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The Glass scene: Mystery solved...


The drunk guy who Dylan argues with about the glass - "Im nothing, Im a small noise" - is none other than Malcolm McDowell.

"They say I shot a man named Gray
And took his wife to Italy"

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Ok i just watched it and I dont think that was him. Not unless you got it from a reliable source and it SAYS that it was him. It does look like him but I dont think it was him not unless you found out somewhere that it was him,like I said earlier.

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Why don't you think it's him? It looks and sounds EXACTLY like McDowell. It was filmed in 1965, some time before McDowell's breakthrough. His words, "Your'e a big noise, I'm a small noise" fit perfectly. Look again...

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That's enough crack for you. Have a cup of tea and a lie down.

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That guys nose isn't broad enough to be McDowell...

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It certainly does not look like him ..or sound like him. But I'm no expert..


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Mystery solved at last:
I just read a D.A. Pennebacker interview from 1995 in which he reveals the guy Dylan yells at is a member of The Pretty Things.

- A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.

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odd coincidence that i just came from the clockwork orange forum, and thought i'd choose this film next whic hhas nothing to do with a clockwork orange, and then i find this post. the guy does sound somehwat like mcdowell, but facially there is very little resemblance. it is not him.

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ignore Badabingbadaboom..he is a misguided idiot

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According to the Pennebaker / Neuwirth DVD commentary, it was one of the people who'd been invited from a local pub back to the Savoy hotel for drinks. So I figure it could have been anyone.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.

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