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Answer: The Sheik

In Biskra, a tribal leader, Sheik Ahmed, desires the unconventional British socialite Lady Diana Mayo, who is about to embark on a month-long journey into the desert. He desires her so much, in fact, that he abducts her and takes her to his luxurious desert tent-dwelling. Sheik Ahmed is played by Rudolph Valentino, while Agnes Ayres plays Lady Diana Mayo.

Lady Diana dislikes being manhandled like this and rejects the sheik's advances. However, after being kidnapped by desert bandits working for a rival sheik, she realises how much she has grown to love Ahmed, who comes to her rescue just in time.

Answer: A Farewell to Arms

Directed by Frank Borzage, the 1932 version of 'A Farewell to Arms' is set in World War 1. American ambulance driver Lt Frederic Henry (Gary Cooper), meets and falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley (Helen Hayes) in a stairwell while sheltering from a bombing raid.

The war keeps them apart, but when Frederic is wounded, he is sent to Milan, where Catherine is stationed. They spend time together and are married by a priest (played by Jack La Rue). Frederic is sent back to the front and Catherine, finding herself pregnant, heads to Switzerland to have the baby. Henry arrives just in time to find that the baby has been stillborn, and to hold Catherine in his arms as she dies.

Answer: The Grapes of Wrath

In John Ford's 1940 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, the Joad family are poor Oklahoma sharecroppers who head to California for a better life. Henry Fonda, who plays Tom Joad, inadvertently kills a guard while attending a secret meeting in the woods.

The prospects in California are no better than the place they had left and Tom decides to fight for workers' rights. He is forced to move on because he is being sought by the authorities, but the family, though split up, are determined to survive.

Answer: The Major and the Minor

Ginger Rogers plays Susan Applegate, who disguises herself as a twelve-year-old girl named Su-Su in order to buy a cheaper ticket home to her family. She meets Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland) who believes she is a young girl in need of protection.

Due to the machinations of Susan and Major Kirby's sister Lucy, (played by Diana Lynn), Major Kirby is put on active duty, which is his what he has wanted to do for some time. Pamela Hill (Rita Johnson), is Kirby's financee and she ditches him, as in her opinion, the front line is no place for someone about to get married. Kirby seeks out Susan and, discovering she is actually a grown woman, they kiss.

Answer: Double Indemnity

The film stars Fred MacMurray as insurance salesman Walter Neff, Phyllis Dietrichson (played by Barbara Stanwyck) with whom he is having an affair, and Edward G. Robinson, who plays claims manager Barton Keyes. Neff plots with Dietrichson to kill her husband in order to claim a life insurance payment without arousing the suspicion of his long-time colleague Barton Keyes.

However, Neff comes to believe he has been used as a pawn by Dietrichson and confronts her. They shoot each other, earning the film its tagline 'It's love and murder at first sight!'.

Answer: Sunset Boulevard

Not quite willing to accept that her days of stardom are over, Norma Desmond (played by Gloria Swanson), an ageing star of silent-films, hires a young screenwriter, Joe Gillis (William Holden), to set up her return to the spotlight. After rewriting the script several times, (and while Joe is secretly working on another script with the studio, along with flings Joe has with both Norma and Betty), Joe informs Norma that comeback will not be possible and that her butler, Max (Erich von Stroheim), writes all of the fan mail she receives. Threatening to shoot herself, Norma instead turns the gun on a retreating Joe, who is killed.

Answer: The Ten Commandments

This epic is a relling of the Biblical account of the life of Moses (Charlton Heston). It starts with the discovery of the baby Moses in a basket floating down the Nile. Moses becomes the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves after petitioning Pharaoh Rameses I to free the Hebrews (who only accedes after a series of miraculous signs) and leads them out of Egypt and through the Red Sea. They travel to Mount Sinai, where Moses receives the Ten Commandments.

After Aaron constructs a golden calf idol to worship instead of the true God, Moses loses his temper and smashes the tablets on which the Ten Commandments are written. He returns up the mountain and is instructed by God to carve another set of tablets on which God one again inscribes the Ten Commandments; but due to their worship of the idols, the Israelites are forced to wander in the desert for forty years before being allowed into the Promised Land.

The film ends with Moses leading the Hebrews towards Canaan; he names Joshua as their leader, but remains himself at Mount Nebo.

The enormous cast includes many notables of the day including Yul Brunner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Cedric Hardwicke, John Carradine, and Vincent Price, among many others.

Answer: Vertigo

One of Hitchcock's classics, "Vertigo" stars Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton and Jimmy Stewart (as John 'Scottie' Ferguson). Scottie discovers he has acrophobia and plans to leave the police force. He is offered a job trailing a friend's wife (Madeleine Elster) who is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of her great-grandmother, Carlotta Valdes. Madeleine goes to the top of a tower and falls to her death.

Kim Novak also plays Judy Barton, the woman who impersonates Madeleine in the first part of the film. It is Barton, disguised as Madeleine, with whom Scottie falls in love. Barton writes to Scottie to tell him she was hired by Elster, who knew that Scottie would be unable to prevent Madeleine's death, due to his phobia. Barton tears up the letter, and leaves town. He later confronts her with the truth and she falls to her death, to Scottie's horror.

Answer: Psycho

One of the most feted movies of all time stars Janet Leigh, who plays secretary Marion Crane, and Anthony Perkins, the proprietor of Bates Motel, Norman Bates.

Crane has stolen $40,000 from her employer, intending to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin). She stops for the night at the rundown Bates Motel where she meets the polite but highly-strung Norman Bates. While Marion is taking a shower, an elderly woman (Virginia Gregg, who voices Bates' mother) enters the bathroom, tears back the shower curtain, and proceeds to stab her repeatedly with a large kitchen knife until Marion is dead. It is later revealed that Bates has a split personality, and he finally assumes his mother's personality entirely.

Answer: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Directed by Blake Edwards, and based on a novella written by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's stars Audrey Hepburn (Holly Golightly), George Peppard (Paul Varjak), Patricia Neal (Emily Failenson), Buddy Ebsen (Doc Golightly), and Mickey Rooney, who plays the building's landlord, Mr. Yunioshi.

Holly Golightly is country girl who transforms into an eccentric but naive socialite when she moves to New York. She befriends her new neighbour, Paul, whose older lover is Emily Failenson, whom he refers to as 2E. The two form a friendship and look after each other, even spending a day together doing things they have never done before. Paul defends Holly against her ex-husband, Doc. After a series of tumultuous events, Tiffany declares she is leaving for Brazil, but Paul declares he loves her and they embrace.