Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene bore a strong resemblance to an old Peter Sellers movie. A lone guard answers a knock at the Fogg Art Museum door. The time: 12:30 a.m. Sunday. A man wearing a beige trench coat identifies himself as "Mr. Ryan," and says he was told to pick up a package left earlier...
...guard, warned to expect "Mr. Ryan," unsuspectingly opens the door. "Ryan" pulls a gun, binds and gags the watchman, and lets in four other gunmen. The band proceeds to the third-floor coin room and rips off 5600 Greek and Roman coins, valued at up to $5 million...
...example, formerly the gruff boss of the Ponderosa ranch on Bonanza, is reincarnated as Griff (ABC), an ex-police captain who opens an antique-filled office as a Los Angeles private eye. The impossible-mission gambit is given a new workout by shows like Chase (NBC), which stars Mitchell Ryan as the head of a police unit assigned to cases other departments cannot handle...
This does not so much throw the production out of balance as readjust the emphasis. Hickey does not stand apart, he becomes just another victim. The weight of the play falls on Robert Ryan, whose portrayal of Larry Slade is magnificent. Slade, the rummy poet anarchist, the man who likes to pretend he watches life with cynical dispassion from the grandstand, who claims to invite and welcome death, is a role full of traps. It is hard to separate Slade's sodden grandiloquence ("Go, for the love of Christ, you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake!") from Eugene...
...rest of the movie is meticulously cast: Fredric March is a splendid Harry Hope, Jeff Bridges a fine, driven Parritt. Bradford Dillman, Moses Gunn, Evans Evans, Tom Pedi and John McLiam are all excellent. Yet the movie belongs most securely to Robert Ryan, and it is an eloquent memorial to his talent. Ryan, who died of cancer in July, was ailing while he was making Iceman. In the circumstances, it would be easy to sentimentalize his performance. But such a gesture would diminish its greatness. With the kind of power and intensity that is seldom risked, much less realized...