Ed Begley

Rating: 9/10 (30 August 2009)

I agreed with the vast majority of the remarks made in the critiques of this great movie - I think you are on safe ground when you call this film a 'classic'.
It has always been a source of surprise to me that Henry Fonda had to wait until he was almost dead before the Academy Award voters finally got the wool out of their collective heads and gave him the Oscar he had deserved for 30 years.
Fonda is the only real 'star' out of this movie but I have always been a fan of Jack Warden - a really excellent supporting character actor.
E. G. Marshall is another of my favourite support actors - finishing his career in big time movies with an excellent cameo in 'Absolute Power' - the only David Baldacci book to successfully translate to big screen, thanks to Marshall and the excellent Gene Hackman.
None of the reviewers mention much about Ed Begley - not the greatest of actors but good in this and also in 'Million Dollar Brain' playing a megalomaniac with KKK overtones.