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Hopelessly miscast. Just awful. What a better film it would have made with Gable or really any actor ofa more masculine demeanor.
shareYou're an idiot. This is one of Grant's best performances and Gable would not have been able to pull off the final scene or The Kid's death.
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I'm an idiot! Wow! I'm an idiot! Well, it's certainly refreshing to hear such mature and intelligent verbiage, that not only illuminates the issue but throws light upon the speaker.
If you were a man I'd strike you.
Listen, pussy, hiding behind IMDB anonymity, I have more post-graduate degrees than you have had girlfriends. Okay?
GRANT SUCKED IN THIS ROLE. He is clearly stiff, uncomfortable, and his "tough-guy, loner" act is plastic and see-through. Eat it, chew it, swallow it, and get over it. Gable would have made this a Best Picture of the Year candidate, you troglodyte.
Let's list all the great dramatic roles for which Grant was acclaimed:
1.Suspicion
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Gee, doesn't seem to be to many. D'uh. . . umm.....
Grant was a great leading man, in light drama and comic roles. No one took him seriously as a screen actor and no one should. He is at best, a great "character" actor. Period.
Go back to mom's basement.
Your response sounded a bit psychotic. Get over it.
I think Cary Grant was perfectly well-cast. He played the role with just the right amount emotional intensity & toughness IMO. But each to his own, my friend (Thankfully) ;)
I agree. I love both Cary Grant and Clark Gable.... but this called for a bit more finesse than I usually see in Gable. Gable was my first 'old time actor crush'... well, he and Bing, but it was Bing's voice.... Gable was just devastatingly handsome. I was born after Gable had already died.
shareLet's list all the great dramatic roles for which Grant was acclaimed:
1.Suspicion
2.NORTH BY NORTHWEST
3.PENNY SERENADE
4.NOTORIOUS
5.DESTINATION TOKYO
And how about one more:
6.NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART
I thought Grant was quite good in ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS but was reminded of a Gable picture with some plot / characterization similarities: RED DUST.
With all due respect to what another poster here has said of Gable, I'm pretty sure Gable would have done at least equally as well as Grant in "...Only Angels."
Mister OP, congrats RE: "scoring more college degrees" than "certain others" have had girlfriends (I myself have low scores in BOTH departments), but what you seem to be overlooking was that Cary Grant had made a conscious decision to stick to "light dramas" and the type of comedies
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(pardon the cut-off in my last post -- I'll have to re-edit later with one of my other devices, due to the set-uo with my INDb phone app which doesn't enable re-edited.)
Any, as I was TRYING to point out, I think Grant had a lot better acting chops than he's usually given credit for; it's just that he himself preferred sticking to "the Grant formula" that he felt he did best -- and he was probably right, as most of his movies featuring the classic Cary Grant screen persona for which he's most popular were highly successful productions.
(PS) One more:
(7)GUNGA DIN