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The Films Of Orson Welles

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The Films Of Orson Welles game quiz
"Here are some questions about one of the greatest men associated with the making of classic movies."

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1. What film marked Orson Welles' debut as film actor, director, producer, and screenplay writer?
    Citizen Kane
    Jane Eyre
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    The Stranger


2. In 1948, Orson Welles directed, produced, wrote the screenplay for, and played the lead role in what Shakespearean movie?
    King Lear
    Hamlet
    Julius Caesar
    Macbeth


3. In what 1946 film does Orson Welles play Franz Kindler, a Nazi war criminal hiding out as a professor with a clock obsession in a Connecticut college town?
    Compulsion
    Journey Into Fear
    The Third Man
    The Stranger


4. In what 1948 classic does Orson Welles play an Irish sailor framed for murder by his then wife Rita Hayworth?
    Touch Of Evil
    The Black Rose
    The Lady From Shanghai
    Black Magic


5. In what film does Orson Welles play Jonathan Wilk, based on Clarence Darrow, attorney for murderers Stiener and Straus, taken from the notorious 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case?
    Compulsion
    Necromancy
    The Trial
    Crack In The Mirror


6. To what does the word 'Rosebud' refer in Citizen Kane?
    A friend's pet Kane killed as a child
    Kane's teenage love
    Kane's childhood sled
    A snowglobe given to Kane by his mother


7. In what 1950 film does Orson Welles play the enigmatic Harry Lime, whose attempt to fake his own death is foiled by Joseph Cotton in the streets of postwar Vienna?
    Deul In The Sun
    The Third Man
    Trent's Last Case
    The Lady From Shaghai


8. Which movie did Orson Welles not lend his voice to as narrator?
    History Of The World, Part 1
    Moby Dick
    King Of Kings
    Bugs Bunny Superstar


9. In which 1957 movie does Orson Welles play a powerful rancher, his only western role, whose property was called Xanadu, the same name as the estate of Charles Foster Kane?
    Man In The Shadow
    The Black Rose
    Trouble In The Glen
    The Long, Hot Summer


10. Orson Welles directed, wrote the screenplay, and co-starred in what 1958 bizarre thriller that starred Charlton Heston as a Mexican narcotics agent and Janet Leigh as his wife?
    Casino Royale
    Three Cases Of Murder
    Journey Into Fear
    Touch Of Evil


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