# 27 to 9 to 3 to 1--Resurrection! (Movie Game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361 "2006-05-26T19:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/1 "2006-05-26T19:36:14Z")
We haven’t done this for awhile, I’ve missed it (as I hope some of you have), so here goes! For the uninitiated, here are the rules: We begin with a list of 27 actors. Divide the list into 9 sets of three actors who were in a film together (use each actor only once). Now, take each group of three and add a _fourth_ actor from the same film; when completed you will now have a list of 9 different actors. Divide _that_ list into 3 groups of three, add the fourth actor to each group, and you will end up with a single group of three. Name the film they have in common and you win! Example: \*\*C K Dexter Haven, CalMeacham, \*\* and **carnivorousplant** were in “Revenge of the Straight Dope” together–along with **Ukulele Ike** and so on. Feel free to use imdb or other sources at your disposal. There are no repeats in this game; each actor is used only once. One request: should you figure the final answer out out sometime in the first round or so, please use spoiler boxes so the less brilliant among us can continue to play! 😃 THE LIST: Claire Bloom Ernest Borgnine Marlon Brando Philip Carey Art Carney Sean Connery Tim Curry Marlene Dietrich Judy Garland Cedric Hardwicke David Hemmings James Earl Jones Burt Lancaster Dorothy Malone E.G. Marshall Agnes Moorehead Kim Novak Laurence Olivier Gregory Peck Donald Pleasance Joan Plowright Anthony Quinn Susan Sarandon Donald Sutherland James Stewart Spencer Tracy Lee Van Cleef GOOD LUCK! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/2 "2006-05-26T19:59:56Z")
I’ll play - from home so I can concentrate on it ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/3 "2006-05-26T21:02:20Z")
Dammit, I INVENTED the game! And yet I’ll be computerless for 4 days. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/4 "2006-05-26T21:04:17Z")
Ah, perhaps. But you will be having outside fun, no? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/5 "2006-05-26T21:06:36Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Ah, perhaps. But you will be having outside fun, no? I’ll be having a fargin’ blast! As soon as my GF gets here. I’ll play until then. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/6 "2006-05-26T21:09:33Z")
gotta say - Tim Curry has been in a lot more movies than I would have guessed - this is going to be harder than I thought ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/7 "2006-05-26T22:33:38Z")
ok - I think I have the first one: **Judgement At Nuremberg** Spencer Tracy Marlene Dietrich Burt Lancaster with **Richard Widmark** ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/8 "2006-05-26T22:35:23Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > ok - I think I have the first one: > **Judgement At Nuremberg** > Spencer Tracy > Marlene Dietrich > Burt Lancaster > with **Richard Widmark** Widmark is correct, but you only have 2 of the 3 Nuremburg actors. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/9 "2006-05-26T22:55:25Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Widmark is correct, but you only have 2 of the 3 Nuremburg actors. okay - Then Judy Garland with Marlene & Burt? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/10 "2006-05-26T23:08:22Z")
#2 **Escape From New York** Ernest Borgnine Donald Pleasance Lee Van Cleef with **Harry Dean Stanton** (Kurt Russell would have been too obvious) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/11 "2006-05-26T23:15:32Z")
2 for 2! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/12 "2006-05-26T23:17:13Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > 2 for 2! 😃 Oops, sorry! Escape from NY is 100% right, Nuremberg is still 2 out of 3 (Garland is right, though). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/13 "2006-05-26T23:18:23Z")
To avoid confusion, Nuremberg is Lancaster, Tracy and Garland…with Widmark. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/14 "2006-05-26T23:32:28Z")
**A Dry White Season** with Marlon Brando Susan Sarandon Donald Sutherland & **Jürgen Prochnow** ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/15 "2006-05-26T23:37:29Z")
Update: Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland– **Judgment at Nuremburg** --Richard Widmark Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasance, Lee Van Cleef– **Escape From NY** – Harry Dean Stanton List: Claire Bloom Marlon Brando Philip Carey Art Carney Sean Connery Tim Curry Marlene Dietrich Cedric Hardwicke David Hemmings James Earl Jones Dorothy Malone E.G. Marshall Agnes Moorehead Kim Novak Laurence Olivier Gregory Peck Joan Plowright Anthony Quinn Susan Sarandon Donald Sutherland James Stewart ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/16 "2006-05-26T23:37:53Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > **A Dry White Season** with > Marlon Brando > Susan Sarandon > Donald Sutherland > & > **Jürgen Prochnow** who, now? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/17 "2006-05-26T23:38:39Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > **A Dry White Season** with > Marlon Brando > Susan Sarandon > Donald Sutherland > & > **Jürgen Prochnow** DING DING DING!!! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/18 "2006-05-26T23:41:32Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > **A Dry White Season** with > Marlon Brando > Susan Sarandon > Donald Sutherland > & > **Jürgen Prochnow** oh! _that_ guy! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/19 "2006-05-26T23:52:59Z")
ok - I have complaint - **Marlene Dietrich** was in lots of movies, several with **Jimmy Stewart** , but I could not match her up with more than one on your list other than in **Judgement**. Is it too early for a hint? ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361/20 "2006-05-26T23:55:58Z")
**Pushover:** Philip Carey E.G. Marshall Kim Novak and **Robert Stevenson** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-to-9-to-3-to-1-resurrection-movie-game/358361.md?page=2)