This left-field approach also applies to the dialogue. He's a noisy, comic whirlwind, and he works well against Broderick's cunning, droll underplaying. As good as he is, Lane can't quite find the oily desperation that Zero Mostel brought to the film role or escape the shadow of Mostel's comic genius. Nonetheless, Lane's kind of high-amperage panache is in limited supply these days, and both he and Broderick deliver the mail. In that, there is gallantry as well as grace.
Death is the enemy of everyone .
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