Coppola cast Gary Oldman in the film's title role, with Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins in supporting roles.

Filmed on location in the Mexican state of Durango, the film starred James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, with a huge supporting cast including Bob Dylan ( who composed the film's music ), Jason Robards, R. G. Armstrong, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, L. Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Harry Dean Stanton.

The film's supporting cast includes ZaSu Pitts, Leila Hyams, and Roland Young, and the screenplay was written by Walter DeLeon, Humphrey Pearson and Harlan Thompson.

The film's cast was made up of cameos and supporting roles by Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Peter Greene, Kurtwood Smith and Katherine Heigl.

In the latter film, Garfield took a featured, but supporting, part because he believed deeply in the film's exposé of antisemitism in America.

Roger Ebert gave the film three-out-of-four stars, praising both the lead and supporting actors and the film's gritty, kinetic energy.

The main four actors have roles here that display similar dynamics to their roles in A Fish Called Wanda: John Cleese's character is the morally upright straight-man, Jamie Lee Curtis's character starts out morally grey but ends up romantically linked to John Cleese's character, Kevin Kline is the dense antagonist of the film's plot, and Michael Palin's character provides an active supporting role to the main events.

* Three of the film's writers appear in comical supporting roles: Ron Clark as the ( non ) deranged patient Zachary Cartwright, Rudy De Luca as the killer " Braces ," and Rain Man-director Barry Levinson as the tightly-wound bellhop, " Dennis.

The Magical Negro, or magical black friend, is a supporting stock character in American cinema who is portrayed coming to the aid of a film's white protagonists.

USA Today stated that he was among the film's " best supporting players ", while Rolling Stone gave Lerman a " shout-out " and Newsday stated that he delivers a " credibly explicit note ".

In the case of the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet, there were many famous actors playing supporting or bit roles, and these actors were given prominent billing in the posters along with the film's actual stars: Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, and Kate Winslet.

" Critic Roger Ebert listed the film among his category of " Great Movies "; he praised the film's supporting actors.

This has led to some claims that Pied Piper is likewise a hoax, however documentation supporting the film's existence predates the Alien Autopsy affair by many years.

Rosanna Arquette won a BAFTA Award for her portrayal of Roberta ; the fact that the award was for a " supporting role " reflected the surge in popularity that Madonna was experiencing at the time, since in terms of billing, number of scenes, lines of dialogue, and the plot, Arquette was actually the film's lead.

He and his co-star Noel Neill provided commentary on several Adventures of Superman episodes for the January 2006 DVD release of the 1953 season, and in 2006, he appears in Bryan Singer's film Superman Returns in a cameo role as " Bo the Bartender "; it was rumored prior to the film's release that his role would actually be Suicide Slum resident and Superman fan, Bibbo Bibbowski, a supporting character from the modern Superman comics.

The film's supporting cast includes two two-time Tony Award winners, Tammy Grimes and Russell Nype, June Havoc ( sister of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee ), Altovise Davis ( wife of Sammy Davis, Jr .), character actor Jack Weston, and Emmy-winner Leigh Taylor-Young.

She also plays a supporting role as the jailbait hostess, Natasha, in the 2005 American film Waiting ..., and recreated the role in the film's 2009 sequel, Still Waiting ....

As Edwards shot the film, employing multiple takes of improvised scenes, it became clear Sellers, originally considered a supporting actor, was stealing the scenes, and resulted in his continuation throughout the film's sequels.

Bruce Campbell also joined the cast in Raimi's Darkman and The Quick and the Dead, though having no actual screen time in the latter film's theatrical cut.

She eventually falls in love with Fred and joins him in the film's epilogue as a cast member on the revived television series.

Anne Brebner, the film's casting director, was almost cast as Harold's mother when Vivian Pickles was briefly unable to do the role.

In the film's trailer, Bogart is repeatedly mentioned first but Robinson's name is listed above Bogart's in a cast list at the trailer's very end.

Scott cast Tom Cruise as the film's hero, Jack, Mia Sara as Princess Lili, and Tim Curry as the Satan-horned Lord of Darkness.

Just as today, a film's success depended upon the setting, the mood, the script, the skills of the director, and the overall talent of the cast.

The primary cast for First Contact is from the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, to which the film's producers added Alice Krige, Neal McDonough, James Cromwell and Alfre Woodard.

During a cast reunion in honor of the film's 25th anniversary, Ally Sheedy revealed that it was Hughes ' director's cut, but Hughes ' widow did not disclose any details concerning its whereabouts.

Star Heath Ledger's death in January 2008 cast doubt on the film's future, but the production was salvaged with the addition of new actors playing his character in scenes he did not complete.

Brooks, who is also executive producer of The Simpsons, had cast Smith in his 1994 film I'll Do Anything ( in one of the film's musical numbers ) but her part was cut.

Among the cooks serving the film's cast and crew between shots were some of the Chinese laborers who actually worked on the Central Pacific section of the railroad.

The film's large cast and intertwining of many different storylines were similar to his large-cast films of the 1970s ; he won the Golden Lion at the 1993 Venice International Film Festival and another Oscar nomination for Best Director.

Żuławski went back to France to find that the reels of unfinished film were preserved, along with costumes and props, by the Polish film studio and archives and by members of the film's cast and crew.

The soundtrack album spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton-John: the platinum " You're The One That I Want " ( No. 1 Pop, No. 23 AC ) with John Travolta, the gold " Hopelessly Devoted to You " ( No. 3 Pop, No. 20 Country, No. 7 AC ) and the gold " Summer Nights " ( No. 5 Pop, No. 21 AC ) with John Travolta and the film's cast.

The film's directors, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, chose Nielsen for the role based on his ability to play " a fish in water ", stating that " You could have cast funny people and done it with everybody winking, goofing off, and silly ... we wanted people to be oblivious to the comedy.

Joseph Pilato was cast as Rhodes, the film's antagonist.

The film's cast and crew resolved to make an uplifting, patriotic film.

A studio cast recording of the film's songs was released by Decca soon after the film, with Danny Kaye, Jane Wyman, and a backup chorus singing the songs from the film, also including two Sylvia Fine originals made specifically for the album, " Uncle Pockets " and " There's a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea ", and Danny Kaye's narration of two Tubby the Tuba stories by Paul Tripp.

Some of the film's cast and crew, including Spielberg, retrospectively view the film in an unfavorable light.

After directing The Search for Spock, cast member Leonard Nimoy was asked to direct the next feature, and given greater freedom regarding the film's content.

The 1992 film Sleepwalkers features " Boadicea " as the film's signature tune.

The film's soundtrack features part of the first movement of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

The film's bestselling soundtrack features performances by Jordi Savall, one of the best-known modern viola da gamba players.

It features the opening title song " Reach For The Sun ( Summer Holiday )" ( released as a single to coincide with the film's release ) and a memorable music-fantasy sequence, where the Team perform a cover version of The Cowsills 1967 song " The Rain, The Park & Other Things ".

The song, entitled " The Song of the Heart ", appears on the film's soundtrack, which also features a cover of Prince's earlier hit " Kiss ", sung by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.

After the film's release, certain publications, including Private Eye, noted strong similarities between the film and the 1941 novel No Bed for Bacon, by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, which also features Shakespeare falling in love and finding inspiration for his later plays.

The film's premise features a band of pre-teens who live in the " Goon Docks " neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon attempting to save their homes from demolition, and in doing so, discover an old Spanish map that leads them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willie, a legendary 17th-century pirate.

Newsdays Joseph Gelmis wrote that " the film's principal reward is a visual experience unlike anything that other animated features are doing at the moment ".

Other features include: " The Surprise Attack ", a multi-angle breakdown of the film's most exciting sequence ( 30 minutes ), which includes multiple video tracks ( such as previsualization and final edit ) and commentaries from veterans / Also included is the " Pearl Harbor Historic Timeline ", a set-top interactive feature produced by documentarian Charles Kiselyak ( 68 minutes ).

The DVD features featurettes and cast interviews, which were all used to celebrate the film's 10-year anniversary.

" Underground " features on the soundtrack twice, first in an edited version that was played over the film's opening sequence and secondly in full.

The program also features many other Star Wars characters, including Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, R2-D2, Darth Vader and Princess Leia Organa ( who sings the film's " theme song ", set to the music of John Williams ' Star Wars theme, near the end ).

The booklet also features various reprints of reviews and images of posters and memorabilia from the film's release.

In 2006, he appeared as Zod once again in Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut ( a re-tooled version of the 1980 film which predominantly features footage shot by Donner, the film's original director ).

The Film Love and a. 45 features a standoff between the film's primary protagonists and antagonist in Acuña after the three have crossed the U. S ./ Mexico border.

He noted, however, that certain elements of the film's plane, such as the escape pod and the rear parachute ramp, did not reflect actual features of Air Force One.

The film's opening title features a digitally animated jack-o '- lantern, an obvious reference to the jack-o '- lanterns that appeared in the opening titles of Halloween and Halloween II.

Across the Dorset border, the Coast Path runs through the town of Lyme Regis where the Cobb breakwater was seen in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman and features on the film's poster.

The film also features diegetic music ( Ford at one point whistles the film's theme song just as Harmonica provides music in West ).

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End features a parody of the " Man With a Harmonica " theme on the soundtrack, as the film's protagonists parlay on a sandbar before the final battle.

Baz Luhrman's Australia features several nods to Leone's film, including a homestead with a squeaky windmill, an almost-identical funeral scene, and the antagonistic relationship of the film's villains.

The " Magical Music Edition " features a " Going Back to Xanadu " featurette, the film's theatrical trailer and a photo gallery.

A director's cut DVD was released in November 2006, which features Zwigoff's cut of the film ( including an audio commentary with him and the film's editor ), but is three minutes shorter than the theatrical cut and ten minutes shorter than the unrated version.