Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in the movie In the Heat of the Night and Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger

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How Well Do You Know Your 1960s Movies?

See if you can match these classic lines with their films

Thelma Adams, AARP

En español

Published June 23, 2020

18 Questions

We bet you'll recognize most if not all of these classic movie lines, but can you name which films they came from? And can you name who said them? Test your 1960s movie IQ with these 18 classics, and challenge your friends to beat your score.

How Well Do You Know Your 1960s Movies?

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  "question" : "“What we’ve got here is ... failure to communicate.”",
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    "answer" : "“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”",
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    "answer" : "“Cool Hand Luke”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Great Escape”",
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    "answer" : "“Dr. Strangelove”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Character actor Strother Martin’s Captain in “Cool Hand Luke.” The brutal prison warden, wielding a club, tells Paul Newman’s rebellious inmate Lucas Jackson that the lawman can’t be sweet-talked, and Luke is going to get a beating. Violence is the only communication the prisoner will understand. (The quote ranks 11th on the American Film Institute’s list of most memorable lines.)",
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  "question" : "“Sir, do you think this might be some kind of loyalty test or security check?”",
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    "answer" : "“The Spy Who Came In From the Cold”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Is Paris Burning?”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Dr. Strangelove”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Manchurian Candidate”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Torn Curtain”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? B-52 bombardier Lt. Lothar Zogg in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 nuclear-war comedy, the first movie role of James Earl Jones, who said, “In the original script, the bombardier’s role included pointed questioning of the authenticity of Gen. Ripper’s command-orders to nuke Russia. But as ‘Dr. Strangelove’ evolved into a satire, Zogg’s voice of reason shrank to essentially [this] single question.”",
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  "question" : "“Get the hell down in the cellar — you can be the boss down there, I’m the boss up here!”",
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    "answer" : "“Dr. Zhivago”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Mutiny on the Bounty”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Night of the Living Dead”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Dirty Dozen”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“True Grit”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Ben (Duane Jones), the hero of the highly influential 1968 George A. Romero zombie flick (and the first Black lead in horror-movie history). Ben is telling panicky people they can go ahead and hide in the basement until the zombies get them, but upstairs, he’s the leader, and he plans to fight zombies and stand up for humanity.",
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  "question" : "“I flip when a fellow sends me flowers — I drool over dresses made of lace.”",
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    "answer" : "“My Fair Lady”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Splendor in the Grass”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Flower Drum Song”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Nancy Kwan as showgirl Linda Low, who “enjoys being a girl” in the 1961 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Hollywood’s first major movie with an all-Asian cast. Nancy Kwan’s relative Kevin Kwan wrote the next huge, all-Asian-cast smash hit, 2019’s “Crazy Rich Asians.”",
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  "question" : "“Feed me!”",
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    "answer" : "“Oliver!”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Little Shop of Horrors”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Birds”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? The talking carnivorous plant at the center of Roger Corman’s 1960 horror-comedy. The growing monster tells Jonathan Haze’s Seymour Krelborn that it’s hungry for human blood: “Feed me!” In response, the schlemiel flower clerk examines his Band-Aid-covered fingertips, complains that he’s already “anemic,” and heads into the streets in search of plasma plant food in this B-movie precursor to the rock musical made into a 1986 movie with Rick Moranis.",
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  "question" : "“A boy’s best friend is his mother.”",
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    "answer" : "“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Psycho”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Please Don’t Eat the Daisies”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Graduate”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Anthony Perkins’ innkeeper Norman Bates replies to Janet Leigh’s sexy embezzler after she checks into the isolated Bates Hotel owned by his mother. When she asks if he ever goes out with friends, he answers, “A boy’s best friend is his mother.” After their shower encounter, she’s never going out with friends, either.",
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  "question" : "“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”",
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    "answer" : "“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Bullitt”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Editor Maxwell Scott (Carleton Young) schools U.S. Sen. Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) on Journalism 101 in the West. Ripping up the handwritten confession Stoddard had submitted about the actual killer of the titular Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), the newspaperman reminds the leader that legends overshadow truth every time — the power of myth trumps the power of fact.",
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  "question" : "”Gentlemen. You can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!”",
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    "answer" : "“The Great Escape”",
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    "answer" : "“The Dirty Dozen”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Longest Day”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Dr. Strangelove”",
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  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Oh, that naughty President Merkin Muffley (one of multiple roles Peter Sellers played). He utters this ironic line when Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky (Peter Bull) wrestles with George C. Scott’s Gen. “Buck” Turgidson. It happens in, of all places, the Pentagon’s War Room, as the world slides toward nuclear war.",
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  "question" : "”A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”",
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    "answer" : "“Goldfinger”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Dr. No”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Party”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Beach Blanket Bingo”",
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  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Sean Connery’s James Bond first bellied up to the bar and ordered his signature drink in the 1964 movie opposite the titular villain, played by Gert Frobe. Bonus point if you knew that the line was first spoken not by Bond himself but by archrival Dr. Julius No in 1962’s “Dr. No.”",
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  "question" : "”We rob banks.”",
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    "answer" : "“The Great Bank Robbery”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Bonnie and Clyde”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Point Blank”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Standing beside Faye Dunaway’s Bonnie Parker, Warren Beatty’s Clyde Barrow brags to a Dust Bowl farmer that bank robbery is his business. Afterward, he smiles that irresistible Beatty grin while neglecting to mention their sideline in speeding, shooting and murder that nets the robber and his moll 14 bodies and a bullet-riddled death.",
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  "question" : "”I just want to say one word to you — just one word. ... ‘Plastics.’ ”",
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    "answer" : "“Lolita”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Valley of the Dolls”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Graduate”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Barbarella”",
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  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? An adult party guest, Mr. McGuire (Walter Brooke), takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s recent college grad Ben Braddock. He shares an unsolicited tip about the youth’s very unclear future: “Plastics.” Will he think about it? “Yes, sir, I will,” Ben mumbles.",
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  "question" : "”They call me Mister Tibbs.”",
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    "answer" : "“The Wild Bunch”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Easy Rider”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“In the Heat of the Night”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Eyes Without a Face”",
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  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Classy Philadelphia detective Sidney Poitier rebuffs spitting-mad Southern lawman Gillespie (Rod Steiger), who addresses him by his first name, Virgil. With five simple words, Tibbs articulates that he is an educated Black man deserving respect and not intimidated by small-town racism — and Gillespie’s bloviating.",
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  "question" : "”Hitler was better lookin’ than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Churchill.”",
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    "answer" : "“The Producers”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Dirty Dozen”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who says it? Hitler-worshipping neo-Nazi Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars) calls history as he sees it: warped. Talking to shyster producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel), the villain compares the leader of the Third Reich and the British prime minister employing incomparable Mel Brooks dialogue.",
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  "question" : "”Miss Jean Louise. Miss Jean Louise. Stand up. Your father’s passin’.”",
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    "answer" : "“Fistful of Dollars”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“To Kill a Mockingbird”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“To Sir, With Love”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who says it? Reverend Sykes (Bill Walker) urges Jean Louise aka Scout (Mary Badham) to show respect for her father, attorney Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) as he exits the courtroom. This, despite the fact that Finch has lost the case defending a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. The man of the cloth is encouraging Scout to support her father for fighting the good fight, and to stand up for justice.",
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  "question" : "”Take your stinkin’ paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”",
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    "answer" : "“Bonnie and Clyde”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Planet of the Apes”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Doctor Dolittle”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Midnight Cowboy”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Who said it? Hounded, hunted and fighting mad astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) displays an anti-hirsute bias against one of his captors when he lands on a planet dominated by simians. What a beast! They’re not insulted — they’re amazed the human in the rag tunic is capable of speech.",
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  "question" : "”I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”",
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    "answer" : "“The Great Escape”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Lost World”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Fahrenheit 451”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "\"2001 A Space Odyssey\"",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Supercomputer HAL refuses the request to open the pod bay doors by astronaut Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea). The spaceship’s advanced artificial intelligence makes it abundantly clear in a calm, measured tone that at this moment there’s been a major power shift between man and machine.",
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  "hintLink" : "",
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}, {
  "question" : "“Who are those guys?”",
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    "answer" : "“The Producers”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Wild Bunch”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Gidget Goes Hawaiian”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Throughout the tragi-comedy Western, bank-and-train robber Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and his partner in crime the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) repeatedly raise this question about their unknown, relentless pursuers. That refrain became the title for an album by the New Riders of the Purple Sage.",
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  "question" : "”Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me.”",
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    "answer" : "“The Pink Panther”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Carry on Cleo”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Putney Swope”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The President’s Analyst”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Who said it? Emperor Julius Caesar (Kenneth Williams), in the spirit of the traditional et tu, Brute, calls out his betrayers in this zany British comedy (there were 31 “Carry On” films). He’s joined by Cleopatra (Amanda Barrie) and Mark Antony (Sidney James) in a parody of the historical tragedy by William Shakespeare (who gets a story-idea credit — but no points).",
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