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StoneKeeper's Summer Movie Guessing Game: I Recommend THIS Movie #1126 [Skanderbeg (1953) Winner: MonStar]


I have a movie in mind and you have to guess which one it is. For each movie you guess, I will give a hint that connects your guess with the movie I have in mind.

For each guess, a connection is posted. Example of connections: Actor, length, genre, aspect ratio, language, country, year, director, actor, writer in common, rating, number of votes, nominations. It can even be something like: both movies involve Cabbage Patch Kids. Also, you can use Metascore color or rating, Rotten Tomatoes score, any award wins or nominations in common, same number of words in the title, plot keywords.

- The winner can either start a new game or say "pass". In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another one.
- After 12 hints and 13 guesses, the point goes to the OP and he/she gets to start another one.
- Movie must have at least 3500 IMDB votes. Otherwise, add a bonus hint.
- Maximum 2 guesses per player per hint.
- Can't edit a guess once posted. Delete ONLY

Helpful search engine: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/
Previous films: https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/5ed7f020eadc5870c51c98ab/StoneKeepers-Game-list-of-movies?page=1


Bonus hint: Under 3500 votes.
Hint 1: Female Slave Ship (1960) - Release date earlier than the 1970s.
Hint 2: Rent-a-Cat (2012) - Setting is outside of the Americas.
Hint 3: The Red Angel (1966) - IMDb rating in the 7s.
Hint 4: Our Folks (1967) - The movie was made in Eastern Europe.
Hint 5: Death by Hanging (1968) - Drama genre.
Hint 6: The Joke (1969) - Fewer than 1300 votes on IMDb.

MonStar wins with Skanderbeg (1953), an Albanian-Soviet co-production about the medieval Albanian leader Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg who led a war of resistance against the Ottoman Empire. Anyone who enjoys historical epics should like this one. Excellent movie and highly recommended.

Scoreboard:
FredBurroughs: 208
hownos: 157
LauraGrace1975: 138
Allaby: 128
lud: 100 (EMERITUS)
nyctc7: 94
StoneKeeper: 82
Kawada_Kira: 67
dmac8: 44 (EMERITUS)
SkyCoyote5150: 25 (EMERITUS)
tcrum: 17
KvlhokVjequs: 15
MonStar: 15
twinA: 12
Vastuntitled: 5
SomeCodhopper: 4
SamGerard: 3
Stratego: 3
KasparHauser: 2
MinaVladimir: 1
godewey: 1
ShogunofYonkers: 1
Damosuzuki: 1
sslssg: 1
Kowalski: 1

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Female Slave Ship, 1960

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Hint added.

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By the way it's good to see you again! I'm glad you came back.

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I love you too. Great to be back.
Love your Bridge of Spies review.

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Glad you liked it. :)

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Hint added.

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The Red Angel (1966)

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Hint added.

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Our Folks (1967)

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Hint added.

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Death by Hanging, 1968

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Hint added.

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The Joke (1969)

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Hint added.

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Skanderbeg (1953)

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Wow, you got it! I thought it would need at least a few more hints. Well done!

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Eastern Europe was under Soviet control during this time frame. All those different languages! I didn't think anyone could figure it out, without knowing the language.

I saw a brief description that Albania and another country had more independence in that era. This was the only film that showed up in a search of the Albanian language in that time frame.

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Well done, MonStar.

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Well, I think you read a bit too much into it. I said nothing of how closely any state was aligned with the USSR. My hint could just as well have applied to east Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia or the USSR itself. Or, if one wants to apply a non-political definition to Eastern Europe, it could have included Finland and Greece. In fact my hint didn't even leave out the possibility of the movie being from before World War II when there were no socialist states in Eastern Europe other than the USSR itself, and the movie could have been from any prewar Eastern European country. Furthermore, in 1953 when this movie was made, Albania and the Soviet Union were at the peak of their friendly relations; it was a few years later, some time after Khrushchev became leader of the USSR, that their relations began to deteriorate, and it wasn't until the early 1960s that they openly broke with each other.

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That's what made it so difficult. Laura and I were posting Japanese films at first. Then I tried Poland, to see if we were wrong on the country. I didn't see anything in Yugoslavia before 1970 that grabbed me. A film about THE national hero of Albania set in the 1400s sounded possible.

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Ah I see, that makes sense. Yeah, I did think that one of the advantages of using this movie was its subject matter and IMDb description which might make it stand out more from a lot of other Eastern European movies in the under-3500 vote range that had little description at all. To be honest, I was a bit reluctant to try this movie because my thread where I used a Hungarian movie a few weeks ago was a bit of a fiasco. This one worked out pretty well though. I was glad when you picked a Polish movie lol, that really helped.

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Good job!

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