Today's Quiz - Great Escapes and Tin Men

One of the actors in John Sturges' World War II thriller, The Great Escape, really was a prisoner in a German POW camp. Who was he?

Richard Attenborough
Donald Pleasence
James Donald

Folksinger Hoyt Axton, affable star of Gremlins, had one of his songs covered by what rock band in 1968?

Jefferson Airplane
Steppenwolf
The Turtles

This film holds the Guinness World Record for longest continuous movie shoot.

Cleopatra
Eyes Wide Shut
Ben-Hur

Jack Haley replaced this actor as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.

Buddy Ebsen
Sterling Holloway
Dick Powell

The sound of a banjo is heard on the soundtrack for Phil Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Who plays that banjo?

John Hartford
Jerry Garcia
Earl Scruggs

Donald O'Conner played the human sidekick to Francis the Talking Mule in all of the 'Francis' films but quit before the seventh and final one, complaining, "When you've made six pictures and the mule still gets more fan mail than you do...." Who replaced O'Connor for Francis' final movie?

Mickey Rooney
Alan Young
Buddy Hackett

Though he was one of the stars, an actor in this Walt Disney film wasn't given screen credit.

The Gnome-Mobile
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Mary Poppins

What actor received all his Academy Award nominations for playing real-life people?

Gary Cooper
Jason Robards
Henry Fonda

The Loved One, a black comedy directed by Tony Richardson and starring Robert Morse and Jonathan Winters, satirized what subject?

Plastic Surgeons
The Funeral Industry
The Wedding Industry

From the TFH Vault...

This Hammer horror film was written for Cary Grant who expressed interest in starring in one of the studio's movies. Grant eventually declined and the film went forward with a different actor.

The Phantom of the Opera
Rasputin the Mad Monk
Shadow of the Cat