> Miker wrote:
> > Ever seen the movie [of "Sun Also
Rises"]?
> > The Green Acres guy (Eddie Fisher) as
Bill
> > is one of the most ridiculous miscastings I've
ever seen.
>
> Eddie Albert -- and it *is* Albert, not Fisher --
existed before
"Green Acres" was a twinkle in Paul Henning's manic eye. One
of the things he did was give a very decent performance in
"Roman Holiday" as an American expatriate who's a friend and
advisor to Gregory Peck. The
"Sun Also Rises" performance works as an extension of that
previous Roman one.
>
> As long as we're talking Eddie Albert and noir,
though (and I don't
mean those lost "Green Acres" episodes dealing with *amour
fou* and Arnold The Pig), we should also mention a fine
moment in the Robert Aldrich-directed '70s film
"Hustle."
>
> Says Arnold to Burt Reynolds, concerning a missing
daughter fallen
into bad company: "That girl could milk a crowbar ..."
>
And not to forget his amazing performance in Aldrich's
noir/war flick Attack! as well as Don Siegal's re-make of To
Have and Have Not & The Turning Point, The Gun Runners
(from Hemingway's novel THATHN). In the latter film Albert
plays the same sleazy character who's played by Wallace Ford
in The Turning Point. Albert is one of many, many actors who
later acquired a blander and more avuncular persona on TV but
had done some brilliant work in film noir and related flicks.
Just off the top of my head, I can think of Fred MacMurray,
Brian Keith, Henry Morgan, William Conrad, Raymond Burr. You
shouldn't write these old guys off till you've seen the early
work that their rep's were built on in the first place. I
learned my lesson many years ago when I first watched Double
Indemnity with Fred MacMurray &
(Miss) Barbara Stanwyck.
Rene
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