In a message dated 3/26/08 10:15:59 AM,
dz@hardluckstories.com writes:
> This is off-topic, but Dick Powell was in Footlight
Parade with James
> Cagney, and they have a play within the movie called
"Honeymoon Hotel"
> which is really quite remarkable--the best way I
could describe it
> would as a live-action Betty Boop cartoon. Probably
one of the most
> enjoyable 10 minutes or so of a movie I've ever
seen.
>
for a little dude, Cagney was built. John Wayne was a pretty
macho specimen himself, although he's most famous of course
for his westerns and war movies.
BIG JIM MC CLAIN is the only picture I can think
of from that general period where he played something
resembling a detective. THE SEARCHERS however has one
incredibly noirish moment near the end
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