Favorite Tough Guys
 

I watched two movies adapted from the same book, Point Blank with Lee Marvin and Payback with Mel Gibson. When I watched Gibson kill a half dozen or so people in the the street, I said, OK. But when I watched Marvin beat up that guy behind the stage in the night club, I flinched. I have to go with Lee Marvin.

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man.

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

One scene in The Searchers. John Wayne, hoping to find Lucy, sees two imbelic girls who had been captured by Comanches. I believe he says, "They ain't white" as the camera zooms in to capture his expression. Absolutely chilling--every time.

Richard Widmark beating up the woman in Pickup on South Street.

Ellen Burstyn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Of course, none of these compare to some I've met in real life.

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

Charles Bronson and it isn't close.

The way he posthumously 86's Jan Michael Vincent in The Mechanic is classic.

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

Is it safe?

A Nazi dentist: talk about a nightmare. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

Gene Hackman in Unforgiven.

Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

Dennis Farina in Get Shorty.

Robert Shaw in Jaws.

Humphrey Bogart in anything.

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

He was great in Once Upon a Time in America as the good guy. But still a tough guy.

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

hackman whines about it not being fair when he dies...

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

Clint Eastwood in all the "Spagetti Westerns". He wasn't too shabby in the Dirty Harry movies either.

Re: Favorite Tough Guys
 

clint eastwood in anything