MJ Walker wrote:
> But I saw *The Silver Chalice* when it came out, at 11 or so, all I
> remember is Pier Angeli & Jack Palance.
Palance is one of my favorite actors. Not always in trash, either: The
Big Knife, where Odets wrote the script and Palance acted a destroyed
movie star opposite a younger Rod Steiger, is splendid. And there is
Shane: for Palance that was a career-maker but probably could have
ruined him. Wilson, the meanest bastard who ever lived until Michael
Madsen's turn as a psycho killer in Reservoir Dogs. I believe he was in
the TV original of "Requiem for a Heavyweight," and later turned up in
one of those dude ranch movies with Billy Crystal where, in his 70s, he
turned his menace into something self-mocking. But the old guy is (he's
still alive, right?) just dangerous-looking. As for Chalice, his Simon
the Magician is roll-on-the-floor stuff: it's so over the top that it
finds the bottom on the other side. Actually the funniest line comes
after Simon crashes to his death on the bottom while trying to fly. The
Emperor, I guess it was, sounds disconsolate when he says "He didn't
fly." Duh, your Moronicity....
Ken
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