#jack elam

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Jack Elam (November 13, 1920 – October 20, 2003)

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Cantinflas (Around the World in 80 Days, Ahí está el detalle, Ni Sangre, ni Arena)—OH BOY I GET TO TALK ABOUT CANTINFLAS!! Honestly, I’m not the most qualified to even be talking about him: he was famously a king of wordplay, but Spanish is my second language so I always feel like I’m missing some of the jokes…..but even so he is so SO funny it’s like unbelievable. Ok so also. One movie I can talk confidently about is him in around the world in 80 days, which i have watched so many times and he just rocks. Like. ROCKS. Here he is on his dumb little bike [included below the cut]. This is how we meet him in th movie and I think they should have just put the words “SCRUNGLY” across the scene.He also does little tricks, wears his dumb little shoes, has some kind of weird romantic thing going on with David niven…..it makes me so sad we dont have even more movies from him because honestly his whole thing (esp in 80 days with his silly trousers) is just Gender.  

Jack Elam (Kansas City Confidential, Once Upon a Time In the West)—The MOST character actor he's always playing weirdos. In Kansas City Confidential he gets slapped senseless and thrown around like a rag doll and he spends most of his limited screen time anxiously lighting one cigarette butt with another cigarette butt and also being covered in sweat. In Once Upon a Time in the West he gets terrorized by a fly.

Who is the scrungliest little guy?

Cantinflas

Jack Elam

Voting ended onOct 4, 2024

This is round 1 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Cantinflas:

charlie chaplin once called him the greatest comedian alive

Jack Elam:

One of the A+ henchmen of gang movies and westerns. Usually paired with Claude Atkin (another contender for the scrungle-crown), he's made a career out of being a weird looking dude that plays bad guys. Jack Elam probably says it best himself: "The heavy today is usually not my kind of guy. In the old days, Rory Calhoun was the hero because he was the hero and I was the heavy because I was the heavy - and nobody cared what my problem was. And I didn't either. I robbed the bank because I wanted the money. I've played all kinds of weirdos but I've never done the quiet, sick type. I never had a problem - other than the fact I was just bad."

From 32:56 to 36:52 of this (it's the whole movie) [link]

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🎥 1954: Vera Cruz starring Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, George Macready, Denise Darcel, Sara Montiel, Cesar Romero, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson and Jack Elam.

• After the American Civil War in 1866, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane (Cooper) meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin (Lancaster) and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian (Macready) and the Marquis Henri de Labordere (Romero) to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre (Darcel) to the harbor of Vera Cruz.

Ben and Erin find that the stagecoach is transporting $3,000,000.00 in U.S. gold hidden below the seat and they scheme to steal it. Along their journey, betrayals and incidents happen changing their initial intentions. (United Artists)

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Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

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(via Film Noir Photos: Dance Hall Demoiselles: Diane Sayer)

with Jack Elam in "Dakotas: A Nice Girl from Goliath" (1963-TV)

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Jack Elam writes a letter

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Kansas City Confidential (1952, dir. Phil Karlson)

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