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Steiger does Brando

posted 18 years ago by zygimantas
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Seemed he was channeling the great man here.

I've never seen this film. How is it?

[–] zygimantas 18 years ago

Pretty well lit, encapsulating Capone's story in a Disney kind of feel... I wouldn't call it great, and surely not Steiger's best stuff.. I don't know, not something I'd tell anyone to rush out and rent.

[–] Chicago_Jake 18 years ago

I would (tell them to rush out and rent it). It's one of my favorite "guilty pleasures." Right up there with Roger Corman's "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" for pure gangster enjoyment......Jake (from the era when "gangster" still ended with an R)

[–] flan99 13 years ago

Steiger and Brando both came out of the gate in 1950.

Both 'method actors.'

I often wonder who was doing whom.

Brando made perhaps 10 good films -- Steiger made at least twice as many.

[–] spinmonkey44 11 years ago

Well, this was a gangster movie in '59 and The Godfather came out in '72 so I think Brando was channeling Steiger.