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First Speaker

(4,858 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2019, 06:27 PM Jul 2019

You can choose six actors for the ultimate film noir. Whom do you select...? [View all]

God has granted you the opportunity to make the ultimate noir, and can select six actors in heaven (well, hopefully that's where they are) for your film. My choices? Robert Mitchum, Dan Duryea, Elisha Cook Jr, Elizabeth Scott, Gloria Grahame, and Helen Walker. How about you folks…?

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You can choose six actors for the ultimate film noir. Whom do you select...? [View all] First Speaker Jul 2019 OP

Kirk Douglas X 3, Jessica Walter, Sean Connery, Greata Garbo at140 Jul 2019 #1

That's interesting...some actors in noirs played twins... First Speaker Jul 2019 #2

Sean Connery is still alive. Quemado Jul 2019 #5

As is Kirk Douglas. n/t Ron Obvious Jul 2019 #10

Mine Watchfoxheadexplodes Jul 2019 #3

Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck Quemado Jul 2019 #4

Bogey, Mitchum, Robert Montgomery, Bacall, Sterling Hayden and Gene Tierney. stopbush Jul 2019 #6

Bogie, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ingrid Bergman, Mary Astor, and Cary Grant cureautismnow Jul 2019 #7

Sounds like *Notorious* meets *The Maltese Falcon*... First Speaker Jul 2019 #11

Okay! Ptah Jul 2019 #8

Minnie Mouse is a terrifying Femme fatale. hunter Jul 2019 #15

My picks..... ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2019 #9

Rod Steiger, Sidney Portier, George C. Scott, rurallib Jul 2019 #12

Don Knotts, Ernie Kovaks, Marjory Main, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, and Moe Howard Generic Brad Jul 2019 #13

William Holden Mendocino Jul 2019 #14

Brando, Dean, Hopper, Presley, Page, Kitt. Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2019 #16

Thanks...but I'm trying to imagine the film that could contain all your picks... First Speaker Jul 2019 #17

I'll buck the trend...I would pick the cast from Straight Time (though not all are deceased) pecosbob Jul 2019 #18

Robert Mitchum, Broderick Crawford... Harker Jul 2019 #19

You know, it's funny...a "straight" version of a Groucho character... First Speaker Jul 2019 #20

That's the beauty of casting. Harker Jul 2019 #22

P.S. Harker Jul 2019 #23

I'll put a spin on this gratuitous Jul 2019 #21

They have to be dead?!1 Otherwise, Joaquin PHOENIX, Cristina RICCI, DUNNAWAY, UTUSN Jul 2019 #24