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Was acceptable. >> i could have been a contender. i could have been somebody. instead of a bum. >> everybody looked up to brando. he was great. wasnt about technique in a way, it was technique of a sort but it was about just feeling. you felt so much from him. >> i was you, charlie. >> marlon brando is often associated with the method as a style of acting. >> the method essentially is a terribly human, profoundly human thing. its not -- it was affected by psychoanalysis, the understanding of the...

Behind me, maybe there would be any trouble. >> you know theyll be trouble. >> then its better to have it here. >> cooper is giving this incredible natural performance. this ongoing dilemma thats going on in his mind ends up being the heart beat of the movie. >> some of you were special deputies when we broke this bunc i need you again now. >> the script has this great 1950s theme of your neighbors abandoning you because might be a communist or because they dont want you to know about their bomb...

Bird and how sam spade plays these characters off each other. >> youre good. youre very good. >> what did he say? >> about what? >> about me. >> nothing. >> what did you talk about then? >> he offered me $5,000 for the black bird. >> my father was not that big a fan of actors. if you watch his movies, hes more interested in character. i think this was why he loved humphrey bogart so much. >> thanks, darling. >> theres a kind of directness and honesty about him that were not used to. >> when your...

Incredible natural performance. this ongoing dilemma thats going on in his mind ends up being the heartbeat of the movie. >> some of you were special deputies when we broke this bunch. i need you again, now. >> the script has this great 1950s theme of your neighbors abandoning you because you might be a communist or because they dont want you to know about their bomb shelter. the movie illuminated what was going on. >> carl foreman was a man of such principle that when he testified he would not ...

And thats as good as it gets. >> okay, baby, thats it. >> the murder you dont see in double indemnity is better than any grizzly murder you could show me. >> straight down the line. >> barbara stanwycks perform, as phyllis is the archetype of the dangerous femme fatale. >> back in the morning. meet me at the hotel. >> when you get to jane greer in "out of the past," she takes it a step further. >> can we get away with it. >> shes much more of a cold psychopath. theres a scene where hes watching ...

His hands during the war, that was incredibly powerful. >> this is a very proud and a very happy month. >> they had made plans to give him a special oscar and then it turned out the performance was so good that people voted for him for best supporting actor which they couldnt have predicted. so he won two oscars. >> hello, darling. >> hello, daddy. >> hello, daddy. >> how do you like it? >> "its a wonderful life" wasnt very successful when it came out, which im always shocked when i learn that a...

>> what did you say it for? >> i dont know. how old are you? >> 29. ♪ >> its entertainment in your own living room and all over the country movie audiences of all ages sit glued to their television sets. the picture may be small but its free. >> probably the most serious threat to movies came in the 1950s when people were buying televisions. >> biblical expansive epics in the 50s were one of hollywoods first successful answers to the threat of television. that brought people back to the theate...

>> watch it. >> get a doctor! >> on the water front is the first time i saw people that i knew that that i was growing up with, the people in my family the people in the streets up there on the screen. the depiction of the lifestyle was very realistic. the tenements were the same. you could put a game on every image and its beautiful art. >> be careful dont spill no water on the floor. >> the behavior of brando was the break through of the century. >> i remember the first time i saw brando on th...

There were crooked labor unions that controlled the docks and you had to be in good with the union bosses to get any kind of work. this is about how that system was broken. >> watch it! >> get a doctor! >> "on the waterfront" is the first time i saw people that i knew that that i was growing up with, the people in my family, the people in the streets up there on the screen. the depiction of the lifestyle was very honest and not condescending. the tenements were the same. the roofs were the same....

Seconds of no music, no dialogue, no nothing, and it really builds the suspense. >> give me a whiskey. >> give me a whiskey, baby. >> greta garbo was full of mystery and beauty and talent. she just didnt try so much. you know what i mean? she was cool. ♪ >> mgm was sort of like the harvard of hollywood. it was the place that every star wanted to graduate to. it had garbo. it had gabel, spencer tracy. it offered to the public a sense of escape into a world of class and refinement. on the other ...