Which actor played the delusionally lonely black man? He was the elderly gentleman who always wanted to discuss the latest article he had read. His performance was heartbreaking, capturing the madness of loneliness in all its crippling sadness. I think he might also have had a small part in 'Kiss Me Deadly' (1955)
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shareHe really captured my heart. I don't think that delusion had anything to do with it, though.
Quite incidentally, Mr. Nazerman, I've just been reading a very remarkable book...Herbert Spencer's genesis of science. Yes, but then you probably know it well. It's a very good book. I- I particularly like his insistence that science is born of art, not the other way around. To me, this was refreshing, coming from a man that most modern thinkers called old-fashioned. Did any of your students think of that while you were at Leipzig?share
But Spencer didn't come up with anything very new, really. Pythagoras, an artist at heart and a great lover of music, made the discovery that the pitch of sound depends upon the length of the vibrating string. That was six centuries before Christ.
I... I, uh...from time to time, I like to drop in here because, Mr. Nazerman, a man gets hungry for talk. Good talk.
Agreed, he simply wanted to have an intelligent conversation with someone who would listen. It seemed that he only ever came to the shop to talk, and had nothing to pawn.
I will never ever forget this scene, for its raw portrayal of a man reaching out for a listener or a friend and being cruelly turned away.
It's Juano Hernandez. Catch him in a bigger role as John Garfield's mate in another classic "The Breaking Point" (1950)
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