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Stupid cameos were a MAJOR distraction


Terrific murder myster in its own right. Why the hell did the producers decide to distract the audience with those unecessary cameos?

There is no "off" position on the genius switch.

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Anybody going to see this film because Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum etc. were in it must have been cheated by just those appearances at the end. So pointless and a little bit underhand to use them as a draw to cinema goers of the day.

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All those in the "cameos" looked like ghastly failures in plastic surgery.

Film make-up has improved tremendously since then.

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It's true that those characters wearing false faces wouldn't have fooled anybody. I hated it when Kirk Douglas took out his false eyes on the train.

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