Degrees of Separation

[Brendan]

Robert Vaughn guests in the only cinema effort of this non-entity - Heat and Dust (1997) - The old man from Uncle was of course in Bullett which has a small part for Robert (Joe Kidd) Duvall.

Ye gods and catfish, Nighty.  A hero of yours is he?

No, George plays Nick Stokes on CSI, which is one of my favourite shows.

And the movie is Dust to Dust not Heat and Dust.

Anyway, your up Daisy.

[KC]

And ... Dust to Dust was released in 1994, not 1997! (Not that I've ever seen it!   )

I have seen Heat and Dust ... a Merchant-Ivory movie from 1983.

I know we're not counting made for TV movies here, but I can't resist pointing out that this Eads fellow (sounds like an acronym) was in a project called The Spring in 2000 ... costarring in that was a lass by the name of Alison Eastwood.  

[Daisy Abigael]

  Whoops!  Yeah a few of the details got garbled there between me reading them on one site and posting them on this.

Sorry.  (Especially to you Nighty as I know you are perfect in every way! )

New one:  Norman Wisdom.

[Brendan]

Sorry.  (Especially to you Nighty as I know you are perfect in every way! )

You got that right, you peasant fool. Now bow down before me and worship my perfectness.

 

[Daisy Abigael]

How about just answering the question, child.

[Brendan]

The question is open to anyone.

And I dont know about the U.K., but when you turn 18 in Canada, your an adult. Some Im not a "child".

[Daisy Abigael]

As you act, Nighty.  As you act.

[Brendan]

New one:  Norman Wisdom.

This ones been here for awhile. Anyone got any ideas?

I think we might need a hint Daisy.

[Daisy Abigael]

Well, Our Norm is a strictly godawful British comedian of the 50s and 60s but he did make at least one movie in America with a rather diverse and interesting cast.

And a thriller most recently which features an Eastwood co-star.  A compatriot of Wisdom that Eastwood finds having to unwillingly carry out matters of life and death.

[KC]

Daisy, the link would be Double X: The Name of the Game (1992) ... which starred Wisdom and Bernard Hill (as "Ignatious 'Iggy' Smith"). Hill, of course, played the troubled Warden Plunkitt in True Crime.

[KC]

Have we had Charles Boyer lately?

[Daisy Abigael]

Were you thinking Casino Royale, KC?

Boyer is in it (right in it, some would say! ) and Richard "Where Eagles Dare" Burton has a fleeting walk-on.

Is that too flimsy?

[KC]

Hmm, I know we've had Boyer before, and I know we've had Casino Royale as an answer before. Whether or not as an answer for Boyer, I don't know ... tell you what, Daisy, see if you can come up with another one. I know there is at least one other film out there that has Boyer and not one, but two Eastwood co-stars.

Maybe we should just declare Casino Royale off-limits (so to speak) for this game, once and for all ...

[Daisy Abigael]

Maybe we should just declare Casino Royale off-limits (so to speak) for this game, once and for all ...

LOL!

Well before we ban it as well let me get in with Around The World In 80 Days!  Our old pal Charles Boyer is joined by Eastwood co-stars Shirley "Two Mules..." MacLaine and Victor "Lady Godiva" McLaglen at least...

[KC]

OK, Daise, good enough! Though I was looking for a film with two co-stars from Clint's "mainstream" period. But in a filmography of Boyer's size, that is rather like looking for that proverbial needle in the haystack ... So, you're up.

[Daisy Abigael]

I reckon Two Mules... was pretty "mainstream", KC, but I take the point with Godiva!

What was the better answer?  Hmm?

New one:  Joan Crawford

[KC]

Boyer was in The Buccaneer (1958) with Inger Hang 'em High Stevens and E.G. Absolute Power Marshall ...

There are probably a number of one-steppers for Crawford. The two I found without much difficulty are these:

The Karate Killers (1967) starred Crawford and Telly Kelly's Heroes Savalas ... say, that one rhymes!

And the "cult" Nick Ray Western Johnny Guitar (1954)  starred Crawford and featured Royal Dano and Sheb Wooley, both of whom had small parts in The Outlaw Josey Wales (for good measure, Wooley was a regular for a few years on  Rawhide's endless cattle drive), and Dennis Hopper, the Prophet hisself in Hang 'em High.  

[KC]

For a new one, how about Errol Flynn?

[little_bill]

this one is a bit of a stretch someone has to better it,
erroll flynn was in
Kim-1950 with dean stockwell
who was in
married to the mob-1988 with michelle pfeffier
who was in
the fabuolus baker boys-1989 with jeff bridges........

[Daisy Abigael]

this one is a bit of a stretch someone has to better it,
erroll flynn was in
Kim-1950 with dean stockwell
who was in
married to the mob-1988 with michelle pfeffier
who was in
the fabuolus baker boys-1989 with jeff bridges........

Ah, but Dean Stockwell was also in Blue Velvet with Dennis "Hang 'Em High" Hopper!

But there is a one-stepper.  The lengthy one was in The Warriors (1955) which featured the treasurable Sir Michael Hordern.  He, you will remember as kindly old buffer on the radio to Richard Burton in Where Eagles Dare:  "Broadsword calling Danny boy!"