Y’all know your political movies!
1. A prop campaign button from this film is on display at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History in Washington. It is on display with several authentic campaign buttons.
The Candidate
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).
2. “Nice thing about you, Joe, is that you can sound like a liberal, but at heart you’re an American.”
The Best Man
Solved by Melville (comment #10) and Barbs (comment #11).
3. “There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off.”
The Manchurian Candidate (original)
Solved by Hazel (comment #7).
4. Because the Boy Scouts of America objected to the politics of this film, the fictitious “Boy Rangers” were used.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).
5. This film about the rise and fall of a South American political figure features a scene in which a group of soldiers shower with their underwear on.
Evita
Solved by Melville (comment #6).
6. “You’re right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year.”
Citizen Kane
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #1).
7. John Wayne was offered the lead in this film, but refused it in a heated letter to his agent, saying it “smears the machinery of government for no purpose of humor or enlightenment.”
All the King’s Men (original)
Solved by Melville (comment #8).
