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Funny story about watching this


I saw this during its original release and had taken my seat in the theater. Shortly before the movie began, four nuns came in and took the seats in the row in front of me! Needless to say, I was a little shocked at seeing a group of nuns at an R-rated movie. Since they seemed to be in their forties and fifties, I guess they probably all had crushes on Burt Lancaster in their younger days. When it got to the part where Lou (Lancaster) is explaining about why he doesn't like Atlantic City the way it was and he talks about the "nuns at the slot machines", I smiled and looked at the nuns: they all lowered their heads and giggled. So much for the stereotype of the "stuffy nun".



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Hi Tresix,

Thanks for sharing your funny story. That's what makes these discussion boards worthwhile.

The four nuns have probably seen Elmer Gantry (1960) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053793/. Here's a particularly cheesy performance of Lancaster in Elmer Gantry where he's appearing to act like Kirk Douglas: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&isl ist=false&id=19288767&m=19345375. Lancaster probably picked up a bit of Douglas's acting style in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050468/.

Like the four nuns, I have a bit of a soft spot for Lancaster. I'm going through his films at the moment. He's a great actor. He's put in some really good performances over the years. Just finished watching From Here to Eternity (1953) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/ featuring a very young and scrawny Frank Sinatra. I can easily imagine Lancaster chuckling under his breath when he gave his line in Atlantic City about Sinatra giving away hospital wings.

All in all, a very entertaining film.

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Not that long after seeing this, another theater had a double feature of "Enter the Dragon" and the Chuck Norris movie "An Eye for an Eye" and there was a nun there too. When I saw her, I thought "Maybe she's a Shaolin nun."



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