Old Film Lover Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 The American comedy film It's in the Bag!, starring Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Rudy Vallee, etc. has two crooked business partners of the murdered man (beyond the lawyer played by John Carradine), who are introduced by name (by Carradine) at about 14:30 into the film. One is a tall man and the other a short one who is semi-balding. The tall one is "Mr. Arnold", played by John Miljan. The short one is "Mr. Gardiner", and I don't seem to recognize the actor, although he looks vaguely familiar. The short one later appears in an important scene and meets with an unhappy ending, and one would think he is an important enough character to deserve a listing, but no character named "Gardiner" (or any spelling near that) is found in the cast lists on either the IMDb or the AFI. Does anyone recognize the actor? Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 You can search the other actors' names and find photos of them to see which is the one you are looking for.. Link to post Share on other sites
Old Film Lover Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 1 hour ago, slaytonf said: You can search the other actors' names and find photos of them to see which is the one you are looking for.. Already tried, with no luck. All the other actors are accounted for. It has to be someone not listed. So I'll need someone who either has the movie (VHS or DVD or Blu-ray), or can find it online, to look at the scene indicated (14:30 into the film), and give me an opinion on the actor's name. I only have a computer and a player, no hand-held device to take a picture with, and I have no idea how to capture several seconds from the Blu-ray and put it into a file format that can be uploaded here. But I figure that some of the ultra-fans here will have collections as large as mine, or larger, and that probably one or two of them have the movie and can do a quick lookup by popping the disk into a player. (I'm happy to do the same for anyone here, by the way, if anyone wants a scene looked at that happens to be in one of the 2,000+ films I have.) Link to post Share on other sites
MovieCollectorOH Posted Wednesday at 10:45 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 10:45 AM Here, try this. A clip of approximately the time OP mentioned. Anyone with the intelligence level of at least a gnat (and an up-to-date browser) should be able to see this. Click full screen for best results. Maybe download the file first, then play, if there are bandwidth issues. I am just too lazy to downsize. https://moviecollectoroh.com/tmp/Its in the Bag (1945) clip.mp4 Link to post Share on other sites
HelenBaby2 Posted Wednesday at 07:54 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:54 PM Could it be a character actor named Ben Welden? Link to post Share on other sites
musicalnovelty Posted Thursday at 11:13 AM Share Posted Thursday at 11:13 AM 15 hours ago, HelenBaby2 said: Could it be a character actor named Ben Welden? No, not Ben Welden. Link to post Share on other sites
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