# What Major Motion Picture Had the Smallest Cast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818 "2005-08-19T22:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/41 "2005-08-21T00:50:57Z")
I haven’t seen Winged Migration, but aren’t there any shots of the ultralight pilots? Do computer generated people count? Because Sky Captian had some crowd scenes, but I’m guessing there weren’t very many people there. (Even if they don’t count, still quite a few more people than some of these movies) Open Water has a cast of 8, didn’t see it so don’t know if there was a dock scene w/ extras. Touching the Void had 6 cast members (and 3 “roles” - the real person and the person playing them) Brian ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/42 "2005-08-21T01:05:32Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Open Water has a cast of 8, didn’t see it so don’t know if there was a dock scene w/ extras. There’s a beach scene at the beginning with dozens of people. There are also more than eight people on the boat. How many human characters were there in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I don’t think there were more than five or so (though there may be humans in the crowd scenes). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/43 "2005-08-21T01:22:12Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > **Give 'em Hell, Harry!** (1975) > > James Whitmore as Harry S Truman > > and that’s all. If you ever have a chance to watch this, it is an amazing performance. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/44 "2005-08-21T01:23:29Z")
> [@El Zagna](#): > > **[Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061184/fullcredits)** had four cast members: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Sega and Sandy Dennis. The IMDB page says there was a fifth, a Frank Flanagan who played the “Host of Inn (uncredited)”. I don’t remember him, nor do I remember anything about an inn. I just happened to see this recently; the “inn” is the bar the two couples go to for a while in the middle of the film. I’m pretty sure the innkeeper’s wife was on screen as well, but didn’t speak. _Tape_ was the example that leapt to my mind; I guess it’s predictable that a lot of these films with extremely small casts are stage-plays adapted for the screen. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/45 "2005-08-21T03:10:47Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > I Sticking with the torture motif, I think **Death And The Maiden** , IIRC, only has **three** people ever show up on screen, and they are A-Listers as well. (Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, and I forget the third.) Stuart Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/46 "2005-08-21T04:53:46Z")
[Mark Twain Tonight](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204468/) has a cast of one - **Hal Holbrooke** ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/47 "2005-08-21T16:15:01Z")
> [@davenportavenger](#): > > How many human characters were there in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I don’t think there were more than five or so (though there may be humans in the crowd scenes). There are at least a dozen in the diner scene alone (where Eddie hides Roger in the back room and the Judge shows up), as well as human extras walking around the studio where Roger makes his movies. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/48 "2005-08-28T05:55:04Z")
The smallest cast in a live action dramatic feature (excluding movies with an all animal cast) is none. Kostas Sfikas Model (Greece 1974) had no performers, just robots. There are a number of one person films (including the Belgian cat version of Romeo and Juliet where John Hurt was in drag). :o ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818/49 "2005-08-28T06:51:02Z")
**Duel** is just Dennis Weaver for most of the movie…and of course the mysterious truck driver. But you only see his arm. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-major-motion-picture-had-the-smallest-cast/317818.md?page=2)