I'm just what is around you

[sovay]

In my defense, Whit Bissell was not in "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" (2018), but he sure was in Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). I may write about this movie; I ordered it from the library last week when I was thinking about prison noir based on Brute Force (1947) and I wish I'd seen some intermediary examples to compare with, but it's fast, ferocious, and the punch of its Pyrrhic victory for prison reform has only gotten more extra-diegetically upsetting in light of what hasn't changed—or has worsened—in the last sixty years. Cast entirely composed of character actors, most of whom I've never seen anywhere near a leading role before. So who plays the unsympathetic screw turned favorite hostage of the prisoners forced to bargain for their own rights?



Me to spatch: "Did I accidentally summon him? Is he just in my movies now?"

Comments

[gwynnega]

Character actors do seem to do that, once one becomes aware of one of them. On the other hand, the phenomenon could make a great weird story.

[sovay]

Character actors do seem to do that, once one becomes aware of one of them. On the other hand, the phenomenon could make a great weird story.

spatch had to listen to me grousing recently that I couldn't get hold of a DVD of Canon City (1948), which had crossed my radar on the general theme of prison noir.

Later tonight: "Want to hear something funny? Whit Bissell's in Canon City."

[moon_custafer]

Like a benign version of handful_ofdust’s Background Man.

[sovay]

Like a benign version of handful_ofdust’s Background Man.

Increasingly it feels that way!

[gwynnega]

Exactly!