# Son of Movie Chain-Link Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882 "2002-03-24T19:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/1 "2002-03-24T19:35:35Z")
Since the old thread is now 5 pages long, and since no-one else knew that Jaye Davidson was in _The Crying Game_, I’ll start another one. So, how about the great Robert Mitchum ---
**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:** [March 24, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/2 "2002-03-24T19:39:28Z")
_Robert Mitchum_ Night of the Hunter ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/3 "2002-03-24T19:42:15Z")
_Night of the Hunter_ Shelley Winters ---
**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:** [March 24, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/4 "2002-03-24T19:43:05Z")
_Shelly Winters_ Lolita ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/5 "2002-03-24T19:44:07Z")
_Lolita_ Peter Sellers ---
**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:** [March 24, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/6 "2002-03-24T19:45:00Z")
_Peter Sellers_ Being There ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/7 "2002-03-24T19:46:55Z")
Oh, that was low. It’s been years since I saw that. I’ll have to think about that one. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/8 "2002-03-24T19:47:24Z")
“Being There”: Melvyn Douglas ---
**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:** [March 24, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/9 "2002-03-24T19:49:24Z")
Even better. I know who he played but I can’t think of anyything else he was in. ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/10 "2002-03-24T19:52:01Z")
I can’t even picture him. Am I allowed to look for pictures of him to remind me who he is as long as I don’t check his filmography? ---
**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:** [March 24, 2002, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/11 "2002-03-24T19:55:34Z")
We’re on the honor system here anyway so I don’t see why not. He played (unless I’m mistaken), Shirley McLaine’s father. ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/12 "2002-03-24T20:03:49Z")
Well I’ve seen a picture of him and now it’s worse. What have I seen him in? ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/13 "2002-03-24T21:02:28Z")
can’t think of one. one of the oldies? maybe a movie with Errol Flynn [sp?] ? ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/14 "2002-03-24T22:15:22Z")
Wasn’t Melvyn Douglas in **Ghost Story**? ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/15 "2002-03-24T22:24:48Z")
Yup. \*Ghost Story[/] Fred Astaire ---
**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:** [March 24, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/16 "2002-03-24T22:34:19Z")
_Fred Astaire_ The Towering Inferno ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/17 "2002-03-24T23:23:04Z")
_The Towering Inferno_ Everybody in Hollywood. But to pick just one - Steve McQueen ---
**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:** [March 24, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/18 "2002-03-24T23:38:43Z")
_Steve McQueen_ Papillion ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/19 "2002-03-25T00:00:16Z")
_Papillon_ Dustin Hoffman ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-movie-chain-link-game/99882/20 "2002-03-25T00:10:49Z")
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