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To: mairdie

Try the Sidney Greenstreet version that was on old time radio.

He was quite good.


6 posted on 12/15/2018 3:46:00 PM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: wally_bert

Thank you. I will definitely do that.


8 posted on 12/15/2018 3:48:02 PM PST by mairdie (Christmas music videos - http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/songvids/xmassong.htm)
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To: wally_bert
He was quite good.

Greenstreet was a satisfoactory Nero Wolfe, but the scripts were awful. Archie is made out to be a nitwit, and Wolfe's primary characteristic is penury, which is not true in the literary characterization.

Timothy Hutton got Archie right on in the A & E series, but Maury Chakin was not quite right as Nero.

William Conrad was have been closer, but his short-lived series also had poor scripting, a bad Archie, placement in the '70s (a bad time to be a great NYC detective) and Conrad wouldn't shave off his beard.
10 posted on 12/15/2018 3:52:07 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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