Sanders was an excellent heavy because he was so smarmy, like in Rebecca. Rains was just flat-out amazing, playing every kind of role under the sun from Alex Sebastian to Dr. Jaquith in Now, Voyager.
Robert Montgomery (geez, I just read that he was Elizabeth's father! How did I never hear that before today???) was an amazingly good psychopath in both Night Must Fall and Rage in Heaven, especially considering he did mostly lighter romantic roles (I just saw 3 or 4 movies he did with Norma Shearer last weekend :D).
I adored Bogie was because I thought he was so versatile. I saw him first in the movies he did with Bacall, and stuff like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, so seeing him in The Petrified Forest was eye-opening. Same with Cagney -- even though The Public Enemy was one of his earlier films, I didn't see it until after years of seeing Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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Robert Montgomery (geez, I just read that he was Elizabeth's father! How did I never hear that before today???) was an amazingly good psychopath in both Night Must Fall and Rage in Heaven, especially considering he did mostly lighter romantic roles (I just saw 3 or 4 movies he did with Norma Shearer last weekend :D).
I adored Bogie was because I thought he was so versatile. I saw him first in the movies he did with Bacall, and stuff like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, so seeing him in The Petrified Forest was eye-opening. Same with Cagney -- even though The Public Enemy was one of his earlier films, I didn't see it until after years of seeing Yankee Doodle Dandy.