Classic!!

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2005)

This film is an absolute masterpiece. No fancy stuff, one room and 12 marvelous performances. The script is awesome and Fonda (Davis) is the coolest character I've ever seen on screen, cooler even than A Maverick or A Corleone or a Dirty Harry. I suppose it's all been said already about this film....My number 2 favorite Film ever, after The Good, bad the ugly. Lee J Cobb I suppose was the next most important character and it seemed like a battle between him and Fonda. I think Fonda's coolest and classiest part was when he showed that even after Cobb had threatened to kill him and all the hostility Cobb showed him throughout, he still offered Cobbs coat at the end. He didn't bear a grudge, cool right to the end. Really this film was about how people from different back rounds and professions interact when placed on an equal footing.