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On the other hand
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 Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:38 am Post subject: Karl Malden is dead |
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"Poker should not be played in a house with women."
Other than that, I mostly knew him as the priest in On The Waterfront, Omar Bradley in Patton, the father in Nuts, and as the American Express spokesman. I never watched Streets Of San Francisco, for which I gather he was quite renowned.
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BreakfastInBed
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| Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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I was just watching him in Hitchcock's "I Confess" a few nights ago and wondering if he was still around. Great actor. Great voice. He took a dull, thankless role and made it the most engaging in the film.
What's going on? People have been dropping like flies the past week. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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I was just watching him in Hitchcock's "I Confess" a few nights ago and wondering if he was still around. Great actor. Great voice. He took a dull, thankless role and made it the most engaging in the film.
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I actually kind of liked that film, a charming, relatively unknown Hitchcock thriller set(as you know) in Quebec. I had forgotten until yesterday that he was in it. |
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BreakfastInBed
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| Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, it's pretty good. Kind of an oddity in its near total humorlessness. It's certainly a front runner for Hitchcock's most brooding and somber film. I really get off on Hitchcock's sense of humor so it's never been one of my favorites. Still holds up though.
I have to see On the Waterfront again. I barely remember it. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| I really get off on Hitchcock's sense of humor so it's never been one of my favorites. |
As I recall, the most whimsical part of the movie is when the priest and his platonic lady friend take refuge from the rain in a gazebo(or something like that), and end up spending a chaste few hours together. |
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dragon777
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:31 am Post subject: |
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| This guy was one of the best actors ever and a personal favourite of mine. He was tough, compassionate and intriguing at he same time. A great American actor who went through the decades doing his thing. I especially loved him acting in ' The Streets of San Francisco', when I was a small kid. He was cast with Michael Douglas and they played these really cool detectives in that city. You'll be missed Karl...good luck and goodnight! |
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