Test Your Movie Knowledge

THIS 10-QUESTION QUIZ WILL PROVE JUST HOW BIG A FILM BUFF YOU REALLY ARE

Here at Intelligent Collector, we love perusing the Heritage archives to remind ourselves of the various treasures that have crossed the auction block. For this issue, we travel all the way back to 1973 for a look at the props, costumes and more from 10 of the year’s biggest movie releases. But instead of just showing you the prized pieces, we’re celebrating their 50^th anniversaries with a cinephile-friendly pop quiz. Find out if you’re the film connoisseur you think you are by answering the questions below. A link to the answers appears at the bottom of the quiz. Good luck!

1. American Graffiti

Considered one of the most famous cars in American cinema history, this 1958 beauty was custom fabricated for George Lucas’ coming-of-age classic. In the movie, the car was owned by character Steve Bolander (played by a 19-year-old Ron Howard) but was memorably driven by “The Toad” (Charles Martin Smith). What was the car’s make and model?

1. Chrysler DeSoto
2. Chevrolet Impala
3. Ford Thunderbird
4. Volkswagen Beetle

2. Live and Let Die

A prime example of the beloved spy tech used in the James Bond franchise, this shark gun from Live and Let Die is highly visible when Bond (played by Roger Moore) travels to the fictional island of San Monique to rescue Jane Seymour’s Solitaire. Bond kills the island’s evil dictator by forcing him to swallow one of the shark gun’s compressed-air bullets. What was the dictator’s name?

1. Auric Goldfinger
2. Jaws
3. Dr. Kananga
4. Larry

3. The Sting

At the 46^th Academy Awards, The Sting was nominated for 10 Oscars and won seven, including Best Costume Design. Among Robert Redford’s signature looks from the caper flick was this plum pinstripe suit he donned in his role as grifter Johnny Hooker, opposite co-star Paul Newman. Who was the award-winning costume designer?

1. Edith Head
2. Irene Sharaff
3. Irene Lentz
4. Butch Cassidy

4. 4. Enter the Dragon

These nunchaku props from Enter the Dragon were used by main character Lee (played by Bruce Lee) while investigating a mysterious martial arts tournament hosted by a suspected opium lord. Also fighting in the tournament was the character Williams, played by the first Black martial arts film star. Who played Williams?

1. Fred Williamson
2. Jim Kelly
3. Richard Roundtree
4. William Williams

5. Charlotte’s Web

Before the titular spider Charlotte saves Wilbur’s bacon with her winsome web-spinning in this animated favorite, another kind soul comes to the pig’s rescue: the little farmgirl who prevents her father from slaughtering him as the runt of the litter. This production cel from the Hanna-Barbera film features Wilbur with the girl. What was her name?

1. Ivy
2. Fern
3. Ellie Mae
4. Girl

6. Battle for the Planet of the Apes

The climactic moments of Battle for the Planet of the Apes include a spectacular confrontation between a human army and the apes as seen on this original poster artwork by Robert Tanenbaum. The movie was the final chapter in the original series of 20th Century Fox films based on Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel. How many movies made up the original Planet of the Apes series?

1. Four
2. Five
3. Six
4. One too many

7. Paper Moon

Tatum O’Neal wore this custom-tailored babydoll dress in her portrayal of Addie Loggins in Peter Bogdanovich’s Depression-era comedy. O’Neal took home a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work on the film, making her the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award. How old was she?

1. 8
2. 9
3. 10
4. 43

8. Soylent Green

In this dystopian sci-fi thriller, the starving inhabitants of an overpopulated New York City survive on wafers known as Soylent Green. Though viewers come to learn that the wafers contain a gruesome ingredient, they purportedly contain something much more benign. What was the supposed special ingredient?

1. Plankton
2. Spinach
3. Kale
4. Food coloring

9. The Exorcist

Based on a 1971 horror novel, The Exorcist is still considered by many to be the scariest movie ever made. The book’s author also wrote the screenplay for the movie, an effort that earned him an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. This 1986 VHS tape of The Exorcist scared up $1,250 in a Halloween 2022 Heritage auction, proving that the writer’s creation is still a hit with fright fans. Who was the author and screenplay writer?

1. William Friedkin
2. Stephen King
3. William Peter Blatty
4. Lou C. Fehr

10. Mean Streets

German-born British artist Peter Strausfeld created this Mean Streets poster for London’s Academy Cinema. Among the rarest of Strausfeld’s work for the cinema, the piece showcases the film’s young ne’er-do-well John Civello, played by Robert De Niro in his first collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. What was Civello’s nickname in the movie?

1. John John
2. Junior
3. Johnny Boy
4. Bud Muffin