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Danny DeVito
Kathleen Turner
Michael Douglas
Romancing the Stone
The lyrics of this Dire Straits song was inspired by a performance of a Dixieland jazz band playing in an almost empty pub in Deptford, South London
"Sultans of Swing"
When asked about his knowledge of this man's death at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Wooden Leg said "no one could recognize any enemy during the fight, for they were too far away"
George Armstrong Custer
At the end of this 1953 Ray Bradbury novel, fireman Guy Montag commits to memory the Book of Ecclesiastes and portions of the Book of Revelation to preserve for future generations
Fahrenheit 451
River Phoenix
Sean Connery
John Rhys-Davies
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
This big band jazz classic was written and recorded by Louis Prima in 1936, before it was more famously recorded in 1937 by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with an extended drum performance by Gene Krupa
"Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing)"
This Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a Classical Chinese text on military strategy
Sun Tzu
This 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel was inspired by the Turner-Ingersoll Mansion in Salem, Massachussetts
The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance
Michael Gambon
Gary Oldman
Alan Rickman
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
With versions by Etta James and Sam Cooke, this African-American spiritual song and one of the best-known Christian hymns refers to a metaphorical horse-drawn vehicle used in ancient times
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
This man who commanded the U.S. Third Army during World War II pioneered tank warfare and believed himself to be a reincarnated Greek hoplite and Roman legionnaire
George S. Patton
This 1961 novel's title refers to a paradoxical, no-win situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules or circular logic
Catch-22
Danny DeVito
Brad Dourif
Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The title of this jazz standard composed in 1931 by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills originated as the musical credo of Ellington's trumpeter, Bubber Miley
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
"War is Hell" is a quote from this man, famous for his 1864 March to the Sea
William Tecumseh Sherman
This novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962 and set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Laura Dern
Saoirse Ronan
Emma Watson
Little Women (2019)
Leadbelly's version was about swinging from the "Gallis Pole," but it would later be recorded as "Gallows Pole" for this band's third album in 1970 after Jimmy Page was experimenting with John Paul Jones' banjo
Led Zeppelin
Winston Churchill famously summed up this man's brilliant but abrasive personality by stating he was "in defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable."
Bernard Law Montgomery
In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this number is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, according to a supercomputer named Deep Thought that spent 7.5 million years calculating it
42