Film Series

For our second superbonus, we want you to name all the movies in the following categories; in other words, complete the sets.

(NOTE: All answers are complete as of December 8-9, 1976, when BOMO offered this bonus.)

1. All of the Tom Laughlin (Mr. Billy Jack) movies-- (5) (that is, three Billy Jack movies, one non-Billy Jack movie, and one well-advertised Billy Jack movie now in production.)
   The Born Losers; Billy Jack; The Trial of Billy Jack; Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977). (NOTE: Tom Laughlin had directed and/or acted in several films besides the above four, so it's unclear which of his other credits BOMO was looking for as his "non-Billy Jack movie.")

2. All of James Dean's movies-- (3)
   Rebel Without a Cause; East of Eden; Giant. (NOTE: Dean had made uncredited appearances in a handful of other films before these three.)

3. All of Woody Allen's movies-- (9)
   What's New, Pussycat?; What's Up, Tiger Lily?; Casino Royale; Take the Money and Run; Bananas; Play It Again, Sam; Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex; Sleeper; Love and Death.

4. All of Mel Brooks' movies-- (5)
   The Producers; The Twelve Chairs; Blazing Saddles; Young Frankenstein; Silent Movie.

5. All of the Ape movies after "Planet of the Apes"-- (4)
   Beneath the Planet of the Apes; Escape from the Planet of the Apes; Conquest of the Planet of the Apes; Battle for the Planet of the Apes.

6. All of Steve McQueen's movies after "The Great Escape"-- (15) ("The Great Escape" was in 1963-- don't guess "The Blob," or "The Magnificent Seven," which were before 1963.)
   Soldier in the Rain; Love with the Proper Stranger; Baby the Rain Must Fall; The Cincinnati Kid; Nevada Smith; The Sand Pebbles; The Thomas Crown Affair; Bullitt; The Reivers; Le Mans; On Any Sunday; Junior Bonner; The Getaway; Papillon; The Towering Inferno.

7. All of Charlton Heston's disaster movies after "The Omega Man," since 1972-- (5)
   Skyjacked; Airport 1975; Earthquake; Two Minute Warning. (NOTE: That's four. Of the other movies, "Soylent Green" and "Midway" would come closest to qualifying as #5, but neither is really a true disaster movie. Our pick, therefore, is "Antony and Cleopatra." Surely Charlton Heston doing Shakespeare is the ultimate disaster movie.)

8. All of the John Wayne movies in which John Wayne dies-- (5)
   Central Airport; Reap the Wild Wind; The Fighting Seabees; Wake of the Red Witch; The Sands of Iwo Jima; The Alamo; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; The Cowboys. That's 8 movies, not 5. (NOTE: In "The Sea Chase," Wayne is aboard a ship that is blown up, but the audience never quite finds out for sure how he makes out. He also appeared as a stabbed corpse in "The Deceiver" (1931). Of the above 8 films, "Central Airport" was an early, uncredited role, and surely did not appear on BOMO's list. It can be argued that Wayne technically does not die IN "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," because he is already dead when the film begins. And the flashback sequence (that is, the middle 95% of the movie) does not depict or explain his death.

   The Onscreen Deaths of the Duke:
   Central Airport (1933)--Drowns in an airplane crash;
   Reap The Wild Wind (1942)--Drowns battling a giant squid;
   The Fighting Seabees (1944)--Shot by a Japanese soldier;
   Wake of the Red Witch (1949)--Drowns (you'd think the guy would have taken swimming lessons by now);
   Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)--Shot by a sniper;
   The Alamo (1960)--Killed by soldier's lance;
   The Shootist (1976)--Shot;
   The Cowboys (1972)--Shot (in the back, of course!).)