Alas, I'd rather not. Sad that; even when he was hissing his way through material beneath him, he was always peculiarly watchable. Few actors have ever been able to upstage ("up-screen"?) Jack Nicholson, but Palance is one of the handful that did. His scene-chewing bits in Batman are still more firmly fixed in my memory than Nicholson's supposed tour-de-force. It may be time to watch Shane again.
FOLLOW-UP: Just read someone describing Mr Palance as "Chuck Norris before Chuck Norris was Chuck Norris." Really, he was Christopher Walken--- and he HAD more cowbell.
AFTER-THOUGHT: Alternate answer to above: He was also Harvey Keitel, without (mercifully) the nudity.
AFTER-AFTER-THOUGHT: A movie they should have made: Palance and Lawrence Tierney as aging gangsters trying to finish each other off. Now that I would have paid handsomely to see.
FOLLOW-UP: Just read someone describing Mr Palance as "Chuck Norris before Chuck Norris was Chuck Norris." Really, he was Christopher Walken--- and he HAD more cowbell.
AFTER-THOUGHT: Alternate answer to above: He was also Harvey Keitel, without (mercifully) the nudity.
AFTER-AFTER-THOUGHT: A movie they should have made: Palance and Lawrence Tierney as aging gangsters trying to finish each other off. Now that I would have paid handsomely to see.
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