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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 03/26/2008 : 4:49:09 PM
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mna...and another top ranker goes to his rest.
Marvin the Paranoid Android to Buzz Lightyear "Too infinity and beyond-i've been there, its rubbish!"
"Hoody Hoo, i waste 'em with my cross bow!" Bob Herzog- KODT
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/26/2008 : 9:58:14 PM
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He'll always be Mr. Rachet from Murder on the Orient Express to me.
Adios Richard!
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 08:28:10 AM
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There have been way too many RIPs on the board lately. Check out Widmark's early noir work, much of it available from Criterion.
PEGGY: I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 09:24:30 AM
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I hate to say it but he was one of those guys that I know by reputation and then can't think of an actual role (apart from the one mentioned in Murder... I need to go track some of those classic early villain roles down.
There sure seems to have been a depressing spate of passings-on lately.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
648 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2008 : 09:38:41 AM
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He was in The Swarm.
"I reserve the right to look as well as be boring." - Robert Fripp |
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 12:58:05 PM
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One of my favorite Widmark rolls is in WARLOCK, which is an excellent western.
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 1:27:52 PM
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Try Night and the City, Pickup on South Street, Panic in the Streets (a nice thriller with Widmark against type as a straight arrow hero), and of course, Kiss of Death. Madigan is a more standard cop picture, but a good one and one of Widmark's trademark roles.
Criterion did the DVDs for several of those.
PEGGY: I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
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TheFoywonder
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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833 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2008 : 5:55:14 PM
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Originally posted by Ericb
He was in The Swarm.
Who wasn't in The Swarm? I swear that movie has the grandest cast of any bad movie ever made. It's like the It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of b-movies.
Now Playing in Foyeurism at Foywonder.com: PILOT ERROR - An American Mad Mad, Andy Kaufman as a wacky robot butler, and combat hockey: a triple threat of futurisitic failed TV pilots
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 6:51:32 PM
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/28/2008 : 10:57:18 PM
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I should also give a shout out to The Bedford Incident.
I loved the ending were Portier keeps asking Widmark what his plan is and he just stands there in silence because he doesn't have one.
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