CISRA Puzzle Competition 2007 - Solutions

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C.5 Hall of Fame

Intuitive Leap: Each line has the names of one or more movies (each preceded by 'The'), which have one starring actor in common.

After pre-pending 'The' to each word in the list, the resulting movie titles can be used to find an actor who starred in all movies on each line. (Internet resources such as the Internet Movie Database or Wikipedia may help.)

The Hurricane, The Siege                   Denzel Washington
The Revolutionary, The Champ               Jon Voight
The River, The Keep                        Scott Glenn
The Innocent, The Trial                    Anthony Hopkins
The Scarecrow, The Producers               Gene Wilder
The Mob, The Sniper                        Richard Kiley
The Innocents, The Journey                 Deborah Kerr
The Robe, The Actress                      Jean Simmons
The Clearing, The Walker                   Willem Dafoe
The Piano, The Duellists                   Harvey Keitel
The Fan, The Mission                       Robert De Niro
The Patsy, The Stooge                      Jerry Lewis
The Assassin, The School, The Executioner  Sonny Chiba
The Foliage, The Transporter               Qi Shu
The Conman, The Adventurers                Andy Lau
The Myth, The Wall                         Patrick Tam

From this point, a movie can be found for each pair of actors going down the list, which stars both actors. (Note that each of these movies start with "The" also.)

Denzel Washington, Jon Voight     The Manchurian Candidate
Scott Glenn, Anthony Hopkins      The Silence of the Lambs
Gene Wilder, Richard Kiley        The Little Prince
Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons        The Grass Is Greener
Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel       The Last Temptation of Christ
Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis       The King of Comedy
Sonny Chiba, Qi Shu               The Storm Riders
Andy Lau, Patrick Tam             The Duel

This time, the link between each pair of movies is their director:

Manchurian, Silence of the Lambs  Jonathan Demme
Little Prince, Grass is Greener   Stanley Donen
Last Tempatation, King of Comedy  Martin Scorsese
Storm Riders, Duel                Wai Keung Lau

For each pair of directors, the first has remade a movie which was originally filmed by the second:

Jonathan Demme, Stanley Donen     "The Truth About Charlie" is a remake of "Charade"
Martin Scorsese, Wai Keung Lau    "The Departed" is a remake of "Infernal Affairs"

The first movie of each pair begin with "The" - a clue that the first movies of each pair, and not the second, are important. These movies share a starring actor:

Truth About Charlie, Departed     Mark Wahlberg

And MARK WAHLBERG is the solution.