He also knows when to back off and let his characters breathe a bit. He was ideal for this kind of role, and played a thousand variations on it, always the genial, tough, slightly sarcastic, over confident, sometimes good bad guy, sometimes likable bad guy, with forays into brute and psychotic. She’s o match for his affable gift of gab, while all he while you can tell what he’s thinking: what it is that’s in it for him? Simpson, Eli Wallach. I don’t go to the cinema as much as I once did. Features: 27" x 40" Packaged with care - ships in sturdy reinforced packing material Made in the USA SHIPS IN 1-3 DAYSOf all the RPGs out there, none have ever captured my favorite genre of all: action movies!No science fiction or magicShould take place in the 1980’sAMERICAN ARTIST (20th Century) Spider Trap, men's magazine illustration Oil on board 20.5 x 19 in. Or if you have seen it but not recently, why not watch it again? ) Harry makes short work of the two, sending them packing, but losing Flo broke him, and what kind of life can he provide his newly born daughter? There are two good reasons to watch this not-quite-noir crime film, and one of the them is Dan Duryea. C $40.11. Lot of 3 Canadian Coins 1920 1C, 1921 1C, 1911 10C in XF Condition . No way, no how. Director Lewis Allen puts all this across with typical Paramount polish and a measured pace perfectly suited to the material. Not a single scene sticks out. ―Argyle on the phone talking to his girlfriend He started acting at age 10. She contacts Susan Courtney, an old school mate now rich but unhappily married to an abusive dullard. John Payne plays a brooding ex-boxes who came within seconds of being the world champion, but because of a bad right eye, his life now revolves around driving a cab for a living and being driven to frustration by a wife (a luscious Peggie Castle) who wants more than a cab driver can give her. She hesitates, but you know Dan Duryea, or you probably do. When a black maid is accused of killing her employer, the wife of the son of one of the owners of one of the big city newspapers, he sees his chance to make a name for himself, and grabs it. Movies that seem only so-so while you’re watching them for the first time, but as the days go on, you start thinking more and more about what you saw — the characters and the scenes they played and appreciating them — but it’s only when you look back that you begin to realize how well they may have been done. No one dos better at brooding than John Payne, and with fists that are essentially lethal weapons, he at times is a powder keg of ager wothin seconds of going off. Just a general sense of solid film-making, you think, but — how solid could it have been if there’s nothing there that makes you want to tell other people about it? She seemed to enjoy being bad on screen more than most. It isn’t much of a crime wave.