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Juggernaut, Cassandra Crossing, Orca


So, so, so very sorry, all diehard Richard Harris fans, but my favorite Harris film, largely because of him, is Cassandra Crossing, often critiqued as one of the worst movies ever (we should add, NOT because of him).

I'm watching Juggernaut now for the first time and I can't help but compare his performances at this time. Of the three movies I've named, Cassandra was truly his calmest, for whatever reason (because he was working opposite Sophia, perhaps?)

HIs irritability in Juggernaut just seems out-of-place to me, drinking after his comrade was killed and throwing the bottle at Sharif. I suspect had he access to Lanchaster in Cassandra, he wouldn't have wasted time shooting at him. He just seemed incredibly above it all to me.

Maybe by the time of Cassandra and Orca, both situations more outlandish than Juggernaut, he was winding down?

And in listening to him in Juggernaut, I can't help but notice he and Tom Baker sound virtually the same, nevermind one is Irish and the other is English. They could have read every other line and they would have been near-identical.

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