The greatest ever cast in a forgotten film

[Spearmint Rhino]

The greatest ever cast in a forgotten film

Oscar, a trashy but likeable 1991 mobster farce by John Landis, which I'm the only person ever to have watched (or so it seems, whenever I bring it up).

Sylvester Stallone
Tim Curry
Marisa Tomei
Ornella Muti
Kirk Douglas
Chazz Palminteri
Harry Shearer
Linda Gray
Don Ameche
Kurtwood Smith

Marisa Tomei is unfeasibly hot in this, by the way, as is Ornella Muti.

[adams house cat]

The greatest ever cast in a forgotten film

I find the idea of Marisa Tomei as hot entirely feasible.

[blameless]

The greatest ever cast in a forgotten film

The Shooting Party stars James Mason, John Gielgud, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, Gordon Jackson and Frank Windsor, but I'm damned if I can remember a thing about it.

I liked The Score, for what it's worth.

[ian.64]

The greatest ever cast in a forgotten film

The Magic Christian (1969)

A comic curio, co-scripted by Terry 'Dr. Strangelove' Southern, that gained (and probably still retains) a cult audience, but is rarely seen or remembered by today's audiences. However, take a butcher's at the cast participants involved...

Peter Sellers
Ringo Starr
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Richard Attenborough
Laurence Harvey
Christopher Lee
Spike Milligan
Roman Polanski
Raquel Welch
Patrick Cargill
John Cleese
Clive Dunn
Hattie Jacques
Jeremy Lloyd
David Lodge
Dennis Price
Michael Aspel
Michael Barratt
Yul Brynner
Harry Carpenter
Graham Chapman
Jimmy Clitheroe
John Le Mesurier
Frank Thornton
Alan Whicker

[Patrick Thistle]

Looking for something else and found this old thread.

I'd nominate Kelly's Heroes with its main stars being
Clint Eastwood
Donald Sunderland
Telly Savalas
Don Rickles

[Stumpy Pepys]

Danny Dyer and Denise van Outen notwithstanding, Run for Your Wife has an amazing cast (of cameos at least). And it's also terrible.

[Ginger Yellow]

Kelly's Heroes isn't forgotten. I mean, it probably is by millennials, but so is almost all of cinema and it was on TV loads when I was growing up.

[Snake Plissken]

Kellys Heroes is on ITV4 about once every six weeks.

But how about this for a cast.

Peter Weller
John Lithgow
Ellen Barkin
Christopher Lloyd
Jeff Goldblum
Lewis Smith
Ronald Lacey
Clancy Brown
Jonathan Banks
Dan Hedaya
Vincent Schiavelli
Jamie Lee Curtis

I give you The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension

[Gerontophile]

Pleasantville.

On Golden Pond had so many Oscar winners, that they were able to melt them down and pay for their healthcare. (Little bit of politics, there.)

[Hot Pepsi]

I don't know if Pleasantville is forgotten. It, justifiably, got good reviews. It was, as I recall, Reese Witherspoon's breakthrough.

If Netflix or a cable channel wanted to dig it up and feature it, it might find a new audience. On the other hand, Toby Mcguire's stock has dropped because it appears he may be a bit of a prick. (The character played by Michael Cera in Molly's Game is most likely based on Mcguire) And I don't know if nostalgia for black and white TV shows from the 50s would resonate with younger people today. Young people don't watch channels like Nick at Night or TV Land any more because they don't watch regular TV at all. And, if they're inclined to nostalgia for a time before they were born, it's more likely to be the 70s and 80s.

Perhaps it could be updated to be about a kid that gets sucked into the world of Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. Instead of the color vs. black & white symbolism/gimmick, they could do a grainy film vs. HD thing. And maybe it could also be about a modern girl telling Fonzy et al about feminism and how to treat women with more respect.

That's way more than needs to be said about Pleasantville, I suppose.

[Hot Pepsi]

How about Serena? A 2014 film with Bradley Cooper and Jennifer F'ing Lawrence near the peak of their stardom, but was so bad, supposedly, that it wasn't really released?

http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/how-d...ht-to-vod.html

I haven't seen it, but it sounds shit.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I don't know if Pleasantville is forgotten. It, justifiably, got good reviews. It was, as I recall, Reese Witherspoon's breakthrough.

I thought that would be Freeway, with Keifer Sutherland?

[elguapo4]

EIGHT MEN OUT
John Cusack
Christopher Lloyd
Michael Lerner
David Strathairn
John Mahoney
Michael Rooker
D.B Sweeney
Nancy Travis etc

[jameswba]

At the risk of misinterpreting what 'forgotten' means here, I don't think I've had or read a discussion about Peter's Friends, since I saw it not long after it came out, in 1992. It's also not one that seems to come up for retrospective reviews. It certainly had an impressive cast :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105130/fullcredits

I guess its central theme makes it somewhat 'of its time'.

[adams house cat]

Great call with "8 Men Out".

"Hell Drivers"

Stanley Baker
Peggy Cummins
Sidney James
Patrick McGoohan
Herbert Lom
Sean Connery
William Hartnell
Wilfred Lawson
David McCallum
Jill Ireland
Alfie Bass
Gordon Jackson
Beatrice Varley

[adams house cat]

"It's A Mad,Mad,Mad, Mad, World"

Spencer Tracey
Terry-Thomas
Milton Berle
Sid Caeser
Mickey Rooney
Dorothy Provine
Phil Silvers
Jim Backus
Peter Falk
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Jimmy Durante
Buster Keaton

And lots more.

[NHH]

Layer Cake:

Daniel Craig
Michael Gambon
Tom Hardy
Ben Whishaw
Sally Hawkins
Kenneth Cranham
Sienna Miller
Colm Meaney

[Gerontophile]

I think 4 Mad's was specifically made to be a blockbuster, so the relative lack of memory about it is because it was absolutely shite.

[Hot Pepsi]

I thought that would be Freeway, with Keifer Sutherland?

I don’t know that one.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I haven't seen it since it's release, but I recall it as a nifty little flick.

[Jon]

At the risk of misinterpreting what 'forgotten' means here, I don't think I've had or read a discussion about Peter's Friends, since I saw it not long after it came out, in 1992. It's also not one that seems to come up for retrospective reviews. It certainly had an impressive cast :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105130/fullcredits

I guess its central theme makes it somewhat 'of its time'.

Impressive cast in hindsight but most of them were near the start of their cinematic careers when the film came out. Essentially, the cast is a combination of Emma Thompson's footlights friends and Kenneth Branagh's (her then husband) RSC mates. Plus Emma's mum.

Incidentally, i could have sworn Richard Curtis was involved in this film but, having just checked, it appears not.

[diggedy derek]

Hell Drivers is a cult classic. It’s a fantastic little film.

[adams house cat]

"Hell Drivers" is a terrific little film but the term "cult classic" probably dooms it to obscurity. Shame. It needs to show up occasionally.

[Patrick Thistle]

Impressive cast in hindsight but most of them were near the start of their cinematic careers when the film came out. Essentially, the cast is s combination of Emma Thompson's footlights friends and Kenneth branagh's (her then husband) rec mates. Plus Emma's mum.

Incidentally, i could have sworn Richard curtis was involved in this film but, having just checked, it appears not.

A co-lodger at Uni adored that film. She had a poster and gradually worked her way through sending it to all the cast members for them to sign it. I think they all did and amazingly she kept getting it returned with a fresh signature on it.

I was kind of hoping one of them would be an arse and not return it, or write something obscene on it to render it undisplayable.

[elguapo4]

Emilio Estevez film "Bobby " is,like "Peter's friends " another case of getting all my mates together to make a film but it's still a hell of a cast
Martin Sheen
Emilio Estevez
Anthony Hopkins
Sidney Poitier
William H Macy
Helen Hunt
Sharon Stone
Lindsey Lohan
Elijah Wood
Christian Slater
Demi Moore
Ashton Kutcher
Shia Le Boeuf
Laurence Fishbourne