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Composition & framing
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The Chaney, although we suspect he gives brilliant pantomime performances, doesn't actually have a role to play. He doesn't have any emotional investment. Critics at the time said this, that it was disappointing because they didn't get to see Chaney. In the way that they liked seeing Clark Gable slap women around or James Cagney with a gun, people liked seeing Lon Chaney suffering in silence in the background as the girl waltzed off with...
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That's a story in which the leading woman role is really interesting and really strong. And she did a couple of these things. She was in The Mystery of Mr. X, which is the policeman murdering film. Then at MGM, she got, I suppose, what British actresses often got, supporting roles to Greta Garbo in Camille and wearing pretty frocks in the background of A Tale of Two Cities. But during the war, she went back to Britain and she's...
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I mean, Carroll Borland, who never did anything else except a couple of very minor quickies later in life, sort of made a whole career of giving interviews about being involved with this film and her relationship with Bela Lugosi and her fascination with the genre for basically wandering around in the background in the mists...
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