This is Round Forty of the Neverending Movie Chain. Feel free to jump in anywhere you want, post once or post as often as you want just don't reply to yourself.

For any new folks joining in <and new folks are definitely encouraged to do so> ...

We start by naming a movie, the next player to jump in has to name an actor in that film and the next to follow him/her has to name a different movie that actor was in.

EX:

Player one: Star Wars, Player Two: Mark Hamill, Player Three: Corvette Summer, Player Four: Annie Potts, Player Five: Ghostbusters, etc., etc.

Repeats are allowed but discouraged and there has to be a distance of at least five steps before you use a movie or an an actor a second time. No IMDb please <expect to look up dates of movies with identical titles or spellings of names>.

You need to follow the chain as it is drawn, no jumping. If we have Stephen Moyer on the table and someone plays Prince Valiant then the Prince Valiant you have to go out of is the one that had Stephen Moyer in it, no matter how many other movies out there are named Prince Valiant.

A clarification on play. We want to avoid using archival footage. For purposes of our game Dick Clark, Bob Hope, President Kennedy etc. Did not appear in Forrest Gump.

I won't make this a rule but rather a recommendation. Please avoid films that have not been released/aired in the U.S.

And just for the sake of putting it into the written rules mostly for sake of newcomers voice work (animated films) and made-for-TV movies are allowed but not mini-series.

Oh, and the idea is not to stump everyone but to keep the chain going for as long as possible.

Kicking this off with a horrible movie that I only watched part of but know it had a ton of actors to choose from. This will either be a one-link chain if nobody knows... or will delegate which direction we go to someone else.

Movie 43.

Haha, Mina. You hereby volunteer to start chain 41 in the event nobody knows anyone in a movie whose poster claimed "The biggest cast ever assembled."

Heck, you could probably pick an actor (active in 2013) at random and be correct.

Samuel L. Jackson?

Alas, no.

Go ahead and start another chain.

I just looked up Movie 43 on IMDB and it really did have a ludicrous spread of actors. Yet somehow, was one movie Samuel L. wasn't in!!

Is this the record for the shortest "Chain" ever? Does a single link count as a chain?

Yeah, it literally can't get any shorter than this!