My Favorite Movies of 1977 Trivia Quiz

Answer: A Bridge Too Far

This ambitious war movie with an international cast tells the story of Operation Market-Garden, an attempt by the Western Allies to bypass the German Siegfried Line defenses by seizing bridges in the Netherlands with airborne troops and using this corridor as a way into Germany. The attack failed.

Answer: Telefon

Some twenty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, a KGB agent begins activating "sleeper" agents and sending them to sabotage targets that are now out-of-date. The KGB sends another agent, played by Charles Bronson, to stop them.

Answer: The Choirboys

The men and women of the Wiltshire division of the LAPD spend their off-duty time drinking, carousing, and pulling pranks on one another in this film based on the 1975 Joseph Wambaugh novel. Their behavior gets out of hand, however, leading to trouble with their straight-laced captain.

Answer: Jabberwocky

Michael Palin stars as an out of work cooper who is chosen to fight a monster called the Jabberwock, a dragon-like creature that has been terrorizing the kingdom. Palin is chosen to keep the kingdom from losing too many knights in the quest to slay the beast.

Answer: Cross of Iron

A German company on the Russian Front in 1943, in retreat and depleted from combat, gets a new captain who is determined to win the Iron Cross medal. He doesn't care about his men, lies about an engagement that costs many lives, and clashes with a veteran sergeant disgusted by the captain's conduct.

Answer: Wizards

In Ralph Bakshi's "Wizards", two brother wizards, one representing magic and nature and the other technology, fight a war for control of a war-torn Earth some two million years in the future. The planet is now populated by mutants, elves, and fairies, who choose sides in the conflict.

Answer: Fun with Dick and Jane

After California aerospace engineer Dick loses his job, he and wife Jane decide to try armed robbery to pay their huge debts. Being new to crime, the couple have a few misadventures until they hatch a scheme to rob Dick's old boss of some ill-gotten funds. The film stars George Segal and Jane Fonda.

Answer: Which Way is Up?

Richard Pryor plays three roles in this film, a fired factory worker, his mean father, and a crooked preacher. The factory worker tries to balance his wife, who is sleeping with the preacher, his girlfriend, and the taunts from his father who doesn't believe his son will ever amount to anything.

Answer: High Anxiety

Mel Brooks parodies Alfred Hitchcock films in this comedy, where a new doctor (Brooks) takes over an institution where the staff exaggerates the symptoms of rich mental patients to bilk the families out of thousands of dollars. The film also stars Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, and Cloris Leachman.

Answer: Twilight's Last Gleaming

Burt Lancaster stars as a U.S. Air Force general, recently escaped from a military prison, who, with several accomplices, seizes control of a missile base. He demands that the government reveal the contents of a secret document about the Vietnam War, or he will start World War III.

Answer: The Kentucky Fried Movie

Directed by John Landis, "The Kentucky Fried Movie" parodies movies, TV news, commercials, and other broadcast media. The main segment is a take-off on kung fu movies. The humor is raunchy and disgusting and the filmmakers meant it to be that way.

Answer: Slap Shot

Paul Newman plays an aging player/coach for a minor league hockey team in an Eastern U.S. mill town that the owner is going to disband at the end of the season. Newman gets the team to play rough and "goon it up" in order to sell tickets, lying to his teammates that he club may be sold.

Answer: Oh, God!

George Burns stars as God, who is sad that people aren't listening to him any more. He contacts grocery store manager Jerry Landers (John Denver) to spread his message. Landers soon is the object of ridicule and legal trouble, as he tries to convince people that God does exist.

Answer: Semi-Tough

Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson play members of an American football team who are roommates with their team owner's daughter. When Shake (Kristofferson) takes a self-awareness course, it alienates Barbara (Jill Clayburgh). Both of his housemates try the course, but are unable understand what it did for him.

This leads to feelings developing between Billy Clyde (Reynolds) and Barbara.

Answer: Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Patrick Wayne plays Sinbad the Sailor in this story of an Arab prince who has been turned into a baboon-like creature by a witch, who is trying to supplant him for her own son. Sinbad takes the prince and his sister (Jane Seymour) to find the sorcerer who can reverse the spell and allow the prince to assume his position.