# 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:** 25
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/481 "2005-10-17T13:05:06Z")
> [@Lil' Mahoney](#): > > Would Nevada Smith’s actor be Arthur Kennedy? No. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/482 "2005-10-17T15:23:07Z")
You’re sitting there gigglin with delight, aren’t you, while we run thru the entire casts of these movies on IMDB The Postman Always Rings Twice - Thomas Hill The Godfather Part II - Lee Strasberg Nevada Smith - Paul Fix Mystic River - Laura Linney ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/483 "2005-10-17T15:24:22Z")
You’re sitting there giggling with delight, aren’t you, while we run thru the entire casts of these movies on IMDB The Postman Always Rings Twice - Thomas Hill The Godfather Part II - Lee Strasberg Nevada Smith - Paul Fix Mystic River - Laura Linney ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/484 "2005-10-17T15:26:10Z")
sorry for the double post - server issues now i _know_ paul fix is correct because Paul Fix/James Stewart/Denver Pyle were all in Shenandoah and the 4th there is Doug McClure? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/485 "2005-10-17T17:17:18Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > You’re sitting there giggling with delight, aren’t you, while we run thru the entire casts of these movies on IMDB Maybe. > [@](#): > > The Postman Always Rings Twice - Thomas Hill > The Godfather Part II - Lee Strasberg > Nevada Smith - Paul Fix > Mystic River - Laura Linney No. No. No. No. I have to admit, I did consider using Lee Strasberg and Laura Linney as intermediate clues (to get you to those films). Your other post is offbase as well. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/486 "2005-10-17T17:27:59Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Maybe. > > No. > No. > No. > No. > > I have to admit, I did consider using Lee Strasberg and Laura Linney as intermediate clues (to get you to those films). Your other post is offbase as well. “Shenandoah” is wrong? or just the fourth actor ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/487 "2005-10-17T17:35:13Z")
silly me :smack: if paul fix is wrong, of course Shenandoah is wrong ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/488 "2005-10-17T17:39:45Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > “Shenandoah” is wrong? or just the fourth actor _Shenadoah_, Paul Fix and the Doug McClure don’t figure anywhere in this puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/489 "2005-10-17T18:38:45Z")
I’m ba-a-a-a-ck!“Nevada Smith”–Strother Martin Which gives us: James Stewart, Denver Pyle, Strother Martin–“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/490 "2005-10-17T18:45:58Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > I’m ba-a-a-a-ck!“Nevada Smith”–Strother Martin Which gives us: James Stewart, Denver Pyle, Strother Martin–“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/491 "2005-10-17T19:00:50Z")
“Postman”–Dick Balduzzi"GF2"–Harry Dean Stanton add in Donald Sutherland and you get “Kelly’s Heroes” So our final three films should be: “Mystic River” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” “Kelly’s Heroes” Right? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/492 "2005-10-17T19:13:49Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > “Postman”–Dick Balduzzi"GF2"–Harry Dean Stanton add in Donald Sutherland and you get “Kelly’s Heroes” So our final three films should be: “Mystic River” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” “Kelly’s Heroes” Right? Perfect. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/493 "2005-10-17T19:37:00Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Perfect. Problem: I figure the linchpin is Eli Wallach in "Mystic River"I can put him together with actors from “MWSLV” _or_ “Kelly’s Heroes”–but not both! Is my first guess right, at least? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/494 "2005-10-17T19:44:41Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Problem: I figure the linchpin is Eli Wallach in "Mystic River"I can put him together with actors from “MWSLV” _or_ “Kelly’s Heroes”–but not both! Is my first guess right, at least? Yes. It’s there, right in front of your nose. You can do it. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/495 "2005-10-17T19:52:27Z")
**want2know** , when you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk. Eli Wallach plus Clint Eastwood from Kelly’s Heroes and Lee van Cleef from MWSLV makes The Good, The Bad & The Ugly! ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/496 "2005-10-17T19:56:46Z")
> [@Lil' Mahoney](#): > > **want2know** , when you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk. > > Eli Wallach plus Clint Eastwood from Kelly’s Heroes and Lee van Cleef from MWSLV makes The Good, The Bad & The Ugly! ARRRRGH! I was thinking either John Wayne or Telly Savalas, which gave me 2/3 of “How the West Was Won” or “Mackenna’s Gold”! Nice play, Mahoney (and great quote!) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/497 "2005-10-17T19:57:43Z")
> [@Lil' Mahoney](#): > > **want2know** , when you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk. > > Eli Wallach plus Clint Eastwood from Kelly’s Heroes and Lee van Cleef from MWSLV makes The Good, The Bad & The Ugly! Voila! **Tdn** will have to let me know if that’s an elegant solution. Since they _are_ the Good (Eastwood), the Bad (Van Cleef) and the Ugly (Wallach), I think it fits. ---
**Author:** ![Desperate\_Welfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Desperate\_Welfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desperate_Welfie)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/498 "2005-10-17T20:07:23Z")
OK, I got next game! Alan Arkin Hank Azaria Kate Beckinsale Maria Bello Jake Busey Seymour Cassel Tommy Chong Michael Clarke Duncan Jeffrey Combs John Corbett Brian Cox John Cusack Carrie Fisher MC Gainey Henry Gibson Michael Jeter Harvey Keitel Ron Livingston Ceech Marin Sam Rockwell Wendy Schaal Molly Shannon Rachel True Dee Wallace-Stone Olivia Williams Clarence Williams III Fred Williamson ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/499 "2005-10-17T20:19:42Z")
Cusack, Beckinsale and Corbett were all in _Serendipity_. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951/500 "2005-10-17T20:22:40Z")
Jeter, Rockwell and Clarke-Duncan were all in _The Green Mile_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-actors-1-movie-a-really-hard-game/325951.md?page=26)