Harry’s Christmas movie quiz

Ah Juxtaposition! Which festive song accompanies the opening drug/porn/suicide scene in the timeless “Lethal Weapon”?




Northern Rock? Jimmy Stewart? If only something paranormal had helped out in our credit crunch like it did in Frank Capra’s Christmas classic “It’s a wonderful life”… Which cross-dressing nosey-parker labelled the movie ‘subversive’ and ‘communist’?




Rosebud! Charles Foster Kane’s mysterious last word in “Citizen Kane” has been rumoured to be everything from a mum’s nickname to a clitoris. But which Christmas toy bore its name in the movie?




Mexico, 1959 and someone is trying to make all the children of the world ‘do evil’. Which eternal Villain does our hero Santa take on in the extraordinary Latin American space adventure “Santa Claus”?




Christmas Eve and all is quiet at the Nakatomi building. Except down in the car park! Which Christmas song is John Mclean’s Limo driver Argyle listening to in “Die Hard”?




Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life”. Christmas is happening somewhere.. But where?




Its Randolph and Mortimer Duke’s Christmas party and Eddie Murphy’s character Billy Rae Valentine is in the loos smoking a sneaky joint in the amazing “Trading Places”. It is here that he overhears the scheming brothers settle their bet for the ‘usual amount’. How much is the ‘usual amount’?




Dogs are not just for Christmas, and neither is a Gremlin. Although particularly cute, Gizmo is a pain in the arse to look after. Amongst the many strict rules to observe, which of them turns him bad?




All hell broke loose during the Christmas holidays in 1990, when Crispian Mills doppelganger, Macaulay Culkin found himself Home Alone with only a couple of blundering house burglars to viciously assault. In which North American town was the movie set?




Christmas Eve has produced a couple of traumas over the years, but none quite as visceral as that which befell my young namesake Harry, in the hilarious cult slasher pic, “Christmas Evil”. What happened?