I couldn't help but notice toward the end of this film there are two really great and realistic-looking fight scenes (with the exception of one obvious missed punch). One in the apartment, and the other in the subway.
For it's time, I thought these violent episodes were quite jarring in how real they looked. I was actually taken aback.
Yes, Richard Kiley certainly knocked Jean Peters around quite realistically. It really looked like he slammed her head into things. That poor woman took several beatings in this movie quite well; what a trooper!
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Another great one from an older film is the bar fight scene in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
shareYes, especially the fight scene with Kiley and Jean Peters. I was also shocked at how violent it was for 1953; you didn't see a man really beating the tar out of a woman much (if ever) in movies of that era. And the fact that it was done in one unbroken take so you knew it wasn't done with stunt doubles certainly upped the ante. It looks like Jean Peters really went head-first into the lamps and furniture a couple of times. Trooper indeed.
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