Monday, July 13, 2026

We Describe the Movie...You Name It!

We have described the 15 movies below in one sentence. Your task is simple: Name the movie! 

As always, please answer no more than three questions per day so more people can play and have fun. Try not to research your answers as it'd be pretty easy to google the plot and get a film's title. Note that all these movies are connected...and it's a pretty obvious connection.

1. A troubled con artist with deep childhood trauma is forced into marriage.

2. A timid young woman marries a wealthy widower and moves into his imposing estate.

3. A French intelligence agent uncovers a Soviet spy ring operating inside NATO.

4. A man wrongly accused of murder goes on the run with the only witness who can clear him.

5. A small New England town becomes entangled in the mystery of a dead man.

6. A respected lawyer defends a beautiful woman accused of murdering her husband.

7. A mysterious killer stalks the fog‑shrouded streets of London.

8. An American crime reporter is sent to Europe on the eve of World War II and stumbles into a sprawling conspiracy.

9. A carefree married couple discovers their union was never legally valid.

10. A bomb on a bus.

11. It takes place in Quebec City in Canada.

12. A phony psychic and her cab‑driver boyfriend get into trouble.

13. A newly arrived Irishman in 1830s Australia who becomes entangled in the dark secrets of a troubled aristocratic household.

14. Is a shy heiress's new husband trying to kill her?

15. The Necktie Murderer.

29 comments:

  1. I could get most of these without a hitch, but I’ll just say 13 is “Under Capricorn,” because I think it’s a film more people should see.

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    2. Well pun! And you are correct, of course.

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    1. #15 is Frenzy, but #10 is not Speed. All the movies are connected in some way and that is why Speed is incorrect (even though it's about a bomb on a bus).

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  3. 7. Hangover Square (1945) and/or Lured (1947)
    11. I Confess (1953)

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  4. #11 is I Confess, but #7 is not Hangover Square or Lured. The key to the correct answer is how all the movies are related.

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  5. Now I get it (I think). Since I goofed on number 10, I'll go with Number 5 is The Trouble With Harry.

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  6. 8 is Foreign Correspondent
    14 is Suspicion

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  7. #6 Witness for the Prosecution
    #12 Family Plot

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    1. #12 is correct, but #6 is not Witness for the Prosecution. The key is the connection between the movies.

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  8. 5. The Trouble with Harry
    6. The Paradine Case
    7. The Lodger

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    1. These are correct! Well done. (They do count as your three guesses today.)

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  9. Still looking for answers for 4, 9, and 10.

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    1. It's not Saboteur, because he's not traveling with a witness.

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  11. Is #9 Mr. And Mrs. Smith?

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  12. No. 4 sounds like "The 39 Steps" to me.
    -- Don Effenberger

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    1. No, the woman traveling with the protagonist is not a witness who can clear him.

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    1. Yes, Sabotage! And this is one scene that Hitchcock says was a mistake.

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  14. 4 Young and Innocent
    9 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    10 Sabotage

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    1. Thomas, #9 and #10 were answered above--but you are the first to correctly guess Young and Innocent for #4!

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  15. That completes this game. Thanks to everyone who played!

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