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Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Charles Laughton as Senator Seab Cooley and Walter Pigeon as Senate Majority Leader Robert Munson in Otto Preminger's adaptation of Allen Drury's Advise and Consent. First book by Allen Drury I read was his fourth, Capable of Honor. It was one of the first serious contemporary adult novels I read. Since I found it on my father's bookshelf where I'd also found novels by Vonnegut, Cheever,...
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This Distracted Globe (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
... revolt. Moving from town to town, the rebellion grows in strength. In the Roman Senate, Gracchus (Charles Laughton) shrewdly dispatches the garrison of Rome to extinguish the uprising, paving the way for Julius Caesar (John Gavin) to take control of Rome and hold the ambitions of Crassus in check. Reunited with Varinia and befriending an escaped slave (Tony Curtis), Spartacus moves...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
... landed his first movie role in 1940 drama "They Knew What They Wanted" starring Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton, and went on to appear in some 50 movies over 40 years.He won an Academy Award for his 1951 portrayal of the lovelorn character Mitch in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," a role he created on Broadway. He earned a second Oscar nomination as the crusading...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... first big-screen part in the 1940 drama "They Knew What They Wanted," starring Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton, and went on to appear in some 50 movies in the next 40 years.He had a memorable turn as General Omar Bradley in "Patton" in 1970 before becoming a prime-time TV fixture and earning four Emmy nominations as police detective Mike Stone on the 1970s drama "The Streets of...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
... one is a comparison between one scene in Do the Right Thing, which Spike lifted directly from Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter and the second is simply one of my favorite scenes from the film, at least my favorite comical scene in which Frank Vincent plays Charlie and gets his car drenched. The best part comes when he's being questioned by the cops and says (sarcastically)...
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The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
In one of the greatest tragi-comic scenes in British cinema, the corpulent, arrogant and very inebriated Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) stumbles out of his local watering hole, Moonrakers, after a contretemps with his drinking buddies. Stumbling down a short flight of steps, he finds himself clinging to a lamppost for support. It's at this point he sees the reflection of the moon in...
