Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!reiher From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: A Great Movie Message-ID: <7285@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 13:59:46 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.7285 Posted: Mon Oct 28 13:59:46 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 00:07:37 EST References: <443@npois.UUCP> <1462@videovax.UUCP> <10796@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 25 In article <10796@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> upstill@ucbvax.UUCP (Steve Upstill) writes: I second the recommendation of "A Face in the Crowd". This was one of those pictures that not many people saw, but which was liked by almost everyone who saw it. > >But it >is Andy Griffith who really blew me away. This is the performance of a >lifetime (his first in a film), and I consider it a major tragedy that he >is not considered one of our great actors (maybe because he has a Southern >accent?). Andy Griffith really is a very fine actor. In my opinion, he was done in by TV. His big break was "No Time For Sargeants" on Broadway, then on film. After that, he was offered a TV show which became vastly successful. As a result of that show, he became typecast as the downhome, country-wise, lovable sheriff of a small Southern town. The only roles he got were rather dull characters in rather dull family pictures. Recently, he's begun to get better parts, frequently playing villains. I suppose he made a ton of money off "The Andy Griffith Show", but it certainly cost him the chance for a major acting career, or at least delayed him for 20 years. -- Peter Reiher reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher