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Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 7th, 2023, 11:36 am
by Intrepid37
John Cassavetes, Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara in Husbands (1970)
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 7th, 2023, 12:27 pm
by KayFrancis
Normally Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell in The Women
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 12:09 am
by umop apisdn
Witness for the Prosecution - Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power
Libeled Lady - Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Spencer Tracy
Is this considered the aforementioned ensemble cast?
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 12:31 am
by KayFrancis
Double Indemnity - Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 12:37 am
by KayFrancis
Double Indemnity - Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 5:29 am
by CinemaInternational
LiamCasey wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 5:23 pm
Dargo wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 4:37 pm
And so then maybe YOU should now start ANOTHER thread with the premise of FOUR great actors all bein' in one movie, then.
Just wait until someone starts counting up the number of actors in some of those 1970s disaster movies.
"Well, this one has Paul and Steve. Or is that Steve and Paul? And then Bill and Faye and Fred and..."
The thing is though that while those disaster films had plenty of cast members, they really were not often the best showcases for them, with especially The Swarm coming to mind. I think the ultimate in the big casts from the 70s that used them well would be 1974's Murder on the Orient Express: Finney, Bacall, Bergman, Connery, Widmark, Hiller, Redgrave, Gielgud, Perkins, Roberts, Bisset.
But two of those other Christie adaptations had great casts
Death on the Nile: Ustinov, Niven, Davis, Smith, Farrow, Lansbury, Warden, ....but then you had Lois Chiles to counterbalance things.
And the Mirror Crack'd had Lansbury again, E. Taylor, Hudson, Novak, Curtis, G. Chaplin.
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 5:59 am
by Intrepid37
CinemaInternational wrote: ↑March 8th, 2023, 5:29 am
The thing is though that while those disaster films had plenty of cast members, they really were not often the best showcases for them, with especially The Swarm coming to mind. I think the ultimate in the big casts from the 70s that used them well would be 1974's Murder on the Orient Express: Finney, Bacall, Bergman, Connery, Widmark, Hiller, Redgrave, Gielgud, Perkins, Roberts, Bisset.
But two of those other Christie adaptations had great casts
Death on the Nile: Ustinov, Niven, Davis, Smith, Farrow, Lansbury, Warden, ....but then you had Lois Chiles to counterbalance things.
And the Mirror Crack'd had Lansbury again, E. Taylor, Hudson, Novak, Curtis, G. Chaplin.
How about a thread titled Ensemble Cast Movies - but
NO Disaster Movies Allowed?
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 9:02 am
by KayFrancis
Spartacus - Kirk Douglas, Lawrence Olivier, Jean Simmons
The Apartment - Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred MacMurray
Guys and Dolls, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons
The Man With the Golden Arm, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 2:01 pm
by EP Millstone
Intrepid37 wrote: ↑March 8th, 2023, 5:59 am
How about a thread titled Ensemble Cast Movies - but
NO Disaster Movies Allowed?
. . . which would include:
- Grand Hotel
- Dinner At Eight
- The Women
- And Then There Were None
- Around the World in 80 Days
- It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce
- Plaza Suite
- The Group
- Casino Royale (1967)
- Hotel
- The Boys in the Band
- Reservoir Dogs
- Pulp Fiction
- The Hateful Eight
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Babylon
. . . to list but a few . . . .
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 3:04 pm
by jamesjazzguitar
The Petrified Forest (Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphery Bogart.
It's Love I'm After: Lesie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia DeHaviland
Manhattan Melodrama: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Clark Gable
Libeled Lady: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy (and Jean Harlow as well!).
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 3:23 pm
by Hibi
Night of the Iguana: Burton, Ava and Deborah Kerr.
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 3:36 pm
by LawrenceA
Mystery on Monster Island: Peter Cushing, Terence Stamp, & Paul Naschy
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 3:42 pm
by LawrenceA
Roustabout: Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, & Richard Kiel
Skidoo: Frankie Avalon, John Philip Law, & Slim Pickens
Starcrash: David Hasselhoff, Marjoe Gortner, & Joe Spinell
The Unearthly: John Carradine, Allison Hayes, & Tor Johnson
Seizure: Jonathan Frid, Herve Villechaize, & Troy Donahue
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 4:20 pm
by Intrepid37
Wow. Really reaching now.
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 8th, 2023, 4:32 pm
by laffite
Can I advance a movie that has Five.
Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, and Barbara Jefford.
A sixth major player is Giovanni Guidelli.
I didn't strive for an something big like this, I was reminded of this movie by what came to mind today in another thread.
Another thought, ensemble pieces would certainly find a home in this thread, or no? Maybe not since the thread calls for only three.
Dargo, let us know if more that three are permissible here ... or no? Thanks.