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Date Posted: 15:04:44 01/06/06 Fri
Thanks for the tips. I'll try to check those out. (I don't think I saw "Mutiny on the Bounty," but somehow I can hear Laughton's voice in my head shouting "Mr. Christian!" As we know with Bobby, he must've done something right with the role if so many people have imitated him. There's also a great imitation of him in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, when Bugs is forced to serve him Hasenpfeffer.)
"The Paradine Case"--I think that's the other one I saw him in. (I was eventually going to put a mention of that movie in the section at the bottom of my reviews, "The Robert Newton Movies That Never Were," but, like, three years later, I still haven't got around to it. (You should see my To Do list for this site! I could make a full-time job out of it, really.) Anyway, Alfred Hitchcock had desperately wanted RN for the role that Louis Jourdan eventually got. So, of course, I watched it trying to picture Bob in the role. Can you imagine two more different actors in the role? (It's like the difference between Sean Connery and Roger Moore as James Bond!)
Polite? Oh, yes, Emlyn Williams is very polite ... but he certainly gets his very sharp point across. (Just judging from that interview, he was a master of subtle yet biting sarcasm. I love the part where he deadpans: "Mr. Sternberg--oh, excuse me, Mr. *Von* Sternberg ..." FYI, for anybody who doesn't speak German, which Williams did fluently, "Von" is a nobility title. So his "accidental" slip and the way he corrected himself gives you a pretty clear summary of what he thought of Mr. *Von* Sternberg. Ouch!) Yes, there definitely seems to be a bit of repressed anger there!
Dirk Bogarde never did anything for me, but, yes, he is rather suave! (I can't think of him without hearing the Adam and the Ants song, "Dirk Wears White Socks," which is ostensibly about him.)
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