Popeye, The Dude and Indiana Jones

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

Jonny Quest
Scrooge McDuck
G.I. Joe

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

This Island Earth
Forbidden Planet
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 Cruise
Tom Hanks
Tom Berenger

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

Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Harry Truman

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

James
Edward
Arthur

"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?

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

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.

Henry Fonda
Cliff Robertson
Ernest Borgnine

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

Mr. Arkadin
Hank Quinlin
Harry Lime