And who mourns for James Craig? It's the only movie I've ever seen him in (I think).
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Well, if you haven't seen THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER (ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY), that is Craig's best picture. He's also very good in RKO's VALLEY OF THE SUN with Lucille Ball and Cedric Hardwicke.
Universal had big ideas for him, apparently, because they gave him prominent poster credit on BLACK FRIDAY (1940), even though he only had a small role as an unnamed reporter.
He later went on to star in potboilers like THE CYCLOPS.
Oh my another Chiller Theatre or whatever staple that I haven't seen in over fifty years. The mind's eye still sees Gloria Talbot and Lon Chaney (something about him discovering uranium's in my ear too) but Mr. Craig? Not a peep. But I do remember him and Mickey in The Strip playing roles positively diametrically opposed to their Spangler and Homer. Not to mention another wonderful benign part in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes.
The library scene. Little Ulysses and sweet unassuming Lionel. And the astonishing dignity of the librarian who dignified them in return. Pure Americana.
Ape-ricots. A now teen-age Alfalfa explaining in earnest there was nothing like them. And the old man, nothing like the image they'd created, at the window taking in the scene. Such warmth. Again, pure Americana.
