If only Conrad Veidt hadn't died in 1943. I suppose he might have been a bit old for Roy anyway.
He was still one of the people I thought of. Paul Henreid circa Night Train to Munich (1940) was another, but by the noir era his image was entirely different.
I agree that Bogart wouldn't work as Deckard, but I'm convinced that scene was inspired by the one in The Big Sleep where Marlowe cases the suspicious bookstore by posing as a nerdy/possibly gay bibliophile.
I would believe it. I could see Deckard doing that thing with his hatbrim.
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He was still one of the people I thought of. Paul Henreid circa Night Train to Munich (1940) was another, but by the noir era his image was entirely different.
I agree that Bogart wouldn't work as Deckard, but I'm convinced that scene was inspired by the one in The Big Sleep where Marlowe cases the suspicious bookstore by posing as a nerdy/possibly gay bibliophile.
I would believe it. I could see Deckard doing that thing with his hatbrim.