Silly, isn’t it?
The sailor receives a proposal
To arrange for a human disposal
But the fellow who picked him
Is also the victim
A role that would seem self-opposal.
Another LADY FROM SHANGHAI limerick is now available over at Limerwrecks, home of the film noir limerick, and another participating outlet in the Self-Styled Siren, Ferdy on Film and the Film Noir Foundation’s For the Love of Film (Noir) Film Preservation Blogathon.
So, when I said that my previous post was the penultimate in my blogathon entries, that wasn’t accurate. THIS is my penultimate post.
Donate some money, and when you see THE SOUND OF FURY you will know that a few of its scintillating seconds owe their glistening, pristine existence to you!
February 19, 2011 at 8:34 pm
[...] a Brobdingnagian in Lilliput, a mountain among midgets.” Oh, and he’s gotten into the limerick act, [...]
February 19, 2011 at 10:05 pm
That’s the scariest shot in the entire movie. And Glenn Anders gives the creepiest performance in the history of the cinema, IMO, in this demented masterpiece.
February 20, 2011 at 1:03 am
It’s an amazing angle. Not only does the vertigo get you, but the wide-angle lens makes the eyelines go kerflooey, so that everybody seems to be staring past everybody, in a really creepy way.
February 20, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Another thumbs up for Anders. I have seen this movie 6 times and I can’t figure out why he’s what he’s doing (or why he’s even in the movie), but I love him and his natty high-waisted trousers.
February 20, 2011 at 6:07 pm
I’ll try again for sense: I can’t figure out why he’s doing what he’s doing. I’d love to know if all his tic shtick was his own original “thing”, or if he did what Welles told him to do, or if they worked on enacting the character together.
And that voice!
February 20, 2011 at 6:48 pm
The only other movie I can recall him in is Losey’s M, where he’s part of a simply amazing menagerie of gangsters. His performance is close to the one in LFS, except of course Welles gets him to turn it up to 11.
I don’t think I’ve even figured out why Grisby hires O’Hara to kill him, since as Elsa observes, his insurance scam idea doesn’t make a lick of sense.
February 21, 2011 at 1:42 am
Yes that’s quite a crew in the Losey M: Glenn Anders, David Wayne, Raymond Burr, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler, and my pal Norman Lloyd.