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[walpurgis]

Tonight, if you want a movie later. 'Night of The Demon' 1957, with Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. Great cast and acting. Properly creepy cult classic and one of my favourites .

[Macca]

Was talking about that in work yesterday. No-one had even heard of it let alone seen it.

probably the best horror film ever. Although I always think it would have been better if they never actually showed the demon, but IIRC the distributor demanded it

[walpurgis]

The tense sense of unease through it is clever and the dawning terrible realisation of sceptic Dane Andrews is well portrayed.

[Macca]

The tense sense of unease through it is clever and the dawning terrible realisation of sceptic Dane Andrews is well portrayed.

Indeed. I sort of want him to get his comeuppance by the end of it. The Niall MacGinnis character is far more interesting.

[walpurgis]

The Niall MacGinnis character is far more interesting.

Great actor.

[Macca]

Great actor.

I was watching him not so long ago in some other film, can't recall what it was now.

Playing a totally different character, he looked familiar to me but it was a while before it clicked that it was him. Sign of a good actor.

[struth]

I was watching him not so long ago in some other film, can't recall what it was now.

Playing a totally different character, he looked familiar to me but it was a while before it clicked that it was him. Sign of a good actor.

he was in a lot of films; even shakspeare...but lots of war stuff

[struth]

The Boys from Brazil, 1978.. classic film score in this from Jerry Goldsmith, who also got an Oscar nomination..



Publicity for the film stated that this was the first villainous role of Gregory Peck's career. Peck felt that his portrayal of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was the only completely unsympathetic role that he ever performed. Peck was upset by the extremely negative reactions to his performance. He later said, "I felt, Laurence Olivier felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image."

In a promotional interview with Roger Ebert, James Mason explained that he had hoped to get either Laurence Olivier's or Gregory Peck's role, and was disappointed to be offered neither, but then was contacted about the subsidiary role of Seibert: "They'd found that when Dr. Mengele was in Paraguay, he had no one to talk to. So they fleshed out the other Nazi, and he fell into my lap. It was convenient, it was acceptable, I could even make sense of the character, and besides, it was four weeks work in Portugal, where I'd never been before."

Laurence Olivier received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in this movie, playing a Jewish man who hunts Josef Mengele and other Nazi war criminals. His most recent Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role prior to this, was for Marathon Man (1976), in which he played Dr. Christian Szell, a Nazi war criminal based on Dr. Josef Mengele. For this film, Olivier received his tenth and final Academy Award nomination, making him the most nominated actor up to that point. His record was later surpassed by Jack Nicholson, with 12 nominations.

[Macca]

he was in a lot of films; even shakspeare...but lots of war stuff

Looked up his filmography it was 'Sword Of Sherwood Forest' he was Friar Tuck.

[Macca]

The Boys from Brazil, 1978.. classic film score in this from Jerry Goldsmith, who also got an Oscar nomination..



Publicity for the film stated that this was the first villainous role of Gregory Peck's career. Peck felt that his portrayal of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was the only completely unsympathetic role that he ever performed. Peck was upset by the extremely negative reactions to his performance. He later said, "I felt, Laurence Olivier felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image."

In a promotional interview with Roger Ebert, James Mason explained that he had hoped to get either Laurence Olivier's or Gregory Peck's role, and was disappointed to be offered neither, but then was contacted about the subsidiary role of Seibert: "They'd found that when Dr. Mengele was in Paraguay, he had no one to talk to. So they fleshed out the other Nazi, and he fell into my lap. It was convenient, it was acceptable, I could even make sense of the character, and besides, it was four weeks work in Portugal, where I'd never been before."

Laurence Olivier received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in this movie, playing a Jewish man who hunts Josef Mengele and other Nazi war criminals. His most recent Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role prior to this, was for Marathon Man (1976), in which he played Dr. Christian Szell, a Nazi war criminal based on Dr. Josef Mengele. For this film, Olivier received his tenth and final Academy Award nomination, making him the most nominated actor up to that point. His record was later surpassed by Jack Nicholson, with 12 nominations.

Not a bad film that. My uncle Pat was obsessed with the war and the Nazis, anytime I saw him he would go on about what a great film it was. I didn't see it until a few years later.