10 More Best Movie Characters Who Only Appear In ONE Scene
7. Miracle Max - The Princess Bride
After Westley (Cary Elwes) is damn-near tortured to death in The Princess Bride, Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) and Fezzik (Andre the Giant) bring him to Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), a folk healer.
What follows is an hysterical five-minute sequence where Max, played by Crystal under massive amounts of old man makeup, cracks jokes as the heroes try to convince him to restore Westley to good health.
Once they inform Max doing so will ruin Prince Humperdinck's (Chris Sarandon) wedding, he's game for the job.
As some icing on the cake, Max is also joined by his wife Valerie (a similarly unrecognisable Carol Kane), who helps persuade Max that true love must prevail through Westley's resurrection from being "mostly dead."
Even with much of Crystal's dialogue allegedly being improvised, this snappy, gut-bustingly funny scene shows and says everything we need to know about Max - he's a weird-ass healer of questionable morals who can be brought back down to Earth by his equally odd wife.
Most movies would kill for a main character this entertaining, and yet, here Max takes his leave after just a single brilliant scene.