Tongue-Tongue's Television Weekly

The following movie descriptions have been lifted directly from the television guides of major newspapers. Under each description, provide the full title of the film it describes. We have answered the first two in order to get you started.

1. An atomic researcher in Scotland links radiation burns to throbbing mud from the center of the earth.
   X the Unknown

2. Two possibilities. You'll swallow it whole or butt your head against the wall.
   Trigger, Jr.

3. Neil Simon's spoof of detectives.
   Murder By Death

4. Married couch potatoes make a deal with the devil to try a cable TV system featuring 666 channels.
   Stay Tuned

5. Sheriff Buford T. Justice chases a trucker, his buddy, a runaway bride and 400 cases of beer.
   Smokey and the Bandit

6. Albee's boiling alphabet soup, from Broadway. Blistering and brilliant.
   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

7. The troupe's sketches include gluttony, birth control and total insignificance.
   Monty Python's Meaning of Life

8. Forced to coach a girls soccer team, a salesman stacks it with his girlfriend's son in disguise..
   Ladybugs

9. Zunar 5J/90 Doric ForSeven, or Jake the cat, crash-lands on Earth and asks a physicist for help.
   The Cat from Outer Space

10. An inmate learns guitar from his cellmate, then gets an agent and turns rock 'n' roll star.
    Jailhouse Rock

11. Victorian London's Jack the Ripper escapes to 1979 San Francisco in H. G. Wells' time machine.
    Time After Time

12. Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp solve a kinky murder mystery at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
    Sunset

13. A homosexual film buff and a rebel share a prison cell in Latin America.
    Kiss of the Spider Woman

14. A prince needs a razor-tipped boomerang to free his beloved from the fortress of the beast.
    Krull

15. Excellent camouflaging of standard revenge western, copping true-blue Duke his Oscar.
    True Grit

16. High school students, some on the honor roll, turn beastly from exposure to nuclear-plant waste.
    Class of Nuke 'Em High

17. A large Bavarian woman livens up another woman's gas station/motel in the California desert.
    Bagdad Cafe

18. A French schoolboy befriends a mysterious new student who is hiding from the Nazis.
    Au Revoir Les Enfants

19. Big Tom at bat in Japan.
    Mr. Baseball

20. A lighthouse keeper's daughter befriends a runaway orphan and his playmate, an animated green dragon.
    Pete's Dragon

21. A woman psychiatrist reads an amnesiac murder suspect's surreal dream.
    Spellbound

22. At the 1967 concert: the Mamas & the Papas, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, the Who, Ravi Shankar, Simon & Garfunkel.
    Monterey Pop

23. Agent 007 charms a tarot reader in Jamaica on the voodoo/heroin trail of a Mr. Big.
    Live and Let Die

24. Charming, original comedy about American company buying Scottish village. Droll and surprising.
    Local Hero

25. Mostly amateur actors as "new bohemians" in Austin, Tex. Parade of eccentrics gets monotonous, whatever the inner meaning.
    Slacker

26. Downed in the Sahara, a pilot and passengers build a new plane from the wreckage.
    Flight of the Pheonix

27. A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
    Down By Law

28. A wild and wily teen moves in with her rich new girlfriend and seduces the father as the mother lays dying.
    Poison Ivy

29. A clergyman leads survivors of a capsized luxury liner through the ship's innards to its highest point.
    The Poseidon Adventure

30. A space hero and his team of do-gooders battle Dr. Lizardo and his army of Red Lectroids.
    Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension

31. A minor-league pitcher inherits $300 million but must spend $30 million in 30 days to get it.
    Brewster's Millions

32. A literary baseball groupie rates a pitcher and a catcher on a minor league North Carolina team.
    Bull Durham

33. An exiled Paris chef enlightens two pious Danish sisters.
    Babette's Feast

34. Killer Jason wears a mask this time so teens won't recognize him.
    Friday the 13th, Part III

35. John Ford's Welsh coal miners. One of the screen's great human dramas.
    How Green Was My Valley

36. San Francisco high-school dropout takes over slain brother's private police force.
    Kuffs

37. Dog trainer and opera singer. Sad mess of a romantic comedy.
    Man Trouble

38. Pregnant high school dropout meets moody electronics genius.
    Trust

39. Fast, sassy adventure spoof of Peace Corps workers in Thailand.
    Volunteers

40. The adventures of a deaf runaway searching for her brother among the flower children.
    Psych-Out

41. A schoolteacher flies to Italy to pursue a shoe salesman she believes to be her soulmate.
    Only You

42. 18th century German officer's exploits in war, underworld, on the moon.
    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

43. Fellini's boyhood memoir of small Italian town as Fascists edged in.
    Amarcord

44. Young girl tries to divorce neglectful parents. Okay start, then strained.
    Irreconcilable Differences

45. Gaynor won best actress as a city woman who tempts a farmer to kill his wife. Warning: silent film, directed by a German.
    Sunrise

46. Now they meet Shredder's new mutant monsters.
    TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze

47. Boxing match with rival summer camp. For those who care.
    Meatballs II