What a disgusting scene but it had me laughing out loud....
shareYes, it was rather shocking, but when you realised why he did it, and the fact that he cleaned it up afterwards, it wasn't too bad. He was making a point about his soap, afterall, wasn't he?
shareGreenstreet certainly made his point about the essence of advertising. I saw that film when it was released and I was 11 years old and never forgot that scene. Now that is what advertising is all about.
sharePoint was well made, perhaps a bit too well made.. It's the most memorable if not the only memorable scene of the entire movie. I will NEVER forget that one.
shareWith very little tweaking, that scene could be dropped into an episode of Mad Men, almost word for word.
Buy a bar of Beauty Soap, dooodle-oodle-ooh.
Buy a bar of Beauty Soap, dooodle-oodle-ooh.
Buy a bar of Beauty Soap, dooodle-oodle-ooh.
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Yes, disgusting, appalling and shocking.
Bodily functions have no place in a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie
Certainly was an effective way of conveying his character as an antagonist. Performing over the top with his antics showed him to be a dominating individual.
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".
Post World War II Louis B. Mayer had been let go amid falling profits and MGM was a very different studio.
shareListen, folks -- spitting onscreen was nothing new even in 1934 when, during a scene from It Happened One Night, Clark Gable himself (in character) accidentally spits on his own shoulder after misjudging the wind!
But Greenstreet's spitting incident may be the earliest onscreen depiction of someone summoning nasal additives to the saliva. Most recent one I know of is Jim Carrey in the second Ace Ventura movie.
No need to thank me for sharing these trivia tidbits -- I'm a kindhearted guy who enjoys freely giving even when no one's asked, what can I say?
Okay folks, show's over, nothing to see here!