Claude Rains Sees Paul Muni in Hell 2013

2013 2013 2013 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bnhCeGKpMds/UixM-SspUCI/AAAAAAAAQQc/E3KVFrLNaDM/s1600/aaawatch1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="436" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bnhCeGKpMds/UixM-SspUCI/AAAAAAAAQQc/E3KVFrLNaDM/s640/aaawatch1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Muni Back To Gangland: <em>Angel On My Shoulder</em> (1946)</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gD2X_3ELFio/UixNANM8tsI/AAAAAAAAQQk/sKkBUwx0HkA/s1600/aaawatch2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gD2X_3ELFio/UixNANM8tsI/AAAAAAAAQQk/sKkBUwx0HkA/s640/aaawatch2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">Checked Paul Muni's filmography, and this looks like the only occasion since <em>Scarface</em> that he played a gangster, which is surprising as, despite lean toward "Great <span style="color: white;">Man" parts, Muni seemed ideally bestial for further crime parts. Like E.G. Robinson, he could have bounced between intellectuals and thuggery, but apparently lacked the inclination (maybe Muni</span> felt he'd got beyond rough stuff after <em>Pasteur</em>). Was he independently fixed as not to need so much</span> <span style="color: white;">cash <span style="color: white;">flow as art-collecting Eddie? <em>Angel On My Shoulder </em>was independently made, slow on the draw at times, but a grabber for opening act in Hell, Claude Rains its satanic ruler. A Dimitri Tiomkin score adds necessary fire/brimstone. Muni gets leave from the pit to seek vengeance on a rackets turncoat and discredit a do-gooder judge by entering his body, per bargain with Claude. Offbeat to be sure, <em>Angel</em>'s</span>fantasy element commending it to modern viewers, whose number might swell were this PD title around in better prints; the one TCM uses is pretty good, certainly a best I've yet seen. Also available on DVD from Alpha, VCI, and others.</span></span><br> 2013 2013 2013 <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bnhCeGKpMds/UixM-SspUCI/AAAAAAAAQQc/E3KVFrLNaDM/s1600/aaawatch1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="436" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bnhCeGKpMds/UixM-SspUCI/AAAAAAAAQQc/E3KVFrLNaDM/s640/aaawatch1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Muni Back To Gangland: <em>Angel On My Shoulder</em> (1946)</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gD2X_3ELFio/UixNANM8tsI/AAAAAAAAQQk/sKkBUwx0HkA/s1600/aaawatch2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gD2X_3ELFio/UixNANM8tsI/AAAAAAAAQQk/sKkBUwx0HkA/s640/aaawatch2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: white;">Checked Paul Muni's filmography, and this looks like the only occasion since <em>Scarface</em> that he played a gangster, which is surprising as, despite lean toward "Great <span style="color: white;">Man" parts, Muni seemed ideally bestial for further crime parts. Like E.G. Robinson, he could have bounced between intellectuals and thuggery, but apparently lacked the inclination (maybe Muni</span> felt he'd got beyond rough stuff after <em>Pasteur</em>). Was he independently fixed as not to need so much</span> <span style="color: white;">cash <span style="color: white;">flow as art-collecting Eddie? <em>Angel On My Shoulder </em>was independently made, slow on the draw at times, but a grabber for opening act in Hell, Claude Rains its satanic ruler. A Dimitri Tiomkin score adds necessary fire/brimstone. Muni gets leave from the pit to seek vengeance on a rackets turncoat and discredit a do-gooder judge by entering his body, per bargain with Claude. Offbeat to be sure, <em>Angel</em>'s</span>fantasy element commending it to modern viewers, whose number might swell were this PD title around in better prints; the one TCM uses is pretty good, certainly a best I've yet seen. Also available on DVD from Alpha, VCI, and others.</span></span><br>2013 2013 2013 <br> <a href="http://www.matrixar.com/" title="Matrix ">المصفوفة : أجمل الخلفيات والصور</a>