I actually much preferred the Lee Marvin/Dickinson/Reagan
version. Maybe partly because it was so surreal watching
Reagan doing stuff like slapping Angie Dickinson around, but
also the Lee Marvin version had this weird offbeat vibe that
I liked a lot.
--Dave Z.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Nathan Cain"
<IndieCrime@...> wrote:
>
> I recently watched the 1964 version of the Killers,
after having
> watched the 1948 version with Lancaster and
Gardener. The original was
> one of the best films I've ever seen, and Gardener's
character is, in
> my mind, the most evil femme fatale to ever saunter
across a screen.
> It was hardly surprising then that the remake with
Lee Marvin and John
> Cassavetes didn't measure up. I think, though, that
Ronald Reagan
> really ruined what could have been an all right
film. Was it just me,
> or was he horribly miscast as a gangster? He had no
menace, no charm,
> no anything at all. I just could not believe him in
that part. It
> didn't help that the man looked exactly the same in
1964 as he did in
> 1984 when he was president. Watching the one time
leader of the free
> world bitch slap Angie Dickinson was a surreal
experience.
>
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