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Article: Insomnia and Charlton Heston. (Film).(film critiqued; memories of famous actor)(Movie Review)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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AS AMERICAN film genres like the western and the gangster film and the police procedural have evolved, the closer they have come to classic tragedy. Not just the films that borrowed devices and plots from Shakespeare such as Broken Lance with Spencer Tracy as a King Lear-like cattle baron, or Jubal, virtually Othello in a western setting seen from Cassio's perspective, with Ernest Borgnine likeable and dangerous as the Othello figure, Rod Steiger a sweatily malevolent surrogate Iago, and Glenn Ford all misunderstood integrity in the title role as the Cassio substitute. Rather it is when film-makers come to explore the emotional and moral complexities of conventions ...
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