not only to get himself hired by suspect Paul Faber’s law firm, but to almost immediately get caught out as an eminently blackmailable army deserter. Newton can do shame-faced and louche like nobody’s business.
+1.
spatch and I watched this movie in January, after seeing it cross our radar for years. It dropped a lot of threads that we thought were going to be part of the plot, but Newton was delightful. I have no idea what's up with Raymond Lovell's accent because I just realized I've never seen him to know him in a role where he wasn't playing some kind of Continental.
(Did I already commend The Desert Rats (1953) to your attention? Did the wider internet? The plot is full of weird hiccups including the ostensible history in Rommel-era North Africa, but I really love Newton's performance as a man who is ninety-eight percent hopeless trash fire and very aware of it, but the remaining two percent have their head screwed on straighter than anyone else in the plot including the hero, which becomes relevant.)
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(Did I already commend The Desert Rats (1953) to your attention? Did the wider internet? The plot is full of weird hiccups including the ostensible history in Rommel-era North Africa, but I really love Newton's performance as a man who is ninety-eight percent hopeless trash fire and very aware of it, but the remaining two percent have their head screwed on straighter than anyone else in the plot including the hero, which becomes relevant.)