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Stanwyck, even in this young version doesn't do a lot for me but she certainly performs well here, ever driving herself and the film forward.
You will be most impressed with Winnie Lightner, who performs two numbers.
There is a bright spot though in what appears to be a young Filipino woman who performs a strip-tease in an empty nightclub for our ship's captain, and she opens a bottle of champagne using her enormous...uh...talent.
This short consists of Al Jolson standing in front of a set designed to look like a plantation home of a slave--and not surprisingly, he performs in black-face.
Fay Dunaway also performs very effectively but John Malkovich is John Malkovich, not the Dauphin.
She gains respect from her fellow pupils when she confesses to being a witch, when she performs curse on a hated teacher and it works.
Yeah, she looks good and performs an impossible job at ridiculous hours, but she remains her sweet self.
As for Collins, she performs with conviction; hopefully she cashed a paycheck somewhat larger than these ants.
Ray Liotta brilliantly performs the alcoholic being treated in the ER.
Two, it is one of only about a dozen filmed appearances of big band great Jimmmy Dorsey, who performs, with his band, a number called John Silver ("15 men on a dead man's chest") which I haven't found elsewhere, and a few other songs.
Even Boris Karloff fans will note the tired way he performs through the entire film.
English's comic timing is great, especially 'Dear Pirate King I love your purple pants...' and he performs well with the other cast members, especially Toni Lamond, Helen Donaldson and Simon Gallaher.
The other two I know of are "Charlie Chan at the Opera" where she has no lines and dances on a table top during the opera, and "Charlie Chan on Broadway" where she is Douglas Fowley's love interest and performs what I call "the sashay dance."
As you can see by the name in my email adress, i am a huge fan of madonna, but in this movie she performs her worst acting....
Isha Sharvani performs well but has very little to do - with an ill-defined character.
Slater is invisible in most of the film, and I doubt it is he who performs the invisible stunts where people are ridiculously thrown about and killed all through the movie.
Fryda becomes jealous with the situation and performs all sort of betrayal and cruelties against Stephania.
The main actor was Chabrol's main screenwriter (Paul Gegauff), who also performs (with Chabrol's son) the 4-hand piano music used throughout the film (well, there is a one - pianist Schubert Impromptu at a key point).
While not a superior actress, she performs adequately, although her talents are more suited to television, as it appears this movie was.
Every single actor performs perfectly.
So this is the only time on film he's with Healy who performs along with his brother Moe (credited as Harry) and Larry Fine, none of whom have the wild hair they became known for.
At first seeming to suffer from amnesia, the stranger has a mysterious quality that comes more into focus when he performs certain miracles.
Jolson performs some amazing vocal pyrotechnics, impossible for any other pop singer I've ever heard, a long note on the word, "come," he actually changes the timbre of his voice in a way I have not heard from any other singer.
And the soul of the film is undoubtedly Ajit, who performs his three diverse characters with panache.
The film is the story of Charlie MacKenzie, a commitment phobic who performs in a coffeehouse as a poet.
Stephen Vittoria performs a public service with this dynamite doc on George McGovern, a man who embodies what all Americans who aspire to public service should be.
I think the part of Cramer (Anthony Perkins) was played brilliantly with special focus on the "flip outs" that he performs when he begins to realise that his master plan isn't exactly going to plan.
Although I'm an avid Belly Dancer and enjoy watching such "z" grade "fluff" films just to get ideas for dancing, these Terpsichorean attempts hover just this side of burlesque; one of the "daughters of the 40 thieves" even performs a pole dance for Sinbad!
There are other similarities to that film: the genius dies leaving the misfit to fend for himself in the outside world, the villains are in a motorcycle gang, the misfit falls for a local blond teenage girl, and he also performs his "magic" for children in a school classroom.
Kadeem Harrison isn't annoying in the supporting role and even Brittany Murphy performs well!
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