Saturday, January 18, 2014

Movie Tagline Quiz 1 (Classic Movies)

Movie taglines have been around almost as long as movie posters. From "The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan" (Birth of a Nation - 1915) to "A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away", movie taglines have been enticing us into theaters with 15 words or less since the beginning.
Below are 25 taglines from some of the all-time classic films -  Award Winners, Box Office Blockbusters, and just plain important movies. See how many you know without looking them up.

Answers tomorrow, along with 25 more taglines from my favorite genre - horror movies.

  1. The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!
  2. All it takes is a little Confidence.
  3. The nearer they get to their treasure, the farther they get from the law.
  4. Once you stop screaming, then you’ll start talking about it.
  5. Not every gift is a blessing.
  6. A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it.
  7. He loved the American dream. With a vengeance.
  8. His whole life was a million-to-one shot.
  9. The classic story about a boy and his mother.
  10. The strangest story ever conceived by man.
  11. The story of a man who was too proud to run.
  12. Man has made his match…now it’s his problem.
  13. For three men the Civil War wasn’t hell. It was practice.
  14. This is Benjamin. He’s a little worried about his future.
  15. A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere.
  16. They’re young…they’re in love…and they kill people.
  17. What we do in life echoes in eternity.
  18. You don’t assign him to murder cases. You just turn him loose.
  19. On every street in every city, there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. 
  20. This is the weekend they didn’t play golf.
  21. The man with the barbed-wire soul.
  22. Not that it matters, but most of it is true.
  23. Reality is a thing of the past.
  24. You won’t know the facts until you’ve seen the fiction.
  25. Look closer.

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