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  • I'm clueless on many of these quizzes, but a great looking Daybill!


  • CSM said:
    11 is Follow Me Quietly

    Correct. Follow Me Quietly from 1949.
  • I'm clueless on many of these quizzes, but a great looking Daybill!



    Yes it is a typically great looking RKO design from this period.
  • THE HAND GUNS ARE COMING.
  •                                                                                                                                                                                            Image # 12. Name the film title.

                                                                                                                                                                                             

  •                                                                                                             A SERIES OF HAND GUN IMAGES BEGINS.

    Image # 13. Name the film title.

  • #13 is The Hoodlum
  • CSM said:
    #13 is The Hoodlum

    Correct The Hoodlum from 1951.
  •                                                                                                                                                                                        Image # 14. Name the film title.
  • Doesn't appear anyone is going to supply the correct answers to images 6 & 7 so a couple of clues wouldn't go astray.

    Image # 6 is about a notorious gangland killer in the 1930s.

    Image # 7 is a RKO film.

  • 7 is Walk Softly Stranger...
  • Yes Walk Softly Stranger is the correct answer. The film was completed in 1948, copyrighted in 1949 but not released until 1950.
  • Another clue for image # 6. Film debut for the star of the film which also featured an unbilled film debut for a famous actor along with the feature film debut of an actor who had popular television police series in the 1970s.
  •                                                                                                                                                                                         Image # 15. Name the film title.
  • edited September 2015
    15 almost every noir ever released :)
  • 15 almost every noir ever released :)
    Probably but the answer shouldn't be a secret to you.
  • HONDO said:
    15 almost every noir ever released :)
    Probably but the answer shouldn't be a secret to you.

    There was a clue in what I mentioned above.
  • #15 secret four 
  • Sven said:
    #15 secret four 

    Yes it is. The original U.S. title was Kansas City Confidential and was released in 1952. The U.K. release title was The Secret Four but we were a bit lazy here or should I say a mistake was made in the designing or printing stage.
  • Image # 12 clues.  Stars a Universal contract star and the story is set in New York.

    Image # 14 clue.  Is a U. K. low budget film.

  • HONDO said:
    Sven said:
    #15 secret four 

    Yes it is. The original U.S. title was Kansas City Confidential and was released in 1952. The U.K. release title was The Secret Four but we were a bit lazy here or should I say a mistake was made in the designing or printing stage.
    Why do you think a mistake was made?  I have noticed that for some films where a specific US city is referenced in the title, the Aussie release paper uses the alternate title - like in this case.  Another example is Killer That Stalked New York where Frightened City was used.  For me at least it makes sense that specific US city names were left off the Aussie paper on purpose...
  • edited September 2015
    Sorry you have misunderstood what I said. I wasn't referring to the original U.S. title but to  the Australian daybill titled Secret Four and not The Secret Four as it was in the U.K. In other words they left ''the '' off the Australian daybill. Sorry I should have been a little clearer in what I was saying. What you mentioned about US city changes is correct although certain films such as The Houston Story and New Orleans After Dark weren't changed. 
  • HONDO said:
    Another clue for image # 6. Film debut for the star of the film which also featured an unbilled film debut for a famous actor along with the feature film debut of an actor who had popular television police series in the 1970s.

    Tidying up. Answers to all questions not answered.

    Image 6. Mad Dog Coll ( 1961 ).  Gene Hackman & Telly Savalas were the clues.

    Image # 12. Cry Tough ( 1959 ). Universal contract star was John Saxon.

    Image # 14.  Gang War ( 1962 ). This was from the the U.K. and not to be confused with the 1958 U.S. Charles Bronson title of the same name.

  • HONDO said:
    HONDO said:
    Another clue for image # 6. Film debut for the star of the film which also featured an unbilled film debut for a famous actor along with the feature film debut of an actor who had popular television police series in the 1970s.

    Tidying up. Answers to all questions not answered.

    Image 6. Mad Dog Coll ( 1961 ).  Gene Hackman & Telly Savalas were the clues.

    Image # 12. Cry Tough ( 1959 ). Universal contract star was John Saxon.

    Image # 14.  Gang War ( 1962 ). This was from the the U.K. and not to be confused with the 1958 U.S. Charles Bronson title of the same name.

    My Noir list only runs from 1941 (Maltese Falcon) to 1958 (Touch of Evil) ;)
  • edited September 2015
    Not all the titles I have provided images for are classified as film noir but I did state at the start of the quiz '' The first of some great film noir / crime / gangster related images''. I have decided along with my other quizzes to give them a rest due to a slowing down in interest taken in them over the last few days even when some great clues were provided in a few cases. I need a rest anyway. If some requests come forth I may revive them sometime down the track.
  • CSM said:
    HONDO said:
    HONDO said:
    Another clue for image # 6. Film debut for the star of the film which also featured an unbilled film debut for a famous actor along with the feature film debut of an actor who had popular television police series in the 1970s.

    Tidying up. Answers to all questions not answered.

    Image 6. Mad Dog Coll ( 1961 ).  Gene Hackman & Telly Savalas were the clues.

    Image # 12. Cry Tough ( 1959 ). Universal contract star was John Saxon.

    Image # 14.  Gang War ( 1962 ). This was from the the U.K. and not to be confused with the 1958 U.S. Charles Bronson title of the same name.

    My Noir list only runs from 1941 (Maltese Falcon) to 1958 (Touch of Evil) ;)
    That explains why u never pulled the trigger on New Orleans After Dark daybill. It was released in US a month after Touch of Evil.. just missing the cut off =)
  • Sven said:
    CSM said:
    HONDO said:
    HONDO said:
    Another clue for image # 6. Film debut for the star of the film which also featured an unbilled film debut for a famous actor along with the feature film debut of an actor who had popular television police series in the 1970s.

    Tidying up. Answers to all questions not answered.

    Image 6. Mad Dog Coll ( 1961 ).  Gene Hackman & Telly Savalas were the clues.

    Image # 12. Cry Tough ( 1959 ). Universal contract star was John Saxon.

    Image # 14.  Gang War ( 1962 ). This was from the the U.K. and not to be confused with the 1958 U.S. Charles Bronson title of the same name.

    My Noir list only runs from 1941 (Maltese Falcon) to 1958 (Touch of Evil) ;)
    That explains why u never pulled the trigger on New Orleans After Dark daybill. It was released in US a month after Touch of Evil.. just missing the cut off =)
    Haha you got me there!
  • Some easy ones to keep this one going:

    16

    17

    18

  • Thanks Ves.I will refrain from answering.
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