| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $400: In this 2001 film a group robs 3 Vegas casinos on the night of a Lennox Lewis-Wladimir Klitschko boxing match Ocean's Eleven |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $800: In the final scene of this film, Keanu tells Swayze, "Vaya con dios" Point Break |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $1200: This 2003 remake with Mark Wahlberg & Charlize Theron fittingly begins with a heist in Venice The Italian Job |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $1600: Christopher Nolan said this 2010 film is "something of a heist movie, it's something of a science fiction film" Inception |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $2000: Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has admitted to watching this heist film directed by Ben Affleck several times a week The Town |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | COLOR FILMS $400: This 2010 drama features an Oscar-winning turn, make that turns, by Natalie Portman Black Swan |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | COLOR FILMS $800: A young woman enters a surf competition & romances a football player in this 2002 Hawaii-set film Blue Crush |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | COLOR FILMS $1600: Alex Trebek's favorite movie, this 1941 John Ford drama set in Wales won 5 Academy Awards How Green Was My Valley |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | COLOR FILMS $2000: Sean Penn & Nick Nolte were just 2 of the many stars in this 1998 Terrence Malick film about the Battle of Guadalcanal The Thin Red Line |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | COLOR FILMS $4,000 (Daily Double): Kristen Stewart & Chris Hemsworth had the two title roles in this 2012 fantasy Snow White and the Huntsman |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SHORT-TITLED FILMS $400: Flo's V-8 cafe, which serves the "finest fuel in 50 states", is the only gas station in Radiator Springs in this 2006 Pixar film Cars |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SHORT-TITLED FILMS $800: In this 2010 film Angelina Jolie plays a CIA agent accused of being a Russian spy Salt |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SHORT-TITLED FILMS $1200: Cameos in this 1991 Dustin Hoffman film included Jimmy Buffett as a shoe-stealing pirate Hook |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SHORT-TITLED FILMS $1600: Walt Disney saw Fess Parker's small role in this 1954 film about giant ants & picked him to play Davy Crockett for his TV series Them! |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SHORT-TITLED FILMS $2000: Director Fritz Lang's first talkie, it featured Peter Lorre as a serial child killer M |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $400: Ryan Gosling was her love interest in "Crazy, Stupid, Love." & "Gangster Squad" as well as "La La Land" Emma Stone |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $800: Stuart, Kevin & Bob are these title yellow beings recruited by supervillain Scarlet Overkill in a 2015 film Minions |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1200: Universal began rebooting its famous film monsters with this 2017 movie in which Egyptian royal Ahmanet is freed from her tomb The Mummy |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1600: This British actress went from TV assassin to playing both Millie & Molotov Girl in the video game-set "Free Guy" Jodie Comer |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $2000: Jeff Bridges won his first Oscar for playing faded country star Bad Blake in this film Crazy Heart |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: 2003:
Locating the captain of the Nautilus Finding Nemo |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 2012:
Destroy that thing, Mr. Nader Wreck-It Ralph |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $600: 2006:
Jubilant tootsies Happy Feet |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1999:
The ferrous leviathan The Iron Giant |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1989:
Every canine shows up in Elysium All Dogs Go to Heaven |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | BLAXPLOITATION FILMS $400: This title character from a 1972 film was an 18th century African prince before his monstrous transformation Blacula |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | BLAXPLOITATION FILMS $800: Gordon Parks was a photographer for Life magazine before directing Richard Roundtree in this 1971 film Shaft |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | BLAXPLOITATION FILMS $1200: AKA "the Hammer", this actor & ex-Kansas City Chief starred with fellow football player Jim Brown in "Three the Hard Way" Fred Williamson |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | BLAXPLOITATION FILMS $1600: This 1974 film had Pam Grier in the title role; Tarantino paid homage to it with a similarly named film also starring Pam Foxy Brown |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | BLAXPLOITATION FILMS $2000: A 2019 biopic included the making of this 1975 comedy about a pimp settling scores Dolemite |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $200: In a 2023 origin story, Timothée Chalamet shows off his singing & dancing skills as this iconic candy man Wonka |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $400: Norman Jewison directed the 1973 film version of this musical about the most famous Jew & son of all Jesus Christ Superstar |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $600: Judy Garland was originally cast to play the title sharpshooter in this musical but was let go a month into filming Annie Get Your Gun |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $800: Reneé Rapp plays Regina George, head of the Plastics, in this 2024 high school musical Mean Girls |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | MUSICAL FILMS $1000: In this 1963 musical a teen idol's fans sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes, we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true" Bye Bye Birdie |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $100: Kurt & this funny lady were already a couple when they starred in the 1987 amnesia comedy "Overboard" Goldie Hawn |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $200: A sudden reintroduction of oxygen to an enclosed fire can cause this, also the title of a Kurt Russell film Backdraft |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $300: 1994:
Simba defeats Scar The Lion King |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $300: Rumor has it that Russell was secretly directing the 1993 western "Tombstone" while portraying this legendary lawman Wyatt Earp |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $400: Kurt Russell's Santa is the gift that keeps on giving! He even speaks a fake language called "Elvish" in this holiday romp The Christmas Chronicles |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | KURT RUSSELL FILMS $500: Kurt has said that his most iconic character is "Snake" Plissken, the antihero of this film set in a dystopian Big Apple Escape from New York |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $600: 1997:
Wicked smart janitor Good Will Hunting |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $1200: 1985:
Emilio in detention The Breakfast Club |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $1500: 2001:
John Nash hallucinates A Beautiful Mind |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $3,000 (Daily Double): 1998:
Two Lindsay Lohans The Parent Trap |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $100: Al Pacino permanently damaged his nasal passages from snorting so much fake cocaine in this crime drama Scarface |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $200: Three Stephen King novels made it to the big screen in 1983: "The Dead Zone", "Christine", & this film about a rabid St. Bernard Cujo |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $400: Thanks to the Griswolds' pea-green Family Truckster, sales of these plummeted after the release of "Vacation" a station wagon |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $500: Meryl Streep & Nora Ephron first worked together on this film about a nuclear facility whistleblower Silkwood |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HISTORICAL FILMS $400: One of the silent masterworks is 1928's "The Passion of" this 15th century woman Joan of Arc |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HISTORICAL FILMS $1200: Seen here, this actress played an astronomer in 4th century Alexandria in "Agora" Rachel Weisz |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HISTORICAL FILMS $1600: The Charlton Heston film "55 Days at Peking" is set during this 1900 rebellion the Boxer Rebellion |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HISTORICAL FILMS $2000: This 2023 film is based on the true story of Joseph Bologne, a Black violinist & composer in 18th century France Chevalier |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | HISTORICAL FILMS $4,000 (Daily Double): As her, Natalie Portman says, "There won't be another Camelot" Jacqueline Kennedy |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $400: The 1981 film "Lion of the Desert", about a war between Libya & Italy, was funded in part by this world leader Gaddafi |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $800: Called the first major film of South Africa after apartheid, "Cry, the Beloved Country" stars this American actor seen here James Earl Jones |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $1200: This 2009 sci-fi film features aliens nicknamed "Prawns" living in an area of South Africa District 9 |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $1600: "Sankofa" features an American transported back in time at Cape Coast Castle near Accra in this West African country Ghana |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $2000: In "Night of the Kings", a prisoner in Abidjan acts as one of these West African storytellers & spins a tale to stay alive a griot |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $400: "The mission is a man" was a tagline for this 1998 Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $800: In 2010 Kathryn Bigelow became the first female directing Oscar winner for this film set during the Iraq War The Hurt Locker |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $1200: Though only in his 30s, Martin Sheen suffered a near-fatal heart attack while making this Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $1,800 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 film starring John Wayne refers to June 6, 1944; clocking in at almost 3 hours, the title's accurate The Longest Day |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WAR FILMS $2000: A story of World War I pilots, it won the first Best Picture Oscar Wings |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $400: The 2022 film version of this antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque received 9 Oscar nominations All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $800: (I'm Reggie Watts.) In addition to music, I had done some stand-up & sketch work but found the type of comedy I wanted to perform in this 2001 "wet hot" movie starring Paul Rudd & Elizabeth Banks Wet Hot American Summer |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1200: To play the title role in "Elvis", this actor studied the King's every move & worked with a dialect coach to perfect his drawl (Austin) Butler |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1600: (I'm Michael Cera.) I play bass guitar in real life, so it wasn't a stretch for me to pick up a cherry red Rickenbacker 4001 as the title character of this film based on a graphic novel Scott Pilgrim vs. the World |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $2000: This Brit's 21st century film roles include Mr. Woodhouse in "Emma." & has-been rock star Billy Mack in "Love Actually" Bill Nighy |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $400: Hitman Samuel L. Jackson gets what he considers "divine intervention", as well as a Big Kahuna burger & a Sprite, in this movie Pulp Fiction |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $800: Ears to this 1992 drama in which Mr. Blonde dances around a rough issue Reservoir Dogs |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $1200: "The D is silent", says Jamie Foxx as the title character of this 2012 film Django Unchained |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $1600: Quentin got creative with World War II history as well as the spelling of the title of this 2009 pic Inglourious Basterds |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TARANTINO FILMS $2000: Tarantino said this 1997 Pam Grier film "only cost $12 million. You can't lose... & you don't have to compromise" Jackie Brown |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $400: 1976:
"His whole life was a million-to-one shot" Rocky |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $800: 1986:
"The first casualty of war is innocence" Platoon |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $1200: 2017:
"Just because you're invited, doesn't mean you're welcome" Get Out |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $2000: 2017:
"When 400,000 men couldn't get home, home came for them" Dunkirk |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $3,000 (Daily Double): 2021:
"Every family has its own language" CODA |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $400: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Seen without makeup & mostly in closeups, French actress Maria Falconetti's performance in "The Passion of" this peasant girl turned martyr is considered one of the greatest of all time Joan of Arc |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $800: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Shot in Rome & Los Angeles at a cost of nearly $4 million, the 1925 version of this biblical epic with a great sea battle & chariot race was the most expensive silent movie ever made Ben-Hur |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1200: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Lon Chaney's face was so frightening in this Paris-set film that some moviegoers reportedly fainted when his mask was removed The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1600: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Pioneering Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux dealt with racism in films like "Within Our Gates"; & in 1925's "Body and Soul", he introduced this actor & bass baritone later famous for his rendition of "Ol' Man River" (Paul) Robeson |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $2000: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Her slate of films for 1927 included "Wings", the first film to win Best Picture & "It", giving her the nickname "The It Girl" Clara Bow |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | '90s FILMS $200: It's the subtitle of "Terminator 2" Judgment Day |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | '90s FILMS $400: A scene from "Hamlet" partly inspired Bruce Joel Rubin to write this Patrick Swayze-Demi Moore tearjerker Ghost |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | '90s FILMS $600: Ice Cube & Chris Tucker starred in this 1995 comedy that Cube co-wrote with DJ Pooh Friday |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | '90s FILMS $800: A boy's best friend is a massive robot in this 1999 animated film based on a Ted Hughes fable The Iron Giant |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | '90s FILMS $1000: A poster for this film claimed, "In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods..." The Blair Witch Project |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $400: Rick & Ilsa Casablanca |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $800: John "Bluto" Blutarsky, Otter & Flounder Animal House |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Siblings Michael, Gertie & Elliott E.T. |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Raymond Babbitt, a fan of "Jeopardy!" Rain Man |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | FILMS BY CHARACTERS $2000: From 2017:
Elisa Esposito & the Amphibian Man The Shape of Water |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $400: Tom Hanks in this 1992 film: "Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $800: Joe Pesci played an inept lawyer who's called upon to defend Ralph Macchio in this "family" comedy My Cousin Vinny |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $1200: "You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl" was a tagline for this film starring Mike Myers & Dana Carvey as a couple of slackers Wayne's World |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $1600: Denzel Washington earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of this slain civil rights leader Malcolm X |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $2000: Chow Yun-fat starred in this Hong Kong director's action epic "Hard Boiled" John Woo |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS FILMS $200: In 2013 Chadwick Boseman played this trailblazing legend in "42" Jackie Robinson |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS FILMS $400: This actress won the Heisman--make that the Oscar--playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in "The Blind Side" Sandra Bullock |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS FILMS $600: Gene Hackman's first plan for a title-winning shot isn't big with his team but--spoiler alert for this basketball pic--things work out Hoosiers |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS FILMS $800: After demonstrating spearing in this classic hockey film, a player says, "You go to da box... 2 minutes by yourself, & you feel shame" Slap Shot |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS FILMS $1000: Jess Bhamra played for the Hounslow Harriers & really, really liked a certain British soccer star in this film Bend It Like Beckham |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $200: Dorothy is a device that studies tornadoes in this film starring Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton Twister |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $400: For this 1994 film, Sandra Bullock actually learned to drive a bus & passed the licensing test Speed |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $600: Character actor J.T. Walsh told a story that made Billy Bob Thornton's Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film Sling Blade |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $800: The 1990s saw 2 mob movies co-written by Nicholas Pileggi & directed by Martin Scorsese: "Goodfellas" & this Vegas-set one Casino |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1990s $1000: Kat & Bianca Stratford attend Padua High School in this 1999 film loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew" 10 Things I Hate About You |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $400: Ewan McGregor plays a grown-up Danny Torrance in "Doctor Sleep", the sequel to this 1980 classic The Shining |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $800: This Simon Pegg horror comedy puns on the title of a George Romero flick Shaun of the Dead |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $1200: Stephen Lang played a character simply known as "The Blind Man" in this 2016 film & returned for its 2021 sequel Don't Breathe |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $1600: "Drag Me to Hell" is a spine-tingling entry from this director of "The Evil Dead" & "Spider-Man" (Sam) Raimi |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | HORROR FILMS $2000: Ari Aster followed up "Hereditary" with this "seasonal" tale of a trip to a Swedish festival that goes horribly awry Midsommar |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS $400: "Parasite"
(2019) Korean |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS $800: "Roma"
(2018) Spanish |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS $1200: "The Tin Drum"
(1979) German |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS $1600: "The Bicycle Thief"
(1948) Italian |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS $2000: "Wild Strawberries"
(1957) Swedish |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | THE LAST WORD SAID IN CLASSIC FILMS $400: "The Wizard of Oz" home |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | THE LAST WORD SAID IN CLASSIC FILMS $800: "Gone with the Wind" day |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | THE LAST WORD SAID IN CLASSIC FILMS $1200: "Casablanca" friendship |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | THE LAST WORD SAID IN CLASSIC FILMS $1600: "King Kong", from 1933 beast |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | THE LAST WORD SAID IN CLASSIC FILMS $2000: "Apocalypse Now" Horror |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | QUOTABLE FILMS OF THE '80s & '90s $200: "If you build it, he will come" Field of Dreams |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | QUOTABLE FILMS OF THE '80s & '90s $400: "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same?" Groundhog Day |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | QUOTABLE FILMS OF THE '80s & '90s $600: "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good" Wall Street |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | QUOTABLE FILMS OF THE '80s & '90s $800: "You wanna play rough? Okay, say hello to my little friend" Scarface |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | QUOTABLE FILMS OF THE '80s & '90s $1000: "You may keep one of your children. The other one must go" Sophie's Choice |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $400: "How Green Was My Valley" beat out this Orson Welles movie to win the 1941 Best Picture Oscar Citizen Kane |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $800: The Bogie & Bergman classic "Casablanca" was loosely based on the play "Everybody Comes to" this possessive name Rick's |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $1200: Max Schreck played the title vampire in this silent classic Nosferatu |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $1600: Charlie Chaplin starred in films like "Modern Times" & this satire of Hitler The Great Dictator |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | CLASSIC BLACK & WHITE FILMS $2000: As Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard", this actress says, "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" (Gloria) Swanson |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $400: It was destination Walley World as Clark Griswold & family hit the road in "National Lampoon's" this Vacation |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $800: 1987 & 1989 saw this movie & its first sequel featuring cops Riggs & Murtaugh Lethal Weapon |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $1200: Much of this film with Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs was filmed at Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium because of its old-timey feel The Natural |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $2000: Any way you slice it, Julia Roberts served up a fine performance early in her career as waitress Daisy in this 1988 film Mystic Pizza |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FILMS OF THE '80s $2,600 (Daily Double): Its ensemble cast included William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Glenn Close & Meg Tilly The Big Chill |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $400: The 2007 horror film titled this "Activity" had just 5 credited parts, 4 uncredited ones & some creepy atmospherics Paranormal Activity |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $800: Sandra Bullock learns it's lonely out in space in this 2013 film Gravity |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $1200: He played an isolated astronaut in the film "Moon" Rockwell |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $1600: This acting legend plays the only character in 2013's "All Is Lost", about a solo sailor in big trouble on the high seas Robert Redford |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | FILMS WITH SMALL CASTS $2000: The entire cast of this 1944 Hitchcock drama was 9 stars & an uncredited German sailor adrift in the title conveyance Lifeboat |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: In this family favorite, "A little pig goes a long way" Babe |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Young Miguel meets up with some of his ancestors in the Land of the Dead in this Disney Pixar film Coco |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1200: Angelina Jolie is a CIA agent on the run after she's accused of being a Russian spy in this film Salt |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1600: Directed by Scorsese, this book-based film tells of an orphan who lives in a Paris train station & maintains its clocks Hugo |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $2000: This 2013 film opens with Ashton Kutcher in the title role, introducing the iPod Jobs |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $200: In "The Thin Red Line", Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn & Woody Harrelson fight this war's Battle of Guadalcanal World War II |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $400: Dancers clash over the lead role in a Tchaikovsky ballet in this 2010 thriller Black Swan |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $800: Walt Disney received a special Oscar for this 1937 film the Academy called "a significant screen innovation" Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $1000: Director David Lynch explored the underside of small-town America in this disturbing 1986 film Blue Velvet |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | COLOR FILMS $1,800 (Daily Double): The title of this 1999 film comes from the linoleum floor of death row The Green Mile |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ANIMATED FILMS $200: This actor voiced Gru in "Despicable Me" & its sequels Steve Carell |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ANIMATED FILMS $400: The wife of this "Toy Story" character says, "I'm packing you an extra pair of shoes, & your angry eyes, just in case" Mr. Potato Head |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ANIMATED FILMS $600: Taking time off from her TV government job in Indiana, she voiced Joy in "Inside Out" Amy Poehler |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ANIMATED FILMS $800: After millions of years, it was found in 2020! Not the evolutionary one, but the Golden Globe winner for Best Animated Film Missing Link |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ANIMATED FILMS $1000: This animated film was "Cloudy..." in the U.S. but in Israel "It's Raining Falafel" Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | CITY FILMS $400: 1993: Tom Hanks struggles with insomnia Sleepless in Seattle |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | CITY FILMS $800: 2002: Catherine Zeta-Jones as Velma sings on death row Chicago |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | CITY FILMS $1200: 2011: Voiced by Jesse Eisenberg, Blu the macaw overcomes long distance travel & birdnappers Rio |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | CITY FILMS $1600: 2013: Matthew McConaughey looks to score some life-saving meds Dallas Buyers Club |
| #8166, aired 2020-02-24 | CITY FILMS $2000: 1940: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart & Katharine Hepburn tell a tale of non-brotherly love The Philadelphia Story |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $200: In 1910, less than a century after this novel was published, it had its first film adaptation with Augustus Phillips at the title scientist Frankenstein |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $400: Taking place on the eve of this invasion, 2018's "Overlord" features less-than-human Nazis D-Day |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $600: "Dream Warriors" is the subtitle to the third movie in this series Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $800: It's the last word in 6 of George Romero's zombie movie titles Dead |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | HORROR FILMS $1000: "The Burning", the debut film for Holly Hunter & Jason Alexander, was part of the flourishing horror-at-this-summer-setting genre summer camp |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $400: Emily Blunt played pregnant mom Evelyn Abbott in this scary 2018 film A Quiet Place |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $800: "Shrek 2" improves on the original with the introduction of this gato guapo Puss in Boots |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1200: In the 2019 sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level", it's total "Dandemonium" when these two veteran actors named Dan join the game Danny DeVito and Danny Glover |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1600: Colin Firth portrayed the royal known as Bertie in this Oscar-winning film The King's Speech |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $2000: Jason Bateman was the reluctant adoptive father-to-be of Ellen Page's baby in this 2007 charmer Juno |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $200: In "The Maltese Falcon", this actor tells Mary Astor, "if you...were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere" Humphrey Bogart |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $400: Grabbing a shower at a motel seems like a good idea to Janet Leigh in this 1960 thriller--it is not a good idea at all Psycho |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $600: This actor is defiant in "Raging Bull"--"I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray" Robert De Niro |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $800: Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Col. "Bat" Guano & Major "King" Kong are characters in this 1964 doomsday comedy Dr. Strangelove |
| #8100, aired 2019-11-22 | BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS $1000: On "Seinfeld", Jerry caught serious grief for making out with his date during this 1993 World War II-set drama Schindler's List |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $400: "Fist of Fury" & "The Way of the Dragon" are 2 movies starring this late legend Bruce Lee |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $800: A razor slashes an eyeball in the avant-garde film "Un Chien Andalou", a co-production of Luis Bunuel & this surrealist Dalí |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $1200: The 1989 action film "The Killer" was a thrill ride from this Hong Kong director John Woo |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $2000: Catherine Deneuve starred in "The Umbrellas of" this place Cherbourg |
| #7993, aired 2019-05-15 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $3,600 (Daily Double): In Bergman's "The Seventh Seal", a disillusioned knight plays a game of chess with this opponent the Grim Reaper, or Death |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BIBLICAL FILMS $400: In "The Bible" John Huston, the film's director, also plays this ark-itecht Noah |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BIBLICAL FILMS $800: The parted Red Sea in this 1923 silent epic was created by using 2 blocks of blue gelatin The Ten Commandments |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BIBLICAL FILMS $1200: About 7-foot-tall pro wrestler Walter Talun played this role in 1951's "David and Bathsheba" Goliath |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BIBLICAL FILMS $1600: In 2018 Rooney Mara played this alliterative follower of Jesus Mary Magdalene |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | BIBLICAL FILMS $2000: Jewish leader Moses in "Exodus: Gods and Kings" was played by this actor with a different faith-based first name Christian Bale |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $200: Keanu Reeves hopped off the bus & didn't board the ship for this "2: Cruise Control" Speed |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $400: Calling it an "infamous failure", even one of the writers admitted this Halle Berry pic was not purr-fect Catwoman |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $600: His work as Casey Ryback in "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" was overlooked by the Academy, as was the film itself Steven Seagal |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $800: Though The Rock gave his all as Mitch Buchannon, this film was not up for an Oscar; a Razzie or 4? Ohhh, yes Baywatch |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $1000: Leonard Maltin, on No. 5 in this series about cops: "What can you say about a sequel... Steve Guttenberg won't even appear in?" Police Academy |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $200: A waste-collecting robot helps save Earth in this Pixar film Wall-E |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $400: Agent Smith is even more powerful in this 2003 first sequel to "The Matrix" The Matrix Reloaded |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $600: Director Rian Johnson said Laura Dern could not resist saying "Pew!" every time she fired her blaster in this film The Last Jedi |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $800: An action-packed 2017 for Karen Gillan, planet hopping as Nebula in "Guardians 2" & jungle jumping as Martha in this film Jumanji |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1000: Emile Hirsch lost 40 pounds from his 155-pound frame to get back to nature as Chris McCandless in this 2007 film Into the Wild |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS BY ROLE $200: Virginia high school football coach Herman Boone Remember the Titans |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FOREIGN FILMS $400: In this 1981 film Jurgen Prochnow plays the captain of a WWII German submarine harassing Allied vessels Das Boot |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FOREIGN FILMS $800: This 1969 French-language film with a 1-letter title was subtitled "Anatomy of a Political Assassination" Z |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FOREIGN FILMS $1600: Toshiro Mifune starred in 1957's "Throne of Blood", one of 16 films he made with this director Kurosawa |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | FOREIGN FILMS $2000: In this '90s film an Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet Il Postino |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FILMS OF THE 1960s $400: "Walk, Don't Run", Cary Grant's last film, is set in Tokyo in 1964 during this quadrennial sporting event the Olympics |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FILMS OF THE 1960s $800: The inspiration for this 1969 film was a photograph Peter Fonda saw of himself & Bruce Dern riding a motorcycle Easy Rider |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FILMS OF THE 1960s $1200: Voice actors of this Disney film included Phil Harris as Baloo & Louis Prima as King Louie of the apes Jungle Book |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FILMS OF THE 1960s $1600: British pop singer Lulu had a small role in this 1967 film & also sang the title song To Sir, With Love |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | FILMS OF THE 1960s $2000: A casino heist was the focus of this film starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. Ocean's 11 |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | & OTHER ODD FILMS $400: In "Bubba Ho-Tep" Bruce Campbell plays this "king of rock & roll" who sets off to nab a mummy with a guy who thinks he's JFK Elvis |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | & OTHER ODD FILMS $800: Billy Connolly isn't a dog in "Fido", but rather one of these undead minions a zombie |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | & OTHER ODD FILMS $1200: In a recent movie Colin Farrell is given 45 days to find love or he's going to be turned into this title animal a lobster |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | & OTHER ODD FILMS $1600: As the title character of this film, Jake Gyllenhaal is plagued by visions of a 6-foot rabbit named Frank Donnie Darko |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | & OTHER ODD FILMS $2000: A favorite of Kubrick's was this 1977 black-&-white David Lynch horror film about a man with an unusual child Eraserhead |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $200: As Ms. Norbury in "Mean Girls", she asked, "How many of you have ever felt personally victimized by Regina George?" Tina Fey |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $400: In this 2017 comedy a chaotic day at Roosevelt High includes the title punchout between Ice Cube & Charlie Day Fist Fight |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $600: "The Prime of" this teacher played by Maggie Smith included her being really into Francisco Franco Miss Jean Brodie |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $800: In 2011 this actress showed her bad side as a "Bad Teacher" Cameron Diaz |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | EDUCATIONAL FILMS $1000: Before he took on Cylons, he took on teaching math in East L.A. as Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver" Edward James Olmos |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $400: In this 1970 film Hot Lips tells Colonel Blake, "This isn't a hospital. It's an insane asylum!" MASH |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $800: In "The Jerk" this comedian treats Bernadette Peters to "pizza in a cup" Steve Martin |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $1200: During the decade, Peter Sellers played this comedy role in 3 sequels Inspector Clouseau |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $1600: Harvey Korman had a villainous turn as Hedley Lamarr in this Mel Brooks Western Blazing Saddles |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $2000: Graham Chapman played a reluctant messiah in this 1979 Monty Python spoof Life of Brian |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $400: "Don't go in the water" was one of several taglines used for this 1975 film Jaws |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $800: In this 2009 animated film, Russell exclaims, "I've never been in a floating house before!" Up |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $1200: The title character from this 1995 film was a composite of 48 real Yorkshire pigs & an animatronic double Babe |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $2000: This 1931 Fritz Lang classic starred Peter Lorre as a child murderer who's tracked down by the Berlin underworld M |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 2004 Best Picture nominee featured such tunes as "What'd I Say" & "I Got A Woman" Ray |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP $200: Meryl mistakenly left the Oscar she had just won for this 1979 film co-starring Dustin Hoffman in the ladies' room Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP $400: The Winterset, Iowa location seen here was one of several used in this 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP $600: Meryl donated her entire salary from playing Margaret Thatcher in this film to the National Women's History Museum The Iron Lady |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP $800: This 1990 film in which Meryl plays a substance-addicted actress was based on a book by Carrie Fisher Postcards from the Edge |
| #7395, aired 2016-11-04 | THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP $1000: This film stars Streep as a technician at the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma Silkwood |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $200: In 2011 Natalie Portman danced off with Best Actress for her role in this movie Black Swan |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $400: Shirley Temple presented Walt Disney with a special 8-piece Academy Award honoring this 1937 release Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $600: I'm just Wilde about Harry Stradling, who won a cinematography Oscar for this novel adaptation The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $800: Jessica Lange soared as Carly Marshall & landed a Best Actress Oscar for her role in this 1994 film Blue Sky |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $1000: "How Green Was My Valley" brought this man one of his 4 Best Director Oscars John Ford |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | JOHNNY DEPP FILMS $400: Johnny is sweet as Willy Wonka Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | JOHNNY DEPP FILMS $1600: Johnny fancies himself a legendary Spanish lover Don Juan DeMarco |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | "LAST" FILMS $400: We're not sure if Algren or Katsumoto is the title character in this Japan-set 2003 epic The Last Samurai |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | "LAST" FILMS $800: Michael Douglas & his old, old pals cavort in the Aria & Binion's in this comedy Last Vegas |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | "LAST" FILMS $1200: Cybill Shepherd made her film debut in this 1971 movie set in the fictional town of Anarene, Texas The Last Picture Show |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | "LAST" FILMS $1600: L.A. does have a football team & it's called the stallions in this Bruce Willis/Damon Wayans caper The Last Boy Scout |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | "LAST" FILMS $2000: Based on a David Mamet play, this '80s film about 2 guys & 2 girls was remade in 2014 with Kevin Hart About Last Night... |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | HORROR FILMS $200: The dark past of Lakewood comes out in the 2015 MTV series based on this movie series that starred David Arquette Scream |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | HORROR FILMS $400: In this 1984 Wes Craven classic, a girl warns her boyfriend, played by Johnny Depp, "Whatever you do, don't fall asleep" Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | HORROR FILMS $600: Jamie Lee Curtis was paid $8,000 & provided her own wardrobe for this 1978 John Carpenter film, her first feature Halloween |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | HORROR FILMS $800: It's the classic 1931 film in which actor Colin Clive yells, "It's alive! It's alive!" Frankenstein |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | HORROR FILMS $1000: The 2012 movie in this franchise features Katie Featherston as the demon-possessed Katie for the 4th time Paranormal Activity |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | FILMS OF THE '90s $200: The tag line of this film was "A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins" The Fugitive |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | FILMS OF THE '90s $400: In 2014 ninnies Lloyd & Harry were back in the sequel to this 1994 movie Dumb and Dumber |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | FILMS OF THE '90s $600: (I'm NASCAR driver A.J. Allmendinger.) Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle, a yankee who breaks into big-time stock car racing in this 1990 film Days of Thunder |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | FILMS OF THE '90s $800: In 1996 Woody Harrelson portrayed this publisher & champion of free speech Larry Flynt |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1000: They're the title objects that split Gwyneth Paltrow's life in two Sliding Doors |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | DOCUMENTARY FILMS $400: Jimi Hendrix, The Who & Sha Na Na all rocked out in the 1970 film that documented this happening Woodstock |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | DOCUMENTARY FILMS $800: 2013's "Blackfish" focuses on the treatment of this creature, which is actually of the dolphin family the orca (or killer whale) |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | DOCUMENTARY FILMS $1200: Listen to me now & tell it to me later the name of this 1977 documentary that starred Ahnold Pumping Iron |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | DOCUMENTARY FILMS $1600: 2004's "Born into Brothels" is an Oscar-winning film about children growing up in this Indian city's red-light district Calcutta |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | DOCUMENTARY FILMS $2000: The "Paradise Lost" trilogy is about the men known as this "3", accused of murder in Arkansas, not Tennessee West Memphis |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | THE FILMS OF STANLEY TUCCI $200: In 2011 the doctor was in when Stanley played the man who turned puny Steve Rogers into this title hero Captain America |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | THE FILMS OF STANLEY TUCCI $400: The false teeth! The bright blue wig! Stanley pulled out all the stops as the eccentric Caesar Flickerman in this 2012 film The Hunger Games |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | THE FILMS OF STANLEY TUCCI $600: Stanley became a child--Paul Child--as Meryl Streep's husband in this film Julie & Julia |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | THE FILMS OF STANLEY TUCCI $800: Stanley worked the runway--Runway Magazine--for Meryl Streep in this film The Devil Wears Prada |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | THE FILMS OF STANLEY TUCCI $1000: Deceptively ordinary Stanley kills poor young Susie Salmon in this 2009 film The Lovely Bones |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $200: Nik Cohn admitted that his "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which inspired this disco film, was a fabrication Saturday Night Fever |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $400: A 1983 article about a naval flight school was the genesis of this Tom Cruise hit Top Gun |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $600: The fourth film in this Bruce Willis series was inspired by an article about cyberhacking Die Hard |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $800: "The Boys in the Bank", a Life magazine account of a Brooklyn bank robbery, inspired this 1975 Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon |
| #7117, aired 2015-07-21 | FILMS INSPIRED BY MAGAZINE ARTICLES $1000: Starring Kate Bosworth, it was based on Susan Orlean's "Life's Swell", the story of a Maui surfing contest Blue Crush |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | HISTORICAL FILMS $400: Clint Eastwood told the story of a WWII battle from the Japanese viewpoint in "Letters from" here Iwo Jima |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | HISTORICAL FILMS $800: Former Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun had a small role in this 1997 film about a mutiny on a slave ship Amistad |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | HISTORICAL FILMS $1200: "55 Days at Peking", starring Charlton Heston & David Niven, tells the story of this 1900 insurrection the Boxer Rebellion |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | HISTORICAL FILMS $1600: Paul Scofield won an Oscar for playing this historical role in "A Man for All Seasons" Thomas More |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | HISTORICAL FILMS $2000: In this 1959 film actress Millie Perkins claims, "I still believe... that people are really good at heart" The Diary of Anne Frank |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: Liam Hemsworth was under consideration for the lead role in this 2011 film; his brother got the part instead Thor |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: This 2006 film features the voices of Owen Wilson & Bonnie Hunt Cars |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1200: In this 1991 film Robin Williams tells Julia Roberts, "I believe in fairies" Hook |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1600: Martin Scorsese's first 3D film was this 2011 effort about an orphan boy who lives in a Paris train station Hugo |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $2000: This 1979 adaptation of a Thomas Hardy novel catapulted Nastassja Kinski to stardom Tess |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $400: In the 1950s Grace Kelly starred in 2 "High" films: "High Society" & this one High Noon |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.) Alfred Hitchcock always wanted to do a chase scene across the faces of Mount Rushmore; that chase scene became the climax of this 1959 thriller North by Northwest |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $1200: In order to play this big band leader in a 1954 biopic, Jimmy Stewart hired a trombone tutor Glenn Miller |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $1600: "The Caddy" stars this duo as a golf pro & his caddy/manager; they duet on "That's Amore" & end up in show biz Dean Martin and (Jerry) Lewis |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $2000: Bob Hope & Bing Crosby had cameos in this 1952 Cecil B. Demille film as spectators munching popcorn under the big top The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FILMS OF THE 1920s $400: This comedy team made their feature film debut in 1929's "The Cocoanuts", which was based on their stage play the Marx Brothers |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FILMS OF THE 1920s $800: The first synchronized voice heard in this 1927 film was not by Al Jolson but by young Bobby Gordon The Jazz Singer |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FILMS OF THE 1920s $1200: This swashbuckler starred in 1924's "The Thief Of Bagdad" & provided the story using the name Elton Thomas Douglas Fairbanks |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FILMS OF THE 1920s $1600: "The Kid", co-starring Jackie Coogan, was the first feature-length film written & directed by him Charlie Chaplin |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FILMS OF THE 1920s $2000: Brigitte Helm played a dual role in this 1927 futuristic Fritz Lang film: Maria & a robot lookalike Metropolis |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | 1950s SCI-FI FILMS $400: "They Came From Another World" was the working title for this classic featuring alien pod people Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | 1950s SCI-FI FILMS $800: From the depths of the Amazon came this title character, originally in 3D The Creature From The Black Lagoon |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | 1950s SCI-FI FILMS $1200: Martians attack Southern California, not England, in the 1953 film version of this H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | 1950s SCI-FI FILMS $1600: Exposures to radiation & insecticide cause Scott Carey to grow smaller & smaller in this flick The Incredible Shrinking Man |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | 1950s SCI-FI FILMS $2000: An alien named Klaatu gets people's attention by briefly shutting down electricity the world over in this 1951 film The Day The Earth Stood Still |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $200: 2003: a mild-mannered businessman who is ordered to attend counseling for rage Anger Management |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $400: 2012: Dracula, who runs a lavish 5-stake resort Hotel Transylvania |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $600: 1999: a reluctant foster father who learns the joys of parenting Big Daddy |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $800: 1996: a washed-up hockey player who uses his skills on the golf course Happy Gilmore |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $1000: 2008:
An Israeli special forces soldier-turned-New York hair stylist You Don't Mess with the Zohan |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $400: This "Master of Suspense" directed Cary Grant in 4 films beginning with 1941's "Suspicion" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $800: Cary shows up with some unexpected guests for the wedding of ex-wife Katharine Hepburn in this 1940 comedy Philadelphia Story |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $1200: "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" starred Cary as a playboy & this former child star as the bobby-soxer Shirley Temple |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $1600: This film was based on the play "The Front Page"; Hildy Johnson was played by a man in the play, Rosalind Russell in the film His Girl Friday |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $2000: Cary & Deborah Kerr agree to meet at the Empire State Bldg. in 6 months if they're still in love in this 1957 tearjerker An Affair to Remember |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | FILMS BY SUBTITLE $200: "International Man of Mystery" Austin Powers |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | FILMS BY SUBTITLE $400: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" Dr. Strangelove |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | FILMS BY SUBTITLE $600: "The First Avenger" Captain America |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | FILMS BY SUBTITLE $800: "The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" Talladega Nights |
| #6515, aired 2013-01-04 | FILMS BY SUBTITLE $1000: "The Far Side of the World" Master and Commander |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | 50 YEARS OF JAMES BOND FILMS $200: The franchise started in 1962 with James Bond facing off against this title villain Dr. No |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | 50 YEARS OF JAMES BOND FILMS $400: Oddjob painted Jill Masterson's entire body, resulting in a memorable scene in this film Goldfinger |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | 50 YEARS OF JAMES BOND FILMS $600: "Skyfall", the 23rd film in the franchise, marks this actor's third outing as Bond, James Bond Daniel Craig |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | 50 YEARS OF JAMES BOND FILMS $1000: George Lazenby played 007 just once, in this film where Bond fell in love & got married On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | 50 YEARS OF JAMES BOND FILMS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of the 16th Bond film, it's also what's denoted by the "00" prefix Licence to Kill |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | FRENCH FILMS $400: To portray Edith Piaf in 2007's "La Vie en Rose", she shaved back her hairline & removed her eyebrows (Marion) Cotillard |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | FRENCH FILMS $800: Jean Dujardin stars in this 2011 black & white film set in silent-era Hollywood The Artist |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | FRENCH FILMS $1200: This 2001 film starring Audrey Tautou as a shy waitress working in a Paris cafe received 5 Oscar nominations Amelie |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | FRENCH FILMS $1600: 1959's "Black Orpheus" retold the tale of Orpheus & Eurydice set during this South American city's Carnival Rio de Janeiro |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | FRENCH FILMS $2000: This French New Waver directed the autobiographical film "The 400 Blows" Francois Truffaut |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SWEET LI'L FILMS $400: 4 years before "Field of Dreams", he gave a memorable performance as Gardner Barnes in "Fandango" Kevin Costner |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SWEET LI'L FILMS $800: Owen Wilson co-wrote the quirky "Rushmore", starring this "Ghostbuster" as Mr. Blume Bill Murray |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SWEET LI'L FILMS $1200: Paul Giamatti wrestles with life affer taking a teen grappler into his home in this double-talk 2011 film Win Win |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SWEET LI'L FILMS $1600: Dennis Christopher takes on the Italian bicycle team in this 1979 sleeper that won a best screenplay Oscar Breaking Away |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SWEET LI'L FILMS $2000: "The Hammer" is a knockout film with this ex-"Loveline" & "Man Show" host Adam Carolla |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | BOND FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: "Hard Gems Exist Eternally" Diamonds Are Forever |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | BOND FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: "One Secret Agent Devoted to Yours Truly" The Spy Who Loved Me |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | BOND FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $600: "Precious Digit" Goldfinger |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | BOND FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "One Vision of Murder" View to a Kill |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | BOND FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: "Endure While Allowing Others to Perish" Live and Let Die |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $400: This 1963 epic included 79 sets & 26,000 costumes Cleopatra |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $800: Variety called it "a horse picture" with "a new dramatic find--moppet Elizabeth Taylor" National Velvet |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $1200: Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash while Liz was making this film in which she played Maggie Pollitt Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $1600: Liz won an Oscar for her role as a battlesome wife in this adaptation of an Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $2000: James Dean, Rock Hudson & Liz formed a love triangle in this Texas-set film Giant |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ANTHONY HOPKINS FILMS $400: Hopkins was Richard, son of Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine, in this 1968 film The Lion In Winter |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ANTHONY HOPKINS FILMS $800: Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for his role in this 1991 film Silence Of The Lambs |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ANTHONY HOPKINS FILMS $1200: Sir Anthony was the voice of Hrothgar in the 2007 animated version of this epic Beowulf |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ANTHONY HOPKINS FILMS $1600: It was Anthony Hopkins for whom death (Brad Pitt) came calling in this 1998 film Meet Joe Black |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | ANTHONY HOPKINS FILMS $2000: In "Amistad", about an 1839 uprising of Africans on a slave ship, Hopkins played this former president arguing for the defense John Quincy Adams |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS $400: Tom Hanks' Pennsylvania lawyer Philadelphia |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS $800: A member of the 54th regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Glory |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS $1200: A NYC subway dispatcher The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS $1600: A man who has memorized the Bible The Book of Eli |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS $2000: A Mexico City bodyguard looking for revenge Man on Fire |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $400: Although its title is a holiday, this 1996 Will Smith film went into general release one day before that holiday Independence Day |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $800: (Hi, I'm CCH Pounder.) You may not recognize me out of character, but one of my greatest acting experiences was playing Neytiri's mother, Moat, in this blockbuster Avatar |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $1200: A 1965 student film evolved into his first feature film as a director, 1971's "THX-1138" (George) Lucas |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $1600: Alan Young, who co-starred in the 1960 version of this film based on an H.G. Wells book, had a bit role in the 2002 remake The Time Machine |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | SCIENCE FICTION FILMS $2000: Lock Martin, a 7'7" doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater, was cast as the robot Gort in this 1951 sci-fi film The Day The Earth Stood Still |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | ANIMATED FILMS $200: 2009:
In Jazz Age New Orleans, Princess Tiana has a fateful kiss The Princess and the Frog |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | ANIMATED FILMS $400: 2009:
Carl, 78, ties thousands of balloons to his house; Russell, 8, stows away on the flight to South America Up |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | ANIMATED FILMS $600: 2005:
4 animals from the New York City zoo end up on an African island Madagascar |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | ANIMATED FILMS $800: 2008:
A dog thinks he has superpowers, but is just the star of a TV show; off the set, he finally realizes the truth Bolt |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | ANIMATED FILMS $1000: 2009:
A meteorite turns Susan Murphy into Ginormica; the govt. imprisons her with other odd creatures Monsters vs. Aliens |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $400: Bob Fosse won an Oscar for this 1972 Liza Minnelli film Cabaret |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $800: "Revenge of" in 1978 was the fifth in this series of comedies directed by Blake Edwards The Pink Panther |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $1200: Near the commencement of his career, he directed "The Graduate" (Mike) Nichols |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $1600: His Westerns include "Wagon Master" & "Fort Apache" John Ford |
| #5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $2000: Clark Gable was happy to see him come in & finish directing "Gone with the Wind" Victor Fleming |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $200: John was really a "drag" in this 2007 film in which he played Edna Turnblad, a role first made famous by Divine Hairspray |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $400: One of the settings for this Travolta film is Gilley's roadhouse bar Urban Cowboy |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $600: One of the 2 films in which Travolta played mobster Chili Palmer Get Shorty (or Be Cool) |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $800: Before "Welcome Back, Kotter" aired, Travolta played one of this title girl's tormentors in a 1976 horror film Carrie |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $1000: Travolta was romantically involved with Diana Hyland, who played his mom in this made-for-TV film about a sick kid The Boy in the Plastic Bubble |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | STAG FILMS $400: Songs in this 1942 film include "Little April Shower" & "Thumper Song" Bambi |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | STAG FILMS $800: This character's patronus spell summons a magic stag that's good for warding off dementors Harry Potter |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | STAG FILMS $1600: In this film Helen Mirren encounters a fitting stag, an "imperial 14 pointer" The Queen |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | STAG FILMS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1978 film Robert De Niro says, "One shot is what it's all about" The Deer Hunter |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | STAG FILMS $2000: In the film version of a Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tale, this title creature keeps returning to Jody Baxter's farm The Yearling |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | DEADLY FILMS? $400: Moviegoers were introduced to Riggs & Murtaugh (Gibson & Glover) in this 1987 flick Lethal Weapon |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | DEADLY FILMS? $800: In 1993 "Basic" this was spoofed by "Fatal" this Instinct |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | DEADLY FILMS? $1200: Madonna appeared in this 2002 Bond film & sang the title tune Die Another Day |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | DEADLY FILMS? $1600: In this Hitchcock classic, Grace Kelly's husband hires someone to kill her Dial M for Murder |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | DEADLY FILMS? $2000: This 1980 Brian de Palma film was a real drag for Michael Caine Dressed to Kill |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | FRIGHT-FUL FILMS $400: Made for $15,000, this tale of a young couple at home was a surprise hit in 2009 Paranormal Activity |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | FRIGHT-FUL FILMS $800: A 7-film TCM block dedicated to "mad" these included "The Son Of Dr. Jekyll" mad scientists |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | FRIGHT-FUL FILMS $1200: This tool & die franchise has released a movie in VI consecutive Octobers Saw |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | FRIGHT-FUL FILMS $1600: Luke Wilson & Kate Beckinsale check into a motel AAA would not approve in this 2007 film Vacancy |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | FRIGHT-FUL FILMS $2000: This "Hostel" director also acts in Quentin Tarantino movies Eli Roth |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $400: He reprised the role of Robert Langdon in "Angels & Demons" Tom Hanks |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $800: He played math genius John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind" Russell Crowe |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $1200: He's worked with Ron Howard twice, playing astronaut Jack Swigert in "Apollo 13" & Jack Brennan in "Frost/Nixon" Kevin Bacon |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $1600: Ron Howard was on fire with this film in which Kurt Russell & William Baldwin starred as firefighting brothers Backdraft |
| #5830, aired 2010-01-08 | RON HOWARD FILMS $2000: This actor & Nicole Kidman light out for the Oklahoma territory in 1992's "Far and Away" Tom Cruise |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $400: One of the last lines of this Vietnam War-set film is "The horror... the horror" Apocalypse Now |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Normandy American Cemetery in France.) Of the band of brothers here at the Normandy American Cemetery, 33 are side-by-side with their actual brothers, including Preston & Robert Niland, who inspired this Tom Hanks film Saving Private Ryan |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $1200: A riverboat captain (Bogart) & a missionary (Hepburn) use this title vessel to attack an enemy ship during WWI the African Queen |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $1600: Mel Gibson plays a veteran of the French & Indian War who wants no part in the war with Britain in this 2000 film The Patriot |
| #5766, aired 2009-10-12 | WAR FILMS $2000: Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney & Ice Cube starred in this film that takes place at the end of the 1991 Gulf War Three Kings |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $400: "The Ten Commandments"
(1956) De Mille |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $800: "Family Plot"
(1976) Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $1200: "A Prairie Home Companion"
(2006) Robert Altman |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $1600: "Curly Sue"
(1991) John Hughes |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $2000: "The Dead"
(1987) John Huston |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | STEVE BUSCEMI FILMS $400: Steve's rockhound goes to save the world with Ben Affleck & Owen Wilson in this 1998 flick Armageddon |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | STEVE BUSCEMI FILMS $800: It was goodbye, Mr. Chips when Peter Stormare disposed of Steve in grisly fashion in this 1996 film Fargo |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | STEVE BUSCEMI FILMS $1200: As Donny, Steve didn't live to see the end of this 1998 Coen Brothers film... but The Dude abides The Big Lebowski |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | STEVE BUSCEMI FILMS $1600: Steve took to the skies as Garland "The Marietta Mangler" Greene in this Nicolas Cage pic Con Air |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | STEVE BUSCEMI FILMS $2000: Hi, I'm Steve, I'll dress like Buddy Holly & be John & Uma's waiter in this 1994 film Pulp Fiction |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: Its theme song says, "I'm gonna live forever, baby remember my name" Fame |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Gwyneth Paltrow starred in the 1996 adaptation of this Jane Austen novel Emma |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1200: It told the true story of disfigured teen Rocky Dennis; Cher played his biker mom Mask |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1600: In this '95 thriller Al Pacino & Robert De Niro were on opposite sides of the law Heat |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | 4-LETTER FILMS $2000: "Fear is the driving force" in this early Spielberg flick, originally made for TV Duel |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | BOOKS THAT BECAME FILMS $200: "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | BOOKS THAT BECAME FILMS $400: "Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team" Munich |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | BOOKS THAT BECAME FILMS $600: "Wiseguy" Goodfellas |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | BOOKS THAT BECAME FILMS $800: "The Murder of Bob Crane" Auto Focus |
| #5669, aired 2009-04-09 | BOOKS THAT BECAME FILMS $1000: A 2008 award-winning movie:
"Q & A" Slumdog Millionaire |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | VEGAS FILMS $200: In "Casino" he played Ace Rothstein, the mobster who ran The Tangiers (Robert) De Niro |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | VEGAS FILMS $400: He directed the 2001 Vegas caper film "Ocean's Eleven" (Steven) Soderbergh |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | VEGAS FILMS $600: The title of this 2008 Cameron Diaz-Ashton Kutcher film was inspired by a Sin City slogan What Happens in Vegas |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | VEGAS FILMS $800: One review said this 1995 Elizabeth Berkley film was "'42nd Street' meets 'All About Eve' meets soft-core porn" Showgirls |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | VEGAS FILMS $1000: In a 2003 film he played "The Cooler", a Vegas casino's gambling jinx William H. Macy |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | BELOVED FILMS $200: In this 1982 film, Henry Thomas played Elliott, who befriended a visitor 3 million light years from home E.T. |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | BELOVED FILMS $400: Brooms holding buckets march as an appropriate Paul Dukas piece plays in a segment of this classic film Fantasia |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | BELOVED FILMS $600: A fugitive Cary Grant blends in with the crowd at Grand Central in this Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | BELOVED FILMS $800: "Come back", calls young Joey to the title hero played by Alan Ladd in this 1953 Western Shane |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | BELOVED FILMS $1000: Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall & Marilyn Monroe embark on a plan to snare rich husbands in this instructional film How to Marry a Millionaire |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $200: 1987 thriller in which Glenn Close threatened Michael Douglas, "I'm not gonna be ignored, Dan" Fatal Attraction |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $400: The title of this 1989 comedy refers to Baby Mikey, voiced by Bruce Willis Look Who's Talking |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $600: "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way" is a line from this 1988 film that mixed live action & animation Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $800: "Big Business" found this divine comedienne & Lily Tomlin playing 2 sets of mismatched twins, separated at birth Bette Midler |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $1000: Steve Guttenberg & Kim Cattrall are 2 of the recruits in this 1984 comedy Police Academy |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | DISNEY FILMS $200: 1940:
Bad boys are turned into donkeys Pinocchio |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | DISNEY FILMS $400: 1951:
The Queen of Hearts wants to chop a little girl's head off Alice in Wonderland |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | DISNEY FILMS $600: 1991:
Talking dishes & a candelabrum in an enchanted castle Beauty and the Beast |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | DISNEY FILMS $800: 1967:
A tiger tries to eat a man-cub The Jungle Book |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | DISNEY FILMS $1000: 1998:
A young girl joins the Chinese army in place of her ailing father Mulan |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: Romijn or De Mornay Rebecca |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Members of the class Aves The Birds |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: Held, as if by some magical charm Spellbound |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1600: Duran Duran tune that means "unfavorably famous" Notorious |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: Chemically, it's
Al2SiO4(F,OH)2 & it looks like yellow quartz Topaz |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | SPOOF FILMS $200: Lloyd Bridges laments, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" in this 1980 film Airplane! |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | SPOOF FILMS $400: (I'm Michael McKean.) As David St. Hubbins I lead this rock band through the trials & tribulations of stardom Spinal Tap |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | SPOOF FILMS $600: From the files of the TV show "Police Squad!" came this film with Lt. Frank Drebin The Naked Gun |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | SPOOF FILMS $800: Shaun's life becomes zombie-filled in this 2004 British film Shaun of the Dead |
| #5529, aired 2008-09-25 | SPOOF FILMS $1000: This 2000 horror film had the tagline "No mercy. No shame. No sequel"; the sequel's tagline was "We lied" Scary Movie |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | TOP MONEYMAKING FILMS BY YEAR $200: 1984:
"Gremlins",
"The Karate Kid",
"Ghostbusters" Ghostbusters |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | TOP MONEYMAKING FILMS BY YEAR $400: 2007:
"Spider-Man 3",
"Shrek the Third",
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" Spider-Man 3 |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | TOP MONEYMAKING FILMS BY YEAR $600: 1942:
"Bambi",
"Mrs. Miniver",
"Casablanca" Bambi |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | TOP MONEYMAKING FILMS BY YEAR $800: 1973:
"The Sting",
"The Exorcist",
"American Graffiti" The Exorcist |
| #5482, aired 2008-06-10 | TOP MONEYMAKING FILMS BY YEAR $1000: 1954:
"The Caine Mutiny",
"White Christmas",
"Rear Window" White Christmas |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $400: Even George Clooney looks goofy in 1920s football gear in this sports movie Leatherheads |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $800: Kevin Spacey teaches 6 of his M.I.T. students to count cards in this 2008 film 21 |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $1200: The attempted assassination of the president is seen from 8 different perspectives in this 2008 film Vantage Point |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $1600: Martin Lawrence took this actress on a "College Road Trip" Raven |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $2000: Martin Scorcese decided to "Shine a Light" on this legendary rock group The Rolling Stones |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | COLLEGE SPORTS FILMS $200: "Rudy" featured Jason Miller as this university's coach Ara Parseghian Notre Dame |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | COLLEGE SPORTS FILMS $400: Bear Bryant puts this speedy title character of a 1994 movie on the Crimson Tide Forrest Gump |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | COLLEGE SPORTS FILMS $600: Shot at University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Back to School" features Rodney Dangerfield competing in this aquatic sport high-diving |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | COLLEGE SPORTS FILMS $800: The premiere for this 2006 film featured a green carpet, to honor the Thundering Herd We Are Marshall |
| #5458, aired 2008-05-07 | COLLEGE SPORTS FILMS $1000: In "Glory Road", Jon Voight played this school's legendary coach Adolph Rupp University of Kentucky |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $400: The uncut version of this Russian epic based on a Tolstoy novel is more than 8 hours long War and Peace |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $800: This film also known as "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" is the perfect rental for a rainy day The Umbrellas of Cherbourg |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $1200: Polish filmmaker who directed "Knife in the Water" in Poland & "Rosemary's Baby" in the U.S. (Roman) Polanski |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $1600: Marcello Mastroianni starred in several of this director's films, including "La Dolce Vita" & "8 1/2" Fellini |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS $3,800 (Daily Double): A 16th century Japanese village is the main setting for this 1954 foreign film classic The Seven Samurai |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | FILMS OF THE '40s $400: Van Heflin, Gig Young & Robert Coote played Athos, Porthos & Aramis in this "novel" 1948 film The Three Musketeers |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | FILMS OF THE '40s $800: At the end of 1949's "In the Good Old Summertime", Liza Minnelli made her screen debut as this woman's daughter Judy Garland |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | FILMS OF THE '40s $1200: (Film critic Leonard Maltin delivers the clue.) This 1941 detective drama, a Bogart classic, is in my top 5; after all these years, it's still a challenge to figure out The Maltese Falcon |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | FILMS OF THE '40s $1600: He made a cameo appearance as a man carrying a violin in his own film "Spellbound" Hitchcock |
| #5438, aired 2008-04-09 | FILMS OF THE '40s $2000: The 1949 film about this big ape won a special effects Oscar (remember--we said 1949) Mighty Joe Young |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: New York City borough Manhattan |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Several fruit from the genus Musa Bananas |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: Rememberances of a classic Hoagy Carmichael tune Stardust Memories |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1,600 (Daily Double): Breaking down Belafonte into component parts Deconstructing Harry |
| #5425, aired 2008-03-21 | WOODY ALLEN FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: Hephaestus' strong wife Mighty Aphrodite |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | FILMS FROM COMIC BOOKS $200: Jake Gyllenhaal was reportedly ready to take over this role after Tobey Maguire suffered back pains Spider-Man |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | FILMS FROM COMIC BOOKS $400: Severely underweight from his role in "The Machinist", Christian Bale gained 100 pounds to play this role Batman |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | FILMS FROM COMIC BOOKS $600: Ths title heroine played by Halle Berry has vertical pupils & a penchant for tuna Catwoman |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | FILMS FROM COMIC BOOKS $800: The 2007 "Fantastic Four" sequel was subtitled "Rise of" this galactic traveler the Silver Surfer |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | FILMS FROM COMIC BOOKS $1000: In a 2003 film this blind superhero, the "Man Without Fear", battled Bullseye & a NYC crimelord called the Kingpin Daredevil |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | FILMS OF THE '90s $400: The title of this film is what a guard shouts as he leads Sean Penn to be executed Dead Man Walking |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | FILMS OF THE '90s $800: Bubba tells this Tom Hanks character about fried shrimp, shrimp gumbo & boiled shrimp, among others Forrest Gump |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1200: (Hi, I'm Rob Morrow.) I played the real-life character Dick Goodwin, who exposes hanky-panky on the TV program "Twenty-One" in this film Quiz Show |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1600: We had to mention this movie in which Ashley Judd turns being framed for murder to her advantage Double Jeopardy |
| #5353, aired 2007-12-12 | FILMS OF THE '90s $2000: As second-rate singer Sadie in "Georgia", she does an excruciating version of a Van Morrison song Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | LEONARD MALTIN'S FAVORITE FILMS $200: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) This WWII classic set in war-torn Morocco is my candidate for the best Hollywood movie of all time Casablanca |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | LEONARD MALTIN'S FAVORITE FILMS $400: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) This Scorsese film is a compelling look at a boxer whose leading opponent outside the ring was always himself Raging Bull |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | LEONARD MALTIN'S FAVORITE FILMS $600: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) A story that was originally written as a Christmas card became the basis for this beloved James Stewart classic It's A Wonderful Life |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | LEONARD MALTIN'S FAVORITE FILMS $800: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) David Lean's 1946 British film of this Dickens tale is a real "Pip", & the opening graveyard sequence is a gem Great Expectations |
| #5314, aired 2007-10-18 | LEONARD MALTIN'S FAVORITE FILMS $1000: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) Debbie Reynolds was a teenager when she tapped up a storm in this 1952 film, perhaps the best movie musical ever made Singin' In The Rain |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | COLORFUL FILMS $200: A classic from the '80s:
"Pretty in ____" Pink |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | COLORFUL FILMS $400: A documentary about Texas justice:
"The Thin ____ Line" Blue |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | COLORFUL FILMS $600: A 1998 WWII flim:
"The Thin ____ Line" Red |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | COLORFUL FILMS $800: A classic from the '40s:
"She Wore a ____ Ribbon" Yellow |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | COLORFUL FILMS $1000: A 2004 comedy:
"Harold & Kumar Go to ____ Castle" White |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $400: A 1961 classic:
"West Side Story" Romeo and Juliet |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $800: A 1999 teen flick:
"10 Things I Hate About You" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $1600: A 1985 film by Akira Kurosawa:
"Ran" King Lear |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $2,000 (Daily Double): A 2001 crime comedy:
"Scotland, Pa." Macbeth |
| #5010, aired 2006-05-26 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $2000: Keanu Reeves as Prince Hal in 1991:
"My Own Private Idaho" Henry IV |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | FILMS OF THE '50s $400: Jimmy Stewart has a broken leg when this film begins; at the end, his voyeurism gets him a second broken leg Rear Window (A Rear Window accepted) |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | FILMS OF THE '50s $800: Frank Sinatra played lovable gambler Nathan Detroit in this 1955 movie musical Guys & Dolls |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | FILMS OF THE '50s $1200: Rich brothers William Holden & Humphrey Bogart vie for the chauffeur's daughter in this 1954 classic Sabrina |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | FILMS OF THE '50s $2000: The 2 1950s films starring Grace Kelly with "High" in the title High Society & High Noon |
| #4954, aired 2006-03-09 | FILMS OF THE '50s $3,500 (Daily Double): Alan Jay Lerner won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for this 1951 musical about an expatriate An American in Paris |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $200: Adam trained with ex-NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury to prepare for this 2005 comedy The Longest Yard |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $400: There must be 50 ways to name this 2004 comedy with Adam & Drew Barrymore, said to be "Memento-meets-Groundhog Day" 50 First Dates |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $600: Adam crooned his way into Drew Barrymore's heart in this "matrimonial" 1998 film The Wedding Singer |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $800: The price was very, very wrong when Bob Barker pummeled Adam on a golf course in this 1996 film Happy Gilmore |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $1000: Adam was kickin' it old school--elementary school--as this 1995 title character Billy Madison |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $200: William Holden leads this 1969 title group of robbers & killers with a sense of honor The Wild Bunch |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $400: The hero of this 1962 epic is worshiped by the men he leads, though they do call him "Orens" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $600: Paul Newman played a white man raised by Apaches in this '67 Western--& you'll notice that "man" is your big clue Hombre |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $800: In this 1979 film the talented Ms. Ripley battles an outer-space menace Alien |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $1000: Like Montgomery Clift, I lusted after Elizabeth Taylor in this 1951 classic (wanna go for a boat ride, Shelley?) A Place in the Sun |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $200: This "Bionic Man" got his head chopped off by an axe-wielding Joan Crawford in his first film, "Strait-Jacket" Lee Majors |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $400: Her first album was "All Hail the Queen"; her first film was Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" Queen Latifah |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $600: Falling off a chair at her audition helped her win the role of the klutzy princess in "The Princess Diaries" (Anne) Hathaway |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $800: Later Rose on "The Golden Girls", she blossomed as a senator in the 1962 drama "Advise and Consent" Betty White |
| #4853, aired 2005-10-19 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $1000: Seth Green checked in when he played Egg in this film based on a John Irving novel The Hotel New Hampshire |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $400: In 1947's "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer", Cary Grant was the bachelor, this former child star the bobby-soxer Shirley Temple |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $800: In this film a young Natalie Wood exclaims, "You're just a nice old man with whiskers, like my mother said!" Miracle on 34th Street |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $1200: This Best Picture Oscar winner of 1945 was filmed in part in the alcoholic ward of NYC's Bellevue Hospital The Lost Weekend |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $1600: Judy Garland sang "The Trolley Song" & "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" in this hit musical Meet Me In St. Louis |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | FILMS OF THE '40s $2000: Although this singer wanted to portray himself in a 1946 film biography, he was too old & Larry Parks was cast Al Jolson |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | FILMS OF THE '70s $200: Not the frost, but the blood was on the punkin in this 1978 Jamie Lee Curtis film Halloween |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | FILMS OF THE '70s $400: (Hi. I'm Bob Woodward.) In "All the President's Men", Carl Bernstein was played by Dustin Hoffman & I was portrayed by this handsome star who bears no resemblence to me Robert Redford |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | FILMS OF THE '70s $600 (Daily Double): For this '74 flick, Mel Brooks used some of the same lab equipment that was used in a 1931 film Young Frankenstein |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | FILMS OF THE '70s $600: A canoe trip into the Georgia backwoods became a living nightmare for four friends in this 1972 film Deliverance |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | FILMS OF THE '70s $1000: Erich Segal actually wrote the screenplay for this 1970 movie first; then the novel Love Story |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | FILMS OF THE '50s $400: This James Dean film was advertised with the line "Teenage terror torn from today's headlines" Rebel Without a Cause |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | FILMS OF THE '50s $800: "You just can't imagine the thrill of shooting the curl", said this 1959 Sandra Dee character Gidget |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | FILMS OF THE '50s $1200: In this film Marilyn Monroe famously stepped on a subway grating in a billowy white dress The Seven Year Itch |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | FILMS OF THE '50s $1600: Mean Ray Milland hires a hit man to kill his wife Grace Kelly in this Hitchcock classic Dial M for Murder |
| #4678, aired 2004-12-29 | FILMS OF THE '50s $2000: Leslie Caron is the waif who captures Louis Jourdan's heart in this 1958 classic Gigi |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $400: In a 2003 film he played "Master and Commander" Captain Jack Aubrey Russell Crowe |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $800: It might come back to you that this Civil War movie was based on a novel by Charles Frazier Cold Mountain |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $1200: Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for her screenplay & a nomination for directing this 2003 film Lost in Translation |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Satine, a courtesan, & Christian, a poet, pair off in this musical set at a French nightclub Moulin Rouge! |
| #4643, aired 2004-11-10 | FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $2000: Keisha-Castle Hughes played a young Maori girl destined to be her tribe's leader in this critically acclaimed film Whale Rider |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | INDEPENDENT FILMS $200: This Coen Brothers tale from 1996 is "A homespun murder story" Fargo |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | INDEPENDENT FILMS $400: Reverse in told was film Nolan Christopher 2001 this Memento |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | INDEPENDENT FILMS $600: Robert Duvall wrote, directed & played a preacher in this 1997 film The Apostle |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | INDEPENDENT FILMS $800: Title job of Dante & Randal in a 1994 Kevin Smith film clerks |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | INDEPENDENT FILMS $1000: An Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature went to this '50s-style melodrama with Julianne Moore & Dennis Quaid Far from Heaven |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | BEN & JENNIFER FILMS $400: 2003:
Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez Gigli |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | BEN & JENNIFER FILMS $800: 2004:
Ben Stiller & Jennifer Aniston Along Came Polly |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | BEN & JENNIFER FILMS $1200: 2003:
Ben Kingsley & Jennifer Connelly House of Sand and Fog |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | BEN & JENNIFER FILMS $1600: 2003:
Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner Daredevil |
| #4570, aired 2004-06-18 | BEN & JENNIFER FILMS $2000: 2000:
Ben Affleck & Jennifer Grey Bounce |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | FILMS OF THE '50s $400: Bette Davis starred in this 1950 movie about theatrical backstabbing All About Eve |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | FILMS OF THE '50s $800: In "And God Created Woman" Jean-Louis Trintignant has his hands full with this 18-year-old bride (Brigitte) Bardot |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | FILMS OF THE '50s $1200: Married couple Henry & Phoebe Ephron wrote "Desk Set", starring this real-life couple Tracy & Hepburn |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | FILMS OF THE '50s $1600: In poetry these "lead but to the grave"; they're also the title of a Stanley Kubrick war film Paths of Glory |
| #4518, aired 2004-04-07 | FILMS OF THE '50s $2000: Deborah Kerr is seen here in this film recently remade with Julianne Moore The End of the Affair |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | FILMS OF THE '60s $200: This singer did it his way & filmed his directorial debut, the WWII drama "None But the Brave", on the island of Kauai Frank Sinatra |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | FILMS OF THE '60s $400: Richard Harris excelled in this soccer-like sport & played a pro player of it in his film "The Sporting Life" rugby |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | FILMS OF THE '60s $600: He co-starred with Natalie Wood in 2 '60s films, "Inside Daisy Clover" & "This Property is Condemned" Robert Redford |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | FILMS OF THE '60s $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Louisville, Kentucky) What's now the Oak Room of the Seelbach (Hilton) Hotel was once a gentlemen's billiards hall, seen in this classic 1961 film The Hustler |
| #4499, aired 2004-03-11 | FILMS OF THE '60s $1000: Ursula Andress made a memorable entrance in this 1962 film when she emerged from the water in a bikini Dr. No |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | SINGERS' FIRST FILMS $400: "Love Me Tender" Elvis Presley |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | SINGERS' FIRST FILMS $800: "Boyz n the Hood" Ice Cube |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | SINGERS' FIRST FILMS $1200: "Purple Rain" the Artist Known as Prince |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | SINGERS' FIRST FILMS $1600: "Tremors" Reba McEntire |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | SINGERS' FIRST FILMS $2000: "Memphis Belle" Harry Connick, Jr. |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $400: June Lockhart debuted as a Cratchit child in this 1938 film, with her real parents playing Mr. & Mrs. Bob Cratchit A Christmas Carol |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $800: This "American Beauty" star stole into films as the guy who robs Meryl Streep's therapy group in "Heartburn" Kevin Spacey |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $1200: Tommy Lee Jones, who played football at Harvard, debuted as a Harvard pal of Ryan O'Neal's in this film Love Story |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $1600: Ann Jillian played Bo Peep in her debut, this Disney movie musical based on a Victor Herbert operetta Babes in Toyland |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $2000: Audiences have had "A Fine Romance" with this British dame since she debuted in "The Third Secret" Judi Dench |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | CLASSIC SCI-FI & HORROR FILMS $400: Before he was Spock, he had a small role in the mutant ant infestation classic "Them!" in 1954 (Leonard) Nimoy |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | CLASSIC SCI-FI & HORROR FILMS $800: Yes, dahling, this Hungarian actress played Talleah in the 1958 cult favorite "Queen of Outer Space" Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | CLASSIC SCI-FI & HORROR FILMS $1200: Holy Moses! He played a doctor fighting off zombies spawned by germ warfare in "The Omega Man" (Charlton) Heston |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | CLASSIC SCI-FI & HORROR FILMS $1600: More famous for his 14 films as Sherlock Holmes, he was the "Son of Frankenstein" in 1939 (Basil) Rathbone |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | CLASSIC SCI-FI & HORROR FILMS $2000: Intent on demolishing Tokyo, Gamera was a giant monster one of these reptiles that breathed fire & could fly turtle |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | COMEDY FILMS $400: "Signs" & "The Ring" are among the pictures that are spoofed in this film "3" Scary Movie |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | COMEDY FILMS $800: After striking it big in "American Pie", Jason Biggs went on to star in "Saving" him Silverman |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | COMEDY FILMS $1200: In this divine comedy Jim Carrey plays a TV reporter who fills in for God Bruce Almighty |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | COMEDY FILMS $1600: This Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey movie was based on a book subtitled "The Universal Don'ts of Dating" How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | COMEDY FILMS $2000: Kirsten Dunst had all the right moves as captain of a cheerleading squad in this 2000 film Bring It On |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | CARY GRANT FILMS $200: In "She Done Him Wrong" she invited Cary to come up & see her sometime Mae West |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | CARY GRANT FILMS $400: The chase on Mount Rushmore is a memorable moment from this thriller North by Northwest |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | CARY GRANT FILMS $600: Cary has 2 aunts who poison gentlemen callers in this comedy Arsenic and Old Lace |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | CARY GRANT FILMS $800: Ghosts Cary Grant & Constance Bennett haunt a banker, the title character of this 1937 film Topper |
| #4468, aired 2004-01-28 | CARY GRANT FILMS $1000: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen & Douglas Fairbanks Jr. battle the Thuggee cult in this film inspired by a Kipling poem Gunga Din |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | FILMS OF THE '90s $400: Back from their "Excellent Adventure", in 1991 this title pair left on a "Bogus Journey" Bill & Ted |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1200: "Somebody said get a life... so they did" was the tagline for this Susan Sarandon/Geena Davis film Thelma & Louise |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1600: In this flaky comedy, Anthony Hopkins played cereal king Dr. John Harvey Kellogg The Road to Wellville |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | FILMS OF THE '90s $2,000 (Daily Double): Some referred to this 1994 movie as "Die Hard on a Bus" Speed |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | FILMS OF THE '90s $2000: (Hi, I'm Vivica Fox)
I played one of the sisters in this 1997 film about family, relationships & Sunday night dinner Soul Food |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | FILMS OF THE '90s $400: "Jurassic Park", "Disclosure" & "Rising Sun" were all based on books by this author Michael Crichton |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | FILMS OF THE '90s $800: Julia Roberts played a law student who uncovered a conspiracy & put herself in danger in this 1993 movie The Pelican Brief |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1200: Many of the scenes in this Brad Pitt film were shot at the Stoney Indian Reserve near Calgary, Canada Legends of the Fall |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1600: This movie seen here was "voted" one of the 100 Greatest Love Stories by the American Film Institute The American President |
| #4357, aired 2003-07-08 | FILMS OF THE '90s $2000: Peter Fonda won rave reviews & an Oscar nomination for his role in this 1997 movie Ulee's Gold |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | FRIENDS IN FILMS $200: "Scream 3" Courteney Cox |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | FRIENDS IN FILMS $400: "Analyze This" &
"Analyze That" Lisa Kudrow |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | FRIENDS IN FILMS $600: "Band of Brothers" on HBO David Schwimmer |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | FRIENDS IN FILMS $800: "Serving Sara" Matthew Perry |
| #4355, aired 2003-07-04 | FRIENDS IN FILMS $1000: "Charlie's Angels" Matt LeBlanc |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: In this 1994 film things got pretty hairy for Jack Nicholson, especially around the full moon Wolf |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Lesley Ann Warren played Miss Scarlet & Christopher Lloyd was Prof. Plum in this 1985 spoof Clue |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1200: Gwyneth Paltrow played the title matchmaker in this movie based on a Jane Austen novel Emma |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1600: Be afraid. Be very, very afraid of Mark Wahlberg as Reese Witherspoon's boyfriend from hell in this film Fear |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | 4-LETTER FILMS $2000: Robin Cook cooked up the story for this '78 thriller; Michael Crichton directed it Coma |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | FAMOUS FILMS $400: In France, this ever-popular film is known as "Blanche Neige et les Sept Nains" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | FAMOUS FILMS $800: A long-awaited snow begins to fall at a ski lodge at the end of this 1954 yuletide classic White Christmas |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | FAMOUS FILMS $1200: Oliver Stone dedicated this 1987 film to his late father, who had been a stockbroker Wall Street |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | FAMOUS FILMS $1600: This 1995 film seen here won an Oscar for its screenplay, which was really quite "novel" Sense and Sensibility |
| #4304, aired 2003-04-24 | FAMOUS FILMS $2000: This 1962 classic was narrated by Kim Stanley, who provided the grown-up voice of Scout To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | RECENT FILMS $200: Miami dentist Cuba Gooding Jr. inherits a team of sled-pullers in this 2002 film Snow Dogs |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | RECENT FILMS $400: This pop sensation starred in 2002's "Crossroads", about some friends who take a road trip Britney Spears |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | RECENT FILMS $600: This comic voiced 3 characters in the animated Hanukkah movie "Eight Crazy Nights" Adam Sandler |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | RECENT FILMS $800: Owen Wilson & Eddie Murphy teamed up for this action comedy loosely based on an old TV show I Spy |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | RECENT FILMS $1000: A magazine article called "Surf Girls of Maui" inspired this 2002 film Blue Crush |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $400: "Whistle While You Work" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $800: "A Whole New World" Aladdin |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $1200: "When I See an Elephant Fly" Dumbo |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $1600: "You've Got a Friend in Me" Toy Story |
| #4259, aired 2003-02-20 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $2000: It's the film that featured the following
Let's get together, yeah, yeah, yeah... The Parent Trap |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | FOREIGN FILMS $400: This 1980s submarine classic starred Jurgen Prochnow as the captain Das Boot |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | FOREIGN FILMS $800: Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" is partly dedicated to this man who directed Clint in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" Sergio Leone |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | FOREIGN FILMS $1200: A Foreign Language Oscar went to Menshov's 1979 film called this city "Does Not Believe in Tears" Moscow |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | FOREIGN FILMS $1600: Truffaut's musician's tale "Tirez sur le pianiste" is known as this in English Shoot the Piano Player |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | FOREIGN FILMS $2000: Ingmar Bergman announced his retirement from moviemaking after the early '80s film about these 2 title characters Fanny and Alexander |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | "LONG" FILMS $400: Everyone from Sean Connery to Henry Fonda to John Wayne turns up in this 1962 WWII epic The Longest Day |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | "LONG" FILMS $800: In this jolly 1962 film based on an O'Neill play, Hepburn's on dope, Robards is an alcoholic & Stockwell has TB Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | "LONG" FILMS $1200: Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward's first film together, it was based on a Faulkner tale The Long, Hot Summer |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | "LONG" FILMS $1600: This 1955 Fred Astaire movie had been filmed in 1919, 1931 & as "Curly Top" in 1935 Daddy Long Legs |
| #4219, aired 2002-12-26 | "LONG" FILMS $2000: The Carradines, the Keaches, the Quaids & the Guests all played sets of brothers in this 1980 western The Long Riders |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | FAMILY FILMS $200: Steve Martin played hapless dad George Banks in this 1991 matrimonial comedy Father of the Bride |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | FAMILY FILMS $400: 1981 film that immortalized the line "No wire hangers -- ever!" Mommie Dearest |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | FAMILY FILMS $600: Sissy Spacek did her own singing in this 1980 film bio Coal Miner's Daughter |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | FAMILY FILMS $800: Gaby Hoffmann & Macaulay Culkin play niece & nephew to John Candy in this 1989 comedy Uncle Buck |
| #4215, aired 2002-12-20 | FAMILY FILMS $1000: This film from Joel & Ethan Coen was partly based on Homer's "Odyssey" O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | CLASSROOM FILMS $200: 1989:
Robin Williams inspires his prep school students to discover Whitman & Tennyson Dead Poets Society |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | CLASSROOM FILMS $400: 1955:
Idealistic Glenn Ford tries to reach troubled students like Sidney Poitier Blackboard Jungle |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | CLASSROOM FILMS $600: 1967:
Idealistic Sidney Poitier teaches rough East Enders, earns respect & a song from Lulu To Sir, with Love |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | CLASSROOM FILMS $800: 1987:
Edward James Olmos' students from the East L.A. barrio pass the A.P. calculus exam & are accused of cheating Stand and Deliver |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | CLASSROOM FILMS $1000: 1995:
Marine vet Michelle Pfeiffer uses unorthodox methods to teach inner city kids Dangerous Minds |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | CLASSIC FILMS $400: 1953's "The Robe" opened in this new wide-screen process CinemaScope |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | CLASSIC FILMS $800: 5 decades before Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor, Zsa Zsa Gabor & Jose Ferrer were in a Paris-set film called this Moulin Rouge |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | CLASSIC FILMS $1200: Tex Ritter sang the theme of this 1952 Gary Cooper pic High Noon |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | CLASSIC FILMS $2000: A barker ends this 1952 film with "...you can shake the sawdust off your feet but you can't shake it out of your heart..." The Greatest Show on Earth |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | CLASSIC FILMS $4,000 (Daily Double): Elizabeth Taylor's 1950 wedding to Nicky Hilton was worked into the publicity for this new comedy of hers Father of the Bride |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | NEWMAN'S OWN "H" FILMS $400: Playing against Paul, Jackie Gleason racked up some points in this 1961 film The Hustler |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | NEWMAN'S OWN "H" FILMS $800: This '63 Newman pic won Oscars for Patricia Neal & Melvyn Douglas Hud |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | NEWMAN'S OWN "H" FILMS $1200: 1975's "The Drowning Pool" was a sequel to this 1966 film Harper |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | NEWMAN'S OWN "H" FILMS $1600: Based on an Elmore Leonard western novel, this 1967 film put Paul in Arizona around 1880 Hombre |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | NEWMAN'S OWN "H" FILMS $2000: In this 1994 Coen Brothers '50s fantasy, Paul was the villain The Hudsucker Proxy |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1992:
"Jigs Accompanied by Lupine Creatures" Dances with Wolves |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1957:
"One Dozen Ticked-Off Dudes" 12 Angry Men |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $600: 1969:
"12 O'Clock Herdsman" Midnight Cowboy |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1973:
"Final Argentine Dance on the Banks of the Seine" Last Tango in Paris |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1992:
"Primal Impulse" Basic Instinct |
| #4134, aired 2002-07-18 | KEVIN COSTNER FILMS $200: Straight arrow Eliot Ness The Untouchables |
| #4134, aired 2002-07-18 | KEVIN COSTNER FILMS $400: Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella Field of Dreams |
| #4134, aired 2002-07-18 | KEVIN COSTNER FILMS $600: Postapocalyptic survivor called the Mariner Waterworld |
| #4134, aired 2002-07-18 | KEVIN COSTNER FILMS $800: New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison JFK |
| #4134, aired 2002-07-18 | KEVIN COSTNER FILMS $1000: Catcher Crash Davis Bull Durham |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $400: "The Mexican" in the Brad Pitt-Julia Roberts film was not a person, but this item prized by Gene Hackman gun |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $800: Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds co-produced this film about a "feline" girl band Josie and the Pussycats |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1200: In "3000 Miles to" this place, Kurt Russell & Kevin Costner played Elvis impersonators who were crooks Graceland |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $1600: Morgan Freeman has played detective Alex Cross in 2 films: "Kiss the Girls" & this 2001 release Along Came a Spider |
| #4117, aired 2002-06-25 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $2000: Roger Ebert wrote that in this film Pierce Brosnan was a James Bond type "with no gadgets and no scruples" The Tailor of Panama |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1951:
"One Trolley Called Passion" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1997:
"Immense" Titanic |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1980:
"Regular Folks" Ordinary People |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1600: 1993:
"Oskar's Registry" Schindler's List |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1995:
"Exiting the Gambling Mecca" Leaving Las Vegas |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $200: He played wise wizard Gandalf in 2001's "Lord of the Rings" Ian McKellen |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $400: He played wise wizard Dumbledore in 2001's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" Richard Harris |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $600: "Leave no man behind" was the tagline of this 2001 film that co-starred Josh Hartnett Black Hawk Down |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $800: Meg Ryan & Hugh Jackman found love across time in this romance Kate & Leopold |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | RECENT FILMS $1000: Jennifer Connelly won an Oscar for playing the wife of this man (John) Nash |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $200: Cathy, Cathy, Cathy! A 1939 classic... amour on the moors... need we say moor? Wuthering Heights |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $400: Eastwood, Garner, Sutherland & Jones proved that they had "the ripe stuff" in this 2000 film Space Cowboys |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $800: At one point, John Huston wanted Gable & Bogart to star in this film about 2 schemers who want to rule Kafiristan The Man Who Would Be King |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $1000: In "Cool Hand Luke", he's the character actor who says, "What we've got here is failure to communicate" Strother Martin |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MY FAVORITE FILMS $1,200 (Daily Double): When you rent this 1970 biopic, watch for Tim Considine as the soldier who gets slapped Patton |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1982:
"The Mahatma" Gandhi |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1956:
"Circling Earth Within 12 Weeks' Time" Around the World in 80 Days |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $600: 1939:
"Blown Away by Moving Air" Gone with the Wind |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1943:
"Moroccan Port City" Casablanca |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1965:
"Noise from a Melody" The Sound of Music |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | FILMS OF THE '80s $200: (Hi. I'm Esai Morales.) I played Bob Morales, Ritchie Valens' brother, in this 1987 film La Bamba |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | FILMS OF THE '80s $400: 1987 film in which Sean Connery says, "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun... that's the Chicago way & that's how you get Capone" The Untouchables |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | FILMS OF THE '80s $600: Holly Hunter & Nicolas Cage can't have a child of their own, so they kidnap a baby in this wacky Coen Brothers comedy Raising Arizona |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | FILMS OF THE '80s $800: Jack Nicholson plays "your average horny little devil" in this be-"witch"ing film The Witches of Eastwick |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | FILMS OF THE '80s $1000: (Cheryl gives the clue.) This 1985 Harrison Ford movie was filmed partly in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Witness |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SPORTS FILMS $400: Sylvester Stallone was inspired to write this film after seeing underdog Chuck Wepner take on Muhammad Ali Rocky |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SPORTS FILMS $800: In "Knute Rockne: All American", this actor delivered the famous deathbed line "Win one for the Gipper" Ronald Reagan |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SPORTS FILMS $1200: This 1981 film about 2 participants in the 1924 Olympics ran off with 4 Oscars including Best Picture Chariots of Fire |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SPORTS FILMS $1600: Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins struck up a romance after meeting on the set of this baseball flick Bull Durham |
| #3999, aired 2002-01-10 | SPORTS FILMS $2000: This 1977 film featured Paul Newman as aging hockey coach Reggie Dunlop Slap Shot |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | FILMS OF THE '90s $400: Thousands of women wanted to dance with this actor after seeing him tango in "Scent of a Woman" (Hoo-ah!) Al Pacino |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | FILMS OF THE '90s $800: This 1999 Keanu Reeves tech-stravaganza swept the Oscars' technical categories, winning 4 The Matrix |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew at Central Park.) This 1999 film about a boy-like mouse featured an exciting boat race set here at the Conservatory Water in Central Park Stuart Little |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1600: The title of this 1999 film is a translation of the Bond family motto, "Orbis non sufficit" The World is Not Enough |
| #3998, aired 2002-01-09 | FILMS OF THE '90s $2000: (Hi, I'm Jodie Foster.) I co-produced this acclaimed 1994 film in which I played a backwoods woman with her own special language Nell |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | FILMS OF THE FUTURE $800: Michael Steadman wouldn't have made it in "Logan's Run", where no one lives past this age 30 |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | FILMS OF THE FUTURE $1200: In "Gattaca", it's odd that he plays a genetic failure but appropriate that he falls for Uma Thurman Ethan Hawke |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | FILMS OF THE FUTURE $1600: The first sequel to "Planet of the Apes", it preceded "Escape from...", "Conquest of...", & "Battle for..." Beneath the Planet of the Apes |
| #3971, aired 2001-12-03 | FILMS OF THE FUTURE $2000: This 1973 Woody Allen film shows us a future that knows the health benefits of steak & fudge Sleeper |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | FILMS OF THE '70s $100: Cleavon Little plays Black Bart, the sheriff of Ridge Rock in this 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | FILMS OF THE '70s $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew rides on the carousel.) I'm riding the Santa Monica Pier carousel, which you may recognize from this 1973 Newman & Redford ragtime film The Sting |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | FILMS OF THE '70s $300: George Burns & Walter Matthau are 2 cranky ex-vaudevillians who reunite for a TV special in this 1975 comedy The Sunshine Boys |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | FILMS OF THE '70s $400: Gordon Parks, Sr. directed this 1971 film about a "black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks" Shaft |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | FILMS OF THE '70s $500: Oliver Stone won an Oscar for his screenplay of this 1978 film Midnight Express |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | JOHN GRISHAM FILMS $200: Tom Cruise plays a lawyer in trouble with his bosses in this 1993 film The Firm |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | JOHN GRISHAM FILMS $600: Susan Sarandon plays a lawyer with pint-sized trouble in this 1994 film The Client |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | JOHN GRISHAM FILMS $800: Matt Damon plays a young lawyer in trouble in this "stormy" flick The Rainmaker |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | JOHN GRISHAM FILMS $1000: Chris O'Donnell plays a lawyer whose granddad faces the ultimate trouble--execution--in this title place The Chamber |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $100: Matt Damon showed off his talent in this "talented" title role in 1999 Mr. Ripley |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $200: Clint Eastwood directed & starred in this 2000 film that could have been called "Grumpy Old Astronauts" Space Cowboys |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $300: (Sarah of the Clue Crew rides the Ferris wheel at the Orange County Fair.) Joseph Cotten & Orson Welles took a famous ride in a Ferris wheel in this classic 1949 film noir The Third Man |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $400: This Georgia-born actress earned an Oscar nomination for playing Sally Field's Southern daughter in "Steel Magnolias" Julia Roberts |
| #3940, aired 2001-10-19 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $500: (Hi, I'm Virginia Madsen.) I played Princess Irulan in this 1984 David Lynch film based on Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel Dune |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | MEL BROOKS FILMS $200: Mel Brooks' 1993 film "Robin Hood" had this subtitle Men in Tights |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | MEL BROOKS FILMS $400: Gene Wilder tries to live down the family name & dismisses his granddad's work as "doo-doo" in this 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | MEL BROOKS FILMS $600: Zero Mostel has a hit with the play "Springtime For Hitler" in this 1968 classic The Producers |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | MEL BROOKS FILMS $800: Mel's wife, she co-starred with him in "Silent Movie" & "To Be or Not to Be" Anne Bancroft |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | MEL BROOKS FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): At The Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, "Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup" in this parody of Hitchcock films High Anxiety |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | 1987 FILMS $100: (Hi, I'm Seth Green.) I played the young alter-ego of this man in 1987's "Radio Days" Woody Allen |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $200: On screen, he's been portrayed by Leslie Howard & Leonardo DiCaprio Romeo |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | 1987 FILMS $200: This 1987 romantic comedy was an update of "Cyrano de Bergerac" Roxanne |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | 1987 FILMS $300: Robin Wright played Buttercup, the title character of this "royal" Rob Reiner comedy Princess Bride |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $400: Peter Greenaway's 1991 film "Prospero's Books" drew its inspiration from this play The Tempest |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | 1987 FILMS $400: Before "Leaving Las Vegas" in 1995, she had "Adventures in Babysitting" in 1987 Elisabeth Shue |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | 1987 FILMS $500: He directed 1987's "Tin Men" Barry Levinson |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $600: The 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You" was an update of this Shakespeare comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $800: Kenneth Branagh gives a rousing speech leading his men into battle at Agincourt as the title character in this 1989 film Henry V |
| #3894, aired 2001-07-05 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $1000: A 2000 musical version of this romantic comedy "found" Nathan Lane playing Costard, the court jester Love's Labour's Lost |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | RECENT FILMS $100: It was Disney's sequel to "101 Dalmatians" 102 Dalmatians |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | RECENT FILMS $200: In this summer 2000 release, wheelchair-bound telepath Charles Xavier runs a school for mutants The X-Men |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | RECENT FILMS $300: This title Stone Age family was "In Viva Rock Vegas" The Flintstones |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | RECENT FILMS $400: In this film Sean Connery plays a reclusive writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his only novel Finding Forrester |
| #3893, aired 2001-07-04 | RECENT FILMS $500: As in the TV series, this actor provided the voice of Charlie, the Angels' unseen boss, in "Charlie's Angels" John Forsythe |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $200: The sequel to this 1995 favorite is subtitled "Pig in the City" Babe |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: A big jazz fan, Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 film bio of Charlie Parker Bird |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $600: Many fans didn't love Lucy when she played the Auntie in this 1974 musical Mame |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Warren Beatty won Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Director & Screenwriter for this 1981 film Reds |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1000: Sean Penn made his feature film debut as a military cadet in this 1981 film Taps |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | JOHN HUGHES FILMS $800: Film in which Matthew Broderick says, "Life goes by so fast that if you don't stop and look around, you might miss it" Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | JOHN HUGHES FILMS $1000: John Candy looks after his brother's kids for a few days in this 1989 comedy Uncle Buck |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | JOHN HUGHES FILMS $1,200 (Daily Double): John Hughes was a writer & editor for this humor magazine whose name appears in 4 of his movie titles National Lampoon |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $200: 1959 comedy in which 2 musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre & flee the mob by joining an all-girl band Some Like It Hot |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $400: Wilder directed this big 1950 film in which Gloria Swanson says, "I am big. It's the pictures that got small!" Sunset Boulevard |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $600: Wilder was Oscar-nominated for this noir classic seen here: Double Indemnity |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $800: Ray Milland says, "I'm not a drinker--I'm a drunk" in this 1944 classic The Lost Weekend |
| #3873, aired 2001-06-06 | BILLY WILDER FILMS $1000: This 1953 war drama was based on a play by Donald Bevan & Edmund Trzcinski, 2 ex-G.I.'s who'd been P.O.W.s Stalag 17 |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | COLOR FILMS $100: Peter Ustinov was originally to play Inspector Clouseau in this 1963 film, but he backed out The Pink Panther |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | COLOR FILMS $200: It's popularly known as "MIB" for short Men In Black |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | COLOR FILMS $300: Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey & Margaret Avery all won Oscar nominations for this 1985 film The Color Purple |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | COLOR FILMS $400: Gerard Depardieu made his English-language debut in this 1990 film Green Card |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | COLOR FILMS $500: Malcolm McDowell played the classical music-loving violent punk Alex in this Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $200: "The Perfect Nanny" & "Let's Go Fly a Kite" Mary Poppins |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $400: "Son of Man" & "You'll Be in My Heart" Tarzan |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $700 (Daily Double): "I've Got No Strings" & "Little Woodenhead" Pinocchio |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $800: "Go the Distance" & "Oh Mighty Zeus" Hercules |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $1000: "A Girl Worth Fighting For" & "True to Your Heart" Mulan |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | ANIMAL-TITLED FILMS $200: In a TV movie about this group Joe Mantegna was Dean Martin & Don Cheadle was Sammy Davis Jr. The Rat Pack |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | ANIMAL-TITLED FILMS $400: Phrase that completes the '40s title "Sherlock Holmes and..." & the '80s title "Kiss of..." The Spider Woman |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | ANIMAL-TITLED FILMS $600: 1-word title of the 1994 film seen here Wolf |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | ANIMAL-TITLED FILMS $800: In 1958 Alec Guinness played painter Gulley Jimson; we got it straight from this, the title of the film The Horse's Mouth |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | ANIMAL-TITLED FILMS $1000: 2000 film set in a NYC bar whose sexy staff tantalizes its male patrons Coyote Ugly |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $200: She done Cary right casting him as her co-star in "She Done Him Wrong" Mae West |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $400: In this 1944 film about a pair of murderous aunts, Cary says, "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops" Arsenic and Old Lace |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $600: "High Society" is a musical version of this Cary Grant-Jimmy Stewart-Katharine Hepburn classic The Philadelphia Story |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $800: Joan Fontaine thinks that hubby Cary Grant is trying to murder her in this Hitchcock film Suspicion |
| #3820, aired 2001-03-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1957 Cary Grant-Deborah Kerr weepie was a major plot device in "Sleepless In Seattle" An Affair To Remember |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | FILMS OF THE '90s $200: Who could forget Demi Moore as Hester Prynne in this 1995 film? The Scarlet Letter |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | FILMS OF THE '90s $400: Al Pacino couldn't see but he sure could tango in this 1992 film Scent of a Woman |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | FILMS OF THE '90s $600: "They stole his mind, now he wants it back" was a tagline for this Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | FILMS OF THE '90s $800: John Travolta was the perfect candidate for this 1998 movie based on a book by "Anonymous" Primary Colors |
| #3814, aired 2001-03-15 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1,500 (Daily Double): In this 1990 film Robin Williams played a doctor who was able to rouse a group of catatonic patients Awakenings |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $100: A 7-year-old chess prodigy is at the center of this 1993 film that mentions an American chess prodigy in its title Searching for Bobby Fischer |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $200: Even the janitor at M.I.T. is a math genius in this 1997 Oscar-winning film Good Will Hunting |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $300: Chemistry whiz Julius Kelp devises a formula that transforms him into the suave Buddy Love in this 1963 comedy The Nutty Professor |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $400: A blinding light suddenly turns this actor into a genius in 1996's "Phenomenon" John Travolta |
| #3804, aired 2001-03-01 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $500: Woody Allen finds media guru Marshall McLuhan in a theater lobby in this 1977 film Annie Hall |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | IMAX FILMS $200: This TV Spock narrated the IMAX films "Ring of Fire" & "Destiny in Space" Leonard Nimoy |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | IMAX FILMS $400: Larger than life on the courts, this title Bull went "To The Max" (about 8 stories high) in 2000 Michael Jordan |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | IMAX FILMS $600: "The Magic Box" follows these 2 illusionists from war-torn Germany to Las Vegas, & all in 3-D Siegfried & Roy |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | IMAX FILMS $800: A 1999 film explores the effect this weather phenomenon had on "The Island of the Sharks" El Nino |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | IMAX FILMS $1000: Astronauts became cinematographers for the 1997 film "Mission to" this space station Mir |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | TOM CRUISE FILMS $100: Tom glides across the floor to "Old Time Rock & Roll" in an Oxford shirt & tightie-whities in a classic scene in this '83 flick Risky Business |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | TOM CRUISE FILMS $200: Tom Cruise learns that he has an autistic older brother in this 1988 film Rain Man |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | TOM CRUISE FILMS $300: Tom Cruise starred as professional spy Ethan Hunt in this 1996 film & its sequel Mission: Impossible |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | TOM CRUISE FILMS $400: In a 1992 film this actor told Tom, "You can't handle the truth!" Jack Nicholson (in A Few Good Men) |
| #3746, aired 2000-12-11 | TOM CRUISE FILMS $2,000 (Daily Double): Leonard Maltin said the cliches in this 1990 action drama gave new meaning to the term "Formula One" Days of Thunder |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILMS OF THE '70s $200: Sally Field won a victory for the union & an Oscar for herself, in this 1979 film Norma Rae |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILMS OF THE '70s $400: Set during the Vietnam War, it captured 5 Oscars including one for director Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILMS OF THE '70s $600: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid & Daniel Stern were cycling buddies in this coming-of-age drama Breaking Away |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILMS OF THE '70s $800: (Hi, I'm Melody Thomas Scott from The Young and the Restless. The answer is:) In 1976 I appeared in John Wayne's final film, this Western in which he played a dying gunslinger The Shootist |
| #3745, aired 2000-12-08 | FILMS OF THE '70s $1000: In a 1972 comedy Alan Arkin fancied himself a casanova in “The Last of” these the red hot lovers |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARTSY FILMS $200: He played Van Gogh in the 1956 film "Lust for Life" Kirk Douglas |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARTSY FILMS $400: In 1993's "Backbeat", Stephen Dorff played this bassist who left The Beatles to be a painter Stu Sutcliffe |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARTSY FILMS $800: In a 1996 film, Natascha McElhone's Francoise Gilot tries to survive Anthony Hopkins as this artist Pablo Picasso |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARTSY FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1989 film, Daniel Day-Lewis played Christy Brown, who could only paint with this title appendage My Left Foot |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | ARTSY FILMS $1000: Gene Kelly is an expatriate singing & dancing painter in this Oscar winner An American in Paris |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | 1994 FILMS $100: Quentin Tarantino directed this film & also had a bit role as Jimmy of Toluca Lake Pulp Fiction |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | 1994 FILMS $200: As mad bomber Howard Payne in this film, Dennis Hopper planted a bomb on an L.A. area transit bus Speed |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | 1994 FILMS $300: Jean Vander Pyl, who played Wilma in the original cartoon series, played Mrs. Feldspar in this movie adaptation The Flintstones |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | 1994 FILMS $400: Containing the hit "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", it was Disney's first animated feature not based on an existing story The Lion King |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | 1994 FILMS $800 (Daily Double): In this film Martin Scorsese says the TV audience wants "To watch the money" Quiz Show |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | 4-LETTER FILMS $200: In 1998 Woody Allen went buggy as the voice of Z in this animated film Antz |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | 4-LETTER FILMS $400: This movie featured the theme music heard here Jaws |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | 4-LETTER FILMS $600: Debbie Allen played dance teacher Lydia Grant in this 1980 film; maybe you remember its name Fame |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Kevin Kline played both the U.S. president & a man who looked just like him in this 1993 comedy Dave |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1000: In this 1991 film, Jason Patric & Jennifer Jason Leigh played narcotics officers who become hooked on drugs Rush |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MERYL STREEP FILMS $200: Before hitting "The Beach", he played Meryl Streep's son in 1996's "Marvin's Room" Leonardo DiCaprio |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MERYL STREEP FILMS $400: Streep suspects unsafe working conditions at the Kerr-McGee nuclear plant in this 1983 film bio Silkwood |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MERYL STREEP FILMS $600: Streep won an Oscar for playing this title role seen here: "The time I left I felt that there was nothing terribly wrong with me & that my son would be better off without me" Kramer vs. Kramer |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MERYL STREEP FILMS $800: Streep mastered a Danish accent, but Robert Redford's British accent was vetoed for this 1985 Oscar winner Out Of Africa |
| #3667, aired 2000-07-11 | MERYL STREEP FILMS $1000: What was Meryl Streep thinking, stealing Ed Begley Jr. away from Roseanne in this 1989 comedy? She-Devil |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FILMS OF THE '90s $200: In 1999 Julia Roberts & this pretty man reunited for "Runaway Bride" Richard Gere |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FILMS OF THE '90s $400: Astronaut Jim Lovell had a bit role in this film in which Tom Hanks played Jim Lovell Apollo 13 |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FILMS OF THE '90s $600: Give a "holler" if you know that this 1996 horror flick won an MTV Award for best movie Scream |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FILMS OF THE '90s $800: In a 1999 film John Travolta & Madeleine Stowe tried to solve the murder of this title character The General's Daughter |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FILMS OF THE '90s $1,600 (Daily Double): Writing credits for this film went to Jane Austen & Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $200: 1 of only 4 animals mentioned in the titles of Best Picture winners (1 of) cuckoos, deer, wolves or lambs |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $400: This 1948 film was the first Best Picture winner based on a play by Shakespeare Hamlet |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $600: It's the last Best Picture winner with a nationality in its title American Beauty |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $800: One of the few Best Picture winners whose titles begin with a preposition is this 1967 Rod Steiger film In the Heat of the Night |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | FUN WITH OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $1000: This moving 1941 drama is the only Best Picture with a color in its title How Green Was My Valley |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $100: "Part of Your World" & "Under the Sea" The Little Mermaid |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $200: "Belle" & "Be Our Guest" Beauty and the Beast |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $300: "I'm Late" & "March of the Cards" Alice in Wonderland |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $500 (Daily Double): "The Second Star to the Right" & "A Pirate's Life" Peter Pan |
| #3649, aired 2000-06-15 | SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $500: "Bella Notte" & "The Siamese Cat Song" Lady and the Tramp |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $200: He played the brilliant inventor of screw-top brain surgery in "The Man With Two Brains" Steve Martin |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $400: They don't get much smarter than this scientist played by Walter Matthau in "I.Q." Albert Einstein |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $600: A Greek symbol serves as the title of this 1998 film about an eccentric math whiz Pi |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $800: Adam Hann-Byrd plays the young title intellectual & Jodie Foster his mother in this 1991 film Little Man Tate |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $1000: Val Kilmer & his college friends research interesting uses for lasers in this 1985 comedy Real Genius |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $200: Woody Harrelson hustled basketball games while Rosie Perez won big on "Jeopardy!" in this comedy White Men Can't Jump |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $400: It's the "monster" hit seen here: [video clue] The Creature From The Black Lagoon |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $600: A terrorist group plots to blow up the Super Bowl in this 1977 flick Black Sunday |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $800: Jennifer Jason Leigh played the roommate from hell in this 1992 thriller Single White Female |
| #3626, aired 2000-05-15 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" FILMS $1000: Cops Michael Douglas & Andy Garcia tangle with the Japanese mafia in this 1989 film Black Rain |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | PEOPLE IN SPACE FILMS $200: This star had close encounters in "Men In Black" & "Independence Day" Will Smith |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | PEOPLE IN SPACE FILMS $400: Fictional TV series on which Jason Nesmith played Commander Taggart (& Tim Allen played them both) Galaxy Quest |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | PEOPLE IN SPACE FILMS $600: Douglas Rain, who performed this role in "2001: A Space Odyssey", never visited the set HAL (voice of the computer) |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | PEOPLE IN SPACE FILMS $800: In 1998 this "Party Of Five" member was one of a party of seven "Lost In Space" Lacey Chabert |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | PEOPLE IN SPACE FILMS $1000: In "The Phantom Menace" she played Padme Naberrie Natalie Portman |
| #3608, aired 2000-04-19 | THE BFI'S TOP 100 BRITISH FILMS $200: Peter O'Toole had his first leading role in this film, No. 3 on the list Lawrence of Arabia |
| #3608, aired 2000-04-19 | THE BFI'S TOP 100 BRITISH FILMS $400: 7 David Lean-directed films made the list, including this 1957 P.O.W. movie that won 7 Oscars The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| #3608, aired 2000-04-19 | THE BFI'S TOP 100 BRITISH FILMS $600: No. 1 on the list is this stark film based on a Graham Greene novel about post-WWII Vienna The Third Man |
| #3608, aired 2000-04-19 | THE BFI'S TOP 100 BRITISH FILMS $800: The most recent film to break the Top 10, this 1996 film brazenly portrayed the Edinburgh drug scene Trainspotting |
| #3608, aired 2000-04-19 | THE BFI'S TOP 100 BRITISH FILMS $1000: No. 100 is this Roland Joffe-directed film set in Cambodia & starring Sam Waterston The Killing Fields |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $100: They made their film debut in "Wild on the Beach" in 1965, the same year they recorded "I Got You, Babe" Sonny and Cher |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $200: "Leprechaun" introduced her in 1993, 1 year before she found her real pot of gold as Rachel on "Friends" Jennifer Aniston |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $300: Barbara Hershey's first film role was as Doris Day's stepdaughter in the 1968 comedy "With Six You Get" this Eggroll |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $400: This "Lethal Weapon" lady was a model before "Major League" made her a major league film star Rene Russo |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $500: She debuted as Sister Pia in the 1976 film "A Matter of Time", which starred her mother, Ingrid Bergman Isabella Rossellini |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $200: Martin Milner & DeForest Kelley played James & Morgan Earp in 1957's "Gunfight at" this place The OK Corral |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $400: Hal Holbrook played the head of a sinister group of lawyers in this 1993 film based on a novel The Firm |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $600: John Ritter was acclaimed for his portrayal of a small-town gay man in this 1996 Billy Bob Thornton film Sling Blade |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $800: Minoru Chiaki, the last surviving member of this Kurosawa film septet, passed away in November 1999 Seven Samurai |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | ACTORS & THEIR FILMS $1000: In the 1944 classic "Gaslight", Terry Moore played the teenage Paula & this actress played the gaslit adult Paula Ingrid Bergman |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | BEING JOHN MALKOVICH FILMS $200: John played this doctor & his potion-drinking alter ego in 1996's "Mary Reilly" Dr. Jekyll |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | BEING JOHN MALKOVICH FILMS $400: John Malkovich & Glenn Close play a game of intrigue & seduction in this 1988 costume drama Dangerous Liaisons |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | BEING JOHN MALKOVICH FILMS $800: Clint Eastwood protects the president from would-be assassin John Malkovich in this 1993 thriller In the Line of Fire |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | BEING JOHN MALKOVICH FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): John played Lennie & Gary Sinise was George in a 1992 film adaptation of this Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men |
| #3598, aired 2000-04-05 | BEING JOHN MALKOVICH FILMS $1000: 1999's "Being John Malkovich" has John being John Malkovich & this star being a puppeteer John Cusack |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | RECENT FILMS $200: We love the name of this 1999 Ashley Judd thriller (no need to ask why) Double Jeopardy |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | RECENT FILMS $400: Kevin Spacey & Annette Bening played an awesomely dysfunctional suburban couple in this 1999 drama American Beauty |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | RECENT FILMS $600: This Broadway star plays the voice of Snowbell the Cat in "Stuart Little": Nathan Lane |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | RECENT FILMS $800: Her 1814 novel "Mansfield Park" became a 1999 film featuring playwright Harold Pinter as Fanny's rich uncle Jane Austen |
| #3587, aired 2000-03-21 | RECENT FILMS $1000: Look closely: some of the brides chasing Chris O'Donnell at the end of this film are male extras in drag The Bachelor |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | 1999 FILMS $100: In this film high school teacher Matthew Broderick gets involved with the campaign for student council Election |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | 1999 FILMS $200: A jazz guitarist is the subject of this director's "Sweet and Lowdown" Woody Allen |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | 1999 FILMS $300: What part did this Irishman play in "End of Days"? Could it be...Satan? Gabriel Byrne |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | 1999 FILMS $400: "Music of the Heart" was directed by this man, more known for his nightmares Wes Craven |
| #3558, aired 2000-02-09 | 1999 FILMS $500: Once Mighty Joe Young's girlfriend, she played the wife in "The Astronaut's Wife" Charlize Theron |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | IMAX FILMS $200: In 1996 David Breashears led an IMAX film crew to the top of this Himalayan peak Everest |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | IMAX FILMS $400: An IMAX film shown in Tusayan, Arizona shows "Hidden Secrets" of this nearby national park the Grand Canyon |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | IMAX FILMS $600: Omar Sharif starred in the 1999 IMAX film "The Mysteries of" this country Egypt |
| #3531, aired 2000-01-03 | IMAX FILMS $800: Astronauts became cinematographers for the 1997 film "Mission to" this space station Mir |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | FILMS OF THE '70s $200: This 1972 Woody Allen film included clips & music from "Casablanca", sweetheart Play It Again, Sam |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | FILMS OF THE '70s $400: Suzanne Somers cruised around in a white T-Bird in this 1973 film American Graffiti |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | FILMS OF THE '70s $600: (Hi, I'm Stephen Collins of "7th Heaven") I began my film career playing Hugh Sloan, Richard Nixon's campaign treasurer, in this 1976 classic All The President's Men |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | FILMS OF THE '70s $800: Jane Fonda played playwright Lillian Hellman in this 1977 drama Julia |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | FILMS OF THE '70s $1000: In 1975 John Huston co-starred with Sean Connery in "The Wind and the Lion" & directed him in this film The Man Who Would Be King |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $100: Gene Siskel was such a fan of this film that he once owned Travolta's white disco suit from it Saturday Night Fever |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $200: It's the Travolta film that featured the memorable music heard here: Pulp Fiction |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $300: John played a Miami mobster who wanted to make movies in this 1995 film Get Shorty |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $400: John was a real "knockout" in the movie seen here: Phenomenon |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $500: In "Carrie" & again in "Blow Out", Travolta was directed by this man Brian De Palma |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | FAMILY FILMS $200: Single guy Adam Sandler tries to raise a kid in this 1999 comedy Big Daddy |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | FAMILY FILMS $400: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest & Barbara Hershey are the title characters in this 1986 Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | FAMILY FILMS $800: Rosalind Russell brings up her orphaned nephew in this 1958 classic Auntie Mame |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | FAMILY FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Accused of murder in the Deep South, Ralph Macchio calls lawyer Joe Pesci, this title relative, to defend him My Cousin Vinny |
| #3511, aired 1999-12-06 | FAMILY FILMS $1000: Barbara Bel Geddes reminisces about her Norwegian mother, Irene Dunne, in this 1948 drama I Remember Mama |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FRED ASTAIRE FILMS $200: Astaire was nominated for a Supporting Actor Oscar for this fiery 1974 disaster epic The Towering Inferno |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FRED ASTAIRE FILMS $400: Fred came out of retirement to replace an injured Gene Kelly as Judy Garland's co-star in this holiday musical Easter Parade |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | FRED ASTAIRE FILMS $600: Appropriate title question of this 1937 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film Shall We Dance? |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $200: Before playing Jim on "Taxi", Christopher Lloyd debuted as a mental patient in this 1975 Jack Nicholson film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $400: Her first film was the 1951 drama "Fourteen Hours"; her second was another "timely" movie, "High Noon" Grace Kelly |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $600: Julie Harris was in her mid-20s when she debuted as 12-year-old Frankie in this film based on a Carson McCullers novel Member of the Wedding |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $800: She debuted opposite Jerry Lewis in "The Geisha Boy" in 1958, long before she was Bob Newhart's TV wife Suzanne Pleshette |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $1000: Jeremy Irons' first film role was as choreographer Michael Fokine in the 1980 bio of this great Russian ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | FILMS OF THE '10s $200: This director started filming his adaptation of "The Clansman" in 1914, but soon ran into budget problems D.W. Griffith |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | FILMS OF THE '10s $400: "The Dimpled Darling", Maurice Costello, played Sydney Carton in a 1911 version of this novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | FILMS OF THE '10s $600: In 1917 this queen of the vamps was the Queen of the Nile -- Cleopatra Theda Bara |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | FILMS OF THE '50s $200: This film set in the Bronx featured Angie & Clara as well as the Ernest Borgnine title character Marty |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | FILMS OF THE '50s $400: 1959 title character seen here:
Gee, If I had one of those boards, I could be a surfer too... Gidget |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | FILMS OF THE '50s $600: Frank Sinatra fought a dope addiction in "The Man with" this The Golden Arm |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | FILMS OF THE '50s $800: In it, Marlene Dietrich says Orson Welles "was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?" Touch of Evil |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | FILMS OF THE '50s $1000: Gregory Peck fought corporate America in "The Man in" this title outfit The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: "Not Excused" Unforgiven |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: "Courageous Organ" Braveheart |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $600: "Ancient Vehicles Ablaze" Chariots of Fire |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "Commonplace Populace" Ordinary People |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: "A Ruminant Pursuer" The Deer Hunter |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | KATHARINE HEPBURN FILMS $200: This co-star of "Holiday", seen here, called Kate "A joy to work with" Cary Grant |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | KATHARINE HEPBURN FILMS $400: In "Adam's Rib" Hepburn & this actor are married lawyers on opposite sides of a case Spencer Tracy |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | KATHARINE HEPBURN FILMS $600: In 1936 Hepburn played this doomed Scots queen who was married to a real-life Hepburn ancestor Mary, Queen of Scots |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | KATHARINE HEPBURN FILMS $800: Kate wrote a book on "The Making of" this film in which she & Bogie run the Ulanga River The African Queen |
| #3399, aired 1999-05-20 | KATHARINE HEPBURN FILMS $1000: In 1959 Hepburn did "Suddenly Last Summer"; 9 years later she did this historical film with another season in its title The Lion in Winter |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | DISNEY FILMS BY SONGS $100: "Prince Ali" & "A Whole New World" Aladdin |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | DISNEY FILMS BY SONGS $200: "Spoonful of Sugar" & "Chim-Chim-Cheree" Mary Poppins |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | DISNEY FILMS BY SONGS $300: "Heigh Ho" & "Someday My Prince Will Come" Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | DISNEY FILMS BY SONGS $400: "Baby Mine" & "Pink Elephants on Parade" Dumbo |
| #3379, aired 1999-04-22 | DISNEY FILMS BY SONGS $500: "I Wanna Be Like You" & "The Bare Necessities" The Jungle Book |
| #3368, aired 1999-04-07 | FILMS OF THE '50s $200: John Ford, son of immigrants from this country, directed 1952's "The Quiet Man", which was set there Ireland |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | JEFF GOLDBLUM FILMS $100: Jeff was the voice of caution in this 1993 dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | JEFF GOLDBLUM FILMS $200: Jeff was an L.A. party guest who said that he'd forgotten his mantra in this 1977 Woody Allen classic Annie Hall |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | JEFF GOLDBLUM FILMS $300: Jeff tests himself in a matter transporter machine with not-so-good results in this 1986 horror film The Fly |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | JEFF GOLDBLUM FILMS $400: Jeff was an executive at a shipping network & Eddie Murphy was a televangelist in this 1998 comedy Holy Man |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | JEFF GOLDBLUM FILMS $500: Alien Jeff Goldblum finds love with Valley Girl Geena Davis in this wacky 1989 musical Earth Girls Are Easy |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $100: "PORE" Rope |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $200: "TO ZAP" Topaz |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $300: "ZEN FRY" Frenzy |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $400: "POUND BELLS" Spellbound |
| #3354, aired 1999-03-18 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $500: "BOIL FATE" Lifeboat |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $200: George Kennedy won an Oscar in part for beating the heck out of Paul Newman in this movie Cool Hand Luke |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $400: A brutal murder is solved in this 1967 Oscar winner In the Heat of the Night |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $600 (Daily Double): After "Body Heat" steamed up the screen, Lawrence Kasdan cooled down & directed this movie next The Big Chill |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $600: Judith Anderson played Big Mama Pollitt, the matriarch of a greedy Southern family, in this film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $1000: As Rev. Clayton Brooks, Dick Van Dyke led a townwide effort to quit smoking in this 1971 film Cold Turkey |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | WILLIAM HURT FILMS $200: In this 1986 film William Hurt picked up on all the signs Marlee Matlin was giving him Children Of A Lesser God |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | WILLIAM HURT FILMS $400: It was anchorman Bill in this 1987 James L. Brooks film Broadcast News |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | WILLIAM HURT FILMS $600: Her first film was "Body Heat" with Bill & she was with him again in "The Accidental Tourist" Kathleen Turner |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | WILLIAM HURT FILMS $800: In this 1996 film William Hurt was a reporter winging his way across the country on an angel hunt Michael |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | WILLIAM HURT FILMS $1000: Hurt could have used a cell phone in this 1985 film set in a South American prison Kiss Of The Spider Woman |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 1989 FILMS $200: Production designer Anton Furst won an Oscar for this film's atmospheric Gotham City Batman |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 1989 FILMS $400: The third element in the title of this Andie MacDowell film is captured on Sony equipment sex, lies, and videotape |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 1989 FILMS $600: Before "Titanic", James Cameron took us to the bottom of the ocean in this film The Abyss |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 1989 FILMS $800: This 1989 film was based on an actual event: "Think about me as your priest. You can tell me anything. I'm listening." Casualties Of War |
| #3330, aired 1999-02-12 | 1989 FILMS $1000: This film was the 1989 version of the story told in 1989's "Dangerous Liaisons" Valmont |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | TOM HANKS FILMS $100: Tom went through boot camp-style training for his role as Captain Miller in this WWII epic Saving Private Ryan |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | TOM HANKS FILMS $200: Tom fell head over tail for a mermaid played by Daryl Hannah in this film Splash |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | TOM HANKS FILMS $300: Just the facts...it's the film in which Tom played Dan Aykroyd's police partner Pep Streebek Dragnet |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | TOM HANKS FILMS $400: 1954 Oscar winner seen here with Tom in 1986's "Nothing in Common":
"You have no idea what it was like since you moved away, David." Eva Marie Saint |
| #3316, aired 1999-01-25 | TOM HANKS FILMS $500: Tom inherited a slobbering dog, his only witness in a murder case, in this 1989 film Turner And Hooch |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | TURN OF THE CENTURY FILMS $200: "A Whole New World" of entertainment was seen in this character "And The Wonderful Lamp" Aladdin |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | TURN OF THE CENTURY FILMS $400: This 1888 baseball poem got its first of many big screen treatments in 1899 Casey At The Bat |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | TURN OF THE CENTURY FILMS $600: On August 28, 1899 a film of this president reviewing troops was shot in Pittsburgh; he was shot in 1901 William McKinley |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | TURN OF THE CENTURY FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Ripped from the headlines of 1894 was the 1899 film on this "Affaire" The Dreyfus Affair |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | TURN OF THE CENTURY FILMS $1000: Luc Besson can luc back almost 100 years & see if George Melies' take on this French heroine is like his Joan of Arc |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $200: During the long filming process of this 1952 movie, Orson Welles went through several different Desdemonas Othello |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $400: 1945's patriotic version of "Henry V" was directed by this actor Sir Laurence Olivier |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $600: In a 1995 film starring Ian McKellen, this Shakespearean history is transported to the 1930s Richard III |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $800: This Italian director has filmed "The Taming of the Shrew", "Hamlet" & "Romeo and Juliet" Franco Zeffirelli |
| #3281, aired 1998-12-07 | SHAKESPEARE'S FILMS $1000: This 1985 film was Akira Kurosawa's treatment of "King Lear" Ran |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $200: In this film Debra Winger gets to have a fling with John Lithgow before she dies Terms of Endearment |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $400: Stephen Hopkins, more recently "Lost in Space", directed the fifth installment of this Freddy Krueger series A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $600: In a 1985 spy movie, Timothy Hutton was "The Falcon" & Sean Penn was this cohort the Snowman |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $800: She was a sultry 16 when she starred in the 1981 romance "Endless Love" Brooke Shields |
| #3270, aired 1998-11-20 | FILMS OF THE 1980s $1000: Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" inspired this movie with Harrison Ford as an android hunter Blade Runner |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | FILMS OF THE '40S $200: 20th Century Fox oddly chose the month of June to release this 1947 fable about Kris Kringle Miracle on 34th Street |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | FILMS OF THE '40S $400: He directed Judy Garland in "Meet Me In St. Louis" & married her the next year Vincent Minnelli |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | FILMS OF THE '40S $600: He was the subject of the 1946 biopic seen here:
"You see, tomorrow I leave for Hollywood, according to what they call 'talking pictures', so what's going to happen to me?" Al Jolson |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | FILMS OF THE '40S $800: The title of this Boyer-Bergman film became a verb meaning to make someone doubt his sanity Gaslight |
| #3262, aired 1998-11-10 | FILMS OF THE '40S $1000: Don't look for a mail carrier in this 1946 crime flick--he's only a metaphor The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $100: "Marine" "Marnie" |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $200: "Rig Vote" "Vertigo" |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $300: "Shy Cop" "Psycho" |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $400: "Bed Shirt" "The Birds" |
| #3257, aired 1998-11-03 | ANAGRAMMED HITCHCOCK FILMS $500: "Laid From Red Rum" "Dial M For Murder" |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $100: This film about a flying elephant inspired a ride at Disneyland Dumbo |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $200: Chim-Chim Cheree! This film featuring chimney sweeps swept up 13 Oscar nominations Mary Poppins |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $300: This 1961 film was the first to feature a magical substance called Flubber The Absent-Minded Professor |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $400: Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet Sleeping Beauty |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CLASSIC DISNEY FILMS $500: Among the babes in "Babes in Toyland" are Ann Jillian as Bo Peep & this Mouseketeer as Mary Contrary Annette Funicello |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | ARTSY FILMS $100: Playing an artist in this film earned Greg Kinnear an Oscar nomination As Good as It Gets |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | ARTSY FILMS $200: Tim Roth played the artist Van Gogh & Paul Rhys played his brother in this 1990 film Vincent and Theo |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | ARTSY FILMS $300: In the 1998 film version of this Dickens novel, the hero not only pines for Estella, he sketches her Great Expectations |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | ARTSY FILMS $500: Liv Tyler posed for a sculptor played by Donal McCann in this 1996 Bertolucci film Stealing Beauty |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | ARTSY FILMS $800 (Daily Double): This 1996 film takes its title from Valerie Solanas' confession of attacking a pop artist I Shot Andy Warhol" |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | DAVID LYNCH FILMS $200: Movie in which John Hurt, as John Merrick, declares, "I am not an animal!" "The Elephant Man" |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | DAVID LYNCH FILMS $400: Lynch played an FBI man in his 1992 film prequel to this TV series "Twin Peaks" |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | DAVID LYNCH FILMS $600: The title of this early work comes partly from the hero's exotic pompadour Eraserhead |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | DAVID LYNCH FILMS $800: Isabella Rossellini is The Blue Lady, a nightclub singer, in this 1986 masterpiece "Blue Velvet" |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | DAVID LYNCH FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Alicia Witt.) Pauline Kael said I was "creepy" when I appeared in this film set 9,000 years in the future Dune |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BETTE DAVIS FILMS $200: Wheelchair-bound Joan Crawford squares off with screen sister Bette in this 1962 camp classic "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BETTE DAVIS FILMS $400: 1936's "The Petrified Forest" reteamed Bette with this "Of Human Bondage" co-star Leslie Howard |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BETTE DAVIS FILMS $600: This 1987 film set in Maine featured Lillian Gish as Bette's sister "The Whales of August" |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BETTE DAVIS FILMS $800: 1 of the 2 films in which Bette played Elizabeth I "The Virgin Queen" & "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BETTE DAVIS FILMS $1,100 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jeri Ryan.) In a March 1998 episode of my TV series, I sang "It Can't Be Wrong", a song from this 1942 Bette Davis film Now, Voyager |
| #3226, aired 1998-09-21 | BRIAN DE PALMA FILMS $200: 1976 classic about an unpopular but telekinetic teen girl "Carrie" |
