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Prisons in film

As Carandiru holes up in British cinemas, tunnel your way through our hellishly well-fortified quiz on prisons in the movies. Are you a lifer or a man escaped? The answer is just a ten-question stretch away

Question 1 In The Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins's inmate begins tunnelling out of jail from behind a poster of which movie sex symbol?
 
  Susan Sarandon
  Rita Hayworth
  Jane Russell
  Marilyn Monroe
 
Question 2 What did Paul Newman's prisoner famously eat to prove his mettle in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke?
 
  An uncooked T-bone steak
  The boots of the prison warden
  A live rat caught in the prison canteen
  50 hard-boiled eggs
 
Question 3 The inmates of the British comedy Lucky Break stage a horrendous historical musical to distract the guards from their prison break. Who was its subject?
 
  Henry VIII
  Napoleon Bonaparte
  Horatio Nelson
  Scott of the Antarctic
 
Question 4 Name the French film-maker who directed A Man Escaped
 
  Luc Besson
  Jean-Pierre Melville
  Claude Chabrol
  Robert Bresson
 
Question 5 The motorbike on which Steve McQueen attempts his getaway in The Great Escape later found further fame in what capacity?
 
  It was ridden by the Fonz in the TV show Happy Days
  President Gerald Ford rode it through California on his (failed) re-election campaign of 1976
  It was ridden by Peter Fonda's hippie biker in Easy Rider
  It was used by the Two Fat Chefs on their BBC cookery program
 
Question 6 Complete the title of the 1957 Elvis Presley movie. Jailhouse...
 
  Mouse
  Jive
  Boogie
  Rock
 
Question 7 The Oscar-winning Dead Man Walking later spawned a bizarre spin-off. What was it?
 
  A critically-panned TV pilot, starring Whoopi Goldberg as a nun helping inmates on death row
  A concept album by Neil Young that was available only via mail order and which the singer later disowned
  An opera in San Francisco, in which the convict sings to his comforter: 'You're no nun, you're the angel of death'
  A musical entitled Dead Man Dancing, starring Michael Flatley as "a dancer sentenced to death in a world gone mad"
 
Question 8 Which classic prisoner-of-war drama starred William Holden and Alec Guinness?
 
  Stalag 17
  Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
  Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Wooden Horse
 
Question 9 Which Hollywood film star once spent time in jail for possession of marijuana?
 
  James Stewart
  Shirley Temple
  Humphrey Bogart
  Robert Mitchum
 
Question 10 Burt Lancaster's sympathetic performance of real-life convict/ornithologist Robert Stroud in Birdman of Alcatraz prompted public demands for the man's release. But the film glossed over several, less savoury aspects of Stroud's life. What were they?
 
  His enthusiastic support of the Ku Klux Klan and his torture of a female hostage during an escape attempt
  His fatal stabbing of a prison guard and his enthusiasm for child pornography
  The fact that he spent four years living naked in his aviary and would pull the heads off the birds he thought were "looking at him funny"
  Stroud's heroin addiction and his habit of raping each new inmate
 
 


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