To: RoosterRedux
Wonderful movie. Just saw it on TCM. Only in America could a Jewish intellectual (Chayefsky) from the Bronx write such a moving story about a humble Italian American butcher.
What a great actor Earnest Borgnine was. He was a tough guy in From Here to Eternity and then went on to win an Academy Award for Marty.
6 posted on
05/14/2017 3:51:33 PM PDT by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
Before the 60s the Bronx was mostly Jews and Italians. Arthur Avenue in the Bronx is the real little italy of NY, the official one is just for tourists.
To: Kid Shelleen
Earnest was one of those actors that improved every film he was in.
To: Kid Shelleen
He was fresh off the set of “Bad Day at Black Rock”
20 posted on
05/14/2017 7:31:59 PM PDT by
headstamp 2
(Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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