Jack palance

Jack Palance

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The shift in sensibility that darkened and reoriented the Hollywood western when, tentatively at first, it entered its ‘psychological’ phase in the 1940s can be illustrated by contrasting two images of John Wayne – from Stagecoach (1939) and The Searchers (1956) – which are separated by 17 years and a cataclysmic era in American life.

Over the years, some Academy Award recipients have gone down in history for their strange comments, hysterics, awkward silences, and odd behavior.

THE PROFESSIONALS (1965) - The wife (Claudia Cardinale) of an American businessman is kidnapped & taken into Mexico by bandit leader (Jack Palance) & his gang - Produced & Directed by Richard Brooks - Columbia Pictures - Publicity Still.

Jack Palance as Curly

JACK PALANCE

Jack Palance