Is there a better ensemble cast flick than "12 Angry Men"?

[speedoo]

Fonda/Cobb/Begley/Klugman/Balsam/Warden....etc.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0050083/

Just asking.

[terrya]

1. That was a superb cast

And directed by the magnificent Sidney Lumet.

A great movie for liberals.

[speedoo]

3. And produced by Fonda!

I did not know that until today.

[terrya]

5. Yeah.

I was sort of surprised when I found that out...and then I really wasn't. Fonda was a longtime liberal.

[timber84]

2. Glenngary Glenross?

[speedoo]

4. Another great one.

And a favorite of mine.

[timber84]

6. mine too.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. "'Fuck you,' THAT'S my name!"

:thumbsup:

[kay1864]

7. Oh so true...

The scene where Fonda flips open the switchblade and sticks it in the tabletop. Classic.

The line I remember most often:
Jack Warden: "I-I don't have to..."
George Voskovec: "You DO have to!"

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. John Carpenter's The Thing must also be counted amongst the good.

[kay1864]

9. Cast of characters (with pictures)

Here: http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/elective/film/AngryMen/people.html

What a great movie.

[speedoo]

11. Thanks.. love that site!!

The capsule comments for each juror are terrific.

[YankeyMCC]

10. Ocean's 12!

Just kidding :)

I like "Lifeboat" too.

[speedoo]

12. Lifeboat's another great one.

Tempted to say they don't make movies like these anymore.

Do they?

[Blue-Jay]

13. All the Python movies.

But seriously, 12 Angry Men is one of my personal Top Twenty. Great movie!

[Lady Effingbroke]

14. No.

Wonderful movie!

[AlCzervik]

15. excellent cast, i also think the cast of The Caine Mutiny and Stalag 17

are also worth a mention.

[speedoo]

16. Have to cast a dissenting vote on "Caine"..

Loved the movie. Bogart, MacMurray and Jose Ferrer were fantastic. Bogart was never better and certainly MacMurray was at his very best. Guys like Van Johnson and Tom Tully were also excellent. But Robert Francis who had a major role as the Ensign was a terrible actor and almost ruined the movie all by himself. Tragically he died a year after the movie was released at the age of 25.

Agree with you on Stalag 17.

on edit: Did anyone see "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial"... a 1988 TV movie that I actually prefer to the older film. Eric Bogosian, Brad davis and Jeff Daniels were marvelous. Great courtroom drama.

[AlCzervik]

17. i did not know that about Robert Francis.

[Richardo]

18. "The Last of Sheila" was pretty damn good.

Great who-dunnit.

CAST
Richard Benjamin
Dyan Cannon
James Coburn
Joan Hackett
James Mason
Ian McShane
Raquel Welch
Yvonne Romain

CREW
Herbert Ross
Director

Herbert Ross
Producer

Stephen Sondheim
Screenwriter

Anthony Perkins
Screenwriter

[mduffy31]

20. I thought that the remake was good also.

Scott, Lemmon, Cronyn, were wonderful.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118528/

[speedoo]

21. Oooh. Gotta add that to my list of must-sees.

Wonderful cast.

[SeattleGirl]

22. I have both the original and the remake, and was quite impressed

with both of them. I think most remakes suck, but this one was as great as the original, in part, because the story and dialogue are so good, but mostly because the actors in both versions were so damned great.

[Arkham House]

23. A few more good ones:

"Grand Hotel"--Garbo, both barrymores, Crawford, and Wallace Beery, probably giving the best performance of the lot...
"Dinner at Eight"--Beery again, Barrymore again, Harlow, Marie Dressler...and an even better last line than "Some Like it Hot"...
"Casablanca" has a pretty good cast...LOL...
So does "All About Eve"...
Also lots of Woody Allen and Robert Altman films..."Nashville" comes to mind especially...