Say, isn't that Rod Steiger as an extra?
Right at the end, a young Rod Steiger exits an elevator and walks right by Dick Powell.
Check it out, am I wrong?
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What sharp eyes you have, the extra looks just like a slimmed down Rod Steiger, the face a dead ringer for Steiger. But Dick Powell was 6' tall, according to IMDb (probably exaggerated) and Rod Steiger was 5'10". Watching the DVD-R copy I made from my laserdisc, as the Steiger lookalike passes Powell to the left going out of the frame, he appears an inch or two taller. Even accounting for camera distortion, the guy is taller than Powell. But what if Steiger were wearing lifts? Another major unanswered question, along with what happened to the yellowcake uranium in the Niger.
shareMaybe Steiger hid the uranium -- and it withered his height down from 6'1""?
No? But I'll take the IMDb measurements with a grain of salt. Too bad Mr Steiger isn't around to settle the question. I don't know if his personal recollections in the TCM/Robt Osborn interview might shed some light. I only remember that he was in the Navy in his youth, but don't know when he hit the stage and if he might've been in Hollywood in 1948 (he would've been in his early twenties at the time.)
I was shocked to spot Robt Ryan as an extra in an early Bob Hope comedy -- GHOSTBUSTERS, I believe. He was a white-coat in an ambulance.
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