Can you name the movies whose titles are prepositional phrases?

Actors	Movie Title	Year
John Malkovich, Gary Sinise		1992
Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift		1953
Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods		1984
Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson		1967
Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell		2006*
Roger Moore, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson		1981
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger		1967
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger		1954
Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman		2004
Sean Connery, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw		1963
Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey		1992

Actors	Movie Title	Year
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy		1995
Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi		1986
Owen Wilson, Gabriel Macht, Gene Hackman		2001
Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl		2001
Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda		1981
David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine		1956
Meryl Streep, Robert Redford		1985
Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan		2003
Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell		2008
Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo		1993
Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal		1991
Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Reginald Denny	1991
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman	1991

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Prepositional Movies Quiz

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Created Dec 16, 2009 in Movies
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	leppyfresh:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:00 GMT	3 points
	Pretty good quiz. Creative.

	GoSkins:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:19 GMT	-2 points
	Three more movies that won't leave you feeling down: Up. Up in the Air. What's Up, Doc?

	rockgolf:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:21 GMT	-4 points
	Arrrgh! Kept typing "For Whom the Bells Toll".

	rockgolf:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:23 GMT	2 points
	This is also the first quiz of this size I've seen where not even one clue is answered correctly by more than half the players.

	Linz:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:30 GMT	6 points
	This was challenging and a good mix of old classics and newbies.

	glynndah:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:32 GMT	-2 points
	I kept hoping for a bonus: Up the Down Staircase; In like Flint; To Kill a Mocking bird; etc.

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	masego104:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:40 GMT	15 points
	Grammar dork question: Is In & Out really a prepositional phrase?

	Lyn_Marie:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:49 GMT	9 points
	@masengo104: No, "In" and "out" are prepositions, not propositional phrases. In this title, "In & Out" are two adverbs and a conjunction. Funny movie, though.

	tourbillon:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:49 GMT	3 points
	Interesting / challenging quiz, but no, In & Out is not a prepositional phrase. Neither is Up Close & Personal. XD

	sproutcm:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:59 GMT	2 points
	Yes, In & Out is a pair of adverbs that also happen to appear in some prepositional phrases, and Up Close and Personal is a pair of adjectives, and up close is not a prepositional phrase but an adjectival phrase made up from two adverbs. Prepositional phrases require an object. Also, "After Dark My Sweet" is the only one on here that contains prepositional phrases, and something extra that is not a prepositional phrase.

	Chris156:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 20:10 GMT	9 points
	Oh dear...I might have got a score higher than 0 if I knew what a propositional phrase was...

	sta_wolf:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 20:36 GMT	4 points
	I loved it, both for the grammar component but also because it contains so many older films, since most movie quizzes seem to focus on movies since the 1980's.

	Westley:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 20:44 GMT	4 points
	I agree that it was nice to see some older movies on this quiz. Made it much more challenging not to have the same set of 80s and 90s movies that are on most quizzes.

	gwynn1984:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 20:46 GMT	0 points
	Good quiz. One suggestion - can you indicate the one that's animated?

	jefe_:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 21:49 GMT	7 points
	Put them in order by year please

	masego104:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 22:03 GMT	7 points
	Also, by my count, Steven Seagal is in 8 different movies that begin with prepositional phrases. That's gotta be some sort of record.

	PSUChem:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 22:17 GMT	15 points
	@glynndah, "to kill a mockingbird" is an infinitive phrase, not a prepositional phrase.

	K26dp:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 22:48 GMT	1 point
	Excellent quiz, quite the challenge.

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	Psycho:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 22:53 GMT	7 points
	I was hoping for For a Few Dollars More.

	mellybmel:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 23:46 GMT	3 points
	Clever premise, nice challenge!

	RebeccaAMax:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 00:10 GMT	6 points
	Please accept "Around the World in Eighty Days"!

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	Tahnan:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 01:08 GMT	0 points
	George Segal is not related to Stephen Seagal. Additionally, and I know this isn't going to go over well: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is not a prepositional phrase. It's a clause; in the Donne quote, it's the object of "ask", making it basically a question. "Whom" is the object of "for", and thus "for whom" is a prepositional phrase; but that prepositional phrase modifies "tolls", which is not part of the phrase but the verb in a clause. (As a kind of giveaway, the exact same phrase can be expressed as "Who the Bell Tolls For", which is very clearly not a prepositional phrase.)

	gopaladins:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 01:17 GMT	0 points
	after the fox.

	Senor_Borracho:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 02:49 GMT	3 points
	Behind the Green door ... ?

	confused:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 03:06 GMT	2 points
	@joerob123: "To kill a mockingbird" also isn't a prepositional phrase, but an infinitive phrase. Good game, surprisingly hard.

	llewdor:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 03:06 GMT	3 points
	@masego104: Yes, I tried "On Deadly Ground" over and over, not understanding why it didn't work.

	JaxBored:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 03:47 GMT	1 point
	It wasn't the easiest quiz out there, but finished with 25 seconds left. I got most of them just by thinking of movie titles starting with prepositions. After that, I actually read the clues and then got lucky with a few.

	juviejay:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 04:36 GMT	0 points
	By the end I was guessing TV shows and Led Zeppelin albums.

	Irving:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 05:08 GMT	6 points
	...and now we've missed our chance to get the greatest arm-wrestling movie of all time into a Sporcle quiz next to Brando, Hepburn and Poitier where it belongs.

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	JPDisco:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 14:46 GMT	1 point
	Across The Universe? Is that one? I'm still not sure what one is.

	Commodore:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 15:32 GMT	-1 points
	PROF: Never use a preposition to end a Sporcle comment with. STUDENT: But you just did. PROF: NEVER use a preposition to end a Sporcle comment with, @sshat.

	buttscounty:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 16:08 GMT	2 points
	Giving it 5 just for including In Bruges.

	jaymc:	Jun 8th, 2010 at 22:46 GMT	3 points
	Keeping in mind that I've never seen a James Bond movie in my life and just know a few titles, imagine my surprise when "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" worked for neither the Connery nor Moore clue.