Who's The Greatest Character?
by penchofifteenpolls | created - 10 Oct 2013 | updated - 25 Nov 2015 | PublicAll these characters gave their name to their movie, and all of them were accompained by the word Great in the title. But having them all together, who is the greatest of them all?
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1. The Great Gatsby (2013)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance
A writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire
Votes: 596,650 | Gross: $144.84M
2. Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
PG | 130 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A small-time magician is swept away to an enchanted land and is forced into a power struggle between three witches.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis
Votes: 214,263 | Gross: $234.91M
3. The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
G | 74 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy maker and uncovers its link to his archenemy, Professor Ratigan.
Directors: Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, John Musker | Stars: Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek
Votes: 54,381 | Gross: $38.60M
4. The Great Buck Howard (2008)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline.
Director: Sean McGinly | Stars: Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Tom Hanks, Emily Blunt
Votes: 14,727 | Gross: $0.75M
5. The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
PG | 107 min | Adventure, Drama
After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 6,602 | Gross: $20.64M
6. The Great Gatsby (1974)
PG | 144 min | Drama, Romance
A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black
Votes: 26,855 | Gross: $6.74M
7. The Great Dictator (1940)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 237,294 | Gross: $0.29M
8. The Great Santini (1979)
PG | 115 min | Drama
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated Marine pilot.
Director: Lewis John Carlino | Stars: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky
Votes: 6,942
9. Alexander the Great (1956)
Not Rated | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life and military conquests of Alexander III of Macedon (July 20/21, 356 - June 10/11, 323 B.C.), commonly known as Alexander the Great.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Barry Jones
Votes: 4,116
10. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Passed | 176 min | Drama, Musical
The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan
Votes: 8,990
11. The Great Rupert (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Family
A little squirrel with lots of charm accidentally helps two poor, down-but-NOT-out families overcome their obstacles.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth
Votes: 1,575
12. The Great Impostor (1960)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 1,706
13. The Great Caruso (1951)
Approved | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Music
This film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna
Votes: 1,466
14. Alfred the Great (I) (1969)
M/PG | 122 min | Drama, History, War
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to... See full summary »
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: David Hemmings, Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Colin Blakely
Votes: 1,118
15. The Great McGinty (1940)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 4,411
16. The Great Madcap (1949)
92 min | Comedy
A father decides to teach their bratty kids a lesson about the value of money.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Soler, Rosario Granados, Andrés Soler, Rubén Rojo
Votes: 1,412
17. Tobor the Great (1954)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A young boy-genius befriends his grandfather's robot, designed as a test pilot for space travel and coveted by foreign spies.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Billy Chapin, Taylor Holmes
Votes: 936
18. The Great Gabbo (1929)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.
Directors: James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson, Marjorie Kane
Votes: 1,003
19. The Great Impostor (1918)
50 min | Drama
A sailor poses as a Lord's lost son and then finds he really is.
Director: F. Martin Thornton | Stars: Marie Blanche, Bernard Dudley, Edward O'Neill, Lionel d'Aragon
20. Singh Saab the Great (2013)
Not Rated | 134 min | Action, Drama
A tax collector willing to reform the society with the thought of change instead of revenge tries to control himself while attempting to teach a lesson to the man responsible behind his wife's death.
Director: Anil Sharma | Stars: Sunny Deol, Urvashi Rautela, Prakash Raj, Amrita Rao
Votes: 2,519 | Gross: $0.22M
21. The Great Gambler (1979)
161 min | Action, Crime, Romance
After unwittingly using his skills to obtain military secrets, a gambler is pursued by a police officer who happens to be his doppelganger.
Director: Shakti Samanta | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh, Prem Chopra
Votes: 730
22. The Great McGonagall (1975)
PG | 95 min | Biography, Comedy
William Topaz McGonagall, the world's greateset poet. Unfortunately the whole of the rest of the world disagreed. His talent made him a sort of Victorian Chris Evans but without the cash.
Director: Joseph McGrath | Stars: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Julia Foster, John Bluthal
Votes: 286
23. The Great Flamarion (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay
Votes: 1,457
24. The Great Morgan (1946)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy, Musical
The Great Morgan is an 1945 American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is considered one of the more unusual in the MGM canon in that it is a compilation film ... See full summary »
Director: Nat Perrin | Stars: Frank Morgan, Leon Ames, Carlos Ramírez, Lucille Norman
Votes: 202
25. The Great Man (1956)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London
Votes: 474
26. The Great Lover (1949)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
On an ocean liner, an inept scoutmaster pursues a duchess while a killer pursues him.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Roland Young, Roland Culver
Votes: 550
27. The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Gildersleeve, a small town bachelor, has slapstick troubles with a husband-hunting woman and two helpful kids.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Harold Peary, Jane Darwell, Nancy Gates, Charles Arnt
Votes: 413
28. Papa the Great (2000)
Not Rated | 143 min | Family
Jai, has a very strange psychological problem, something keeps terrorizing him both physically and mentally. But, he puts a brave front outwardly and this makes his son believe that his papa is great.
Director: Bhagyaraj | Stars: Krishan Kumar, Nagma, Satya Prakash, Master Bobby
Votes: 85
29. The Great Garrick (1937)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
A Paris troupe puts on outlandish performances for a celebrated 18th-century British actor in order to convince him of their talents. The arrival of a countess complicates the plot.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper
Votes: 774
30. The Great Chameleon (2012)
80 min | Comedy
You know you're a marked man when you're released from jail and the entire police force knows it. So it is for Joe Murky (Victor Altomare), a charismatic master of alternate identities, who... See full summary »
Directors: Goran Kalezic, Charlie Kundallini | Stars: Victor Altomare, Stacy Keach, Robert Davi, Monique Zordan
Votes: 28
31. The Great Dan Patch (1949)
Passed | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Story of the legendary trotting horse Dan Patch.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood
Votes: 260
32. The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Escaping from a Canadian prison farm, master thief Gerard Dennis (David Brian) makes his way to Buffalo with Peggy Arthur (Perdita Chandler), who supplies him with money needed for forged ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: David Brian, Marjorie Reynolds, John Archer, Jacqueline deWit
Votes: 195
33. The Great Lester Boggs (1974)
PG | 94 min | Drama
Malcolm's cross-country motorcycle odyssey - just for the experience - "boggs" down in Arkansas, where he acquires his sidekick, LeRoy; befriends moonshine-drinkin', bi-plane stunt pilot, ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Thomason | Stars: Scott McKenzie, Robert Ridgely, Willie Jones, Dean Jagger
Votes: 39
34. Victoria the Great (1937)
112 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of an 18-year-old princess who becomes Queen of England. It chronicles six decades of her reign during a period of immense change and her marriage to a prince who would become her treasured source of stability and affection.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner
Votes: 273
35. The Great Mr. Handel (1942)
Not Rated | 89 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A lavish period drama produced in 1942 by Lord Rank's G.H.W. Productions Ltd.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Elizabeth Allan, Malcolm Keen, Michael Shepley
Votes: 94
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