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George Sanders sassing his way effortlessly through Rebecca [d: Alfred Hitchcock, 1940]

#rebecca #george sanders #so I know jack is the BAD GUY #but seriously he is the best #it's harry lime syndrome all over again #look at him props acting with that chicken like a boss #my wee gifs #*4ff #*21

- Old man, you really shouldn’t have gone to the police, you know. You ought to leave this thing alone.

So, here’s the thing. I know all the stories about Orson and this film, from both sides, and I love Orson, and I love Carol Reed, and this is one of my favourite films of all time, and obviously Orson steals the show because we all spend three quarters of the film hearing all about Harry Lime before he appears, and then he APPEARS like the very devil. And the ‘cuckoo clock’ speech is massively famous, both for Orson claiming to have ad libbed it, and because it’s a great speech, brilliantly delivered (the throwawayness of ‘the cuckoo clock’).

You know what I think often gets overlooked? It’s Orson’s acting in this scene. Obviously it’s full of quotable lines (’the dead are happier dead’, ‘would you really care, old boy, if one of those dots stopped moving?’) and he delivers them in classic Orson style which isn’t over the top, or hammy, or scene stealing. It’s throwaway, conversational, distracted, which is actually what Orson is like in lots of his films. (see also: Charles Laughton, Bob Newton). And here is a quiet, conversational scene between two old old friends, and they are talking about not just how easy murder is, and how lucrative, but how easy it would be for one of them to kill the other, right now. And it’s all low key, and super undramatic, and it’s pretty fucking scary.

And Orson does this thing, in these gifs, where he switches from totally cold and matter-of-fact (when Holly’s looking away) to smililng and jovial (when Holly is looking at him). And that’s the point where you realise Harry Lime is at least a sociopath, and has no qualms about anything but his own skin, and he’s been acting his entire life.

#orson welles #the third man #joseph cotton #look I have a LOT of feels about this film ok #and about Orson #yeah I went to see this on the big screen yesterday for erm the fourth time and it is still one of the greatest things EVER #and yeah every time I watch it harry gets worse and calloway gets better #and that's a GOOD THING because harry lime syndrome is real and hard to cope with #my wee gifs #*4ff #*16 #*5 #*5i

Roger Livesey as Dr Frank Reeves, defending Peter Carter (David Niven) in A Matter of Life and Death [Powell & Pressburger, 1946]

#frank reeves #roger livesey #a matter of life and death #AMOLAD #look at me with my sensible text on a post #so in the delirious soup that is my brain the things that have been swimming around are:#hot ginger men with beards #(yes yes that IS a reference to jared)#good omens esp the loveliness of michael sheen #this being michael's fave film #and out popped FRANK REEVES #and then I went and giffed the black and white bit so you can't even see the loveliness of his gingeriness #but hey ho #RLT #I realised I've been shit at giffing the restored AMOLAD so here's a bit #my wee gifs #*4ff #*2 #*2i #honestly look at him this is the way he looks at ray massey his annoying opponent #like it's jedi handsiness you know he'd be what is personal spacing all over the place if they weren't on rocks a billion miles apart #FRANK REEVES IS MY IDEAL MAN #a tag that never goes out of date

Trevor Howard as Major “Calloway, not Callahan. I’m English, not Irish” in The Third Man [Carol Reed, 1949]

#aka one of my fave films evahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #trevor howard #the third man #ok the reason I giffed this #(apart from TREV)#was because my brain instantly went #LIKE SMILEY WITH THE SHIT BLOWN UP PASSPORT PHOTO OF KARLA IN THE HONORABLE SCHOOLBOY #that some idiot newbie thinks is control #and guillam is constantly worried about #my life has been taken over by JLC and I don't give a damn #also yeah I rewatched this for the billionth time for trev's birthday the other week #AND IT IS ALWAYS ALWAYS STILL FUCKING FANTASTIC #my wee gifs #*4ff

Greg your face your FAAAAAAAAAACE: Gentlemen’s Agreement edition

#gregory peck #gentlemen's agreement #there are flaws with this film but greg's face is NOT ONE OF THEM #I swear greg was contractually obliged to be in bed/in jammies in all his 40s films I am not complaining he does it so fucking well #despite the flaws it's ace because not just greg but tiny dean stockwell and awesome celeste holm and ace john garfield #one day I will do a gifset where greg ends up with the right person #(celeste or john depending on my mood)#also domestic!greg being dean stockwell's dad will never not be the hottest things #*6e #*6z #*6 #*4ff #my wee gifs

Happy Birthday Roger Livesey (25th June 1906 - 4th February 1976)

He was one of the rare actors that really listens to you - Wendy Hiller

I had seen Roger Livesey at the Old Vic and had been very impressed by this broad-shouldered, golden haired Viking…I vowed to myself that one day I would make Roger’s husky voice beloved all over the world - Michael Powell

His acting ability of course was well known to the profession and public alike; what, perhaps, was not so generally known was his generosity and kindness to the smaller fry - Kenneth More

I’m quite ready to continue my screen work. I enjoy acting for films. It is a different technique from the stage of course; but it fascinates me - Roger Livesey, in 1938