CHARACTER ACTORS: Marc Lawrence

Up to his death, Marc Lawrence (1910-2005) played gangsters of Italian origin. His being type cast seems to be a pity as he was a very versatile and talented actor. In Cloak and Dagger (1946), dir. Fritz Lang he plays an Italian secret police agent in fascist Italy during World War Two. He shadows Gary Cooper and gets into a fierce fight with him - an almost silent struggle for life and death, accompanied by some Italian song that filters in from the street. The attractive woman with Cooper is Lilli Palmer, an emigree who later returned to Germany and besides acting wrote several widely read books.

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[cinemapsycho91]

@JubalCalif Awesome!!!

[JubalCalif]

@OvermarsDaria

I was thinking the same thing! The long "fight to the death" certainly has a lot in common with a similar scene in Hitchcock's 1966 espionage thriller "Torn Curtain", starrring Paul Newman & Julie Andrews.

[JubalCalif]

@cinemapsycho91

I certainly second that emotion !!!

[cinemapsycho91]

@JubalCalif Thanks a lot. They are all great artists.

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to Murgatroid! How I'd LOVE to see this movie! I've never seen it shown on cable or local TV. What a powerful fight scene! TOP NOTCH stuff! THANKS so much for posting this cool clip! Always enjoyed the work of veteran bad guy Marc Lawerence! You've MADE my day & my week! CHEERS, mate! :-)

[JubalCalif]

@cinemapsycho91

Wow! That's an excellent list !!!

[OvermarsDaria]

Nice scene I love this old movie ,I bet Hitchcock took some inspiration from this film

[MADWORLD1427]

LOVED HIM AS THE HITMAN "STILTSKIN" IN FOUL PLAY

[cinemapsycho91]

@HAZIDEAD I know good and damn well what character acting is. Type casting or actors portraying the same kinds of characters over and over again.

[HAZIDEAD]

@cinemapsycho91, dude, perhaps you should learn what character acting means.