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...nickname that placed him somewhere in the waistland between "chubby" and "fatso...
...World War II hitch in the Navy, a stint as scene shifter and bit player at Virginia's Barter Theater. After playing supporting roles-mostly heavies-on TV for two years, he returned to Hollywood in 1951 to act his first bad man in The Mob. As Fatso Judson in From Here to Eternity, he consolidated his role as villain, made his next half-dozen pictures to match his belligerent face. Now Borgnine is anxious to play other non-stereotyped leads like Marty. But he is closing no doors: "I'm an actor," he says...
...pleasures of amnesia also include a chance to punch the daylights out of a fatso-&-so (Bruno Ve Sota), and to give two other villains a fatal case of lead poisoning. When Hero Quinn finally gets his memory back, it seems almost an unhappy ending...
...First Sergeant Warden and the captain's wife, two people who think they know what they need and almost make life give it to them. And fatally, there is the story of Private Maggio, Prew's friend, who is beaten to death in the "stockade" by Fatso, the brutal captain of the guard, and of Prew's tragic revenge. Dec. 7, 1941, for all its horror, breaks like a pest bomb over this roach pit of human misery...
Frank Sinatra does Private Maggio like nothing he has ever done before. His face wears the calm of a man who is completely sure of what he is doing as he plays it straight from Little Italy. And Ernest Borgnine is a Fatso hard to forget. He can smile and smile and be a villain, in a way to make the audience realize that it is in the presence of that perhaps not rarest of humankind, the perfectly normal monster...