'Ah, me Lucky Charms'
Anyone else tire quickly of the Muldoon character?
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No, I thought he was delightful.
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"Well, Mr. Niles, I've been thirty-eight years on the force. I've been a cop on the beat. I've been with the Safe and Loft Squad. I've been for twenty-two years with the Homicide Squad. But in a lifetime of interrogating and investigating, you are probably the biggest and most willing liar I ever met."
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I loved Fitzgerald's character.
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Yes, quickly. Cannot understand how a man who has spent at least 40 years in the United States speaks with such a thick brogue. You'd think he just got off the boat. Let me add that I loved Fitzgerald in The Quiet Man ("Impetuous, Homeric!")
shareSuch a brogue has become almost a cliche given the popularity of the "Lucky Charms" leprechaun. But back then in 1948, it wasn't so.
Also - I know people who've been in this country for decades who have never lost their accent when speaking English - and I mean THICK accents: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
And actually, a genuine Irish brogue can be almost unintelligible when it comes to speaking "English". I'm sure Fitzgerald actually lost a good deal of his brogue through the years, to the point that, if you asked him about it, he probably would have said "What 'brogue'?"
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shareMy grandparents emigrated to the US when they were teenagers and they spoke with brogues all their lives. At some people your speech doesn't change that much.
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Nope. Loved Barry Fitzgerald in this great film.
shareI thought the part was played rather "coy" which bothered me at first but not so much as the film went on.
What did bother me was that Muldoon only had the one case to work on full time, him and the entire office, very unrealistic. No case involving a common citizen would have such attention.
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Sorry, it's impossible for me to get annoyed by good ol' Fitzgerald. He was good in his role.
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Nope. Best character, and best actor in the film.
shareI like Barry Fitzgerald in this film. But I'd like you to know my native Irish friend always cited Barry as the most offensive stereotype of an Irishman. Seeing it today, the film is a hash of documentary style and Hollywood conventions. But it's place as a grand daddy of tv police procedural is pretty fascinating. "With pink hahrts."
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he was the most interesting character i thought
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