Ladd's wrist?

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onepotato2 — 16 years ago(August 05, 2009 05:56 PM)

was actually like that, or was it made-up for the movie?

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Jason_Radley — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 09:49 AM)

Good question. Here's mine: was Ladd that small or was it just made-up for the movie?

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athomed — 14 years ago(December 12, 2011 05:19 PM)

His wrist was made that way for the movie.
Alan Ladd was 5'6". Certainly on the short side. It wasn't too much out of the ordinary for his age when the average height was more in the 5'8-5'9" range. It's not as though he could help his genes anyway.

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dwhw — 13 years ago(May 19, 2012 09:27 AM)

In the Graham Greene story upon which this movie is based, Raven's deformity was that he was a "harelip." Naturally, as this movie was Alan Ladd's big star-making vehicle, they had to come up with some physical disfigurement whereby he could still retain his good-looks. Thus, the deformed wrist.
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Noir-It-All — 12 years ago(August 17, 2013 01:22 AM)

/It's not as though he could help his genes anyway./
His malnourished childhood may have contributed to his short stature.
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liscarkat-2 — 11 years ago(October 06, 2014 12:55 PM)

"His malnourished childhood"
Ladd's or Raven's?

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Noir-It-All — 11 years ago(October 06, 2014 02:24 PM)

Alan Ladd's. Raven's didn't sound much better.