Movies that keep surprising you

[AndyC]

The Revenge of the Nerds thread made me think of this.

Have you ever known an old movie - one you've seen over and over - that surprised you during more than one viewing, because one of the actors became better known since the last time you saw it.

Revenge of the Nerds did that for me twice. Watched it several times in the 80s, then didn't see it for years. The next time I happened to catch the movie, I was surprised to see that the coach was John Goodman, whose career had taken off since I last saw it. Seeing it again, a few years later, I was surprised to see James Cromwell.

Anybody else get a surprise like this more than once from the same movie?

[odinn7]

Sorry...I'm too brain dead to remember things like this...seriously.

[trekgeezer]

This happens a lot when you watch something from your childhood. When you go back and watch now , you see a lot of people that you know now but didn't when you first saw it.  It usually surprises me at how young they were.

[BoyScoutKevin]

A film I was thinking about last night. A British film about truckers called "Hell Drivers" w/ Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, and David McCallum. All five to ten years away from making in on television. Also Sean Connery, five years before he made "Dr. No." And Jill Ireland, a decade before she married Charles Bronson.

[Shadowphile]

The Great Escape and a Bridge Too Far and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

During both I was OMG, thats so and so.  Charles Bronson, James Garner, Donald Pleasance, David McCallum, James Coburn and Richard Attenborugh in Great Escape and James Caan, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford and Gene Hackman in A Bridge Too Far.  I'd seen both some time ago and when I watched then recently I was astonished at how many stars there were.

Danny DeVito, Christopher LLoyd and two guys that made a career out of playing psychos.  Oddly, many of them turned up in Bucaroo Banzai plyinf aleins...