What are your favorite movies in which real or fictional characters somehow come together in the same time and place? I'm basically interested in real people who probably never met in real life, or fictional characters from different stories who somehow show up in the same movie.
A few examples:
* JESSE JAMES MEETS FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER
* BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA
* DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN
* BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
* TIME AFTER TIME
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League of extraordinary gentlemen? Based on a comic sure.
I've never read it or seen the movie (or got the t-shirt) but doesn't Jack the Ripper play one of the "heroes"?
Burgomaster its not a movie, but the first thing that came to mind was an episode of the original STAR TREK. In this one episode Kirk and Spock are trapped on this planet were a giant rock rules. They are forced to fight to the death with Abraham Lincoln and a famous Vulcan against famous evil personalities of the Universe.
This episode and all the original episodes were so great.
One I can think of is that stupid Lone Ranger movie they made back in 1981. I believe it had Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, and U.S. Grant (maybe some otheres)all on a train together. The Lone Ranger saves them from Christopher Lloyd.
raj wrote:
> League of extraordinary gentlemen? Based on a comic sure.
> I've never read it or seen the movie (or got the t-shirt) but
> doesn't Jack the Ripper play one of the "heroes"?
No, no, no, no, no.
Jack the Ripper isn't even in the movie.
I'm not sure about the comic, but I'm pretty sure he wasn't in the league.
The League is completely composed of folks from literature and fiction. No real people need apply.
Ulysses Grant was in "Wild Wild West".
Scott that episode is titled "The Savage Curtain" and was one of the last Star Trek episodes to be produced.
Go here to read abut it: http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/TOS/detail/68814.html
The meeting which sticks in my mind is the one in "Ed Wood," where Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) meets Orson Welles (Vincent D'Onofrio) one evening, and they sit down and talk about making films. One of those meetings that never happened, but should have happened.
There was a ST:TNG episode involving Mark Twain
Murder by Death - Poirot, Miss Marple, Sam Spade, and Nick & Nora Charles are brought together by Truman Capote
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law probably deserves a mention, too.
Jack the Ripper turns up in "Shanghai Knights" briefly. Very briefly. He's not in the LXG comic either.
"The Seven Percent Solution" - Holmes and Watson go to Freud for help with Holmes' coke problem.
There was a Dr. Who episode where the young writer from Earth accidentally mixed up in the story is revealed at the end to be the future George Orwell.
The fourth Gambler TV movie featured cameos by numerous old TV western stars as their famous characters like Bat Masterson (Gene Barry) , Caine (David Carradine), Cheyenne (Clint Walker), Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly), Lucas McCain (Chuck Conners), Wyatt Earp (Hugh O'Brian), the Westerner (Brian Keith), among others. Claude Akins plays Teddy Roosevelt very badly.
Lilly Langtree and Billy the Kid turn up in 'The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean".
"The White Buffalo" features Will Bill Hickok and Crazy Horse, who probably never met in real life.
For fun crossovers of fictional and real people, I suggest Kim Newman's vampire books "Anno Dracula" and "The Bloody Red Baron". The first one includes or mentions: Drs. Jekyll and Moreau, Mycroft Holmes, Oscar Wilde, Jack The Ripper, The Elephant Man, Queen Victoria, Danny Dravot, Carmilla Karnstein, Elizabeth Bathory, Dr. Nikola, Varney the Vampire, and even a character Bram Stoker had included in early drafts of "Dracula" but left out. The second book brings back some of these and includes: Herbert West, Robur the Conquer,Otto von Bismark, Manfred and Lothar von Richthofen, Hermann Goering, Biggles, Edgar Allan Poe, Mata Hari, Winston Churchill, Ashenden, Bela Lugosi, plus more.
Only really worth a mention because I watched it the other night:
Freddy vs. Jason
And I guess the case could be made for Mothra and Rodan showing up in a bunch of Godzilla movies, in that they had their own movies prior to their appearances in Godzilla's flicks.
yaddo42 wrote:
> There was a Dr. Who episode where the young writer from Earth
> accidentally mixed up in the story is revealed at the end to be
> the future George Orwell.
I believe there was also an episode with H.G. Wells, supposedly the adventure that inspired The Time Machine. It's been a while, but I think he was known as Herbert throughout the episode, which included Morlocks and such, then revealed his full name at the end.
I didn't like the 2nd or 3rd Indiana Jones movies, but there was a cute bit in one of them where Adolf Hitler signs Indy's notebook at the book burning at Humboldt University.
There was also an episode where Data was playing cards in the holodeck with Einstein, Isaac Newton, and the real Stephen Hawking.
In one episode of Friday the 13th, The Series, they followed a vampire back in time and although they didn't know it at the time, they ended up helping out Bram Stoker. In another episode, the redhead, Micki, got sent back in time and met the Marquis De Sade.
"Murder by Death" also featured Charlie Chan as played by Peter Sellers.
And Yaddo42's mention of "The Gambler" reminded me of "Alias Jesse James" w/ Bob Hope, in which Bob Hope sells a life insurance policy to Jesse James (Wendell Corey) and has to get it back.
And in the concluding shootout, Bob Hope who is shooting it out with Jesse and Frank James (Jim Davis) and their gang is supported by Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness), Maj. Seth Adams (Ward Bond), Annie Oakley (Gail Davis), Bret Maverick (James Garner), Wyatt Earp (Hugh O'Brien), and Davy Crockett (Fess Parker) and Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Roy Rogers, and Trigger as themselves.
And the upcoming "Van Helsing" reminds me of "The House of Frankenstein" and "The House of Dracula," where the Monster meets Dracula meets the Wolfman, etc.
Also Abbott and Costello did a series of films in which they met a number of famous horror characters. My favorite "Abbott and Costell Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" w/ Boris Karloff as Jekyll and Hyde.
There are loads of Dr. Who episodes where the Doctor mentions meeting or knowing famous people. In Talons of Went Chiang he says he shared a fish with the Venerable Bede, in City of Death he helps Leo Davinci paint the Mona Lisa, etc. In damn near every episode there's a reference like that.
Brother R
Riverworld - Astronaut dies and ends up on some alien world where he meets both Samuel Clemens (AKA Mark Twain) and Nero. Clemens and Nero meet also.
Grumpy Guy said:
Yep no Jack the Ripper in the comic book just Mina Murray, Allen Quartermain, Captain Nemo, the invisible man (Griffen i think) and Dr Jeckl/Mr Hyde. And pretty much all the secondary characters and villians are from books.