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Originally Posted by TyneBridges  A great film. KarlHeinz Boehm was an unconventional choice for the role of Mark (and his accent was never explained) but was great in the role. The fact that he managed to make the psychopathic killer sympathetic goes a long way to explaining the howls of outrage that greeted the film at the time: strong stuff indeed for 1960. |
He doesn't sound that bad for a German actor!
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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs Miles Matheson is such a great screen presence and one of the reasons critics loathed the film is because he had spent his career playing policemen, judges and other establishment figures, so to have him play a 'dirty old man' wasn't seen as a joke, but a slight against the British film industry.
Even so, great scene! |
His name's Miles
Malleson, but otherwise you're perfectly right!
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