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Chance to see'Perry Mason' as the bad guy


I love this movie. Raymond Burr was great as the horrible Harry Prebble. I liked seeing him cast as the villian instead of Perry Mason.

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check out "desperate" (1947) and "raw deal" (1948) for more of "perry mason" as a villian.

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IMO his greatest bad guy role was as the murdering husband in "Rear Window'.


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Raymond Burr was so typecast as a bad guy that his being cast as Perry Mason was a major shock. He sure pulled it off, though.


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Not to bash anyone including Raymond Burr, but didn't think he was cast well in "Rear Window". Although there is only one year difference between these two films, he didn't look at all the same (????) So maybe it was a matter of make up, or wardrobe....

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I think the makeup for Burr's character in REAR WINDOW took away from the menacing appearance he usually had. That may have been Hitchcock's intention. He may not have wanted the audience to immediately react to him as a bad guy.


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Good point and thank you.....not to bash "Rear Window" as I never bash films (well almost never ), I have always found it a mystery why I didn't take to it. I consider this to be my loss, not to say anything at all negative about "Rear Window" fans.

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Much as I love REAR WINDOW as a movie, I have no argument with those who state that they just don't like it. I do get a bit perturbed when one says the movie's trash... but to just state that one doesn't enjoy it....there isn'tany movie to the best of my knowledge that EVERYONE likes.


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Yeah Burr is the nastiest in Raw Deal is pyro mania makes him as scary as Tommy Udo.

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Actually, it's more that I'm a THE PETRIFIED FOREST fan.


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He doesn't seem that believable as the bad guy, and he is really unbelievable as an artist!

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He didn't look the same because at the start of "Rear Window" filming, he was on a strict diet. As he lost weight, he had to wear padding so he would look the same throughout the film.

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He's also the bad guy in 'Crime of Passion' (1957). Barbara Stanwyck plays the female lead.

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He's not that bad in Crime of Passion. Unsympathetic and dishonest, sure, but nothing compared to his parts in Raw Deal, Pitfall, or Red Light.

You may cross-examine.

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He was a real badass in the noir classic "His Kind of Woman".

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you should see "a cry in the night" (1956) -- raymond burr pegs the "creep meter" off the scale!!!

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Have to admit I loved his character in REAR WINDOW. He was both sympathetic (nagging wife) and scary!

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He's not horrible. He wanted a date with one girl and a different girl showed up. At least he didn't tell her to get lost.

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I'm watching 'The Long Hot Summer' with Orson Wells playing a similar role to Burl Ives in 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof'. Raymond Burr also played such a role in 'Desire in the Dust' (1960). But he was much more creepy when it came to his relationship with his daughter played by Martha Hyer.

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