Today’s theme: Covert activities
1. Hiding the dead woman’s umbrella in the couch cushions.
Hint: The person who hid the umbrella was played by a child actor who successfully made the transition to adult star.
2. Breaking into the “Temple of Diana” through the roof.
Solved by Tom (comment #9).
3. Sneaking into the English mansion through a window, in collusion with the creepy housekeeper.
Solved by George (comment #23).
4. Breaking into San Francisco City Hall to find plans of an old mine.
Solved by Proteus (comment #28).
5. Peeking into her husband’s fishing tackle box, to find it unused.
Solved by Christopher (comment 3).
6. Switching shopping bags in a dressing room in order to scam government agents.
Solved by Ken (comment 6).
7. Slipping a death row prisoner out, just for one evening, to help the warden’s wife.
Solved by Daven (comment 1).
#7 is “The Green Mile”
#2 I think is “Indiana Jones The Last Crusade” I think.
Damn it Daven!
lol I’ve never seen the movie, but I’ve read the book “The Gren Mile.”
I would like to say taht #2 is “Tomb Raider” perhaps?
Oh and I forgot, #5 is “Brokeback Moutain”
You’re both wrong on #2, but then, you each have one right.
#6 – Jackie Brown
Is #2 Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Ken got the one I knew.
#6 is Enemy of the State.
Mixter
Tom, wrong again. I’d think that #2 is a movie you know, it’s all black & white and shit.
Mixter, Ken already solved #6.
Is it Beauty and the Beast (the Cocteau version)?
Very good, Tom. Couldn’t believe everyone thought there’d be a Temple of Diana in India, Germany, or wherever the hell Tomb Raider took place. 😀
Tomb Raider opened in the Mediteraean (I know I butchered that spelling) Sea and found the Map to the Library at Alexandria (or something like that). It was a Greek/Roman temple under the sea, broken into through the ceiling. So…yeah! lol
…and Raiders of the Lost Arc did open in South American….in his defence.
As in, not all in India.
This filing is rotting my mind….
Save me!
And yet, Diana/South America, no match bzzzzt.
Actually, I had in mind the temple in Egypt that they rappel into from the ceiling…the one with the snakes. And Hellenic influence in Egypt–not that far-fetched.
I’ve never seen Beauty and the Beast–I never really got into French film (I always thought the Germans were much, much cooler).
Tom, Rent that version of Beauty and the Beast, some of the effects are just stunning considering when it was made
#3 wouldn’t be Wuthering Heights would it?
One more little thing of the few things to miss about Houston is the Hollywood Video on Westheimer and Montrose. The largest video/dvd rental store in the south.
I could actually have found said copy of Beauty and the Beast that I would like to see now.
Bleh.
Barb, you wouldn’t happen to have a copy, would you? *grin*
Christopher, I think I Tivo’ed Beauty and the Beast; it comes around on TCM occasionally. Very worthwhile, very magical.
Tom, I can’t believe you got it without having seen it! Amazing.
Barbs, not Wuthering Heights. Catherine’s a big ol’d WHINER.
#3 is making me nuts…. it positively reeks of Dickens, I feel like I’ve seen it, but I just…. can’t………
It’s on the tip of my mind’s tongue………
Great Expectations, maybe?
I’m guessing, but is #4 “National Treasure”?
Is #3 Rebecca?
Shame, shame on Tom for never having seen Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast! The last time I sat down to make my list of The 10 Greatest Movies of All Time (which was more than 10 years ago, maybe 15. I should update it 🙂 ) Beauty and the Beast was on it,
Going with Ken’s idea in message 20, is #3 A Tale of Two Cities?
Yay George! George got #3. Didn’t know it’d be so tough. The image of George Sanders climbing in through the window always stays with me.
Ben, sorry but no on #4. Not a bad guess.
I just keep sucking.
#4 View to a Kill
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Shame, shame on Tom for never having seen Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast!
I know, I know…but it’s French. 😉
Didn’t know it’d be so tough. The image of George Sanders climbing in through the window always stays with me.
Rebecca seemed like the really obvious choice (it is, after all, synonymous with ‘creepy housekeeper’), but I figured it couldn’t possibly be Rebecca because you just wrote about it.
The advantage of Rebecca was that I can still remember it.
Back in the day, I used to post trivia quizzes on the IMDb. This is five-plus years ago. Before turning forty is the pertinent part. And I could post trivia questions for movies I’d seen long, long ago.
Now, not so much.