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[Brook K]

Cary Grant was better in Notorious

 

[Marc Fedderman]

Trying to avoid the obvious ties to Hitch and Casablanca, I'll say that Louis Calhern turns in a stronger performance in The Asphalt Jungle.

 

[tyler payne]

John Huston made a better film with The Maltese Falcon

 

[Lew Crippen]

And Peter Lorre was better in M.

 

[Bill McA]

I Love M, but Fritz Lang had already wowed the world with his Metropolis

 

[Brook K]

I could go a couple of ways here....

To avoid a 3rd Lang film in a row...Karl Freund's cinematographic skill was best demonstrated in his collaboration with F.W. Murnau - Herr Tartuff

 

[george kaplan]

Actually I think Karl Freund did his best and most important work on I Love Lucy (which probably doesn't count as a valid result).

 

[Brian Kissinger]

I love Lucy sounds like it could be a cool porno, but not nears as cool as Leave it to Beaver.

 

[Marc Fedderman]

Steering things back on course

Barbara Billingsly is a hell of a lot funnier in Airplane than she ever was in Leave it to Beaver.

 

[tyler payne]

Just to go somewhere different, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was enjoyable as Murdock, but he was iconic as Hakim in Game of Death

ps look back at the trail of movies this thread has seen. pretty interesting pattern

tyler payne

 

[Brook K]

And Collen Camp got her turn to be an icon as Miss May in Apocalypse Now

 

[Lew Crippen]

As tempted as I am to observe that Wagner is better at Bayreuth, I’ll confine my comment that Marlon Brando was far, far better in Last Tango in Paris

 

[george kaplan]

Brando was far far better in The Godfather.

 

[Rain]

As much as I enjoyed Last Tango in Paris,, I think the extended cut of The Last Emperor is a more impressive Bertolucci film.

As legendary as Gordon Willis' work on The Godfather is, I've always been more impressed with the photography in Manhattan.

 

[Marc Fedderman]

Manhattan is the greatest film ever made ,but Diane Keaton is more iconic (seems to be the word du jour) in Annie Hall.

 

[Bill McA]

Personally, I quite enjoyed Michael Murphy's performance in the cult film Strange Behavior

 

[JohnRice]

Maybe, but Louise Fletcher was never better than in Once Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

 

[george kaplan]

Jack Nicholson was far better in Chinatown

 

[Brad Porter]

I like Jerry Goldsmith's score from Planet of the Apes (1968) more than the his work in Chinatown.

Brad

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

Jack Nicholson is great in Chinatown but I can't help but grin at his performance as the Joker in Batman.