Word: actor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, according to a now-it-can-be-told story, bamboozled Axis spies with a double, Lieut. Clifton James, peacetime actor. The double made a noisy departure for Africa, got a big official welcome in Algiers, set the spies to reporting the Marshal's absence from his invasion base just before Dday...
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of "The Assassin" is a lively portrayal of the title role by Frank Sundstrom. In a difficult part, Sundstrom, formerly Sweden's top-ranking actor, presents with charm and conviction the conflicting sentiments and ideologies of a quixotic young monarchist...
...good actor, he played his first big role in knee-deep mud at Churchill Downs, ploughed theatrically from last to first to win the 1918 Kentucky Derby. Suddenly the silence of amazement was split by a colored boy waving his $2 ticket (worth $61.20) and shrieking: "'Ster-minator." After that Exterminator was known to millions by his right name-as well as by his nicknames, which ranged from Hatrack to Old Slim to Poison to Old Bones...
Through it all Alexander Knox gives and excellent performance as Wilson, when he forgets that he is the actor. Though the movie is a fusion of color, drama, and excitement, along with strong ideas and ideals, he keeps the personality of Wilson the individual always present...
...they're still strangers, even if inclusion of their voices represents a great advance in documentary technique. In "The Way Ahead" a small group of British soldiers is introduced as civilians and carried through training into action and into the orbit of the movie audience. In this spectator-actor set-up the war hits home--the man who died is your friend and it's very different from a dozen strange bodies dropping under a fusillade of steel...