the co-stars

In the past quarter of a century, I no longer go after the stars but the co-stars among whom are:




1--Timothy Carey, the weeping soldier on his way to face firing squad in Kubrick's really breath-choking Paths of Glory



2--Joseph Wiseman, Dr No and engineer of Marlon Brando's assassination in Viva Zapata. He is also wonderful in Wm Wyler's A Detective Story with Kirk Douglas



3--Nehemiah Persoff, hard-of-hearing mob chief in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot who in a Mussolini-articulate style gives his speech: "Some people say that Spatt went too far, but I say to err is human and to forgive divine. Some people say that ... " When I view Some Like It Hot dvd, I see only the first 10 minutes where there is George Raft and co-gangsters and the last 10 minutes when Bersoff gives that speech



4--Rod Steiger who in The Big Knife gives two fascinating tirades and in The Harder They Fall, he steals the show from great Bogie Bogart and does likewise in the taxi scene with Brando in Kazan's On the Waterfront



5--Lee J Cobb, Johnny Friendly in Kazan's above title and mob chief in Nick Ray's Party Girl with Robert Taylor



6--Vic Morrow, naughty student in Richard Brooks' The Balckboard Jungle with Glenn Ford



7--Dennis Hopper, youth gang leader in Key Witness and Peter Fonda's travelling companion in Easy Rider, the film I used to cite in my teaching tragedy, Shakespeare and modern drama to university students