# 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")\
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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:** [January 17, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8826 "2021-01-17T22:53:22Z")

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**Movies about Mistaken Identity**

1. The Man Who Knew Too Little
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Visit

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8827 "2021-01-17T22:58:00Z")

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**Movies about Mistaken Identity**

1. The Man Who Knew Too Little
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Visit
4. North by Northwest

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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:** [January 17, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8828 "2021-01-17T23:02:34Z")

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**Movies about Mistaken Identity**

1. The Man Who Knew Too Little
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Visit
4. North by Northwest
5. The Man With One Red Shoe

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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:** [January 18, 2021, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8829 "2021-01-18T01:30:24Z")

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**Movies about Mistaken Identity**

1. The Man Who Knew Too Little
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Visit
4. North by Northwest
5. The Man With One Red Shoe
6. The Court Jester (1955)

_ **-“BB”-** _

by the way, Professor –  
re: #10 (Moby Dick) on the ‘fishing boats’ thread — whales are mammals, not fish.

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8830 "2021-01-18T01:42:37Z")

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**Movies about Mistaken Identity**

1. The Man Who Knew Too Little
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Visit
4. North by Northwest
5. The Man With One Red Shoe
6. The Court Jester (1955)
7. Some Like It Hot

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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:** [January 18, 2021, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8831 "2021-01-18T03:31:07Z")

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> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#):
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> by the way, Professor –  
> re: #10 (Moby Dick) on the ‘fishing boats’ thread — whales are mammals, not fish.

Within the marine or aquatic culture, harvesting anything zoological from water is “the fishery”, such as the sponge fishert, the seal sifhery, etc.

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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:** [January 18, 2021, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8832 "2021-01-18T03:35:28Z")

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**Movies about Mistaken Identity**

1. The Man Who Knew Too Little
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Visit
4. North by Northwest
5. The Man With One Red Shoe
6. The Court Jester (1955)
7. Some Like It Hot
8. Day of the Jackal

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8833 "2021-01-18T07:29:26Z")

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**Movies about Mistaken Identity**

1. The Man Who Knew Too Little
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Visit
4. North by Northwest
5. The Man With One Red Shoe
6. The Court Jester (1955)
7. Some Like It Hot
8. Day of the Jackal
9. Dave

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8834 "2021-01-18T17:48:56Z")

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**Movies about Mistaken Identity**

1. The Man Who Knew Too Little
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Visit
4. North by Northwest
5. The Man With One Red Shoe
6. The Court Jester (1955)
7. Some Like It Hot
8. Day of the Jackal
9. Dave
10. Charade

**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8835 "2021-01-18T18:04:36Z")

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8836 "2021-01-18T18:35:13Z")

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)
3. Back to the Future Part III - Marty McFly/Clint Eastwood (Michael J. Fox)

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8837 "2021-01-18T18:39:15Z")

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)
3. Back to the Future Part III - Marty McFly/Clint Eastwood (Michael J. Fox)
4. The Big Lebowski - Jeffrey Lebowski etc.: [Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. - GIF QUOTES](https://gifquotes.com/q/57b2efc7fd94012eadbdb38c)

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8838 "2021-01-18T18:43:49Z")

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)
3. Back to the Future Part III - Marty McFly/Clint Eastwood (Michael J. Fox)
4. The Big Lebowski - Jeffrey Lebowski etc.: [Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. - GIF QUOTES](https://gifquotes.com/q/57b2efc7fd94012eadbdb38c)
5. Dick Tracy - Breathless Mahoney/No Face (Madonna)

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8839 "2021-01-18T18:48:54Z")

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)
3. Back to the Future Part III - Marty McFly/Clint Eastwood (Michael J. Fox)
4. The Big Lebowski - Jeffrey Lebowski etc.: [Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. - GIF QUOTES](https://gifquotes.com/q/57b2efc7fd94012eadbdb38c) (Jeff Bridges)
5. Dick Tracy - Breathless Mahoney/No Face (Madonna)
6. Young Sherlock Holmes - Prof. Rathe/Ehtar/Prof. Moriarty (Anthony Higgins)

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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:** [January 18, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8840 "2021-01-18T19:20:38Z")

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)
3. Back to the Future Part III - Marty McFly/Clint Eastwood (Michael J. Fox)
4. The Big Lebowski - Jeffrey Lebowski etc.: [Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. - GIF QUOTES](https://gifquotes.com/q/57b2efc7fd94012eadbdb38c) (Jeff Bridges)
5. Dick Tracy - Breathless Mahoney/No Face (Madonna)
6. Young Sherlock Holmes - Prof. Rathe/Ehtar/Prof. Moriarty (Anthony Higgins)
7. Day of the Jackal (1973) - ‘The Jackal’ _(played by Edward Fox)_ uses several aliases/identities including Alexander Duggan, Per Jensen, Marty Schulberg, Andre Martin, and Charles Calthrop

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)
3. Back to the Future Part III - Marty McFly/Clint Eastwood (Michael J. Fox)
4. The Big Lebowski - Jeffrey Lebowski etc.: [Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. - GIF QUOTES](https://gifquotes.com/q/57b2efc7fd94012eadbdb38c) (Jeff Bridges)
5. Dick Tracy - Breathless Mahoney/No Face (Madonna)
6. Young Sherlock Holmes - Prof. Rathe/Ehtar/Prof. Moriarty (Anthony Higgins)
7. Day of the Jackal (1973) - ‘The Jackal’ _(played by Edward Fox)_ uses several aliases/identities including Alexander Duggan, Per Jensen, Marty Schulberg, Andre Martin, and Charles Calthrop
8. Spider-Man Far From Home - Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and… Night Monkey

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)
3. Back to the Future Part III - Marty McFly/Clint Eastwood (Michael J. Fox)
4. The Big Lebowski - Jeffrey Lebowski etc.: [Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. - GIF QUOTES](https://gifquotes.com/q/57b2efc7fd94012eadbdb38c) (Jeff Bridges)
5. Dick Tracy - Breathless Mahoney/No Face (Madonna)
6. Young Sherlock Holmes - Prof. Rathe/Ehtar/Prof. Moriarty (Anthony Higgins)
7. Day of the Jackal (1973) - ‘The Jackal’ _(played by Edward Fox)_ uses several aliases/identities including Alexander Duggan, Per Jensen, Marty Schulberg, Andre Martin, and Charles Calthrop
8. Spider-Man Far From Home - Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and… Night Monkey
9. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Freddy, Ruprecht, etc. - Steve Martin  
Lawrence, Dr. Schaffhausen , etc. - Michael Caine  
Janet, The Jackel, etc. - Glenne Headly

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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:** [January 19, 2021, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8843 "2021-01-19T01:16:22Z")

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**Movies with Characters Who Use More than One Name**

1. Charade - Peter Joshua/Alexander Dyle/Adam Canfield/Brian Cruikshank (Cary Grant)
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - Senator Palpatine / Darth Sidious (Ian McDiarmid)
3. Back to the Future Part III - Marty McFly/Clint Eastwood (Michael J. Fox)
4. The Big Lebowski - Jeffrey Lebowski etc.: [Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. - GIF QUOTES](https://gifquotes.com/q/57b2efc7fd94012eadbdb38c) (Jeff Bridges)
5. Dick Tracy - Breathless Mahoney/No Face (Madonna)
6. Young Sherlock Holmes - Prof. Rathe/Ehtar/Prof. Moriarty (Anthony Higgins)
7. Day of the Jackal (1973) - ‘The Jackal’ _(played by Edward Fox)_ uses several aliases/identities including Alexander Duggan, Per Jensen, Marty Schulberg, Andre Martin, and Charles Calthrop
8. Spider-Man Far From Home - Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and… Night Monkey
9. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Freddy, Ruprecht, etc. - Steve Martin  
Lawrence, Dr. Schaffhausen , etc. - Michael Caine  
Janet, The Jackel, etc. - Glenne Headly
10. Barton Fink - Charlie Meadows aka Karl “Madman” Mundt - John Goodman

Movies made before 9/11 featuring the World Trade Center

1. King Kong (1976)

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**Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8844 "2021-01-19T01:23:01Z")

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Movies made before 9/11 featuring the World Trade Center

1. King Kong (1976)
2. Godspell (1973)

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**Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-1/838780/8845 "2021-01-19T02:06:59Z")

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Movies made before 9/11 featuring the World Trade Center

1. King Kong (1976)
2. Godspell (1973)
3. Crocodile Dundee (1986)

_ **-“BB”-** _

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