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Three (or more) Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 1:23 pm
by 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)
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 1:26 pm
by Detective Jim McLeod
Spartacus (1960 is the first one that popped into my head- Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 2:11 pm
by 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.
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 2:37 pm
by EP Millstone
Do The Three Stooges count?
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 2:40 pm
by Masha
Nine To Five (1980)
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
3 Idiots (2009)
Jyotish, Achhut, Gulam
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 2:42 pm
by Dargo
EP Millstone wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 2:37 pm
Do The Three Stooges count?
LOL
No!
(...and neither would the Marx Brothers nor even the Ritz Brothers as well)
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 3:51 pm
by EP Millstone
Dargo wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 2:42 pm
. . . 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!"
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 3:51 pm
by Lomm
Gable, Harlow and Loy in Wife Vs Secretary
Grant, Stewart and Hepburn in Philadelphia Story
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 4:21 pm
by Dargo
EP Millstone wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 3:51 pm
Dargo wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 2:42 pm
. . . 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)
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 4:28 pm
by 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.
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 4:37 pm
by Dargo
LawrenceA wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 4:28 pm
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
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 4:46 pm
by EP Millstone
Dargo wrote: ↑March 6th, 2023, 4:21 pm
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.
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 4:49 pm
by Hibi
Sabrina: Audrey; William Holden; Humphrey Bogart.
Some Like It Hot: Marilyn; Jack Lemmon; Tony Curtis.
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 5:16 pm
by Intrepid37
John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey - The Alamo (1960)
Re: Three Great Actors in One Film
Posted: March 6th, 2023, 5:23 pm
by LiamCasey
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..."