Thread: Best cast ever?

"Did you just call me 'Coltrane?'"

The Last Waltz.

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

yeah, I think the goal of the OP was most big names that played together

Most?

The Longest Day
How the West Was Won

GlennGary GlenRoss
CaddyShack
Sienfeld

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Does the soundtrack count as a cast member?

The Dirty Dozen

Originally Posted by BigDaddy

The Dirty Dozen

Good one, but better than Kelly\\\'s Heroes?

Toughie.

A couple that come to mind, although not BEST:

The Great Escape: McQueen, Garner, Attenborough, Coburn, Bronson

The Outsiders (another Copolla - some of these guys turned douchey, but were fantastic here): Swayze, Dillon, Macchio, Lowe, Diane Lane, Estevez, Cruise, Tom Waits

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Most?

The Longest Day
How the West Was Won

No love for "A Bridge to Far"? (amusingly, reviewed in the first playboy I ever found)

The Longest Day is a good one. Strong cast that clicked, imo. How the west was won functioned more as vignets.

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Also Cannonball run and the original Deathrace 2000.

Originally Posted by commonlaw

The Outsiders (another Copolla - some of these guys turned douchey, but were fantastic here): Swayze, Dillon, Macchio, Lowe, Diane Lane, Estevez, Cruise, Tom Waits

I always thought Rumble Fish was the better of those two Copolla films.
How about The Right Stuff or Dog Day Afternoon. Pretty much any movie from the Cohen bros qualifies.

Dog Day Afternoon is a sick movie, but IIRC there are really only three big parts and, of those, one actor (Chris Sarandon) never appears with either of the other two.

Originally Posted by Tippster

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Yessuh, they're a fine bunch a boys.

Originally Posted by Hugh Conway

amusingly, reviewed in the first playboy I ever found

Your first nudie mag and you actually noticed there were words in in? Let alone words arranged into amusing movie reviews?

Bridge to Far, and the Great Escape are both good nominations though.

Blazing Saddles
Dr. Strangelove
Casablanca
Reservoir Dogs

Originally Posted by bendtheski

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.
Also Cannonball run and the original Deathrace 2000.

Best cast, but shitty movies.... Not that I didn't love them at the drive-in in the 70's.


Orange County is another worthy sleeper in comedy. Lily Tomlin, Jack Black, Chevy Chase, Kevin Kline, Johnathon Lithgow, Catherine O'Hara, and Tom Hanks son, Colin as the lead.

Armageddon: look at this cast.

If we are going full douche, but biggest names (of the generation), that Valentine's Day movie and New Year's Eve movie had a shit ton of "stars."

Which makes me think of Love Actually, which I think is a fun holiday flick. Had a great cast.

The original Poseidon Adventure had quite a cast.. I had completely forgotten that Leslie Neilsen was the Captain.

Reservoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
Gosford Park
Magnolia
Big Lebovski
Thin Red Line

And well, not maybe the bestest cast , but how all ties together : Apocalypse.Now.

And I think all those movies are in my Top 25 evah.

Best one, maybe.

William Holden
Ernest Borgnine
Warren Oates
Ben Johnson
Jaime Sanchez
Edmond O'Brien
Robert Ryan

If you can't name the film then you really have no business discussing film IMHO.

'nuff said.

Also,

Richard Dreyfuss
Roy Scheider
Robert Shaw

double 'nuff said...

The first one is The Wild Bunch, definitely a contender in the cateegory. The second is Jaws unless they appeared together in some other film, and I don't see that as more than an also-ran here.

If not best, a close first
Best one, maybe.

Haa..Nice ass but shitty Cast.