# Movie Marathon (Part 1)

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**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 17, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780 "2019-08-17T02:03:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8326 "2020-12-14T10:31:07Z")

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**Next** : Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal

Saw it last night

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8327 "2020-12-14T12:18:18Z")

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Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal
3. The Golden Pince-Nez

One of the classic Stoll Pictures Sherlock Holmes shorts.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8328 "2020-12-14T13:47:10Z")

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Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal
3. The Golden Pince-Nez
4. Superman

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**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8329 "2020-12-14T14:37:32Z")

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Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal
3. The Golden Pince-Nez
4. Superman
5. National Treasure

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8330 "2020-12-14T16:30:42Z")

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Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal
3. The Golden Pince-Nez
4. Superman
5. National Treasure
6. How to Marry a Millionnaire

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8331 "2020-12-14T16:41:05Z")

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Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal
3. The Golden Pince-Nez
4. Superman
5. National Treasure
6. How to Marry a Millionnaire
7. A Christmas Story

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8332 "2020-12-14T16:45:45Z")

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Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal
3. The Golden Pince-Nez
4. Superman
5. National Treasure
6. How to Marry a Millionnaire
7. A Christmas Story
8. They Live

“A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.”

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8333 "2020-12-14T16:53:03Z")

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Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal
3. The Golden Pince-Nez
4. Superman
5. National Treasure
6. How to Marry a Millionnaire
7. A Christmas Story
8. They Live
9. Major League – _“Well, after the game, I’m gonna pick out a pair that’s more me.”_

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8334 "2020-12-14T17:43:26Z")

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Movies where a pair of eyeglasses are significant somehow.

1. Compulsion
2. Day of the Jackal
3. The Golden Pince-Nez
4. Superman
5. National Treasure
6. How to Marry a Millionnaire
7. A Christmas Story
8. They Live
9. Major League – _“Well, after the game, I’m gonna pick out a pair that’s more me.”_
10. The Blues Brothers

Next: Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8335 "2020-12-14T17:56:44Z")

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Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8336 "2020-12-14T17:57:27Z")

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Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne
3. Harry’s bad hat (Jaws)

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8337 "2020-12-14T18:24:06Z")

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Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne
3. Harry’s bad hat (Jaws)
4. The Man with No Name’s hat of no name (Clint Eastwood’s westerns)

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8338 "2020-12-14T18:58:50Z")

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Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne
3. Harry’s bad hat (Jaws)
4. The Man with No Name’s hat of no name (Clint Eastwood’s westerns)
5. The Croc Hunter hat (Crocodile Dundee’s black hat)

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8339 "2020-12-14T20:36:45Z")

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Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne
3. Harry’s bad hat (Jaws)
4. The Man with No Name’s hat of no name (Clint Eastwood’s westerns)
5. The Croc Hunter hat (Crocodile Dundee’s black hat)
6. Oddjob’s bowler

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8340 "2020-12-14T21:50:59Z")

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Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne
3. Harry’s bad hat (Jaws)
4. The Man with No Name’s hat of no name (Clint Eastwood’s westerns)
5. The Croc Hunter hat (Crocodile Dundee’s black hat)
6. Oddjob’s bowler
7. Audrey Hepburn’s HUGE hat in My Fair Lady

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8341 "2020-12-14T22:11:22Z")

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Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne
3. Harry’s bad hat (Jaws)
4. The Man with No Name’s hat of no name (Clint Eastwood’s westerns)
5. The Croc Hunter hat (Crocodile Dundee’s black hat)
6. Oddjob’s bowler
7. Audrey Hepburn’s HUGE hat in My Fair Lady
8. The Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8342 "2020-12-15T03:08:14Z")

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Iconic hats in movies

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne
3. Harry’s bad hat (Jaws)
4. The Man with No Name’s hat of no name (Clint Eastwood’s westerns)
5. The Croc Hunter hat (Crocodile Dundee’s black hat)
6. Oddjob’s bowler
7. Audrey Hepburn’s HUGE hat in My Fair Lady
8. The Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies
9. The Three Amigos

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8343 "2020-12-15T16:31:34Z")

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**Iconic hats in movies**

1. Indiana Jones’ fedora
2. Captain Jack Sparrow’s tricorne
3. Harry’s bad hat (Jaws)
4. The Man with No Name’s hat of no name (Clint Eastwood’s westerns)
5. The Croc Hunter hat (Crocodile Dundee’s black hat)
6. Oddjob’s bowler
7. Audrey Hepburn’s HUGE hat in My Fair Lady
8. The Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies
9. The Three Amigos
10. Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in Forrest Gump, in the running scenes

**Movies with an iconic old person**

1. Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski (Gran Torino)

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8344 "2020-12-15T16:36:50Z")

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**Movies with an iconic old person**

1. Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski (Gran Torino)
2. Harold and Maude - Maude Chardin (Ruth Gordon)

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8345 "2020-12-15T16:40:06Z")

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**Movies with an iconic old person**

1. Gran Torino - Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood)
2. Harold and Maude - Maude Chardin (Ruth Gordon)

Housekeeping. Thanks, Prof.

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