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Mickey is indeed just about the best thing in Mike Hodges' Pulp, as an Italian-American (!) Mob-connected former movie star who hires Michael caine to write his memoirs, or does he? Only 15 minutes, maybe, of screentime but he makes em count.
Pretty crap winking would-be pastiche of a movie overall.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
two years pass...
Mick really underplays a meek auto mechanic/daydreaming racer in Richard Quine's semi-noir Drive a Crooked Road -- it's a character role as the lead. Mid '50s Hollywood and Palm Springs shown in workaday fashion. Written by Blake Edwards! (who worked on a Rooney TV show w/ Quine soon after)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 June 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
two years pass...
Dr. Morbius mentions that Mick "really underplays a meek" etc. in Run A Crooked Mile, but that's mostly in contrast to his expected hyper qualities, and is still very intense, very effective: going over the top would break the tension of this noir-ish low-grade fever soap opera of sicky grifters, playing on the useful mechanic Rooney despite disagreements and even some conscience and nausea (on the part of moll-stooge making nice to him, ick).
If ye be wanting old LOUD wrinklepuppy Roon, you got him as defiantly doom-rattling convict lifer in THE LAST MILE, fro '59, I think.
Also, mention of a Serling-scripted venture (one I hadn't hoid of) upthread, made me think of this one:
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a 1962 American film directed by Ralph Nelson based on the television play of the same name with Anthony Quinn in the role originated by Jack Palance, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney in the parts portrayed on television by Keenan Wynn and his father Ed Wynn, and social worker Grace Miller was portrayed by Julie Harris.Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, appears as Quinn's opponent in a boxing match at the beginning of the movie, a memorable sequence filmed with the camera providing Quinn's point of view as the unstoppable Clay rapidly punches directly at the movie audience with breath-taking speed. Afterward, Maish (Gleason) is confronted by bookies who threaten his life. If he fails to repay them for their losses, based upon the sure thing bet (he urged them to wager upon) that his fighter, Mountain, would go down in a certain round of the match. Maish's deal with them had been that they should deduct from their winnings (due to their betting against Mountain, as Maish had advised them to). The vast sums of losses that Maish's betting (and losing) had run up with them.
The film version is somewhat darker in its plotline than the original teleplay
Quinn is okay, but man I'd like to paste Jack Palance in w Rooney, Gleason, and Clay!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Heavyweight_(film)
― dow, Sunday, 4 September 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link