Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Step Up to the Mike



Consider the hunk, Mike Mazurki
A chunk of the beefiest jerky
Big lumbering lug
"type" cast as a thug
or lunkhead whose thinking was murky.



Mazurki is featured in the great drug induced
nightmare sequence from Murder, My Sweet(44), which you can watch on TCM, here


Top: Mazurki as the Dick Tracy villain, 'Splitface'; Bottom:
As Moose Malloy, in Murder My Sweet, with Dick Powell.
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2 comments:

  1. lichanosSeptember 17, 2010 at 8:23 AM

    Hi,

    Great movie, great scene, but the drug-nightmare is not what you're showing in this still. This is their first encounter in the office.

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  2. surly hackSeptember 20, 2010 at 11:23 AM

    That's true. I was referring to the film clip of the drug sequence that was used at the TCM site, which I linked to.
    I could have sworn that I used stills from the same sequence in a separate limerick posted elsewhere, but for the life of me I can't it.

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