Wornears
Age & Treachery
Robert Mitchum: The Night of the Hunter
B&W and only film directed by Charles Laughton (Captain Bly of an early "Mutiny on the Bounty" -- not the one with Mel Gibson <G>) and has Mitchum as the psychotic preacher with L-O-V-E tattoed on one hand and H-A-T-E on the other trying to get $10K hidden by two kids. Unbelievably intense and beyond scary.
Another vote for Bette Davis as Margo Channing,too. Just saw "All About Eve" again the other day on cable: "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" Has a great cameo of Marilyn Monroe, too. Here's an exchange with her in "Eve" as Claudia Caswell as the consort of acidic Addison DeWitt (The Wit, get it? perfectly played by Russian-born Brit George Sanders):
[a butler passes by]
Miss Claudia Caswell: Oh, waiter!
Addison DeWitt: That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
Addison DeWitt: You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.
Miss Claudia Caswell: I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink.
Max Fabian: Leave it to me. I'll get you one.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Thank you, Mr. Fabian.
Addison DeWitt: Well done! I can see your career rise in the east like the sun.
They don't make films like these anymore.
B&W and only film directed by Charles Laughton (Captain Bly of an early "Mutiny on the Bounty" -- not the one with Mel Gibson <G>) and has Mitchum as the psychotic preacher with L-O-V-E tattoed on one hand and H-A-T-E on the other trying to get $10K hidden by two kids. Unbelievably intense and beyond scary.
Another vote for Bette Davis as Margo Channing,too. Just saw "All About Eve" again the other day on cable: "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!" Has a great cameo of Marilyn Monroe, too. Here's an exchange with her in "Eve" as Claudia Caswell as the consort of acidic Addison DeWitt (The Wit, get it? perfectly played by Russian-born Brit George Sanders):
[a butler passes by]
Miss Claudia Caswell: Oh, waiter!
Addison DeWitt: That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
Addison DeWitt: You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.
Miss Claudia Caswell: I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink.
Max Fabian: Leave it to me. I'll get you one.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Thank you, Mr. Fabian.
Addison DeWitt: Well done! I can see your career rise in the east like the sun.
They don't make films like these anymore.