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...actors barely try. Vaccaro is strident, Vincent swishy and Mitchum somnolent as usual. It is often said that Mitchum is a fine actor who has seldom had a role to really challenge him. He has been extraordinary at least twice: as the deranged preacher in Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter and as the inebriated deputy in Howard Hawks' El Dorado. In his multitude of other roles, he has mostly looked sullen and talked tough; one has the sense, watching him, that he thinks acting is a hell of a way for a man to earn...
...local station while he was still in high school. He was living his show business fantasies in the highest style available to a boy, but that was not enough. He was a movie addict, and he haunted Lincoln's only stage door. He once spoke to Charles Laughton and still remembers that the actor remarked upon his low voice. When Bob Hope played Lincoln, Dick trapped the comedian backstage and said, "Fine show, Bob." Hope replied, "Thanks, son." Hardly a droll exchange, but enough to thrill Cavett. He recalls: "I thought, gee, if I were famous I wouldn't have...
Throughout the film, audiences may be reminded of a late-show favorite, The Private Life of Henry VIII, starring Charles Laughton rumbustiously chomping up silversides of beef and dialogue. It was a superior treatment of the same subject in every sense save one. As the current Anne Boleyn, Genevieve Bujold refuses to accept the facile role of the wronged woman. Starting as a beautiful child, she contrives to catch the conscience and the passion of the King. With growing eroticism -and ironclad chastity-she reduces the monarch to pawn size, forces him to divorce Katherine of Spain and take...
...always been, a conspiracy that causes all events in human life. Talk about Mao, Cromwell, Lenin, Sam Adams, but they were just the tools. Behind them a group of no more than twenty things ran everything. Things half spirit and half deformities: the head thing looks like Charles Laughton's hunchback only more so. Yessir it's all true! Conspiracy theories of history have always been tremendously popular for the simple fact that they're right. Bankers' ramps all over the place...
...century England that wandering singers first came to be called buskers.* They were then best known for their obscene songs, but they gained respectability as they moved to the sidewalks and brought along their own touch of music-hall gaiety. George Bernard Shaw loved them. So did Actor Charles Laughton, who used to gather a group around him in their favorite pub, the Black Swan, and buy them sandwiches and a barrel of beer. Buskers basically are drifters, as Accordionist Tony Turco admits: "You have got to be a performer or else you are nothing but a disguised beggar...