The Movie Quiz 2013

[Alain Maréchal]

Leslie Howard?

No. Clue: thinking about your Charles Laughton suggestion, I realise there is a connection, but HE isn't it.

[clive heath]

I don't have any answers but I do have a question to which I think I know the answer:

In which film is the First movement of Mozart Piano Sonata (D major) played on a Grand Piano in a farmyard?

[amateur51]

No. Clue: thinking about your Charles Laughton suggestion, I realise there is a connection, but HE isn't it.

Elsa Lanchester?

[Alain Maréchal]

Elsa Lanchester?

That's getting close. Think about her film appearances.

[amateur51]

That's getting close. Think about her film appearances.

Bride of Frankenstein? Murder by Death? Witness for the Prosecution?

[Alain Maréchal]

Bride of Frankenstein? Murder by Death? Witness for the Prosecution?

The Bride of Frankenstein gets you very close to the answer.

[amateur51]

The Bride of Frankenstein gets you very close to the answer.

Cheers Alain Maréchal - I just tryped the first three I could think of. Elsa Lanchester gave a remarkably flirtatious (ok drunk) television interview with Dick Cavett, I recall.

Franz Waxman wrote the music for BoF

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Could I make a plea for Coleslaw? What has any of this to do with Elliot Carpenter?

[Nick Armstrong]

Could I make a plea for Coleslaw? What has any of this to do with Elliot Carpenter?

Good to feel I'm not alone, ferns, ta

[Alain Maréchal]

Cheers Alain Maréchal - I just tryped the first three I could think of. Elsa Lanchester gave a remarkably flirtatious (ok drunk) television interview with Dick Cavett, I recall.

Franz Waxman wrote the music for BoF

a digression:

a few years ago BoF was showing in Paris up near the Rue Gay-Lussac. (the cinema was once prestigious among the Montparnasse/Cahiers des Cinema set but the name momentarily escapes me). We settled in early, and were a little surprised at the lateness of the audience, even on a Wednesday evening in august. Gripped by the film, it was only when the lights went up we realised that we had watched in splendid isolation - the cinema was otherwise deserted. The young and enthusiastic manager was charming, and I should have asked if he would have run the film had we not been there. I suspect he would have - its probably a condition of a generous subsidy.

FW's music, especially in the scenes leading up to the electrification of the Bride, was a masterpiece of tension generation.

Back to the quiz: nobody has the answer yet. You've got as far as BoF, and you're on the brink...

[amateur51]

Could I make a plea for Coleslaw? What has any of this to do with Elliot Carpenter?

Pay no attention Alain Maréchal - ferney & Cali are refugees from Alphabet Associations thread which is currently in the grip of multilingual puzzle setters

[clive heath]

How about Boris Karloff? Rake's Progress and BoF?

[Alain Maréchal]

How about Boris Karloff? Rake's Progress and BoF?

No. I don't think Karloff was in The Rake's Progress.
further clue: the Hogarthian end of the trail is A Rake's Progress, you just need to think about it a little more.

[clive heath]

OK, but
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bedlam (1946) is a film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee, and was the last in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures. The film was inspired by William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, and Hogarth was given a writing credit.

Maybe not what you wanted but it is a connection!

[Alain Maréchal]

Well done for finding that although it's a film I don't know and isn't the connection I was thinking of (plus the rules state no googling). So if you can think how Lord Byron comes into your connection you may be closer to the answer I was looking for.