#robert ryan

[rhera]

"You don't know what it means… like I do… to find myself in the… middle of a room… the middle of a busy street… or in some house I'm working in. A thing like that happens, I wonder where I am… what I'm doing. And sometimes I'm… I'm looking down at someone… somebody that's been hurt. And they've been hurt very badly. And I wonder if I've done it, if what I'm looking at is real or, it's only in my mind."

BEWARE, MY LOVELY 1952, dir. Harry Horner

[cressus]

That glance would follow the cheerful sea-Hyperion with a settled meditative and melancholy expression, his eyes strangely suffused with incipient feverish tears. Then would Claggart look like the man of sorrows. Yes, and sometimes the melancholy expression would have in it a touch of soft yearning, as if Claggart could even have loved Billy but for fate and ban. But this was an evanescence, and quickly repented of, as it were, by an immitigable look, pinching and shrivelling the visage into the momentary semblance of a wrinkled walnut.

ROBERT RYAN AND TERENCE STAMP IN PETER USTINOV'S "BILLY BUDD" (1962)

[citizenscreen]

Robert Ryan and Harry Belafonte playing stickball behind the scenes of ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (Robert Wise, 1959)

[poppingmary]

Robert Ryan and Nita Talbot in “On Dangerous Ground” - 1951

[womansfilm]

On Dangerous Ground (1951) / Beware, My Lovely (1952)

[toughtalkers]

📽 1949: The Woman on Pier 13 is an American film noir drama. Starring Laraine Day, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Janis Carter and Thomas Gomez.

• Brad Collins (Ryan), a San Francisco shipping executive, has recently married Nan Lowry (Day) after a whirlwind one-week courtship. During their honeymoon the couple meet Christine Norman (Carter), an old flame of Brad's whom Nan immediately dislikes.

Brad had once been a dockworker in New York, but rose from the San Francisco waterfront to become a respected shipping firm vice president, prized for his experience on both side of the trade. As a result, he becomes the target of a Communist cell led by Vanning (Gomez) who orders an alleged FBI informer drowned in front of him to demonstrate the stakes. After threatening to reveal Brad's real name - Frank Johnson - and his potential responsibility for a murder as a U.S. Communist party strongarm during the Depression, Vanning orders him to sabotage labor negotiations in the Bay Area shipping industry by resisting union demands in a labor dispute. (RKO Pictures)

[davidhudson]

Robert Ryan, November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973.

Robert Wise’s The Set-Up (1949).

[guy60660]

Robert Ryan