Action/Adventure Aficionados discussion

Do you consider yourself an action movie expert? This thread is for members to post trivia questions about action/adventure movies.

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3. If someone answers your question, feel free to post another one. You don't have to get a question answered correctly in order to post one.

I'll post the first question.

1. What is the maiden name of John McClane's wife Holly from the Die Hard series?

2. What is Max's last name in the Mad Max movies?

Lady Danielle aka The Book Huntress wrote: "I'll post the first question.

1. What is the maiden name of John McClane's wife Holly from the Die Hard series?"

Was it, Johnson

@ Eileen. Nope. Keep trying!

Lady Danielle aka The Book Huntress wrote: "I'll post the first question.

1. What is the maiden name of John McClane's wife Holly from the Die Hard series?"

Genaro

Ding, Ding! Jim is correct!

Lisa wrote: "2. What is Max's last name in the Mad Max movies?"

Hint: It's written on the side of his yellow interceptor.

@ Lisa. I can't remember his name, but I know it's kind of long, isn't it?

Lady Danielle aka The Book Huntress wrote: "@ Lisa. I can't remember his name, but I know it's kind of long, isn't it?"

yes

Radnikinsky? Begins with a 'R' & ends with 'sky', I think. Rats. I don't have time to watch the shows that are new much less watch an old one. Worse, if I watch one, I have to watch all three. Someone guess this soon!

I could cheat, but I won't. I'm giving someone time to answer.

Jim wrote: "Radnikinsky? Begins with a 'R' & ends with 'sky', I think. Rats. I don't have time to watch the shows that are new much less watch an old one. Worse, if I watch one, I have to watch all three. ..."

Close!

Who played Zed in "Zardoz"?

I doubt I'll ever get any closer.
Rockinsky?
Rodaninsky?

What was the name of the dog in "Saturn 3", a movie starring Kirk Douglass & Farah Fawcett?

Jim wrote: "I doubt I'll ever get any closer.
Rockinsky?
Rodaninsky?"

LOL, that is pretty close...it was Rockatansky.

Just proves I have a mind like a steel trap - an old, rusty one.
;-)

Who played Zed in "Zardoz"?

Sean Connery..right?

Yes, Mike. Marg hates the movie, but likes seeing him in a loin cloth.
;-)

Yeah, I didn't like the movie much either, but remember it.

Who played Johnny Ringo in The Gunfighter ?

The novelization by Boorman, Zardoz, fills in some gaps that the cheesy move doesn't capture well, Mike. Certainly campy grade B, but makes it more interesting.

Can you expand on "The Gunfighter" a bit? I can't even recall the movie. Maybe the decade?

Made in 1950.

Who played Pvt. Griff in "The Big Red One" with Lee Marvin?

Luke Skywalker....

I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on.

These are too tough for me...maybe I'd have better luck with something more current (or maybe not) :)

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "Luke Skywalker...."

You got it. I was watching it the other day & was shocked to see Mark Hamill there. Had to check the credits to be sure.

Still no bells ringing on "The Gunfighter", but it sounds familiar.

I'll give it till tomorrow and then post the answer, okay?

I asked Marg & she knew it immediately, Mike. I haven't checked her answer, but she seems sure.
(view spoiler)[Gregory Peck, aka Atticus (hide spoiler)]

Yep, Gregory Peck. Pretty good "heavy movie" about a gun fighter who's tired of running and waiting for the "faster gun".

Okay...who played Wyatt Earp in "My Darling Clementine", circa 1946?

I wasn't sure her answer counted since she's not a member of the group.

I don't recall, but it was a star studded cast. I'll guess Henry Fonda.

Does anyone even remember "Saturn 3" besides me?

Yes I do...but I won't say anything till you post a question.

And yep, Henry Fonda is right.

#16 is about "Saturn 3". What's the name of the dog?

I remember the movie, not the dog.

....me neither. I'd have to cheat and look it up.

I guess it wasn't that memorable. Hector, the robot, killed Sally as the beginning of the end. I guess her name stuck in my head because that was the name of Dick & Jane's little sister, not their dog. The idea amused me.

Yes, I am easily amused.
;-)

Naaahhh, just a trivia buff. :)

What's the Lone Ranger's nephew's horses' name?

(hint the name is found in the Lone Ranger TV series...and in a movie, though not a Lone Ranger movie.)

:)

I can't even remember the nephew's name!

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "What's the Lone Ranger's nephew's horses' name?

(hint the name is found in the Lone Ranger TV series...and in a movie, though not a Lone Ranger movie.)

:)"

Hi- Ho SILVER Away! (I'll go of the board for $50 Mike and go with "Silver" for the Horses name.)

No...Silver is the Lone Ranger's horse. The Ranger is an action figure but the movie where you find his nephew's horse's name is a holiday movie...maybe action in it's own way as the protagonist pictures himself saving his family from "Black Bart" (dressed in a striped shirt and with a group of thugs in striped shirts).

wow, there goes $50 from Action Adventure Horses column. (I admit to misreading the question...my bad.)

s'okay. I picked out an obscure question.

Victor Maeglin, Carry Grant, Joan Fontaine and Douglass Fairbanks Jr. had roles in one of the greatest action adventure flicks ever made, "Gunga Din."

What other famous roll did Douglass Fairbanks Jr. become known for?

(For a bonus question, which one became good friends with John Wayne?)