No, gary, I was just in a serious mood. My apologies. But think how many people say you can't dance or play ball or go to the movies because of some self-imagined (or self-invented) religious stricture.
Totally different (albeit WWE) subject: I was just reading the trivia entries and found one where it's said that the director, Edward Bernds, wanted Sterling Hayden, then Frank Lovejoy, for the lead in this film, but that producer Richard Heermance went with Hugh Marlowe because he only asked a quarter of what the others demanded (which sounds like very little). But it then says that Bernds claimed that throughout the shooting Marlowe was often lazy and unprepared. If so, I see no hint of that whatsoever in his performance, and from what I know that would be uncharacteristic of Marlowe. Besides, it's well known that Bernds was very full of himself and often claimed things about himself, his movies, their casts and crew that, to put it mildly, bore little relation to the truth and were largely exercises in self-aggrandizement.
But I was very disappointed to read this stuff!
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