QUIZ: Can You Identify These 1960s Movies From Just One Shot?
The 1960s was a highly impactful decade for the movie industry. Not only did it give rise to some of the most renowned actors in recent memory, but provided us with timeless films such as Mary Poppins, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Great Escape, and more.
Were the 1960s your favorite decade for films? If so, read on to take this quiz and test your ’60s movie knowledge!
Which Hitchcock film is this?
A) Psycho
B) The Birds
C) Rear Window
D) Halloween
A) Psycho
Widely considered to be Alfred Hitchcock’s best work, Psycho is a psychological horror film based on Joseph Stefano’s 1959 novel of the same name. Today, it is hailed as one of the greatest films of all time.
Which beloved musical is this?
A) Oliver!
B) The Producers
C) Mary Poppins
D) The Sound of Music
D) The Sound Of Music
The Sound of Music is a 1965 musical drama based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp. It is about a young Austrian woman who becomes the governess to a naval officer’s seven children during World War II.
What is this film?
A) Bonnie and Clyde
B) Paint Your Wagon
C) Lolita
D) Harold and Maude
A) Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde is a biographical crime film that follows the escapades of the notorious criminal couple Bonnie and Clyde.
Today, it is considered to be one of the first films of the New Hollywood era.
What is this movie?
A) Dr. No
B) Rain Man
C) The Graduate
D) The Endless Summer
C) The Graduate
Released in 1967, The Graduate stars Dustin Hoffmann as a recent college graduate who begins an affair with an older woman, only to fall in love with her daughter.
Which film has the line “Hey, I’m walkin’ here!”?
A) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
B) In the Heat of the Night
C) The Odd Couple
D) Midnight Cowboy
D) Midnight Cowboy
Based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy stars Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two unlikely friends trying to survive in New York.
Which Western film is this?
A) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
B) My Name is Nobody
C) Beyond the Law
D) Once Upon a Time in the West
A) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Directed by Sergio Leone, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the third and final installment of the Dollars trilogy, which also includes A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More.
Which Frank Sinatra film is this?
A) Cape Fear
B) The Hustler
C) The Manchurian Candidate
D) True Grit
C) The Manchurian Candidate
Released in 1962, The Manchurian Candidate is a neo-noir psychological thriller about Cold War sleeper agents. It stars Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury. It went on to be nominated for two Academy Awards.
What is this movie?
A) In Cold Blood
B) The Lion In Winter
C) Viva Las Vegas
D) The Misfits
A) In Cold Blood
Based on Truman Capote’s 1966 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of two men who killed their family in Holcomb, Kansas. It was shot on-site where the crime occurred.
What is this war movie?
A) The Longest Day
B) Zulu
C) Cast A Giant Shadow
D) The Dirty Dozen
B) Zulu
Released in 1964, Zulu tells of the historical event in which 150 British soldiers managed to fight off a force of 4,000 Zulu warriors in January of 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu war.
Which film starring Kirk Douglas is this?
A) Gladiators
B) Pirates of Malaysia
C) Spartacus
D) Dragon Inn
C) Spartacus
Released in 1960 and directed by Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus tells the life story of Spartacus, who led a slave revolt during the Third Servile War. The film ended up winning four Academy Awards.
This movie was about POWs. Which is it?
A) The Great Escape
B) Escape From Alcatraz
C) The Dirty Dozen
D) Magnificent Seven
A) The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a 1963 war film based on the non-fiction book of the same name. It is about a group of British Commonwealth prisoners of war who escaped German captivity during World War II.
Which movie is this?
A) Wild Angels
B) Marathon Man
C) My Own Private Idaho
D) Easy Rider
D) Easy Rider
Easy Rider tells the story of two bikers traveling throughout the Southwest and South of the United States while in the middle of a narcotics deal. The film is considered to be the perfect example of the New Hollywood era.
This movie stars Peter O’Toole. Which is it?
A) The Ten Commandments
B) Lawrence of Arabia
C) A Man For All Seasons
D) Cleopatra
B) Lawrence Of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia is a historical drama based on the life of T.E. Lawrence. Upon its release, the film was nominated for ten Academy Awards. It took home seven, including Best Picture.
This movie was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
A) A Clockwork Orange
B) Dr. Strangelove
C) The Shining
D) 2001: A Space Odyssey
D) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s 1951 short story “Sentinel,” 2001: A Space Odyssey follows a spaceship’s trip to Jupiter with the computer HAL after the discovery of something that’s influencing human evolution.
What is this movie?
A) The Apartment
B) Sabrina
C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
D) Breakfast At Tiffany’s
A) The Apartment
Directed and produced by Billy Wilder, The Apartment is a romantic comedy-drama about a business clerk who allows his superiors to use his apartment in order to cheat on their spouses.
What is this horror film?
A) Rosemary’s Baby
B) Carrie
C) Halloween
D) The Exorcist
A) Rosemary’s Baby
Rosemary’s Baby is a 1968 film about a pregnant woman in Manhattan who is convinced her neighbors plan to use her baby for satanic rituals. Today, it is considered to be one of the greatest art-horror films.
What is this movie starring Gregory Peck?
A) Sunset Boulevard
B) Citizen Kane
C) Planet of the Apes
D) To Kill A Mockingbird
D) To Kill A Mockingbird
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird stars Gregory Peck and Mary Badham. The film won three Academy Awards although was nominated for eight.
What is this film?
A) Die Monster Die!
B) Plane of the Vampires
C) Night of the Living Dead
D) The Haunting
C) Night Of The Living Dead
Earning more than 250 times its budget, Night of the Living Dead is one of the most profitable movies ever made. It’s about seven people trapped in a farmhouse by cannibalistic zombies.
This film starring Charlton Heston has one of the most famous twist-endings in movie history.
A) Soylent Green
B) Planet Of The Apes
C) Psycho
D) The Apartment
B) Planet Of The Apes
Written by Rod Serling and Michael Wilson, Planet of the Apes stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, Linda Harrison, Maurice Evans, and James Daly. The 1968 movie follows a crew of astronauts that crash-lands on a foreign planet in the distant future. Of course, most of us know what the planet turned out to be in the end.
This movie is about the game of pool.
A) The Hustler
B) The Cheat
C) Scratch
D) Break Em’
A) The Hustler
Starring Paul Newman, The Hustler follows a small-time pool hustler who wants to get into high-stakes pool, and all of the drama that follows it. The film had a sequel called The Color of Money, in which Newman reprises his role.
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