Cagney or Eddie G.?
Pepe Dominguez
12-12-2006, 07:35
One of the longest standing arguments in the history of popular movies: who was the greatest cinematic thug, Jimmy Cagney or Edward G. Robinson?
http://www.alohacriticon.com/images/elcriticonfotos/edwardgrobinsonup.jpg
or
http://www.dur.ac.uk/i.a.stewart/Collage/cagney.jpeg
Poll is coming, so vote, or I'll assault you with a grapefruit. ;)
Saint-Newly
12-12-2006, 07:39
Aww, I thought you meant Cagney from Cagney and Lacey. She'd get my vote!
Pepe Dominguez
12-12-2006, 07:42
Aww, I thought you meant Cagney from Cagney and Lacey. She'd get my vote!
Nah, this is much better! Also, pictures are fixed, I believe. :)
Cannot think of a name
12-12-2006, 07:45
Edward G. was in the best movie title ever. (http://www.movieposter.com/poster/b70-9839/Amazing_Dr_Clitterhouse.html)
Saint-Newly
12-12-2006, 07:47
Well, Eddie boy got my vote, as he looks like a particularly furious Scott Tracy.
Pepe Dominguez
12-12-2006, 07:56
Well, Eddie boy got my vote, as he looks like a particularly furious Scott Tracy.
Haven't heard of him, what's he been in? In any case, EGR easly gets my vote for greatest cigar-chomping villian. :p
http://www.libertaddigital.com/fotos/noticias/edwardgrobinson.jpg
Saint-Newly
12-12-2006, 07:58
Haven't heard of him, what's he been in?
He was one of the puppet characters from Thunderbirds.
http://www.shanerimmer.com/images/sr_scott2.jpg
Pepe Dominguez
12-12-2006, 08:03
He was one of the puppet characters from Thunderbirds.
Nice. There does seem to be a resemblance. :)
Farnhamia
12-12-2006, 15:52
Have to go with Cagney. "Top o' the world, Ma!"
The Black Forrest
12-12-2006, 16:18
Jimmy Cagney in "The Public Enemy"
The grapefruit scene was priceless!
Good thing he and Mae Clarke were great friends! :)
Demented Hamsters
12-12-2006, 16:48
Those pictures in the OP:
Robinson looks too baby-faced to be threatening. You just want to pinch his chubby cheeks and say, "Who's a naughty boy, then?"
Cagney looks scary at first, but then you notice his forehead. Man, shaved he could have been a dead ringer for the Mekon!
Baby-face vs Mekon.
hmmm....
I call a tie.
Ashmoria
12-12-2006, 18:07
robinson
cagney had too much physical grace to ever truly come across as a thug. bad bad man but not a thug.
Curious Inquiry
12-12-2006, 18:31
Didn't Cagney play Santa Claus once? What kinda thug is that? Gotta go with Edward.