Movies that came out your birth year

[fred41]

There has to be a degree of difficulty without making a teaser impossible, but I thought I had gone through enough hoops to make no 2 harder than you are making out -or you just know more about films than most people! Or I should stop making them so damn easy!

It has nothing to do with hard or easy.
If you got my P.M...you'll know that along with the right answer...I originally was on a slightly wrong track...... but had to get it right, eventually. Search engines,given enough information can often provide the answer to most anything . I didn't post the answer here because I figured someone who studied films as a hobby or as an educational course....or who just happened to know the answer from personal experiences in their lives might enjoy giving the answer by simply knowing it.
Since that hasn't happened yet - I will simply state:
Google: son of Quakers from Croydon...director

..and work from there.

[fred41]

Number one is another beast altogether...I have guesses...but guesses are just that.

[Stavros]

It has nothing to do with hard or easy.
If you got my P.M...you'll know that along with the right answer...I originally was on a slightly wrong track...... but had to get it right, eventually. Search engines,given enough information can often provide the answer to most anything . I didn't post the answer here because I figured someone who studied films as a hobby or as an educational course....or who just happened to know the answer from personal experiences in their lives might enjoy giving the answer by simply knowing it.
Since that hasn't happened yet - I will simply state:
Google: son of Quakers from Croydon...director

..and work from there.

Ah..I was not sure how much info to throw in about that son of Quakers, it was always the weak link anyway -did not get a PM by the way.

[Stavros]

Ok, two more. For the first one I am prepared if there is no progress, to offer a clue.

1) Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?

2) An Hungarian Jew, and Hans from Belfast (who learned some of his trade with John Ford) failed to make a film that, when made by the son of Quakers from Croydon, became one of the highest rated films in history.
-What is the film?

In the last 3 days Fred41 has correctly identified No 2) as Lawrence of Arabia:
Sir Alexander Korda (by origin an Hungarian Jew) planned to make a film about Lawrence around 1937, and commissioned Brian Hurst (christened Hans in his native Belfast; who learned some of his craft from John Ford in Hollywood) to direct it. The British Government objected on various grounds, mostly ones of security in the areas in which the filming was to take place -Palestine and southern TransJordan. There is a file on this in the National Archive in Kew in London, either Foreign Office or Colonial Office, I can't recall although I have seen it and did make notes on it at the time.

David Lean, who did make the famous film, was the son of Quakers, born in Croydon, a lesson to me not to make these things so easy!

[Stavros]

Number one is another beast altogether...I have guesses...but guesses are just that.

You are on the right track, so before wrapping this up I am prepared to offer a clue that ought to clinch it: think of one of the best selling albums of all time and you ought to see your way through to the answer...

[HeteroWithATwist]

Once upaon a time in America, The Terminator, Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Indiana Jones and the temple of doom!

I am proud..

[fred41]

1) Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?

The individual was born in 30 Clarendon "Square"...he was a neighbor of Mae West on the "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album..and perhaps in death. ( I originally thought you might mean that the person we are speaking of is buried in the same cemetery, but that didn't pan out because I couldn't find anyone that matched the clues to her burial here in Brooklyn.)I had latched on to this before you gave the "album" clue...but I ignored the individual because he didn't fit the rest of the clues..to me at the time anyway.

The red herring for me was the clue: 'a mysterious woman called Myra', which any logical connection to the following name of Mae West would lead one to conclude was referring to the movie "Myra Breckenridge"...this caused much searching in the wrong direction (much, much) and ...I almost gave up.. It turns out you were referring to a silent film series called "The Mysteries of Myra".

Your best clue, within a clue, was this... :

You are on the right track...

After I mentioned that "number one was anotherbeast altogether...

Finally it all came together after I looked at this question again a few minutes ago with a fresh mind...I was just about to give up and - there it was.

The person in question is The Great Beast 666...

The person in question is Aleister Crowley.

[fred41]

good puzzle..

[sukumvit boy]

Excellent thread. Thanks Stavros and Fred41!

[Stavros]

The individual was born in 30 Clarendon "Square"...he was a neighbor of Mae West on the "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album..and perhaps in death. ( I originally thought you might mean that the person we are speaking of is buried in the same cemetery, but that didn't pan out because I couldn't find anyone that matched the clues to her burial here in Brooklyn.)I had latched on to this before you gave the "album" clue...but I ignored the individual because he didn't fit the rest of the clues..to me at the time anyway.

The red herring for me was the clue: 'a mysterious woman called Myra', which any logical connection to the following name of Mae West would lead one to conclude was referring to the movie "Myra Breckenridge"...this caused much searching in the wrong direction (much, much) and ...I almost gave up.. It turns out you were referring to a silent film series called "The Mysteries of Myra".

Your best clue, within a clue, was this... :

After I mentioned that "number one was anotherbeast altogether...

Finally it all came together after I looked at this question again a few minutes ago with a fresh mind...I was just about to give up and - there it was.

The person in question is The Great Beast 666...

The person in question is Aleister Crowley.

Fred, have you thought of working for the intelligence services? A brilliant piece of deduction, BUT you missed one clue, otherwise I wasn't expecting you to get it!

Here is the clue again:
Before you start with the number, think of another, say 30 -but 'on the square' rather than 'squared'; then move to a mysterious woman called Myra, before discovering that he was at one time -in a sense, still is- Mae West's neighbour.
-Who is he?

Before you start with the number: ie 'the number' = 'le chiffre' in French, and the character in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale based on Crowley. Yes, the 'Mysteries of Myra' was a series of film in the silent era based on Crowley and a useful and pointless diversion to Myra Breckenridge.
The Mysteries of Myra (1916) - IMDb
And yes, Crowley is 'neighbour' to Mae West on the cover of Sgt Pepper's, WC Fields on the other side.

I guess that is 9/10 but still gets you into Langley or GCHQ.

So here then is the new one, probably the easiest of the puzzles so far.

The answer to this puzzle is a transexual model who has featured on HungAngels.

To find the name of this person, you need to exit this underground railway station close to the street named after one of the most famous musicians who once lived in Vienna, and then link it to the popular name for a luxurious train service that used to run in Italy.