Take the three original TV networks: A B C, N B C and C B S. This gives you a pool of the letters A, B, C, N, and S. Add the letter L to this pool and rearrange the result to name a well known movie, repeating letters where necessary. Two of the three networks tried unsuccessfully to air a TV series based on this movie. What movie is it?
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Casablanca
CBS was the onlt network with the sense not to try.
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ReplyDeleteThe key to my having solved this mid-week puzzle so quickly was the fact that our palette of letters includes only a single vowel.
ReplyDeleteI've thought of only three Movie titles using only a single vowel: The first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, "Flight"; The Warren Beatty movie "Reds"; and the answer to this week's mid-week puzzle!
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DeleteOops... The first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture was "Wings", not "Flight". Of course, it still uses only the letter I as its only vowel. Also, "Jezebel" (1938) is fifth example, "Gigi" (1958) is a sixth, "Hud" (1963) is a seventh, "Cocoon" (1985) is an eighth, and "Ghost" (1990) is a ninth, "Milk" (2008) is a tenth, and finally, "The Help" (2011) is an eleventh.
Delete"Nuts" and "Tron" also come to mind. But we should probably think of multisyllable movies like "Gigli", "Star Wars", "Se7en", "Manhattan" and "Batman".
DeleteAnd where would "THX 1138" and "8 1/2" fit in?
Or the hybrid "Stalag 17"?