Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Country: US
Technical: bw/scope 122m
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Robert Evans
Synopsis:
Biopic of Lon Chaney, master transformation artist of the silent era.
Review:
Lush A-picture stuff, in glistening black and white and dramatically scored, but most important is Cagney's achievement in rendering irrelevant his lack of resemblance to the subject. Interestingly this film works a lot better than the similarly themed W. C. Fields and Me, and the secret may be in the use of biographical starting points to construct an integrated narrative whole. Or it may just be that Cagney - and Chaney - are more sympathetic.
Country: US
Technical: bw/scope 122m
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Robert Evans
Synopsis:
Biopic of Lon Chaney, master transformation artist of the silent era.
Review:
Lush A-picture stuff, in glistening black and white and dramatically scored, but most important is Cagney's achievement in rendering irrelevant his lack of resemblance to the subject. Interestingly this film works a lot better than the similarly themed W. C. Fields and Me, and the secret may be in the use of biographical starting points to construct an integrated narrative whole. Or it may just be that Cagney - and Chaney - are more sympathetic.
Country: US
Technical: bw/scope 122m
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Robert Evans
Synopsis:
Biopic of Lon Chaney, master transformation artist of the silent era.
Review:
Lush A-picture stuff, in glistening black and white and dramatically scored, but most important is Cagney's achievement in rendering irrelevant his lack of resemblance to the subject. Interestingly this film works a lot better than the similarly themed W. C. Fields and Me, and the secret may be in the use of biographical starting points to construct an integrated narrative whole. Or it may just be that Cagney - and Chaney - are more sympathetic.