... you can learn from:
North By Northwest (1959)
Phillip Vandamm: Seems to me you fellowscould stand a little less training from the F.B.I.and a little more from the Actor's Studio.
Granted I've seen this movie approximately one thousand times but can't you just hear James Mason purring out that rejoinder? God what a voice that man had. I've already used one of these posts a few years back to expound upon the implied homosexual connection between Mason's character and his favorite side-piece henchman played by Martin Landau, but I could go on about how James Mason is like the paltonic ideal of a Hitchcock Baddie for days. Smooth as hell, a gentleman to the end, unspooling a truly ridiculous plot via ludicrous means -- sure why not send Cary Grant to the middle of nowhere to be shot at by a crop duster? Why not, I say! Anyway Mason was born 117 years ago today -- go watch one of his movies! You will not be disappointed. He was always the man.
I've seen it many many times and yes I hear him....love that line 😂
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ReplyDeleteThe man just exuded class with every breath. Even in dreck he always rose about the mire with his innate dignity and that voice! But in his best films he was often flat out mesmerizing.
ReplyDeleteHe stood withstood Judy's tornado of a performance in A Star is Born and still managed to stand out and he's wonderfully silky in N by NW but I think my favorite performance of his is the conflicted criminal drawn to Joan Bennett's desperate mother in "The Reckless Moment."