Cary Grant

There's also the weird example of Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) in which actor Charlie Ruggles is one of the principal cast but does not play "Ruggles." What were the odds.

the Portuguese title for one Jackie Chan film (Police Story 2 I think?) is Jackie Chan Is The Protagonist.

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I think there was a Jackie Chan movie marketed in the U.S. as Jackie Chan's First Strike also. Not quite as good as Jackie Chan is the Protagonist, though.

JRN i can confirm that bc i actually watched it last night, lol

How was it? I haven't seen it since whenever it came out in theaters here.

i would say just watch the highlights on youtube, but the whole thing is only like 75 minutes. scene where he fights a gang using an a-frame ladder is a career highlight. also kills a guy using spiny sea urchins, which i believe is a cinematic first.

Lateraling over here from watching Jean Arthur in Easy Living on the Sturges thread (actually there are more than one) to rewatching The Talk of the Town. Ronald Colman is kind of a dud which makes this not quite up to its close silbing The More the Merrier but it is still nearly as good. Cary is very watchable, even with his Magwitch limp.

Jean Arthur apparently complained about Cary Grant upstaging her with his mugging which of course she would. She is superb in this, hitting all her notes, including one in particular involving eggs, doing a little hair-involved improv in the mirror in another bit. Haters need not watch.

Speaking of Jean's hair, need to travel back to the other thread. Ta-ta!

Been working my way through the Indicator Mae West box and Cary really brought out the best in her.