John Gallagher: Self
Quotes
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John Gallagher : Walsh had a most congenial home at Warner Brothers. It was a flawlessly run factory. He'd finish a picture on Friday, he'd start a new one on Monday. He made "High Sierra", "The Roaring Twenties", "Silver River", "Cheyenne", women's pictures, melodramas like "The Man I Love".
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John Gallagher : Pre-code Walsh is simply delicious. Entertaining, lusty, bawdy. Some of his best work. A picture like, "Wild Girl", "Sailor's Luck".
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John Gallagher : In Flynn, he found his most sympathetic actor. Just as Ford had Wayne, Scorsese has De Niro, Walsh and Flynn really jive.
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John Gallagher : [referring to Cagney's performance in "White Heat"] This was not a matter of he will go to prison and be rehabilitated. No. He is going to be in a cage, boiling, until he explodes - which he does. And comes out that much worse. He is the atomic bomb. Absolutely.
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John Gallagher : *Nothing* prepared anyone for the intensity of "White Heat"... This is about, really, the violent id. What has been buried in crime movies forever, suddenly laid totally bare and there's not social excuse. There's nothing. This guy is insane... And that was the difference... And we'd never seen that before.
