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This pushover character is an outlier in Douglass filmography; in future roles, he would prove unassailable.
But his work in noir is what I find particularly entrancing.
YetAce in the Holetowers over the rest of these for what it reveals about Douglas and his star power.
Douglas plays Chuck with unmatched intensity.
He trudges, snaps, and crackles with an inner fire you know will soon consume him.
I could do wonders with your dismembered body, he purrs.
Through their interactions, the movies commentary on masculinity snakes its way up to the surface.
Like Chuck, Lorraine is selfish and self-centered.
Momentum builds toward a blistering scene between the two.
He finds this unloving wife repugnant.
His grip begins to tighten around her throat.
I lament the fact that noir is a remnant of a different kind of Hollywood.
Though noir persists,its influence has atrophied.
One cant talk about Douglas today without wrestling with the darker side of his image as an icon.
No one has gone on the record about Douglas regarding these crimes.
We will probably never know for certain how or if Douglas was involved in Woods life.
The image Douglas projected onscreen and off of undaunted power and blustering machismo is slowly going out of fashion.
