Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine

I am thinking of one particular scene in a not very great movie.

Back when the James Bond movies were new, Dean Martin starred as agent Matt Helm in "The Silencers", which was blatantly more tongue-in-cheek than the Bond films.

And so the climax of the movie involved the old cliche: The bad guy (part of an evil organization called the Big O ) has a huge complex from which he is about launch nuclear missiles, the bad guy's girl friend has fallen in love with the good guy, and the bad guy has caught the good guy trying to sabotage his operation.

And thus the ultimatum, "Call your headquarters, tell them you have succeeded in shutting us down , or else I will kill the girl."

So you know that Dean Martin has to say something clever in the phone call that will warn his superiors about the truth, and yet it has to be something that the bad guys don't pick up on.

What happens next could only be done by Dean Martin!

Martin says, "All right. Mind if I have a drink first?"

"Of course, Mr. Helm. We are civilized here. What would you like?"

"Scotch on the rocks, please."

They serve it to him, and he makes the call.

His boss is played by Lee J. Cobb, who plays his role with dire seriousness.

Martin tells Cobb, incorrectly, that the Big O has been shut down. Cobb, concerned about not having heard from Martin in a while, asks "are you sure everything's all right."

"Everything's fine. I'm sitting back sipping my Scotch as we talk."

After hanging up, Cobb tells the men in his office that something seemed not quite right. He can't quite put his finger on it. And then...

"Wait! He said he was sipping his Scotch. Matt Helm never had a drop of Scotch in his life. He's a bourbon man!"

Dean Martin had to be the guy playing that role!

Sylvester Stallone Rocky movies

Sean Connery, James Bond. Nobody has been as good since.

Eastwood in "Unforgiven"

Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance
James McAvoy as a man with 23 personalities in Split

Johnny Depp - Captain Jack Sparrow. ☺️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Jack Klugman and Tony Randall as Oscar and Felix in the Odd Couple TV series.
Alan Alda as Hawkeye in MASH.
Sally Field in all of her movies.
Tom Hanks in all of his movies.

Steven Gerrard was the best footballer acting as a great midfielder of his day.
So good he never won one Premiership Title medal.

Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade.
Sam Elliot in Road House.

Recently read that John Travolta turned down the role for Forest Gump. That role was meant for Tom Hanks!

Too many to list, here are a few of my favorites

Tom Hanks in Cast Away
Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption
Viggo Mortensen in The Lord of the Rings
Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones
Renee Zillwigger in Bridget Jones
Meryl Streep In Its Complicated
Dan Radcliffe in Harry Potter
Alan Rickman as Snape in Harry Potter
Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future
Cieran Hinds in Jane Eyre

Val Kilmer, Tombstone.

Joe Pesci in Goodfellas

Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as Red and Andy in Shawshank

Gene Hackman - The French Connection.

Jeff Bridges….The Dude

Joker.

Last of the Mohicans.

Dirty dancing.

A walk to remember.

Congeniality.

Silence of the Lambs.

The Nun.

There's a lot of movies with perfect casts.

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All of them because i couldnt imagine anybody else playing the part but the person who got to play it. My imagination doesn’t stretch that far 😩

Bela Lugosi as Dracula.
Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster.
Lon Chaney Jr as Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man.
Claude Rains as Jack Griffin, the Invisible Man.

Leonardo DiCaprio, in Catch Me If You Can, as a pathologically overconfident con man


Also, I think Russell Crowe was pretty much perfect as Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander

Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
Al Pacino in Scar Face
Sean Penn in Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam !
Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon in Grumpy Old Men

Vivian Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Bruce Willis as John McClain

Best Christmas movie actor ever 😅

Frank John Hughes played Sgt. Guarnere in Band of Brothers

Shelly Duvall as Olive Oyl

Robert Duval as Gus in "Lonesome Dove"

Keanu Reeves-John Wick.

Depardieu as Cyrano

This guy in this movie - -

@nedkelly 🤔erik ten slags as he must be acting the part ned as manchester united fans cannot take him seriously as there manager lol

Thanks for BC, @nedkelly

Patrick Swayze in Ghost