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I find Barton MacLane, who has two, maybe three Perrys, under his belt, pretty good as a rough hewn suspect, perp or client.

John Hoyt was an actor made for Perry, though calling this aristocratic, urbane actor a curmudgeon seems a stretch. George Macready was another like that.

Berry Kroeger played somewhat similar parts but always had that odious air to him, as if he stank, literally. I don't mean his character, the actor himself!

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An excellent curmudgeon, and one of the best ever on Perry: Basil Ruysdael in TCO Paul Drake's Dilemma. Perry won't even take a check from him, and it's a big one!

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That was a good one, I agree. One of the best. I haven't seen it in a while.

Last night's final first season entry TCO The Rolling Bones (got that right?), the one with Edgar Stehli, Arthur Space and in a key supporting role, Joan Camden, whose offbeat beauty I'm coming to appreciate.

Does Stehli's character qualify as a curmudgeon? I'd say more eccentric, old,--playing even older than his character's actual age, or so it feels today--he's not quite senile, his judgment is somewhat impaired, yet he's lovable in his strangeness.

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I watched TCO The Corresponding Corpse tonight and it was very good. Joan Camden was, as expected, excellent. Ross Elliot put some muscle into his performance, and Vaughn Taylor was splendidly sleazy and without a conscience. Lots of amorality in this one, with Camden's character the one with real integrity, the regular players excepted, needless to say. Nice to see a lady judge in 1958.

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