[Closed] Best cast in a film ever?

Things to do in Denver when you're dead
Heat

The longest day

Another vote for Heat.

Best casting would go to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

But as that is only really two (albeit perfect) main characters and you wanted a wealth of superstars I would go for the Great Escape as the best assembled cast.

Blues Brothers was a good shout though.

A couple...

Dead Man's Shoes
The Business

Easy Rider

Longest Day gets my vote - useless fact Richard Todd met himself in the film (he played Major Howard in the film and was the battalion commander who made contact with Major Howard in 1944 - there is a scene of this in the film)

Vanishing point.

Gosford Park
The Harry Potter series
Batman The Dark Knight

I met a D-day veteran who got in between Richard Todd and a German bullet.

Great to see a few votes for 12 Angry Men, I was thinking it was one of those old films that's slipping out of the collective consciousness - no one I know has seen it.

Musician-wise, hard to argue with Blues Brothers really. Bit sad though these days, seems like every time I watch it there's more that aren't with us anymore (Duck Dunn passed quite recently I think).

Where Eagles Dare +1
LA Confidential +1

12 Angry Men +1
North by Northwest +1 (anything with James Mason in it really)

many great casts in[b] poor films[/b] but here are a few

Great Escape
Towering Inferno
Poseidon Adventure...original
the godfather 1&2
Heat
Magnificent Seven
The Vikings
Some like it Hot
Angels with dirty faces
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Richard Lesters Three Musketeers
Prisoner of Zenda 1937

Not sure I'ld agree with all of them being poor films.

Great to see a few votes for 12 Angry Men, I was thinking it was one of those old films that's slipping out of the collective consciousness - no one I know has seen it.

Are we talking about the best cast, as in the best ensemble of actors, or the best cast as in the best casting of actors to roles!? Apologies if this has already been answered....

Glengarry Glenn Ross

Once upon a time in the west - ftw

Mad max 4 may trump it though

Also, the most recent batman.

O brother where art thou

Unforgiven. Eastwood? Freeman? Hackman? Harris? Awesome stuff.

Heat for sure. Inception had a great line up and Goodfellas had an awesome cast.

[insert porn film for cheap laughs]

Leon

KickAss

Highlander (A Frenchman pretending to be Scottish, a Scotsman trying to be Egyptian and an American trying to be a Russian - and it all works brilliantly!)

And yes - Blues Brothers gets my vote too 🙂

Total. STW. Fail. 🙄

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Philadelphia- Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Perfect.

Best superstar cast?

How about Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Vincent Price, Barbara Stanwyk... plus Steve Martin & Rachel Ward

Heat. Al Pacino and De Niro plus a bit of Kilmer

I can't fault:

Animal Kingdom
Take Shelter
or
The Artist

in respects of the cast.

[or in anything else IMHO]

Amélie
True Romance
Pulp Fiction
New York I love You
Leon
Fifth Element (apart from the talentless Lee Evans )
Notting Hill

Fargo
No Country for Old Men
Alien
Ocean's 11 (the orignal version)
The Longest Day

The Goonies was pretty much cast perfectly.

How you can suggest True Romance and Pulp Fiction, but omit Reservoir Dogs, I do not know!

Harvey Keitel ...
Tim Roth
Michael Madsen ...
Chris Penn ...
Steve Buscemi
Lawrence Tierney
Edward Bunker
Steven Wright

Anyone said Deer Hunter?
or State of Grace - Penn, Oldman [i]and[/i] Ed Harris.

How you can suggest True Romance and Pulp Fiction, but omit Reservoir Dogs, I do not know!

[i]Didn't want to make it a Tarantino fest [/i] 😉

Tarantino, Smarantino!

Continue this idle chat as long as you like - the answer's still...

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The man knows how to put a great cast together! (As well as a brilliant soundtrack)
See also Django Unchained
Death Proof (ooh, that cast! 😉 )

Love, Honour & Obey.

Actually, in terms of casting actors to roles I can't think of many who would've done a better job than Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris and Naomi Watts in A History of Violence

Anyone said Deer Hunter?

Yep. 😀

Forgot Ice Cold In Alex & North By Northwest though.

Surely it has to be Mama Mia....

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Surely it has to be Mama Mia....

Do you know, er cough, you can make a pretty solid argument for that. Maybe not best film ever, but number of Oscar etc award winners onscreen, having fun... yep