Difference between revisions of "Chess in movies"

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Chess in movies include the following:

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, in their primes, play perhaps the most enthralling chess match in film history.^[1]
From Russia with Love (1963) - the opening scene is a chess match, played on the entire floor of the room. The novel on which the book was based was a favorite of President JFK, and Frank Sinatra sang the theme song for the movie.
Star Trek (1960s) - a television series in which a game of 3-dimensional chess is featured in one segment.
The Queen's Gambit (2020) - the most popular series ever on Netflix, about a girl who became a chess prodigy.^[2]
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) - "Be careful – I'll get you yet!" the ostensibly homosexual murderer "smilingly warns the landlady's blonde daughter as they play a flirtatious game of chess."^[3]
Casablanca (1942) - considered one of the greatest movies of all time, it has a legendary chess scene and the actors frequently played chess during breaks in filming.^[4]
The Luzhin Defence (2001) - much of the movie, including its climax, is about chess.^[5]
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) - the last silent movie by Alfred Hitchcock, it has a tantalizing, flirtatious chess game between a serial murderer and unsuspecting blonde woman model, beginning at 25 minutes into the 90-minute movie that went into the public domain on Jan. 1, 2023.

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 *''[[Casablanca (film, 1942)|Casablanca]]'' (1942) - considered one of the greatest movies of all time, it has a legendary chess scene and the actors frequently played chess during breaks in filming.<ref>https://en.chessbase.com/post/casablanca-a-tribute-to-a-classic</ref>
 *''The Luzhin Defence'' (2001) - much of the movie, including its climax, is about chess.<ref>https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-luzhin-defence.html</ref>
-*''The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'' (1927) -  the last silent movie by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], it has a tantalizing, flirtatious [[chess]] game between a serial murderer and unsuspecting blonde woman model.
+*''The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'' (1927) -  the last silent movie by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], it has a tantalizing, flirtatious [[chess]] game between a serial murderer and unsuspecting blonde woman model, beginning at 25 minutes into the 90-minute movie that went into the [[public domain]] on Jan. 1, 2023.
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