Gene Wilder Movies - Quirky Clues Ahead Quiz

Answer: Young Frankenstein

Gene Wilder starred as the titular character in "Young Frankenstein", the 1974 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Wilder played Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who investigates his ancestor's experiments to create life from the dead.

His assistant Igor procures an abnormal brain, sheepishly telling Frederick that the brain is from "Abby Normal." Frederick and his monster dance and sing to "Puttin' on the Ritz". When Inspector Kemp (Kenneth Mars) comes to investigate rumors of the monster, he and Frederick play an amusing game of darts with "nice grouping!"

Answer: Rhinoceros

"Rhinoceros" is a 1974 comedy film starring Gene Wilder as Stanley. Stanley, a typical mild-mannered sales clerk, watches in horror as those around him (including his friends John and Daisy) change into rhinoceroses. The film is based on the play "Rhinocerous" by Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco.

Answer: Blazing Saddles

Gene Wilder plays Jim the Waco Kid (a recovering-alcoholic gunslinger) in the 1974 film "Blazing Saddles", a satire of the Old West directed by Mel Brooks. Jim helps Sheriff Bart, the new sheriff of Rock Ridge. One of the classic comedic scenes involves the effect eating beans has on some fellas and horses around a campfire.

Answer: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)

"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)" is a 1972 comedy film directed by Woody Allen. The movies consists of seven vignettes loosely derived from the 1969 book of the same name by Dr. David Reuben. In the vignette entitled "What Is Sodomy?" Gene Wilder plays Dr. Ross who let's just say falls in love with a patient's pet sheep.

Answer: Silver Streak

"Silver Streak" is a 1976 comedy-thriller film about a murder on the titular train. Wilder stars as book editor George Caldwell who, while on the train, believes he believes he witnessed the dead body of Professor Schreiner, who is on a publicity tour for his book on "The Rembrandt Letters". George spends most of the film trying to convince others that the professor has been murdered and repeatedly getting thrown off and reboarding the train. "Silver Streak" was the first of Wilder's four films with Richard Pryor.

Answer: The Producers

"The Producers" is a 1968 satire film written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom. Max is a once-famous Broadway producer who has fallen to wearing a cardboard belt. Neurotic accountant Leo needs his little blue blanket when times get rough.

The duo scams to get rich by with their guaranteed Broadway flop titled "Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden". A very groovy Lorenzo St. DuBois (Dick Shawn), also known as L.S.D., is cast to star as Hitler in the production.

Answer: Haunted Honeymoon

"Haunted Honeymoon" is a 1986 horror comedy film written and directed by Gene Wilder. Wilder also starred as Larry Abbot. Abbott and Vickie Pearle (played by Wilder's wife Gilda Radner) are performers on the "Manhattan Mystery Theater" radio show. The couple decides to get married in Abbott's childhood home (the creepy mansion known as Abbott Estates) where Abbott can be scared to death as a form of shock therapy to cure his on-air panic attacks.

Answer: Bonnie and Clyde

The 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde" was Gene Wilder's first feature film. Wilder played Eugene Grizzard, a hostage of the infamous crime couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The couple is ambushed and killed by police while helping fix a flat tire.

Answer: The Woman in Red

"The Woman in Red" is a 1984 American romantic comedy film written and directed by and starring Gene Wilder as Teddy Pierce. Teddy falls in love with a Charlotte, a beautiful woman dressed in a red dress blowing over a subway grate. While Teddy is in Charlotte's apartment, her husband comes home unexpectedly. Teddy escapes out a window and jumps off the ledge, only to spot yet another beautiful woman while falling.

The film won a Best Original Song Academy Award for "I Just Called to Say I Love You" theme song by Stevie Wonder.

Answer: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Gene Wilder starred as the titular candy factory owner in the 1971 film "Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory". Charlie Bucket is one of the five children who find a Golden Ticket hidden in a Wonka Bar and gets a Wonka-led tour of the factory. Charlie is also joined by Veruca Salt and Violet Beauregarde (who turns into a blueberry). The "candy man" can!