[mrustow]

That he was. He was one glorious, outrageous, son-of-a-bitch! He's maybe the only tough-guy-playing movie star -- including George Raft -- who was every bit as mean and tough as the guys he played on the screen. There's no man I'd rather have had on my side in a barfight, and no man I'd want to go up against less. Why, rattlesnakes wriggled away, when they smelled him comin.'