Post by london777 on Sept 15, 2017 12:35:46 GMT
Strangely, the only three movies I could remember him in have not yet been mentioned:
Kansas City Confidential (1952), a wildly overrated noir already contaminated by the increasingly fashionable moralizing documentary approach, and Slightly Scarlet (1956), a late noir curiosity based on a John M Cain story, because of the odd role Payne has as protagonist and also because it was in Technicolor.
For some reason I also remember Tripoli (1950), a totally banal actioner which I saw once 67 years ago as a ten-year-old. No idea why that stuck in my mind when I have forgotten hundreds of better movies Payne was bland (as usual) but Howard da Silva spiced it up.
Kansas City Confidential (1952), a wildly overrated noir already contaminated by the increasingly fashionable moralizing documentary approach, and Slightly Scarlet (1956), a late noir curiosity based on a John M Cain story, because of the odd role Payne has as protagonist and also because it was in Technicolor.
For some reason I also remember Tripoli (1950), a totally banal actioner which I saw once 67 years ago as a ten-year-old. No idea why that stuck in my mind when I have forgotten hundreds of better movies Payne was bland (as usual) but Howard da Silva spiced it up.