He should have got a best supporting actor nomination for this movie! He was great.
shareAgreed. I had forgotten who the actor was when I was watching it. Great job!
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I'd go as far as to say Cronyn's performance is the best of this movie. Very understated, frighteningly realistic. Such presence and intimidation coming from a relatively small guy, dominating every scene he was in. Terrific.
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Yes!! What a tremendous actor he was in this film and so many others. He was convincing in so many roles. If you like this film, you would also like him as Lana Turner's lawyer in "The Postman Always Rings Twice", He has another film stealing role.
shareI thought Cronyn was terrific in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" as the nebbish, somewhat goofy neighbor who kept coming over to discuss various ways to murder people. Meanhwhile, Joseph Cotten's "Merry Widow Killer" Uncle Charlie was sitting right there at the dinner table! Cronyn is always good.
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very true, he was excellent and what a great movie.When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
He should have. Remember, Cronyn was not a big man at all. Lancaster was much larger and more imposing. Cronyn did a great job of showing power and being imposing.
shareHe should have. Remember, Cronyn was not a big man at all. Lancaster was much larger and more imposing. Cronyn did a great job of showing power and being intimidating.
shareHe was very good. His brutality was understated but highlighted in his philosophy which he spouted in conversation with the doctor and warden.
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I loved it. He was great. Have to imagine Cristoph Waltz modeled a bit of Colonel Hans Landa after Munsey.
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Yes...lovable Hume Cronyn does a great job playing such a *beep*
shareHis performance made the movie work. If he was a typical warden who just beat the snot > had people beat the snot out of the prisoners, it becomes a standard prison flick. Because he's so (fake) kind to the prisoners and doesn't yell or act insane, the character is even more chilling.
Plus, Cronyn looked good in a "doesn't spend 5 hours a day at the gym" sort of way.
Hume Cronyn makes this movie. He conveys incredible menace not through his stature but solely through his demeanor - superb acting! Hume is not menacing because he is physically imposing but because he is a psychopath. One of the great scenes makes this point very explicitly. Hume Cronyn blackjacks Sam Levene to death while stripped down to his undershirt. Cronyn is exposed as a scrawny physical specimen whose mind is totally depraved.
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He was superb in The Seventh Cross as a friend of Spencer Tracy who shelters Tracy after he escapes from a pre-war Nazi concentration camp. Jessica Tandy plays his wife. His development from a complacent factory worker happy with the Nazis for the work to a supporter of the resistance is subtle and touching.
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