Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by old geezer on June 14, 2003 at 02:05:41

In Reply to: "Spellbound" wasn't Peck's first film, it was his third, but... posted by danj on June 14, 2003 at 00:05:28:

...like the unforgettable sadistic Lewt in "Duel in the Sun" (1946). (Erotic dynamite that makes today's explicit stuff look tame).

Of his work he said:

"I have a handful of pictures that still play pretty well and that are worth keeping. I have a lot of pictures that were commercially successful and, you might say, artistically spotty. And then I have a handful of turkeys."

Though he was not the most brilliant or powerful actor, because of his craftsmanship it's hard to imagine Hollywood's golden era -- and celluloid mythology in general -- without him.

og