Category: The Unsung
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The Unsung: William Shrike in Lonelyhearts
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Read more: The Unsung: William Shrike in LonelyheartsFor about half the running time of 1958’s Lonelyhearts, I had Robert Ryan’s William Shrike shot, tagged, and bagged as a true Asshole of the Cinema.
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The Unsung: Frances Amthor [Kate Murtagh] in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
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Read more: The Unsung: Frances Amthor [Kate Murtagh] in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)When we first encounter Frances Amthor, she’s surrounded by a bevy of young beauties at a makeshift table. Whores, to be exact, but don’t let her hear you say that. Four or five working girls, by my count, and from all appearances, twice as many sandwiches.
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The Unsung: Henry Northrup, Creepshow
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Read more: The Unsung: Henry Northrup, CreepshowAll men, at some point or another, have fantasized about killing the woman with whom they have shared a bed. Doubly so if those same sheets have been contaminated by the hazardous waste of marriage.
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The Unsung: The Existentialist in The Bachelor Party (1957)
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Read more: The Unsung: The Existentialist in The Bachelor Party (1957)Six minutes. An eternity in the sack for your average American male, but a mere blip when you’re trying to wrestle a movie away from Don Murray.
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The Unsung: Abe Reles in Murder, Inc.
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Read more: The Unsung: Abe Reles in Murder, Inc.The year is 1960. Hope is in the air, Camelot beckons, and a previously unknown young actor named Peter Falk is about to make his cinematic debut in Murder, Inc.
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The Unsung: Delbert Grady (Phillip Stone) in The Shining
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Read more: The Unsung: Delbert Grady (Phillip Stone) in The Shining“Perhaps they need a good talking to, if you don’t mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more. My girls, sir, they didn’t care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches and tried to burn it down. But I ‘corrected’ them sir. And when my wife tried to…
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The Unsung: Pete Seltzer in Pete ‘n’ Tillie
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Read more: The Unsung: Pete Seltzer in Pete ‘n’ TillieIt took nearly a half-century of cinematic devotion, but it’s finally come to pass. “It” being the sight – in full color Cinemascope, mind you – of Walter Matthau sitting naked at a piano, banging out the liveliest Ragtime ditty you’re ever likely to hear.
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The Unsung: Warren Evans in The Lonely Guy
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Read more: The Unsung: Warren Evans in The Lonely GuyLike so many young people longing for greener pastures or even the fresh air of familiarity, I spent most of my days as a teenager masturbating feverishly to and with whatever passed for what I thought might approximate a human…
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The Unsung: Joubert, Three Days of the Condor
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Read more: The Unsung: Joubert, Three Days of the CondorTo kill without conscience is perhaps the most underrated of humanity’s foibles. Terrifying for the rest of us, of course.
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The Unsung Heroes of Death Wish 3
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Read more: The Unsung Heroes of Death Wish 3Here we go again…..