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Peck, Bogart, Grant, Irons

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Victor,

Yes, I would put Peck at or near the top of my list- he was always in roles that were principled ("Mockingbird"), intelligent, resourceful, compassionate, a little world weary ("Command Decision") and always with just enough self-doubt ("Gray Flannel Suit") that we could see his character could learn and grow.

I am only a medium fan of Bogart as he is so detached. Aside: I am always amazed at the number of people that consider "Casablanca" the greatest film ever made- it is such a contrived, cartoonish pro-war statement it may as well have been a Marvel "graphic novel".

Cary Grant, I like quite a lot- his portrayals have good humour and appropriate level of self-parody, but you're right that he is not often in roles with a traditional "real man" edge. "Suspicion" shows him as weak, immature and without purpose. in "Philadephia Story" he may win back Hepburn, but he she is certainly the stronger. "bringing Up Baby" he just an amiable, lovable nerd and Hepburn agian has to take charge to make anyything happen. On the other hand, he did get things done in "Notorious" and "To Catch a Thief", and had that great comic bluster in "His Girl Friday". But he certainly doesn't seem to be operating anywhere near the kind of solid inner core of Peck.

Irons is someone who's often seems a bit inscrutable, the ordinary fellow, an observer, plunging into intense situations and engaging them. This is a powerful technique I think. One of the things that I like Irons in most of all was an early one, the Granada serialisation of "Brideshead Revisited" where he is amazing as the not too self-possessed middle class young man caught in the charming web of the English upper class. Boy, did I see that exact type at Cambridge- (and it happened to me too!)- but Irons did it better than the real guys.

Now, about this fellow Tikhonov...?

Cheers,

Bam

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