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Well, I certainly hope for Fred's sake here that none of these "Average Joes" he encounters ever call him a "dirty rat"! (...'cause somethin' like THAT could throw his WHOLE world out o' whack!!!)

Soooo, YOU'VE noticed that TOO, have ya Tom?!!! 'Cept Cyd kept herself in MUCH better trim in her later years. (...I'll bet it was all that dancin', EH?!)

Yep, I gotta admit the LAST POTUS mentioned here usually "made it perfectly clear" that he "was not a crook", alright! (...though maybe he SHOULD HAVE mumbled when he said that and made it NOT SO "perfectly clear", huh...it might NOT have gotten him in as much trouble!!!) LOL

Ahem. Different Lovitz character, dark ol' buddy. (...but you knew that, didn't ya!)

ME?! Well, I think I'd like to travel back to the year 1951 and to a particular movie studio's sound stage in Culver City California, and so I could maybe get a MUCH closer inspection of Cyd's gams here, and just like our boy Gene here is gettin'...the lucky b*astard!!!

THAT would be "MASTER Thespian" to you, SIR! And THAT is what I call...

Yeah, well, I think the primary fun I HAD back then while watching this flick was recognizing the guy who played the leader of the mutants as the very SAME guy who was was pluggin' Michelob beer AND Pontiac cars on my TV set back then TOO... ...namely, actor Paul Richards. Yep, I remember half-thinkin' at the time that he was gonna suddenly stop mid-sentence while condemning Franciscus to death and ask him if before sentence is passed, "Would you care for a one final drink of Anheuser-Busch's Finest before we take care of business here?" (...couldn't think how to fit a reference about a GTO into this...sorry)

Yeah, well, truth be told here finance, it was tough for me to visualize my little joke at first TOO, but THEN it suddenly came to me how I could kind'a sort'a fit not only a reference to a "too eloquent" and "not really natural" "old style of acting" such as Ronald Colman was notable for, but ALSO kind'a sort'a fit in a reference to perhaps his most famous line TOO! (...though evidently NOT with total success, eh?!)

Well dark, maybe YOU'VE never met anybody like that, but I once worked with a guy who sounded JUST like Ronald Colman. Yep, in FACT, I was his supervisor for a while (...and it WASN'T so much that he sounded so much like Colman that I found "unnatural", but MORE all those times when I'd tell the lazy jerk to quit gold-brickin' and get back to work, he'd make a BIG freakin' deal about it and as he'd walk away I could hear him sayin' somethin' under his breath like: "T'is a far far better thing I'm about to do than I have ever done before!")

WAIT! I thought a "bondswoman" was the lady who bails your sorry butt out of jail?!!! (...back of course in the day before people started ALSO sayin' "chairperson", "mail carrier" and "flight attendant"!!!)

Gotta say MY favorite Frawley role has always been his crusty old and cynical "political adviser" to Gene Lockhart's judge role in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, particularly the scenes where Frawley tells Lockhart, "If you rule there ain't no Santy Claus, forget gettin' re-elected 'cause you couldn't even get elected dog catcher in this town if ya do!". And then later on, as Lockhart keeps trying to sidestep that little political minefield while on the bench, he keeps looking over at Frawley to see how he's reacting to each decision he's made and Frawley's facial expressions are priceless!

Word is Vivian Vance did quite often!

And while you're at it, smimminginagua, be sure to check out the other of what's become known as "Levinson's Baltimore Trilogy"...TIN MEN (1987) I remember it being one of my favorite comedies of the 1980s.

LOL Good one, James! (...gotta love HER "appearance", though!)

Nah. The REAL reason it ended that way was 'cause if Stevens was GONNA make the "ultimate prototypical western", then Shane HAD TO "only kiss his horse and ride into the sunset", DUDE!!!

LOL

My guess? Well, along with both TB's and Swithin's excellent replies here, I'd say an addition reason could be that many "lead" actors were and maybe still are today being "plucked for obscurity", and with possibly little training and/or real talent, for their physical appearance, such as "matinee idol looks", and whereas one might say character actors actually "earned" their movie roles. (...yep, maybe kind'a like how sometimes extremely beautiful women can often seem to have lacked "developing a personality" somewhere along the line and just seem to get by on their looks alone)

Sorry mistervegan, but while both of these ladies were brunettes, I ain't seein' this one here at all. (...though maybe it's all these juicy barbecued steaks I've been eatin' lately that's keepin' me from seein' the resemblance here?!)

MAN, finance! With that whole "had wider exposure" setup that James supplied you there, THAT was the best retort you could muster HERE?!!! (....you really let me down, Bro!!!)

Yeah, and besides, RACHEL AND THE STRANGER had already been done five years earlier!

...and which, as I'm sure you know Holden, a thing some seem to never outgrow. (...I mean, the "hero worship" of ANOTHER actor known to have been in a whole lot of westerns STILL seems to be a very prevalent thing among a lot of men...PILGRIM!!!) LOL

I'd agree with ANYONE who calls Cyd Charisse "lovely and flawless"! (...and ESPECIALLY anyone who uses a picture of the equally lovely and flawlessly sultry Ava Gardner as their avatar around here!!!)

I think even the latest TVs have a "color level" digital scale programmed into them and that can accessed with the remote, don't they Andy? (...though sorry, but you can forget about that "extra 18 inches of legroom" ever happening in this "Post-Airline Deregulation Act of 1978" world we live in today, as not ONLY did that bit of legislation make for the cutthroat competitive airline industry we now know and thus made it possible for those who USED to only be able to afford Greyhouse bus travel to now fly to their destinations, but ALSO the idea that you'll never EVER again hear a flight attendant ask you if you'd like "steak or chicken with your inflight meal today, sir?", and let ALONE that "18 inches of extra legroom"!!!) LOL

Another "detail" aspect to SHANE might be something I once remember Warren Beatty mentioning about this film...the depiction of Elisha Cook Jr's demise on that dusty street. I recall Beatty saying how the gun shot from Jack Palance's revolver seems heightened in sound and how Cook's being thrown back and off his feet after being hit seemed quite a departure from anything he had ever seen before, and how that scene would greatly influence how the violent scenes would be portrayed later on the film BONNIE AND CLYDE.

LOL Good one too, Tom!!!