Neville Brand, Jack Elam, and Lee Van Cleef are as colorful a batch of villains as you'd find in a Dick Tracy movie. This is a must-see. It has flaws galore as happened in many of the old B movies, but it's great.
Captain Warren 'Rip' Murdock: I'm the brass-knuckles-in-the-teeth-to-dance-time type.
couldn't agree more - while watching the entire time, thinking 'why would any of these hard-boiled dudes play such a loaded game?', i was drawn in and enjoyed it nonetheless - nice attempts at some classic lines, too.
shareAgreed, the only other movie i can think of with such a weired group of bad guys is Beat The Devil by John Huston and Starring Humphrey Bogart. In that his criminal companions are also a motley bunch.
When there are two, one betrays-Jean-Pierre Melville
I agree. I kept thinking during the movie what a superb job they did in casting this film. What faces!! Do bad guys faces tend to warp to show their character in real life?
sharePeople's faces do show who they are. A bud after his recent promotion, his head actually swelled up, like a watermelon.
This is a great flick. Full of rogues.
Great casting. Check out "The Mob" with Brand, Broderick Crawford, Ernest Borgnine, even Charles Bronson for more menacing uglies.
Well, said, OP.
Did Elam and Van Cleef make any other films together? Gee they make a nice pair.