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Post by hi224 on Jan 8, 2018 13:17:05 GMT
Anyone here a big fan at all.
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Post by snsurone on Jan 8, 2018 13:35:09 GMT
He was great in non-gangster roles, such as DR. ERLICH'S MAGIC BULLET, OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES, etc. One of the best character actors in movie history.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 8, 2018 14:11:37 GMT
Brother Orchid and Scarlet Street are two of my favorites...The Stranger was also very good...
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 8, 2018 14:43:52 GMT
Anyone here a big fan at all. adding THE SEA WOLF to the list of his great performances.
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Post by snsurone on Jan 8, 2018 14:48:31 GMT
There was a movie he did late in life with Janet Leigh which was filmed in Italy. It concerned a major heist, but I can't remember the title. Can somebody help?
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Post by mattgarth on Jan 8, 2018 15:40:28 GMT
There was a movie he did late in life with Janet Leigh which was filmed in Italy. It concerned a major heist, but I can't remember the title. Can somebody help? It was called GRAND SLAM (1967)
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Post by snsurone on Jan 8, 2018 15:46:05 GMT
Thank you, Matt.
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 8, 2018 15:55:24 GMT
Great actor but only have seen him in a few films.
Little Caesar Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse Confessions of a Nazi Spy The Sea Wolf Key Largo Hell on Frisco Bay The Ten Commandments The Cincinnati Kid Soylent Green
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 8, 2018 17:01:43 GMT
He was superb as the claims manager in Double Indemnity.
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Post by kijii on Jan 8, 2018 17:19:49 GMT
Edward G. Robinson is one of those actors that I have come to appreciate more and more over the years, just as I am just discovering what a great career Robert Duvall has had. Back to Robinson--- I like him in non-gangster roles just to break the mold. In Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), he is actually sweet as Margaret O'Brien's father and Agnes Moorehead husband. This was unusual casting but it worked out very well. He is self-critical in All My Sons (1948) based on an Arthur Miller play. This is a dramatic movie (and I think a great one) that sticks with me long after viewing it. It should be seen more. In The Cincinnati Kid (1965) he is the great poker player from out of town that takes on Steve McQueen. This role is something like Jackie Gleason's role in The Hustler. Those two Fritz Lang movies, The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945) are just right for him. I'm not sure he was the best choice for Dr. Paul Ehrlich in the biopic, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940). However, William Dieterle, who made biopics did think so. This will be airing on TCM on Tue, Jan 16 so you can judge for yourself. Double Indemnity (1944) still remains his number one performance with me.I didn't like him in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head (1959) where he played Frank Sinatra's brother. That performance seemed too formalistic to me. In other words, he played the role he was assigned but didn't add much beyond his character's routine cut-out traits. He was never nominated for any major awards, but if he had been, Double Indemnity (1944) was the one....
My favorite gangster movie with Robinson would be Key Largo (1948) with Claire Trevor as his moll. If you subscribe to Amazon Prime, please take a look at The Red House (1947) which comes with the subscription. This is an eerie mysterious movie with Robinson and his sister, Judith Anderson living in a remote location... "An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandon farmhouse, located deep in the woods." --[IMDb summary]
Another gem that you might want to see if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber is The Stranger (1946). This movie was directed by Orson Wells. Wells and Robinson co-star with Loretta Young in this domestic war-time thriller. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) ranks among Vincente Minnelli's worst movies, although there are other bad Minnelli movies. I only saw it to complete my Minnelli movie watching. It is about a movie director, Robinson, directing a movie in Italy with one of his old actor friends, Kirk Douglas. After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.--[IMDb summary]
Oh I just (last week) discovered a new Edward G Robinson movie in which he plays a double role perfectly. It was John Ford's The Whole Town's Talking (1935). This is not an earth-shaking movie but it is at least worth one viewing. I bought Cecil B. DeMille' s 2nd version of the epic, The Ten Commandments (1956) for my Roku box. It's still there and I must see it since it was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1957. At 3' 40", I probably won't make it all the way through in one viewing.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 8, 2018 17:32:32 GMT
To look at him, one would never think "movie star " and yet there he was. Always dependable, always ultra-watchable.
Fan ?
Yes indeed !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 8, 2018 17:35:10 GMT
There was a movie he did late in life with Janet Leigh which was filmed in Italy. It concerned a major heist, but I can't remember the title. Can somebody help? GO TO IMDb.com and type in EDWARD G. ROBINSON or JANET LEIGH where it says "Find Movies, TV, Celebrities and more..."
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Post by politicidal on Jan 8, 2018 18:00:55 GMT
Hell yes, one of my favorite classic Hollywood actors.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 8, 2018 18:28:13 GMT
Great actor!
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Post by teleadm on Jan 8, 2018 18:43:33 GMT
Great all the way to the end... Soylent Green 1973
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2018 18:46:17 GMT
Good actor.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 8, 2018 19:00:17 GMT
Huge fan here! Quite simply, he was one of the most versatile, reliable and creative classic-era players in both leading and character roles.
Although he might occasionally don a wig or paste on a mustache, his chameleonesque transformations sprang not from colorful external alterations of appearance or mannerisms by way of makeup, accents and the like, as with a Muni, Brando or Streep, but seemed to come, rather, from within, as though somewhere inside the man lurked a brutal mobster, or a meek bookkeeper, a gentle farmer, fast-talking con man, self-assured gambler, crusading newspaper editor, tyrannical ship captain, intuitive investigator, relentless Nazi hunter or any number of other personalities, requiring only appropriate roles to free them from captivity.
In this way, he was similar to contemporaries Claude Rains or Mary Astor, sort of a librarian of characters: "Oh, you need a quietly dedicated scientist? I've got one in here somewhere...yup, here it is!" Whatever was needed, he could supply.
Whether one attaches importance to Academy Awards or dismisses their significance entirely, it nevertheless seems astonishing that he was never favored with so much as a nomination during a career spanning over 40 years. But that in itself may be some kind of testament to his artistry, talent and craft: those from whom nothing but the very best is ever expected can too often be neglected when it comes time to single out noteworthy work. And perhaps that's the curse of uniformly high quality: it gets taken for granted.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 8, 2018 23:17:23 GMT
...also remember him the film MacKenna's Gold...Omar Sharif as a cowboy???
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Post by plasma on Jan 9, 2018 0:43:50 GMT
Great actor. His performances in Key Largo and The Woman in The Window are superb. Also he was one of the most intimidate actors of his time voice-wise. I remember Blanc doing a lot of impersonations of Robinson on Looney Tunes for example.
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Post by marianne48 on Jan 9, 2018 1:00:24 GMT
According to several anecdotes from those who encountered him over the years, he was also a pretty nice guy, too.
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