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Quiz about Hitchcock Film Titles in French

Hitchcock Film Titles in French Quiz

Movie and book titles in English often take on a different meaning when translated in another language. I've seen most of Alfred Hitchcock's movies in French. Can you match some of them with their original English titles?

A multiple-choice quiz by ngpas. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
ngpas

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
265,954

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which one of these titles is "La Main au Collet" (1955), starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly? Hint

To Catch a Thief

Notorious

Shadow of a Doubt

The 39 Steps

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the original title of "Fenetre Sur Cour" (1954), with James Stewart, Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr? Hint

Spellbound

Rear Window

The Wrong Man

Frenzy

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which one of these is "La Mort aux Trousses" (1959), starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason? Hint

Foreign Correspondent

Sabotage

North by Northwest

Suspicion

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which movie is titled "Sueurs Froides" (1958), starring James Stewart and Kim Novak? Hint

Vertigo

Rebecca

Torn Curtain

Mr, and Mrs. Smith

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which movie is "Les Amants du Capricorne" (1949) with Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Michael Wilding? Hint

Under Capricorn

The Trouble with Harry

Secret Agent

The Farmer's Wife

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is the original title of "Pas de Printemps Pour Marnie" (1964), starring Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren? Hint

The Birds

Psycho

Marnie

The Lady Vanishes

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which title is "Les Enchaines" (1946), starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains? Hint

Notorious

I Confess

Rich and Strange

Family Plot

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Question 8 of 10

8. What is the original title of "La Maison du Docteur Edwardes" (1945), with Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck? Hint

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Spellbound

The Paradine Case

Stage Fright

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which title is "L'Inconnu du Nord-Express" (1951), with Farley Granger, Robert Walker and Ruth Roman? Hint

Topaz

Saboteur

Strangers on a Train

Rich and Strange

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Question 10 of 10

10. What is the English title to "Le Crime Etait Presque Parfait" (1954), with Ray Milland, Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings? Hint

Dial M for Murder

Murder!

Lifeboat

The Manxman

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which one of these titles is "La Main au Collet" (1955), starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly?

Answer: To Catch a Thief

The literal translation is "hand to the collar", meaning to seize or stop someone by force. In this movie, Cary Grant is a retired cat burglar out to prove his innocence in a series of jewel thefts.

2. What is the original title of "Fenetre Sur Cour" (1954), with James Stewart, Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr?

Answer: Rear Window

"Window to the courtyard" would be the translation here. A wheelchair-bound Jefferies (James Stewart) spends his days watching his neighbors across from his apartment. He soon realizes that one of them may have murdered his wife.

3. Which one of these is "La Mort aux Trousses" (1959), starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason?

Answer: North by Northwest

The title means "death in pursuit". Here, Cary Grant's Roger O. Thornhill is implicated in a tale of espionage and murder following a case of mistaken identity.

4. Which movie is titled "Sueurs Froides" (1958), starring James Stewart and Kim Novak?

Answer: Vertigo

The French title means "cold sweat". Stewart's acrophobic detective, John Ferguson, is hired to tail Kim Novak's character, who jumps to her death (or does she?).

5. Which movie is "Les Amants du Capricorne" (1949) with Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Michael Wilding?

Answer: Under Capricorn

The title translates into "the lovers under the Capricorn". In this film, Michael Wilding's Charles Adare is determined to unveil the secrets lurking in the Flusky's (Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman) household.

6. What is the original title of "Pas de Printemps Pour Marnie" (1964), starring Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren?

Answer: Marnie

The title means "no spring (the season) for Marnie". Tippi Hedren plays a psychologically troubled young woman; Sean Connery is her employer who marries her to find out what has traumatized her.

7. Which title is "Les Enchaines" (1946), starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains?

Answer: Notorious

"The enchained" would be the literal translation, meaning bound or tied. In this case, it could imply the characters' ties to their (notorious) past.
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman are American agents who team up to expose Nazi Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains).

8. What is the original title of "La Maison du Docteur Edwardes" (1945), with Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck?

Answer: Spellbound

It means "the house of Doctor Edwardes". Gregory Peck is an amnesiac posing as Dr. Edwardes but is in fact the man accused of killing the real doctor; Ingrid Bergman is the fellow psychiatrist who helps him regain his memory and claim his innocence.

9. Which title is "L'Inconnu du Nord-Express" (1951), with Farley Granger, Robert Walker and Ruth Roman?

Answer: Strangers on a Train

"The stranger on the North-Express" is the translation here. Two complete strangers (Granger and Walker) meet on a train and talk of "exchanging" murders. After they part, one man kills the other's wife and pressures him into keeping his end of the bargain which is to kill his father.

10. What is the English title to "Le Crime Etait Presque Parfait" (1954), with Ray Milland, Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings?

Answer: Dial M for Murder

The title translates into "the crime was almost perfect". Ray Milland plays a man plotting to have his wealthy and cheating wife murdered.

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