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'He'll do a nice, quiet job.'


Kenneth MacDonald's delivery of that line scared me when I was a kid...it's still effective today!

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His delivery was great in the preceding line too, 'Angel, strangers in the house." I don't know how to describe the tone and delivery of both lines. Sort of casual, every day, but more chilling because of it.
When I saw him as the judge in Perry Mason courtroom dramas. I wanted to warn mason, "Look out! It's some kind of trick!"

"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude"- Marx

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