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Burt Lancaster is best remembered as Moonlight Graham. 🙂 

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4 hours ago, chasfh said:

OK, I am going to throw this out there as a potentially fun thought exercise. This comes off a conversation I had with a couple buddies of mine and we talked about it for at least an hour running, it was so interesting to contemplate. Maybe we have some fun with this here—maybe it goes nowhere. Let's see.

I believe most of us are big fans of the movie A Few Good Men. One of the all-time great courtroom scenes of all time, but really, just a terrific story all the way through, written and performed terrifically when it came out in 1992.

Now: imagine A Few Good Men is going to be filmed not in 1992, but in 1962.

Who are the actors you cast for it?

 

No argument on Paul Newman in the Kaffee roll

You might consider Lee J Cobb for Jessup. Not as charismatic as Nicholson. But he already made a mark in 12 Angry Men and could definately handle the "You cant handle the truth' speech effectively.

The Demi Moore role might have worked well with Natalie Wood. The Lt Kendrick part could go to George Peppard Peppard looked like an officer and could play arrogance well

Give the Kevin Bacon roll to Robert Redford, 

Also keep in mind 1962 was not 1982. There would probably be different pacing and more focus on the trial itself

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They guy that could have played Cruise was in the 82 movie. Donald Sutherland. He would have been 27. I think he was underrated.