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We are going to give you 16 movie titles. What you have to tell us is -- what does the title refer to in the movie? Or conversely, what is the reference to the title found in the movie?

  1. The Seven Percent Solution
    The strength of the cocaine solution that Sherlock Holmes injects into his veins.

  2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    A joke that Martha and George hear at the party that precedes the action of the film. It appears in the opening lines of the film, and recurs at the end when George asks it of Martha and she replies, "I am, George."

  3. Sounder
    The name of the family's dog.

  4. The King of Hearts
    The identity that Alan Bates is given by the other inmates at the insane asylum.

  5. The Man with the Golden Gun
    Refers to master assassin Scaramunga (played by Christopher Lee).

  6. Day For Night
    The process of turning night into day while filming a movie (which is what's occurring in the film).

  7. Double Indemnity
    The insurance policy's clause that allows for 200% payment if death is caused by accident, inspiring the plot between Barbara Stanwyck and Fred Macmurray.

  8. Catch-22
    Though applying to other situations in the story, the famous one is this: "Fighter pilots can only be grounded if they're crazy. But the pilot must request this. And if he requests to be grounded, he ipso facto CANNOT be crazy. And so he must fly." Refers to the insurmountable logic process itself.

  9. Fahrenheit 451
    The temperature at which books spontaneously burn.

  10. The Boys From Brazil
    Clones of Hitler created by Mengele (Gregory Peck).

  11. S.O.B.
    "Standard Operational Bullshit"

  12. Barefoot in the Park
    Used in an argument by Jane Fonda, to show how stuffy Robert Redford is. The image is used to point out the basic difference between the two newlyweds' personalities. (Naturally, by film's end, a drunk Redford goes walking barefoot in the park, and all is well.)

  13. The Shining
    Scatman Crothers tells the boy that it's "a gift" allowing the possessor to sense psychic vibrations.

  14. The Andromeda Strain
    A disease inadvertantly brought back by a space probe from the Andromeda galaxy.

  15. Blow Up
    The photographic enlargement process that makes David Hemmings discover that a murder has taken place-- or has it?

  16. Soylent Green
    The planet's food, made out of dead humans. SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!

Not often do behind-the-scenes details emerge, particularly from this era, but here are the last 8 movies that ended up on Phasers' cutting-room floor for this bonus. Were their editorial instincts correct? You decide!