A Do You Know Your B Movies Quiz

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jayn_j said:

The Moonraker from 1958 (not the James Bond one)

X67 is correct. Happy the clues appear to have assisted.

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 X68
This new image shouldn't present a problem in being able to identify the film involved.

dedeposter

X68 - A B movie I know from the artwork! The Stranglers of Bombay (1959). Never seen the film but I had the Belgian poster.

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dedeposter said:

X68 - A B movie I know from the artwork! The Stranglers of Bombay (1959). Never seen the film but I had the Belgian poster.

Correct. The artwork is certainly distinctive.

 

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 X69
One of the more better known B grade films this time around,

Bruce

X69 is Isle of the Dead

Anyone notice I have a great half-sheet and insert from I Walked With a Zombie at auction closing this week?

Val Lewton was great!

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Bruce said:

X69 is Isle of the Dead

Anyone notice I have a great half-sheet and insert from I Walked With a Zombie at auction closing this week?

Val Lewton was great

Correct. Isle Of The Dead from 1945.



Nice two images that you mentioned you are currently auctioning of I Walked With A Zombie Bruce, and I fully agree that Val Lewton was great.

 As a producer he used Robert Wise, Mark Robson and Jacques Torneur, three directors who knew they craft well, on his eleven RKO prodced films.

''He was assigned titles for films at RKO and had to come up with the stories himself. He hired writers who offered contributions but he always wrote the final shooting scripts himself.'' ( IMDb )

Val Lewton died in 1951 of a heart attack at the age of 46.

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 X70  
No guessing required here to work out this film's genre.

                                                                   

Bruce

I would think X70 is likely one of John Ford's trilogy from 1948 to 1950. I will guess "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon"

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Bruce said:

I would think X70 is likely one of John Ford's trilogy from 1948 to 1950. I will guess "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon"

Good thinking but not the case.

X70 clue is a Hollwood legend who could certainly ride a horse, and sometimes performed her own stunts.

Bruce

Your clue makes me think Barbara Stanwyck, but I have no idea which one (I only like A westerns, not B-westerns).

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Bruce said:

Your clue makes me think Barbara Stanwyck, but I have no idea which one (I only like A westerns, not B-westerns).

It is Barbara Stanwyck, and a good clue is in the image. 

There are some really good B westerns out there that in some cases are better that some of the A grade ones. Some examples that I like and are thoroughly recommended are three Randolph Scott titles The Tall T, Ride Lonesome and Comanche Station,

dedeposter

X70 - would that be Forty Guns riding behind Barbara Stanwyck then? (1956)

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dedeposter said:

X70 - would that be Forty Guns riding behind Barbara Stanwyck then? (1956)

Correct and well done The film was actually released in 1957.

 Great use of widescreen CinemaScope throughout the film. 



 

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 X71
You may need to think outside the box with this one.

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An X71 clue is that the film isn't a musical, bur in fact is far from being anything remotely like one.

Another clue is that there is an Alfred Hitchcock connection as well.

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HONDO said:

An X71 clue is that the film isn't a musical, bur in fact is far from being anything remotely like one.

Another clue is that there is an Alfred Hitchcock connection as well.

A further clue for this difficult image is you need to be careful who you rent a room to

dedeposter

The Lodger 1944?

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dedeposter said:

The Lodger 1944?

Great guess, and so close, but not the correct answer.

A strong connection with The Lodger, but this film was filmed at a later time.


This may help?

Bruce

Maybe Hangover Square?

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Bruce said:

Maybe Hangover Square?

Very good answer but not the one. The film in question you are looking for was made in the 1950s.

The new clue should assist in someone now working out the correct answer. 

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Final assistance for X71 is that it is another remake of an earlier famous film. 

 

dedeposter

Aha! X71 - Man In The Attic (1953)

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dedeposter said:

Aha! X71 - Man In The Attic (1953)

Correct. Good work, your perseverance paid off.

 Just one of many films that were based on the Jack The Ripper killings.
                                                                                                                                                     

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 X72
Let's now see how this entry fares.

Bruce

X72 is Captain Clegg (released in the U.S. as "Night Creatures")

This movie was based on a fascinating series of books written by Russell Thorndike! In 1915, Thorndike (who was the brother of Sybil Thorndike, the famous English actress) was with his sister, and they learned there was a dead body that had been found on the street below their living quarters.

They began to try to imagine how the body got there, and they came up with the story of a respectable country vicar who actually was a smuggler, and had been a pirate in a previous life, and one of his old enemies had caught up with him and murdered him!

When he was a smuggler, he was known as "The Scarecrow", but when he had been a pirate, he was known as "Captain Clegg"! Thorndike wrote a novel based on this, which was called "Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh", and published it in 1915.

He then served in World War I, and after, he became an actor like his sister, and he put writing behind him. In the late 1920s, he began to write again, and in 1935, he revived his Doctor Syn character, with a series of five books published between 1935 and 1939, and one later one in 1944, and all of those five books are "prequels" to his 1915 book, greatly expanding on the character's earlier life!

In 1937, after the first four novels were published, Gaumont British made a movie, called "Dr. Syn", based on the character, with George Arliss in the lead role. In 1962, Hammer Films in England made this movie based on this character.

The following year, Walt Disney made a TV movie, based on the character called "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh", starring Patrick McGoohan, and then because it proved very popular, it was given a theatrical release in 1964 as "Doctor Syn, Alias the Scarecrow".

In 1974, the English movie "Carry On Dick" presented a humorous takeoff on the Dr. Syn character, but since that time, there have been no more films based on this character, although there was a stage version in 2001, performed in England in the actual Romney Marsh area that the stories were set in.

The author's son was in this production (and Russell Thorndike, an accomplished actor, had himself played Dr. Syn in some 1930s stage productions).

dedeposter

Good info Bruce, I always remember the Disney version from when I was a kid, great adaptation.

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Bruce said:

X72 is Captain Clegg (released in the U.S. as "Night Creatures")

This movie was based on a fascinating series of books written by Russell Thorndike! In 1915, Thorndike (who was the brother of Sybil Thorndike, the famous English actress) was with his sister, and they learned there was a dead body that had been found on the street below their living quarters.

They began to try to imagine how the body got there, and they came up with the story of a respectable country vicar who actually was a smuggler, and had been a pirate in a previous life, and one of his old enemies had caught up with him and murdered him!

When he was a smuggler, he was known as "The Scarecrow", but when he had been a pirate, he was known as "Captain Clegg"! Thorndike wrote a novel based on this, which was called "Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh", and published it in 1915.

He then served in World War I, and after, he became an actor like his sister, and he put writing behind him. In the late 1920s, he began to write again, and in 1935, he revived his Doctor Syn character, with a series of five books published between 1935 and 1939, and one later one in 1944, and all of those five books are "prequels" to his 1915 book, greatly expanding on the character's earlier life!

In 1937, after the first four novels were published, Gaumont British made a movie, called "Dr. Syn", based on the character, with George Arliss in the lead role. In 1962, Hammer Films in England made this movie based on this character.

The following year, Walt Disney made a TV movie, based on the character called "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh", starring Patrick McGoohan, and then because it proved very popular, it was given a theatrical release in 1964 as "Doctor Syn, Alias the Scarecrow".

In 1974, the English movie "Carry On Dick" presented a humorous takeoff on the Dr. Syn character, but since that time, there have been no more films based on this character, although there was a stage version in 2001, performed in England in the actual Romney Marsh area that the stories were set in.

The author's son was in this production (and Russell Thorndike, an accomplished actor, had himself played Dr. Syn in some 1930s stage productions).

Correct. Echoing what Ves said in Good info Bruce.

Captain Clegg ( aka Night Creatures ) was a 1962 release.

Many decades ago the Australian National Broadcaster, the ABC obtained the t,elevision rights to almost all the films available in the British Rank Organisation film  library at that time. The films were screened on ABC television over and over throughout the early hours of the morning, night after night ,decade after decade.

I was fortunate enough to record and then later watch the 1937 version of Dr. Syn.


  

I have seen both filmed versions and the following is the scene that best remains with me, in my mind,

 ( 1962 )
 ( 1962 )
 ( 1937 )

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 X73
The actor himself, his clothes and the setting should assist with finding the answer to this one.

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 X73
Any help?