Final tally:
\nPerkins > Bacall > Gielgud > Connery > Cassel > Balsam > Roberts > Bisset >
\n\t(good\/bad frontier)
\nWidmark > Hiller > Quilley > York > Bergman > Finney<\/p>\n
Richard Widmark wakes up dead on a train, after asking detective Poirot to protect him the day before. Widmark was the mastermind of a heinous kidnapping in prologue, also a huge asshole, and it turns out all of the suspects had motives, each of them affected by his crime, and conspired to kill him together.<\/p>\n
Languorously paced, and centered around Finney’s Mike Myers-like appearance and accent, it’s a near-disaster of a movie kept sporadically afloat by a few good scenes and performances, and a touching ending. Anthony Perkins was Widmark’s assistant – nervous, of course… Bergman is a timid religious fanatic who says “little brown babies” pretty often… Vanessa Redgrave is cute and smiley, having an affair with Sean Connery… Wendy Hiller in weird makeup and weird accent plays a princess.<\/p>\n
Lumet made a lotta movies, more than forty and this was about the midpoint. The only other of his movies I’ve written about are his very first<\/a> and his very last<\/a>. Obviously a weird year for the oscars – Finney was nominated, Bergman won, and the whole list looks like New Hollywood and Old Hollywood in an ugly clash, trading awards between The Godfather II<\/em> and The Towering Inferno<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Final tally: Perkins > Bacall > Gielgud > Connery > Cassel > Balsam > Roberts > Bisset > (good\/bad frontier) Widmark > Hiller > Quilley > York > Bergman > Finney Richard Widmark wakes up dead on a train, after asking detective Poirot to protect him the day before. Widmark was the mastermind of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,1183,708,415,693,1195,792,631,335,1036,1938,294],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-albert-finney","tag-anthony-perkins","tag-ingrid-bergman","tag-john-gielgud","tag-kidnapping","tag-lauren-bacall","tag-perfect-crime","tag-richard-widmark","tag-sean-connery","tag-sidney-lumet","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13514,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions\/13514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}