Favorite Tough Guys

[Phat Mack]

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.

[ericd]

Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man.

[John Cole]

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.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Charles Bronson and it isn't close.

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

[andyfox]

Is it safe?

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

[andyfox]

Gene Hackman in Unforgiven.

Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

Dennis Farina in Get Shorty.

Robert Shaw in Jaws.

Humphrey Bogart in anything.

[andyfox]

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

[astroglide]

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

[Toro]

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

[scotnt73]

clint eastwood in anything