Horrendous Performance by a Very Good Actor - Walter Huston (Spoilers)
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — And Then There Were None
HarlowMGM — 9 years ago(April 19, 2016 02:09 PM)
Walter Huston really chews the scenery in this film, mugging and acting like someone out of a 19th century stage melodrama while everyone else in the film acts in a more straightforward, natural way.
I think it was deliberate to make the audience presume he was the killer and turn thoughts away from the other more obvious suspect
It's embarrassing to see an actor as talented as Huston ham it up this bad. -
ccoutroulos — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 09:27 AM)
I agree! My guess is that he didn't take this project very seriously. Perhaps he only did it because he was forced to and took out his resentment with a deliberately hammy performance.
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