He's made a lot of movies sure, and some of them are real stinkers, but that's the nature of the business.
The Man Who Would Be King and Zulu and Alfie.. three all-time winners.
Posted on 03/17/2023 5:46:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Michael Caine turned 90 this week. I can hardly believe it.
Caine was born in 1933, and like his irreplaceable contemporaries — Robert Duvall (Born 1931) and Clint Eastwood (born 1930) — he keeps on keeping on. How fortunate we are for that.
If you read Caine’s superb 1992 autobiography, What’s It All About?, you’ll discover that his true contemporaries were legends like Peter O’Toole and Terence Stamp and that he grew frustrated watching their careers explode while he scraped along…
But he hung in there, and stardom finally arrived at the ripe old age of 31 with Zulu (1964), a supporting role he basically lucked into. Zulu ended up being a box office hit (and is now rightly regarded as a classic), and in it, Caine proved he was something special: a true actor who was also a movie star, a leading man capable of character roles. But, most of all, there is his depth, a bottomless reservoir of Something’s-Going-On-Down-There-And-Something’s-Going-To-Happen. Without opening his mouth, Caine’s mere presence gives his every character a history and emotional life.
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He's made a lot of movies sure, and some of them are real stinkers, but that's the nature of the business.
The Man Who Would Be King and Zulu and Alfie.. three all-time winners.
Loved him in Secondhand Lions with Duvall.
LOVE the theme song from Alfie !
Yep...he’ll always be Peachy Carnahan to me.
MC was cool enough to do the voiceover on this song about him: https://youtu.be/j-5yn3v3N8A
That is a completely underappreciated movie, for certain! I own that movie...:)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. A comedy classic.
Now, I have to see Alfie...
I think the funniest he ever was, was the segment in California Suite with Maggie Smith. Brilliant.
Me too. Caine is an amazing actor.
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Saw it not too long ago. A perfectly absurd comedy that just keeps you on edge wondering what the next prank will be. lol
I just do not get why society puts actors on a pedestal and praises them as if they have some superpower the rest of us do not.
Hasn’t he been in about 90 movies?
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