Word: lancasterism
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Lehman was quickly replaced as director by Alexander Mackendrick, a Scotsman just off a prime Alec Guinness comedy, "The Ladykillers." And soon the writer had departed; all the jawing about script changes had given him a spastic colon, and his doctor told him to scram to Tahiti. Per Buford, "Lancaster...
Lancaster, the preeminent actor-producer in a decade when that meant a lot, at first had no thought of appearing in the film. Then, during one casting conference, he said, "What about me?" He, like Curtis and Odets, was a New York boy; Manhattan had been his boot camp, and...
But then, J.J. is a master of the castrating word or glance; a man at his table can laugh at the wrong moment, and from the guillotine look J.J. shoots him, the guy may as well have said, "I voted for Hitler." So if Sidney is to swim back into...
Lancaster was so secure in his stature that he could take the dominant but smaller role of J.J. (he's on screen for 36 mins., Curtis almost 90). Similarly, he could have relied on old, endearing mannerisms and played J.J. as the handsome, expansive con man, flashing those famous ivories...
But Susan Harrison, who was indeed 19 when the movie was shot - and who slipped until anonymity until two years ago, when her daughter Darva Conger married a lummox on a TV millionaire show - carries the burden as smartly as she wears that mink. She stands up to Lancaster and...