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The Films Of Orson Welles

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Introduction:
"Here are some questions about one of the greatest men associated with the making of classic movies."


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


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


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?
    Journey Into Fear
    Compulsion
    The Stranger
    The Third Man


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


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?
    Kane's teenage love
    Kane's childhood sled
    A snowglobe given to Kane by his mother
    A friend's pet Kane killed as a child


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 Lady From Shaghai
    Trent's Last Case
    The Third Man


8. Which movie did Orson Welles not lend his voice to as narrator?
    Moby Dick
    King Of Kings
    History Of The World, Part 1
    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?
    Trouble In The Glen
    Man In The Shadow
    The Black Rose
    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
    Touch Of Evil
    Journey Into Fear
    Three Cases Of Murder


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