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Pre-1960s Movies
YGK These Pre-1960s Movies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| MGM adaptation of an L. Frank Baum book that used three-strip Technicolor for its land of Oz sequences | The Wizard of Oz |
| The actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West opposite Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale | Margaret Hamilton |
| The 1939 Best Picture winner set on the Georgia plantation of Tara | Gone With the Wind |
| The actress who won an Oscar for her role as Scarlett O’Hara | Vivien Leigh |
| Disney animated film that was the first to be produced in stereoscopic sound | Fantasia |
| The wizard whose name is "Disney" spelled backwards in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice | Yen Sid |
| Orson Welles film about a publishing mogul that is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made | Citizen Kane |
| The dying word of Charles Foster Kane that refers to his childhood sled | Rosebud |
| Film starring Humphrey Bogart as nightclub owner Rick Blaine in Vichy-controlled Morocco | Casablanca |
| The French national anthem sung by a crowd to drown out a group of Nazis in Casablanca | La Marseillaise |
| Frank Capra Christmas drama set in the fictional town of Bedford Falls | It’s a Wonderful Life |
| The guardian angel who shows George Bailey what the world would be like without him | Clarence Odbody |
| Akira Kurosawa film that uses multiple unreliable perspectives to describe a samurai's death | Rashomon |
| The term derived from Kurosawa's 1950 film describing the unreliability of eyewitnesses | Rashomon effect |
| Sidney Lumet film following a jury's deliberations over a defendant charged with patricide | 12 Angry Men |
| The juror played by Henry Fonda who provides the initial "not guilty" vote | Juror 8 |
| Historical epic starring Charlton Heston that held the record for most Oscars won until Titanic | Ben-Hur |
| The composer of the Ben-Hur score, which is the longest ever composed for a feature film | Miklós Rózsa |
| Alfred Hitchcock thriller featuring a famous scene where Cary Grant is chased by a crop duster | North by Northwest |
| The Hitchcockian term for an object that motivates the plot but is ultimately meaningless, such as the microfilm in North by Northwest | MacGuffin |