[Leaning Right]

If Edward G. Robinson is in a movie, I will automatically watch it. No need to read the reviews first. Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis (and a few others) are also in that category.

Maybe it’s just me. But I can’t think of any of today’s actors who also belong in that group.

[nopardons]

No, it's absolutely NOT "just you"; todays actors and actresses can't act their way out of a torn and wet brown paper bag!

I have quite a few of the old all time greats, whose movies I will watch and rewatch endlessly, as I have them on discs.The likes of Bette Davis and Edward G. NEVER were in a "bad" movie!

[Political Junkie Too]

I like his movies where he plays against the stereotype.

This movie is one of them; it was on TCM a month ago and I recorded it. Another was A Dispatch from Reuters, a biopic about the founder of the Reuters news service.

One of these counter-character movies that I liked was Brother Orchid, possibly the movie that Robinson made to break the stereotype that let him make more diverse films.

-PJ

[TimSkalaBim]

Totally agree on Robinson, great actor. In “Double Indemnity” he makes actuarial tables sound interesting.

[The Duke]

"If Edward G. Robinson is in a movie, I will automatically watch it."

I'm with you on that one. Two other great movies I recommend from that era are "Kings Row" and "Green Dolphin Street". I think Kings Row is one of the greatest movies ever made.

[packrat35]

I grew up watching old B&W movies as they played late night and my Dad was a niteowl and let us stay up late on the weekends. This was before cable and all the channels you get now.