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Richard Conte is the male face of film noir, especially for his performance as Mr. Brown, a vicious, impeccably attired gangster in Joseph H. Lewis' The Big Combo (1955).
For example, when Mr. Brown captures Cornel Wilde's police detective Leonard Diamond, he removes the hearing aid from his yes-man and…
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"Magnificent! Only Roger Zotti can take a subject like British actor Nicol Williamson, stir in some William Shakespeare, add a pinch of Hannibal Lecter, and a touch of Willie Pep, and amuse a reader over one hundred pages. As unpredictable as comedian Robin Williams, Zotti weaves the reader through a labyrinth of sports and cinema history to hand you a perspective you never dreamed of. Providing vignettes as creative and impressive as his depth of field, Zotti entertains from one page to the next. But unlike many authors, Zotti admits his mistakes. Indeed, and you will die laughing when he…
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