Three (or more) Great Actors in One Film

[Intrepid37]

John Cassavetes, Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara in Husbands (1970)

[KayFrancis]

Normally Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell in The Women

[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?

[KayFrancis]

Double Indemnity - Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson

[KayFrancis]

Double Indemnity - Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson

[CinemaInternational]

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.

[Intrepid37]

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?

[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

[EP Millstone]

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 . . . .

[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!).

[Hibi]

Night of the Iguana: Burton, Ava and Deborah Kerr.

[LawrenceA]

Mystery on Monster Island: Peter Cushing, Terence Stamp, & Paul Naschy

[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

[Intrepid37]

Wow. Really reaching now.

[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.