Three (or more) Great Actors in One Film

[Dargo]

In the Academy Award nominated CROSSFIRE (1947), there are three great leading actors featured in it...Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan.

What other movies can you think of as examples of this? And no, all the actors don't have to share the same first name.

(...and with a nod to our SSO friend Detective Jim McLeod as the inspiration for this thread)

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Spartacus (1960 is the first one that popped into my head- Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton

[Intrepid37]

Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and Jason Robards Jr. in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

While Fonda and Bronson present the major conflict, it's Robards who comes across as the most human character without losing any of his toughness.

[EP Millstone]

Do The Three Stooges count?

[Masha]

Nine To Five (1980)
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton

3 Idiots (2009)
Jyotish, Achhut, Gulam

[Dargo]

Do The Three Stooges count?

LOL

No!

(...and neither would the Marx Brothers nor even the Ritz Brothers as well)

[EP Millstone]

. . . No! . . .

With an emphatic exclamation point!

WHOA! Where is this hostile Stoogephobia coming from?!

Are you -- perchance -- saying that The Stooges weren't "great actors"? That can't be.

Although Larry, Moe, the various Curlies and Joes, and Shemp arguably did not have the thespian ranges of Olivier, Gielgud, and Richardson, in turn, could Larry, John, and Ralph have pulled off The Stooges' repertoire with the same aplomb and success?

"Nyuk," I say thee! To thee I say, "Nyuk!"

[Lomm]

Gable, Harlow and Loy in Wife Vs Secretary
Grant, Stewart and Hepburn in Philadelphia Story

[Dargo]

. . . No! . . .

With an emphatic exclamation point!

WHOA! Where is this hostile Stoogephobia coming from?!

Are you -- perchance -- saying that The Stooges weren't "great actors"? That can't be.

Although Larry, Moe, the various Curlies and Joes, and Shemp arguably did not have the thespian ranges of Olivier, Gielgud, and Richardson, in turn, could Larry, John, and Ralph have pulled off The Stooges' repertoire with the same aplomb and success?

"Nyuk," I say thee! To thee I say, "Nyuk!"

Whaddaya talkin' here, EPM?!!!

Are you tellin' me you've never watched these three...



...in that classic comedy short titled: "Shakespeare Takes a Pie in the Face" ???

Heck, they make Ted Healy's old troop look like a bunch of amateurs!

(...I mean, you ain't lived until you see how well Olivier can hit the target with a custard pie, dude...he's a southpaw, ya know)

[LawrenceA]

Lon Chaney Jr, J. Carrol Naish and Zandor Vorkov in Dracula vs Frankenstein.

Bela Lugosi, Dolores Fuller and Tor Johnson in Bride of the Monster.

And then there's four(!!!!) greats - John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Basil Rathbone and Ferlin Husky in Hillbillys in a Haunted House.

[Dargo]

Lon Chaney Jr, J. Carrol Naish and Zandor Vorkov in Dracula vs Frankenstein.

Bela Lugosi, Dolores Fuller and Tor Johnson in Bride of the Monster.

And then there's four(!!!!) greats - John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Basil Rathbone and Ferlin Husky in Hillbillys in a Haunted House.

"...AND Ferlin Husky" ya say, Lawrence?!!!

And so then maybe YOU should now start ANOTHER thread with the premise of FOUR great actors all bein' in one movie, then.

(...I mean, any time the name "Ferlin Husky" is mentioned, you KNOW it's gotta be a pretty good flick, huh!)

LOL

[EP Millstone]

Whaddaya talkin' here, EPM?!!!

Are you tellin' me you've never watched these three...in that classic comedy short titled: "Shakespeare Takes a Pie in the Face" ???

Zounds, I missed that one!

I have, however, seen their classics Julius Sees Her in which The Three Stagers portray Peeping Toms in an uproarious Shakespearean spoof, As You Lick It (abounding with pie fights), and their BAFTA-nominated gem Richard's on III, which innovatively transformed The Bard's tragedy into a baseball game.



The Three Stagers in Between the Shooting of
Three Gentlemen Eat Bologna*

* Yes, that's Alec Guinness subbing for Gielgud, who broke from the team in a vain attempt to go solo.

[Hibi]

Sabrina: Audrey; William Holden; Humphrey Bogart.
Some Like It Hot: Marilyn; Jack Lemmon; Tony Curtis.

[Intrepid37]

John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey - The Alamo (1960)

[LiamCasey]

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..."