Popeye, The Dude and Indiana Jones

A story featuring this cartoon character inspired the runaway boulder sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Scrooge McDuck
Jonny Quest
G.I. Joe

Shakespeare’s The Tempest provided the template for this 50’s sci-fi classic.

Forbidden Planet
This Island Earth
The Angry Red Planet

Her Best Actress Academy Award nomination for this movie was the first ever for an actress in an action role.

Sigourney Weaver - Aliens
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Angelina Jolie - Original Sin

He played a psychology student in the 80’s slasher He Knows You’re Alone before gaining fame as a fellow embroiled in a fishy relationship.

Tom Hanks
Tom Cruise
Tom Berenger

A picture of which president brandishing a bowling ball hangs on The Dude's living room wall in The Big Lebowski?

Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower

The real first name of "Popeye" Doyle, the cop played by Gene Hackman in The French Connection.

Arthur
James
Edward

"Santa’s Souped Up Sleigh" brightened the soundtrack of this real-life story about an old curmudgeon's unorthodox friendship with a good-natured young dreamer.

Withnail and I
Melvin and Howard
Christmas in July

"The Detective", a novel by Roderick Thorpe, became a starring vehicle for Frank Sinatra in 1968. That novel’s sequel, "Nothing Lasts Forever", was turned into what movie with which star?

The Laughing Policeman with Walter Matthau
Night Moves with Gene Hackman
Die Hard with Bruce Willis

He played a brutal Sergeant in this classic war film set at Pearl Harbor before upping his rank as a good-hearted Lieutenant Commander in this 60’s sit-com.

Ernest Borgnine
Henry Fonda
Cliff Robertson

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Orson Welles repeated this movie role for a radio series that turned his villainous character into a quasi-hero.

Hank Quinlin
Mr. Arkadin
Harry Lime