Fun Games 1970s movie quiz

Toni Basil.

Who did producer Robert Dorfmann originally want to direct Papillon?

 

Toni Basil is correct

 

Terrence Young, though the original intent was for Roman Polanski to direct. (And I looked this one up, too.)

 

Correct, your turn.

 

In the 1972 film version of "1776", producer Jack L. Warner reportedly ordered the musical number "Cool, Considerate Men" cut from the final print at the behest of which highly-placed executive?

 

"I was born here, an I was raised here, and dad gum it, I'm gonna die here, and no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin way bishen cutter."
"Now who can argue with that?"

Name the actors.

 

First, you are correct!
Second, give me a moment...

 

Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr. and David Huddleston
(I knew the latter, and had to look up the former.)

 

Correct! Your turn.

 

Contrary to popular belief, "Blazing Saddles" was not the first American movie to have a flatulence joke. This movie, from 1971, had one first. Which movie is it?
HINT: The film's director recently passed away.

 

Norman Lear's Cold Turkey.

A certain member of the Imperial Senate made her big screen debut in what movie about a womanising hairdresser?

 

First, you are correct!
Second, Carrie Fisher in "Shampoo".

 

Yeppers! Your turn.

 

Clint Eastwood's 1985 movie "Pale Rider" has been called a remake, or even a semi-sequel, of which other Eastwood movie from 1973?

 

High Plains Drifter ?

 

You are correct!

 

Your turn.

 

"From a vast and distant galaxy... A space adventure like no other!"

is a tagline from which movie?

 

Starcrash.



But it's actually a space adventure for all time, not like no other.

 

Which makeup legend wore the suit for the 1976 remake of King Kong?

 

yeah (seems like it had more than one tagline)

 

Maybe. I don't think "a space adventure like no other" was one of them, though. When I looked up those words, I couldn't find any reference to Starcrash.

 

Rick Baker

 

Yep, your turn.

 

"Beyond the Earth ...Beyond the Moon ...
Beyond your wildest imagination! "

what movie?