# What do these three movies have in common? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 20, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161 "2008-04-20T22:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/1 "2008-04-20T22:02:33Z")
Cool Hand Luke The Eiger Sanction Charade Citizen Kane The Long Hot Summer The Third Man Trapeze Apache Elmer Gantry Spartacus Guys and Dolls The Big Country Sorry Wrong Number Dial M For Murder The Jerk ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/2 "2008-04-20T22:27:27Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Cool Hand Luke The Eiger Sanction Charade [/quote] George Kennedy > [@Zeldar](#): > > Trapeze > Apache > Elmer Gantry Burt Lancaster > [@Zeldar](#): > > Spartacus > Guys and Dolls > The Big Country Jean Simmons ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/3 "2008-04-20T22:29:12Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] George Kennedy Burt Lancaster Jean Simmons [/QUOTE] Right so far! Add some of your own. Please. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/4 "2008-04-20T22:31:08Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Citizen Kane The Long Hot Summer The Third Man [/QUOTE] Without peeking at IMDb for #2, I’m going to guess Joseph Cotten. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/5 "2008-04-20T22:33:41Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Without peeking at IMDb for #2, I’m going to guess Joseph Cotten. [/QUOTE] Then you’d miss the bigger connection. I think Joe missed TLHS. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/6 "2008-04-20T22:39:56Z")
So we can’t use IMDB? Heck! Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Die Hard Big Trouble in Little China ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/7 "2008-04-20T22:44:29Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Then you’d miss the bigger connection. I think Joe missed TLHS. [/QUOTE] Then it’s gotta be Orson Welles. That seemed too easy. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/8 "2008-04-20T22:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] So we can’t use IMDB? Heck! Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Die Hard Big Trouble in Little China [/QUOTE] I don’t know how we could prevent the use of IMDB, but it ought to be more fun if we don’t use it. In your three, the only one I’ve seen is Die Hard and I haven’t a clue unless it’s a minor character or something other than a human being. BTW, people, that fifth batch in the OP is some dirty pool. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/9 "2008-04-20T22:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Then it’s gotta be Orson Welles. That seemed too easy. [/QUOTE] Bingo! Easy can be misleading, eh? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/10 "2008-04-20T22:50:21Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Sorry Wrong Number Dial M For Murder The Jerk [/QUOTE] A phone book? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/11 "2008-04-20T22:56:02Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] A phone book? [/QUOTE] Ain’t that nasty? Actually was thinking more phone with the oblique reference in The Jerk. But I guess yours is even more oblique. Anyway, that’s the idea. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/12 "2008-04-20T22:57:30Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Ain’t that nasty? Actually was thinking more phone with the oblique reference in The Jerk. But I guess yours is even more oblique. Anyway, that’s the idea. [/QUOTE] I’m obliquer? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/13 "2008-04-20T23:06:53Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I don’t know how we could prevent the use of IMDB, but it ought to be more fun if we don’t use it. In your three, the only one I’ve seen is Die Hard and I haven’t a clue unless it’s a minor character or something other than a human being. [/QUOTE] Mine is a minor character, who’s usually recognized as a familiar THAT GUY! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/14 "2008-04-20T23:09:58Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] Mine is a minor character, who’s usually recognized as a familiar THAT GUY! [/QUOTE] Thanks for the clue! But I’ll avoid IMDB and hope other players can profit from the clue. Mine would be a pure guess. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/15 "2008-04-20T23:30:45Z")
Here’s a fresh batch: Baby Doll The Godfather, Part III The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Zorba the Greek Lawrence of Arabia Viva Zapata The Big Country The Greatest Show on Earth Omega Man The Hot Spot A Boy And His Dog Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man America Graffiti The Conversation Apocalypse Now ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/16 "2008-04-20T23:35:30Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Here’s a fresh batch: Zorba the Greek Lawrence of Arabia Viva Zapata The Big Country The Greatest Show on Earth Omega Man [/QUOTE] For the first set it’s Anthony Quinn. For the second it’s Charlton Heston. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/17 "2008-04-20T23:36:56Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] For the first set it’s Anthony Quinn. For the second it’s Charlton Heston. [/QUOTE] Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/18 "2008-04-21T00:10:00Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] America Graffiti The Conversation Apocalypse Now [/QUOTE] Harrison Ford ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/19 "2008-04-21T00:10:31Z")
[QUOTE=Simplicio] Harrison Ford [/QUOTE] Yes. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-these-three-movies-have-in-common/446161/20 "2008-04-21T00:17:27Z")
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