Game #141 - Written on the Wind

[Janke]

Rule 1:
NO IMAGE HOSTING ON EXTERNAL SERVERS.
Images for the games need to be ATTACHED to the post, and thus uploaded to our server.

Rule 2:
TWO GUESSES PER PERSON PER POSTED PICTURE!!! Those two guesses are not allowed to be in the same post, NOR in a consecutive post.
I.e. you can post one guess, then have to wait for someone else to post: your second guess is not allowed to be immediately following your first guess.

Rule 3:
The WINNER of the game can start a new game IN A NEW THREAD.
NO ONE ELSE (unless yielded so by the winner).

Rule 4:
Once there's a winner, PLEASE post the correct name into the thread (spelled correctly,
and capitalized correctly, and not in italics or bold face.)

Rule 5:
The correct title format is: "Game" / space / "#" / number.
Example: " Game #12" (without the ")
(no space between the # sign and the number!)

Rule 6:
These complete rules (1 to 6) have to be copy&pasted into each new game's first post.


OK, here we go... hints will follow later!

PS: Thanks for the thumbs-up, fellow gamers!

[Khufu1969]

Chinatown

[Janke]

No.

Hint: Four big-name stars. Really big name stars...

Can you identify an actor by his nostrils? Here's your chance:

[Lawrence189]

I know it's either Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson...

[Khufu1969]

I know it's either Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson...

Your certainty almost guarantees it's neither.

My guess: Goldfinger

[Janke]

Goldfinger? No way - haven't you ever seen Connery's hairy front?

Next picture, and a new hint:

One of those four big-name stars got an Academy Award not long ago.

[Lawrence189]

Casino?

[Janke]

No, but here's a convoluted hint for you:

One of the stars in that movie played in a movie that one of the four aforementioned stars also played in, but that movie isn't this movie... :hv20-smilie84:

[Janke]

No guesses? One more hint:

Two of those four aforementioned big-name stars have died.

A new screenshot will be posted in a few hours. It will soon get easier, the idea is that even someone who hasn't seen the movie will be able to guess correctly.

[Janke]

Slow day, today...

As promised, here's the next screenshot.

One more hint, too: The death of one of the players caused quite a stir...

More pics & hints tomorrow morning, GMT.

[Khufu1969]

Ocean's Eleven (the original)

[Lawrence189]

The A Team

[Khufu1969]

12 Angry Men

[keith_games]

12 Angry Men

can't be that...shot in the dark here...

In The Heat of The Night?

[Janke]

None right. 12 Angry Men was black&white, to boot... but as a hint: It does put you in the right decade!

Next screenshot, more hints will follow later:

[HueyNRolf]

The Slender Thread?

[Janke]

No.

[Janke]

Hmmmm - is it that difficult? This film is a classic, in many ways...

Looks like you need another screenshot, and a hint:

This movie is based on real-life events (but with certain changes, as always)... Also, the same "true story" was used in another movie, made some 20 years earlier.

[Janke]

Slow day again?

This is not meant to be this difficult (or have people just been enjoying nice weekend weather?)

Here's a screenshot of one of the major players. Pretty unsharp image, but can you recognize the fuzz - one of the four "big stars" getting smacked?

Hint: There is quite an obvious hint in the above paragraph.

[Lawrence189]

Aviator?

[Jim E]

That looks like John Wayne smacking Robert Stack - again!!!! Only this time they're not flying an aeroplane.... :hv20-smilie84:

Just an idle observation, Janke.... I'm not a contender in this game.

This is a brain-buster so far.

[Janke]

This is a brain-buster so far.

That is indeed my intention. :hv20-smilie84:
(All those hints will be thoroughly explained when this game is finished...)

Next screenshot will be up within 6 hours.

[Janke]

Here are two screenshots, one from the opening title sequence, and another from the end.

Hint: German-born director.

If this doesn't help, I'll just have to show more star faces...

[Janke]

One more hint before bedtime:

Tarantino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino), Fassbinder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder), von Trier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_von_Trier) and Almodóvar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Almod%C3%B3var) have all praised the director's work - nowadays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_von_Trier)considered masterpieces of irony, contrary to the original reception, when his films were panned by the critics...

New pics and hints next morning, GMT time.

[HueyNRolf]

Written on the Wind?

[Jim E]

I'm 99.99999% sure you got it, Huey.

[HueyNRolf]

We'll see, don't underestimate Janke's cunning.

[Janke]

Finally! Huey did it - it's indeed

Written on the Wind


Here are the explanations to clarify all those hints (am I being too educational, here?):

# means post number

#3 - the four big stars were Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone.

#6 - Lauren Bacall received an Oscar in 2009.

#8 - Sharon Stone played in Casino. She was also in Basic Instinct, as was Dorothy Malone.

#9 - Rock Hudson & Robert Stack are dead, but the old gals still hang on...

#10 - Hudson died in 1985, one of the first celebrity deaths from AIDS.

#15 - The original 12 Angry Men was made in the 1950s.

#18 - Based on the life of millionaire Zachary Smith Reynolds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Smith_Reynolds). (The 1935 film was "Reckless", starring Jean Harlow.)

#19 - The "fuzz" is Robert Stack. Remember the "Untouchables" TV series where he played Eliot Ness - the ultimate "fuzz", wouldn't you agree? :hv20-smilie84:

# 23 - Directed by Douglas Sirk, originally Hans Detlef Sierck, born 1897 in Hamburg, Germany to Danish parents.

I couldn't imagine this would be so difficult, I almost thought I'd have to divulge Malone's Oscar and Golden Globe awards...

Here are the rest of the screenshots:

[Jim E]

I suspected it was either Frank Sinatra or Robert Stack.

Excellent game, Janke!!

[HueyNRolf]

Good job, Janke. It's well before my time, but I enjoyed solving it by following the hints. Now I'm destined for dinner-party stardom with my knowledge of German-born movie directors.

Next game up soon.