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Work Out The Film Titles - Completed

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Below are clues to some films that feature the number of words in the title, the number of characters, the year released, one of the actors/actresses who appeared & how many of each character is in the title ............. see if you can work them out? I have excluded any punctuation marks!

1. 13 words, 54 characters, 1964 film with Peter Sellers

a x3, b x2, d x3, e x6, g x2, h x2, i x2, l x3, m x1, n x4, o x8, p x1, r x6, s x2, t x4, v x2, w x2, y x1

Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - memory man


2. 12 words, 47 characters, 1995 film with Hugh Grant

a x5, b x1, c x1, d x1, e x4, g x1, h x4, i x3, l x3, mx3, n x6, o x3, p x 1, s x 1, t x4, u x3, w x3

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain - memory man


3. 10 words, 51 characters, 1976 film with Paul Newman

a x3, b x3, d x2, e x2, f x2, g x1, h x2, i x5, l x7, n x5, o x4, r x2, s x6, t x4

Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bulls History Lesson - kdwoodie


4. 14 words, 61 characters, 1971 film with Dustin Hoffman

a x5, b x2, d x1, e x7, g x2, h x6, i x5, k x1, l x3, m x2, n x4, o x3, r x5, s x5, t x4, u x1, w x2, yx3

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me - kdwoodie


5. 13 words, 57 characters, 1972 film with Woody Allen

a x7, b x2, d x2, e x6, f x1, g x1, h x1, i x2, k x2, l x1, n x3, o x5, r x3, s x3, t x6, u x3, v x1, w x4, x x1, y x3

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask - kdwoodie


6. 9 words, 38 characters, 2003 film with Russell Crowe

a x4, c x1, d x4, e x5, f x2, h x2, i x1, l x1, m x3, n x2, o x3, r x4, s x2, t x3, w x1

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - kdwoodie


7. 8 words, 38 characters, 2007 film with Alan Rickman

a x1, b x2, d x3, e x10, f x2, h x1, l x1, m x1, n x2, o x3, r x3, s x2, t x5, w x1, y x1

Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - PhotoLady


8. 10 words, 44 characters, 2003 film with Keira Knightley

a x5, b x3, c x3, e x7, f x2, h x3, i x2, k x1, l x2, n x1, o x2, p x2, r x4, s x2, t x4, u x1

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - PhotoLady


9. 6 words, 31 characters, 1991 film with Micky Rourke

a x5, b x1, d x3, e x2, h x2, i x1, l x2, m x2, n x3, o x3, r x3, s x1, t x1, v x1, y x1

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man - aphrodite


10. 20 words, 85 characters, 1965 film with James Fox

a x3, c x2, d x1, e x7, f x4, g x2, h x5, i x9, l x4, m x5, n x10, o x8, p x1, r x5, s x5, t x5, u x2, w x2, y x1, 1 x2, 2 x1, 5 x1

Those Magnificant Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes - aphrodite


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1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain
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3. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
4. Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me
5. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
6. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
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1-6 all correct!


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7. Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
8. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
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9 Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

10 Those Magnificent Men in their flying machines - or how I flew from London to Paris in 25 hours and 11 minutes
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All completed correctly! :)


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