The 10 Best Movie Casts of the '60s, Ranked

From epics like How the West Was Won to war films like The Great Escape, these 1960s movies all had huge casts filled with A-list talent.

March 8, 2025 · 1 min · 89 words · Theodore Graham

They go through with it, planning the whole ordeal before undertaking it in the films final act.

How does a movie cram so many people into it?

Oh, and it spans decades, necessitating the use of continually new characters/actors to show up.

The Dirty Dozen - 1967 - poster

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Miximilian Schell in Judgment at Nuremberg

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Spartacus - 1960

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The Dirty Dozen - 1967 (1)

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Auda Tayi, Lawrence, and Sharif Ali, looking disturbed in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’

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lawrence of arabia poster

Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo on a phone call, while his fellow cast members listen in, in ‘High and Low’

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High and Low 1963 Movie Poster

William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson, and Warren Oats walk in a line in The Wild Bunch

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The Wild Bunch 1969 Movie Poster

the magnificent seven characters in line aiming their rifles ahead

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Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, and Faye Dunaway robbing a bank as the characters in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

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Steve McQueen with a baseball glove in The Great Escape

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