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Anonymous Dave Rohl said...

Watching "Patton" with my son, I got to wondering whether there's ever been a bigger gap in acting quality between the star and just about everybody else in the movie.

The 1976 remake of King Kong?

1/13/07, 7:17 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jose Ferrer in 1950's Cyrano de Bergerac: THE performance of THE Cyrano translation - Hooker's - tied together with the sort of acting and production values parodied in Singing In The Rain.

1/13/07, 8:21 AM

Blogger Cato said...

Malden's performance is pretty bad. I always get a chuckle from the scene when Patton has decided to push through Sicily:

"George, I do this job because I was trained to do it. You do it..." (removes his glasses in a very hammy fashion)..."because you love it."

Come to think of it, Malden was also a millstone around On the Waterfront as well. How did this guy get into movies? It wasn't his looks.

1/13/07, 12:56 PM

Anonymous David Hume said...

Another example of George C. Scott out acting everyone else on a film is his Islands in the Stream. There is a vast space around Scott on that film.

On Malden: I haven't seen a single thing in which he didn't overact. Streets of San Francisco would be pretty unwatchable now.

1/15/07, 5:46 AM

Anonymous AllanF said...

Here's a question. That movie has one of my all-time favorite quotes. Patton says, "Quantity has a quality all its own."

I've tried looking up whether Patton actually said that, but have been unsuccessful. Does anyone know the attribution of that quote. Is it Patton's? Does is pre-date Patton? Or, did the screenwriters come up with it themselves?

Much thanks.

1/15/07, 8:29 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

"Quantity has a quality all its own."

I've seen it attributed to Stalin. It's the kind of thing that people on the winning side during WWII would have said, so it might have gone back and forth among famous people like Stalin and Patton.

1/17/07, 12:03 AM

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