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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:40 am
by lionheart
Paolo Bonacelli as the "Duke" in Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salo".
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:49 am
by lionheart
"M" is a fantastic movie. Great pick - I always thought that Peter Lorre's role in "M" was sort of "tragically evil", and an example of true pathology.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:45 am
by kenposurf
How about Robert Mitchum in The Night Of The Hunter or Cape Fear...
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:54 am
by sowhat
Bill Wharton from "Green Mile" (both the book and the movie).
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:55 am
by lennon211
What about Orson Welles in Touch of Evil? or Robert Ryan in Crossfire?
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:32 am
by jingle_jangle
Reminds me of Palance's line in "City Slickers" (a mostly one-joke movie without Jack).
He looks down at Billy Crystal, who's simultaneously cowering and trying not to look like he is and utters the immortal line:
"I SH*T bigger'n you!"
And a verse from a calypso bar tune, sung by an old guy who prefers young ladies to his own age-appropriate wife:
"You should see me woman, bruddah, she more den six-tee
And you know, without any doubt, she could be me gra-neee
Still she walk in bold at night with she face like Jack Palance
Go to France!
Step aside and give dee sparrow a chance!
You know I looking for youth, not experi-ance!"
(From Van Dyke Parks' "Discover America", 1972.)
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:50 am
by beatlefreak
How about Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence in The Shining?
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:54 am
by kenposurf
Jack Palance keeps popping up..he was one scary vampire in The Night Stalker
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:34 am
by lyle_from_minneapolis
The Bad Seed...

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:42 am
by squirefan01
The Kevin Spacey character in Se7en always freaked me out.
Hmmm...could have used post 600 for something more interesting than that!
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:46 am
by beatlefreak
Post 666 might have been better...
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:26 am
by firstbassman
RE: M
A million years ago WNET showed a series of classic films. (I can’t remember the name of the series but the theme music was a section of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”)
“M” was one of the films. Also “Blue Angel,” “Alexander Nevsky,” “Grand Illusion,” etc. Great, great stuff.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:34 am
by lyle_from_minneapolis
This guy was pretty evil.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:40 am
by 35012
Jaws (the Shark, in this case) was a pretty diabolical villain. What could be scarier than a random giant shark?
A runner up would be The Mull from Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (assuming gorilla suits and diving helmets are your idea of scary.)
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:01 am
by wayang
1. Adolph Hitler as himself in "Triumph Of The Will"
2. Richard Nixon as himself in "All The President's Men"
3. Robert MacNamara as himself in "The Fog Of War"
4. Peter Sellers as Henry Kissinger in "Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)"