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Leslie Howard who has been brilliant in nearly al his films (esp The Petrified Forest, Of Human Bondage, Pygmallion, Teh Scarlette Pimprenel and of course GWTW) realy gave a stiff, false performance in this 1939 movie that he himself co-produced with David o' Selznick of the Gone With The Wind (1939) -- I'm thinking that both their creative juices were at a major low --- this movie was so insincere and contrived and lacks any universal appeal that makes movies "classics".
While the female leads are a bit stiff (the film's major flaw), the cynical Coyote and, especially, the charmingly shy Grant (his performance here is underrated) provide two different ways for the viewer to enter the story and their interplay is offbeat and endlessly entertaining.
Also, early 30's camera-work is often stiff and stagy.
Involving and polished, though just a bit stiff or starchy.
Where 'Mystery Street' features a cool-headed detective finely played by a young Ricardo Montalban, 'The Big Combo's investigating officer is the hot-headed Lieutenant Leonard Diamond (with a stiff Cornel Wilde miscast in the role).
The acting is generally stiff and the budget is obviously very very very low, like $15 for the special effects budget low.
He tries to create tension by building up slowly but unlike Aliens where this worked , it just bores me stiff.
Aside from the dialog being hokey, the plot being full of holes, the acting was stiff and unreal...
Railsback looks stiff and old, and his fight scenes are over within seconds because he obviously can't fight.
I enjoy this movie - it's funny but while the acting is really stiff - very little really comes across as other than line-reading- in everything else the movie rings pretty true.
It can't possibly do Albert Brooks' life any good to know that he co-wrote and directed such a limp comedy as "The Muse", which, looking back, could be pinpointed as a stalling-point in his film-making career as well as an obstacle for actresses Sharon Stone and Andie MacDowell, both surprisingly stiff here.
She was so stiff, and something about her grin instead of a smile, just seemed unrealistic, and it just rubbed me the wrong way.
They're pretty much all equally stiff, men and women alike, with 1950s hairstyles and a comical mix of accents.
The acting varies from competent to fantastic, but some just seem out of place and stiff.
Satellite ran this stinker late last night and, what seemed on the surface an interesting premise was lost quickly in the poor writing, stiff and otherwise horrible acting, mute extras, and overall lack of direction.
Photography, despite originating on high-end HD, looked like home video... very stiff and undramatic.
She didn't, and this is her entrance into talkies, awkward, stiff, with little to do but enunciate corny lines.
It's amazing that not only this film but also HOUSE OF HORRORS tried to make a horror star out of this stiff.
The acting, for the most part, is stiff and unbelievable.
Sean Connery plays the role of Arthur but brings nothing to the part that is interesting, and walks around stiff and delivers his lines like he wants to speed things up.
The actors are stiff -- probably mostly due to the director, as they never, ever move.
Heinously miscast as a playboy professor, Ben Kingsley is far too stiff, depressed and stiff-backed for the part.
The acting is so stiff and inept that You will laugh tears.
Even so, you'll have to endure some pretty stiff acting from then newcomer Forrest Tucker in the lead role of Jerry Barton, a pilot who's half of a team that's developed a remote control device for guiding aircraft.
Not the stiff acting, the moronic plot and certainly not any of the so-called "jokes."
Students at a Canadian college campus are beginning to disappear, only to be found dead, their bodies frozen stiff from the inside.
The competition was there, but not that stiff.
I watched this movie expecting to be bored stiff, but was pleasantly surprised!
All the acting is good except for Henry Fonda--he's so stiff and dull--what does Davis want with him?
Rosie O'Donnell gives a stiff, and yet somehow melodramatic performance.
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