin Hoffman when she played Mrs. Robinson, the older woman who seduces his character.
Q 18Which actress plays Bonnie Parker opposite Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde?
Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway won Bonnie Parker over contenders such as Natalie Wood and Tuesday Weld, and the role earned her a first Best Actress nomination.
Q 19In the Heat of the Night sends Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs into a small town in which state?
Mississippi
In the Heat of the Night is set in Sparta, Mississippi, but most of it was actually filmed in Sparta, Illinois.
Q 20Which 1967 film was the last animated feature Walt Disney personally produced before his death?
The Jungle Book
Walt Disney thought Bill Peet's first version of The Jungle Book was too dark, and after a heated argument over its tone, Peet quit the studio.
Q 24Why did Night of the Living Dead fall into the public domain?
No copyright notice
No copyright notice was on the prints its distributor sent out, and in 1968 US law required one for a film to keep its copyright.
Q 25Which British musical won Best Picture at the Academy Awards for 1968?
Oliver
Oliver's title star couldn't sing, so his songs were dubbed by Kathe Green, daughter of the film's music arranger Johnny Green.
Q 26To which country do Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid flee from the posse?
Bolivia
Butch sells Sundance on Bolivia as a robbers' paradise, boasting, 'Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.'
Q 27Which 1969 film is the only X-rated movie ever to win Best Picture?
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film ever to win any Oscar, and its rating was changed to R in 1971 after the MPAA revised its criteria.
Q 28Easy Rider's two bikers ride across America carrying money made from what?
A cocaine deal
Easy Rider opens with the cocaine deal, and the buyer the bikers sell to is played by record producer Phil Spector.
Q 29John Wayne won his only Academy Award for which 1969 Western?
True Grit
True Grit's one-eyed marshal Rooster Cogburn won John Wayne Best Actor, and he joked he'd have put on the eye patch 35 years earlier had he known.
Q 30Elizabeth Taylor became the first star paid $1 million for a role in which film?
Cleopatra
Cleopatra was 1963's highest-grossing film, yet its huge costs meant it still lost money on its first release.