Fun quiz. A good addition would be Fight Club: Wilmington. Even though the city is never named in the course of the movie you can pick it up from clues.
Two problems. 1. Every other clue has two films, and I cannot think of a single alternative film set in Wilmington. 2. Not only is the city never named in the film, it's not identified in the screenplay or novel, and none of the filming was done there. Listen to the director's commentary sometime, and he'll tell you that some of the buildings that (SPOILER ALERT) get blown up at the end of the movie are based on Wilmington, but that they had to substantially embellish, because Wilmington's downtown is so tiny with no big skyscrapers.
No he doesn't. He said that the city is definitely and obviously supposed to be Wilmington, as this is the headquarters of most credit card companies in the United States, but that they didn't want to get sued. So actually every single building being blown up at the end of the movie is a real life building that is owned by 20th Century Fox (the company that produced the film). They just composited them into a single skyline.
I know I'm gonna get all sorts of hatred for this... but this quiz was too US-focused. There are LOTS of awesome films were stuff happened in other places.
Considering the % of popular movies that are produced in the United States I'd say that managing to make 8/20 of these cities outside the US is pretty impressive.
High Noon was filmed at my local church. Little House on the Prairie was filmed at my dad's best friend's house. Back to the Future was filmed locally... Basically most authentic western themed movies and tv shows were.
Best in Show is a great movie, but never in a million years would I have remembered which city it took place in. Fortunately the other movie provided for that clue made it obvious.
There is a very funny bit by Fred Willard portraying Buck Laughlin, the clueless jock who has been assigned to provide color commentary for the Mayflower Dog Show:
"Doctor, question that's always bothered me and a lot of people: Mayflower, combined with Philadelphia - a no-brainer, right? Cause this is where the Mayflower landed. Not so. It turns out Columbus actually set foot somewhere down in the West Indies. Little known fact."
I find the results interesting. I'd say that two of these titles are those of real classic books - City of God (St Augustine) and the Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas), though I suspect that the film with the former title was probably not related to the book (I haven't seen it). Yet the Dumas was the least-guessed answer.
Someone actually made a movie based in part on the writings of Saint Augustine; don't know if anyone ever paid to see it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8875124/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1
Much more successful was the adaptation of Saint Thomas Aquinas' most famous work, reimagined as a family drama in 1950s Mississippi, "Long Hot Summa."
then i re-read the title lol
"Doctor, question that's always bothered me and a lot of people: Mayflower, combined with Philadelphia - a no-brainer, right? Cause this is where the Mayflower landed. Not so. It turns out Columbus actually set foot somewhere down in the West Indies. Little known fact."
Much more successful was the adaptation of Saint Thomas Aquinas' most famous work, reimagined as a family drama in 1950s Mississippi, "Long Hot Summa."