In Reply to: Brando IMO was highly over-rated... posted by TWB on August 9, 2021 at 11:30:16:
technique. Brando pretty much invented modern acting, from his astonishing turn on Broadway in, "A Streetcar Named Desire" onwards to "Last Tango in Paris."
Spencer was a one-trick pony of the old, old school. A good trick, but limited. Frankly, I can't think of one of his films, off-hand? Wait, wasn't he in that "Old Man and the Sea" adaptation? I remember seeing that film and wincing at how corny it was, even back then.
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