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Post by msdemos on Feb 5, 2020 23:11:02 GMT
......memorable bad boys, or bad girls on film ??  For instance, Fred MacMurray playing the despicable "Jeff Sheldrake" in The Apartment (1960).......an especially memorable one, given the incredibly wholesome "Steve Douglas" role of My Three Sons (1960-1972), that he would undertake shortly after the release of this movie.....and one which would forever cement his "good guy" image in most people's minds!  SAVE FERRIS
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Post by politicidal on Feb 5, 2020 23:18:45 GMT
Barbara Stanwyck donned a phony wig as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity.
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 5, 2020 23:20:20 GMT
Harrison Ford -- cinematic good guy as Indy Jones, Prez in AIR FORCE ONE, 'Jack Ryan' Then there was -- WHAT LIES BENEATH |
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 5, 2020 23:29:24 GMT
James Stewart in...um, maybe The Naked Spur.....can't think of anything where he was really evil.
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 5, 2020 23:37:48 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 5, 2020 23:41:32 GMT
James Stewart in...um, maybe The Naked Spur.....can't think of anything where he was really evil. Also in AFTER THE THIN MAN
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Post by millar70 on Feb 5, 2020 23:44:44 GMT
That is who I think of first whenever this topic comes up. |
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 5, 2020 23:55:58 GMT
James Stewart in...um, maybe The Naked Spur.....can't think of anything where he was really evil. Also in AFTER THE THIN MAN haven't seen that one.
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Post by london777 on Feb 6, 2020 0:28:15 GMT
Not a fan of MacMurray in his comedy or western roles, but he had been a superb "baddie" in three major movies before "the Apartment", so it should not have come as a surprise to anyone: Weak, rather than truly evil in Double Indemnity (1944) dir: Billy Wilder A bent cop in the little-known but excellent film noir Pushover (1954) dir: Richard Quine The slimy and treacherous Lt Tom Keefer in The Caine Mutiny (1954) dir: Edward Dmytryk I may be unaware of others, but on my present knowledge he should have stuck to those sorts of films. It has just occurred to me that it was the superficial charm and apparent good-nature which made him a "family favorite" which enabled him to get away with his dirty work (for a while) as an evil-doer.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 6, 2020 0:33:37 GMT
Gregory Peck as Dr Mengele in the Boys From Brazil.
He seemed to be having a good time with it.
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Post by london777 on Feb 6, 2020 0:45:23 GMT
The usually amiably bumbling Bill Nighy as an SS officer and the bad brother in Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985). To be fair, it came early in his career and was a role he would probably have turned down once he became a name.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 6, 2020 0:55:55 GMT
Super Sweet Debbie Reynolds played a less sweet lady in MOTHER (1996) |
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 6, 2020 4:02:50 GMT
The obvious one is Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West, but maybe that's depicted in a couple images that aren't showing up for me.
Burt Lancaster in The Sweet Smell of Success, Judgment At Nuremberg, and Elmer Gantry. There might be several others so maybe he's not a good example.
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 6, 2020 4:07:56 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Feb 6, 2020 4:09:16 GMT
John Wayne has a dark side in The Searchers.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 6, 2020 4:18:17 GMT
Gene Kelly _ Inherit the WindCynical reporter E. K. Hornbeck says things like: " I do hateful things for which people love me, and I do loveable things for which they hate me. I'm admired for my detestability. Now don't worry, little Eva. I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread " and Townswoman : You're the stranger, ain'tcha? Are you looking for a nice, clean place to stay? E. K. Hornbeck : Madam, I had a nice clean place to stay... and I left it, to come here.
and nary a note nor a dance step to be seen  |
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Post by mattgarth on Feb 6, 2020 4:24:15 GMT
Usual good guy Glenn Ford in:
THE MAN FROM COLORADO
LUST FOR GOLD
3:10 TO YUMA
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 6, 2020 4:45:03 GMT
Marilyn Monroe as Rose Loomis in Niagara  A film-noir, thriller role without "fluff" and her usual sympathetic vulnerability. |
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Post by hi224 on Feb 6, 2020 5:01:22 GMT
Jason Bateman in recently released the Gift possibly.
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Post by cynthiagreen on Feb 6, 2020 14:18:27 GMT
Donna Reed and Shirley Jones became famous in nice girl roles... then both played hookers and won Oscars.
Matthew McConaughey spent 15 years as a romantic foil in dim romcoms... then showed his mettle as a redneck (the Oscar win) and a critically applauded psycho (KILLER JOE)
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