# 27 actors, 1 movie (a really hard game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951 "2005-10-12T20:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/21 "2005-10-12T21:05:54Z")
Leslie Nielsen (from Airplane), Priscilla Presley (from The Adventures of Ford Fairlane) & Ricardo Montalban (from Star Trek II) - **The Naked Gun** ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/22 "2005-10-12T21:06:28Z")
John Ritter Carol Burnett Denholm Elliott **Noises Off** ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/23 "2005-10-12T21:07:56Z")
Duh…20 posts since I last looked…sorry I messed up the flow…I’m at work (my lame excuse) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/24 "2005-10-12T21:08:08Z")
> [@BigDummy](#): > > Are we going for specific people? Is there really just one right answer? Yes, as **dasgupta** showed on the post after yours. He was correct. ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/25 "2005-10-12T21:09:24Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Now come up with an as-yet unlisted actor from each movie. I’ll take **Marlon Brando** from Apocalypse Now for $1,000, Alex. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/26 "2005-10-12T21:10:15Z")
> [@usar\_jag](#): > > I’ll take **Marlon Brando** from Apocalypse Now for $1,000, Alex. Wrong. The horror. The horror. ---
**Author:** ![BigDummy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@BigDummy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDummy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/27 "2005-10-12T21:12:24Z")
> [@usar\_jag](#): > > I’ll take **Marlon Brando** from Apocalypse Now for $1,000, Alex. How about **Robert Duvall**? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/28 "2005-10-12T21:14:30Z")
> [@BigDummy](#): > > How about **Robert Duvall**? Your guess smells like… victory. ---
**Author:** ![BigDummy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@BigDummy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDummy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/29 "2005-10-12T21:17:26Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Your guess smells like… victory. Guess? that weren’t no guess. 🙂 then how about **Barbara Hershey** in Tin Men? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/30 "2005-10-12T21:19:19Z")
> [@BigDummy](#): > > Guess? that weren’t no guess. 🙂 > then how about **Barbara Hershey** in Tin Men? You’ll note that in step 1 there was no Michael Douglas. But if I can’t put Barbara Hershey in a puzzle, then what’s the point of living? Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/31 "2005-10-12T21:22:39Z")
Robert Duvall–Apocalypse NowTom Skerritt–Contact Donald Sutherland–Space Cowboys M_A_S\*H ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/32 "2005-10-12T21:28:18Z")
Nice one… based on MASH and Naked Gun, I suspect I know the final movie, but I can’t find the link yet. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/33 "2005-10-12T21:32:49Z")
\*\* Manhattan Murder Mystery Noises Off Tin Men\*\* are left ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/34 "2005-10-12T21:33:10Z")
Michael Caine - Noises Off Barbara Hershey - Tin Men Woody Allen - MMM …in… **Hannah and Her Sisters** Final Answer… Sam Waterson - Hannah and Her Sisters OJ Simpson - The Naked Gun Elliot Gould - MASH … in the classic movie… **Capricorn One** ---
**Author:** ![dasgupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@dasgupta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasgupta)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/35 "2005-10-12T21:34:58Z")
Crap, I shoulda spoiler-ed that for those playing at home. :wally ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/36 "2005-10-12T21:37:27Z")
> [@dasgupta](#): > > Crap, I shoulda spoiler-ed that for those playing at home. > > :wally Nice one. I had guessed those three for the last three films, but couldn’t place them all in one movie. But I find Barbara Hershey mildly annoying so I block out films that have had her in them. And I’ve never seen _Capricorn One_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/37 "2005-10-12T21:49:07Z")
Here’s another one. NOTE: None of the movies (except the very last one) was released after 1960: Lucille Ball Joan Blondell Ronald Colman Marlene Dietrich Joan Fontaine Jean Harlow William Holden Sam Jaffe Charlton Heston Ruby Keeler Elsa Lanchester Janet Leigh Myrna Loy Victor McLaglen Adolphe Menjou Thomas Mitchell Kim Novak Dick Powell Vincent Price Edward G. Robinson Ginger Rogers James Stewart Gloria Swanson Spencer Tracy H.B. Warner Orson Welles Jane Wyatt ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/38 "2005-10-12T22:16:07Z")
> [@dasgupta](#): > > … in the classic movie… > > **Capricorn One** Well played! ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/39 "2005-10-12T23:13:48Z")
For Game #2:Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Vincent Price–“The Ten Commandments” BTW, I call dibs on the next game!😃 ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/40 "2005-10-12T23:20:54Z")
Another one:Lucille Ball, Adolphe Menjou, Ginger Rogers–“Stage Door” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951.md?page=3)