# Movie Marathon (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 26, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801 "2021-03-26T22:06:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 99
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1962 "2021-08-23T17:07:41Z")
**Movies with unusual deaths** 1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant 3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin. 4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head 5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Newman) is painted to death by robots he built to make his paintings. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1963 "2021-08-23T17:08:30Z")
**Movies with unusual deaths** 1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant 3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin. 4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head 5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings. [edit: I realized Mr. Creosote is actually alive after exploding in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.] ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1964 "2021-08-23T19:32:26Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > [edit: I realized Mr. Creosote is actually alive after exploding in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life.] There’s at least one other actual, unusual death in the film, as well, which I’m adding: **Movies with unusual deaths** 1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant 3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin. 4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head 5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings. 6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1965 "2021-08-23T20:52:06Z")
**Movies with unusual deaths** 1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant 3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin. 4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head 5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings. 6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women 7. Alien - creature pops out of chest ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1966 "2021-08-23T20:54:34Z")
**Movies with unusual deaths** 1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant 3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin. 4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head 5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings. 6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women 7. Alien - creature pops out of chest 8. Star Wars: A New Hope - Obi wan Kenobi ‘dematerializes’ as Darth’s light sabre slices through his empty clothes ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1967 "2021-08-23T21:12:57Z")
**Movies with unusual deaths** 1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant 3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin. 4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head 5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings. 6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women 7. Alien - creature pops out of chest 8. Star Wars: A New Hope - Obi wan Kenobi ‘dematerializes’ as Darth’s light sabre slices through his empty clothes 9. Dr. Strangelove - Major Kong rides an H-bomb to nuclear oblivion, hoping to take a bunch of Godless Rooskies with him. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1968 "2021-08-23T21:56:52Z")
**Movies with unusual deaths** 1. This Is Spinal Tap - spontaneous combustion 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - melted by Ark of the Covenant 3. Se7en - Prostitute died of internal bleeding when a sex customer was forced to have sex with her with a bladed strap-on, as the Lust Sin. 4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes - death by crushing frog’s head 5. What a Way to Go! - Artist Larry Flint (played by Paul Neuman) is painted to death by a robot he built to make his paintings. 6. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life - a man who has been sentenced to death, but was allowed to choose his own method of execution, is chased off of the top of the Cliffs of Dover by a mob of topless women 7. Alien - creature pops out of chest 8. Star Wars: A New Hope - Obi wan Kenobi ‘dematerializes’ as Darth’s light sabre slices through his empty clothes 9. Dr. Strangelove - Major Kong rides an H-bomb to nuclear oblivion, hoping to take a bunch of Godless Rooskies with him. 10. Scanners - a man’s head explodes Pass. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1969 "2021-08-23T22:33:45Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1970 "2021-08-23T23:34:48Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1971 "2021-08-23T23:35:14Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets 3. The Quiet Man ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1972 "2021-08-23T23:42:32Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets 3. The Quiet Man 4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan?? _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [August 24, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1973 "2021-08-24T00:01:46Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets 3. The Quiet Man 4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan?? 5. Hatari! ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1974 "2021-08-24T00:45:46Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets 3. The Quiet Man 4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan?? 5. Hatari! 6. Rooster Cogburn ---
**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:** [August 24, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1975 "2021-08-24T02:05:16Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets 3. The Quiet Man 4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan?? 5. Hatari! 6. Rooster Cogburn 7. The High and the Mighty ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1976 "2021-08-24T02:50:14Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets 3. The Quiet Man 4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan?? 5. Hatari! 6. Rooster Cogburn 7. The High and the Mighty 8. The Sands of Iwo Jima Worth a read as to #4: [Did John Wayne die of cancer caused by a radioactive movie set? - The Straight Dope](https://www.straightdope.com/21341555/did-john-wayne-die-of-cancer-caused-by-a-radioactive-movie-set) ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1977 "2021-08-24T03:00:25Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets 3. The Quiet Man 4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan?? 5. Hatari! 6. Rooster Cogburn 7. The High and the Mighty 8. The Sands of Iwo Jima 9. Hondo ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1978 "2021-08-24T04:03:29Z")
**John Wayne** 1. True Grit 2. The Green Berets 3. The Quiet Man 4. The Conqueror … seriously, John Wayne as Genghis Khan?? 5. Hatari! 6. Rooster Cogburn 7. The High and the Mighty 8. The Sands of Iwo Jima 9. Hondo 10.Stagecoaxh Pass ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1979 "2021-08-24T04:22:57Z")
How did nobody say _The Searchers_? It’s John Wayne’s best movie. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1980 "2021-08-24T04:24:56Z")
New category: John Ford movies that didn’t feature John Wayne 1. _The Grapes of Wrath_ ---
**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:** [August 24, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801/1981 "2021-08-24T11:34:27Z")
**John Ford movies that didn’t feature John Wayne** 1. The Grapes of Wrath 2. The Informer [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=98) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-marathon-part-2/938801.md?page=100)