This movie was hard to watch, since most of it is in a room full of people where Sinatra easily out-preforms the others. I just wish he had put a bullet in the kid's head. I was glad that Sinatra didnt die with that dumb electric metal table bit. That would have been a cheesy way to kill him off, but it was an acceptable death for a goon.
shareLot of people seem to wish Pidge had died when he was the bravest one of them all. I guess you cowards just stick together like peanut butter on the roof of a mouth. I wish he had gotten electrocuted but I'm glad Ellen finally realized what Tod and Peter were trying to tell her and let the goon have it.
shareI am so sick and tired of insensitive, depraved idiots like yourself who wish for the child in this movie to be shot!
You and them should be ashamed of yourselves; and I suspect that you all have very sick minds!
I believe that you and the other demon-possessed evil minded,
entities on this board who wish such a horrendous thing on a child has potential to do something heinous!
In the Bible, Jesus says in Matthew 12th chapter, and the 34th verse:
"For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
Maybe someone should keep a cautious eye on you!!
"OOO...I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
Amen!!
shareum i would just like to put my 2cents worth in...
im not sure if you're going on about the actor or the character itself. if you're talking about the actor, then im pretty sure the posters didnt mean that the actual kid should die. thats pretty harsh.
but if you meant the character, then please ignore the earlier paragraph and read on.
i was annoyed by the blasted kid too. irked me to no end. what was that one word he kept using over and over....o my gosh yes, 'you stink!' (ok 2 words). ug. i thought that the kid wasn't very well played at all. as a viewer, i felt no connection with him, and i plainly saw him as a distraction from the rest of the movie. as a professional movie critic, i must say that viewers felt nothing for the kid, and thus many would not care if he lived or died. of course, the rest would be shocked that they killed off a kid, and i surmise that those who already wished the kid dead, upon viewing it would be shocked that it actually happened, but then rally themselves and cheer.
i know i would.
the kid, 'pige' (was his nickname ever explained? perhaps i missed it...) and the patriotic rent-a-cop were both annoying. the rest of the cast did their job well enough, and were passable as victims and goons. however, every time the two aforementioned characters opened their mouths, i rolled my eyes at what was bound to come.
of course, what i seem to find that everyone can agree on, is that sinatra was GREAT in this film. i loved seeing him as a bad guy, and he carried it well.
and that was just my 2cents worth. well, more than a dollar...i did go on for rather long eh?
Most films of the era that found kids in prominent roles resulted in those kids being quite irksome -- it's the time, place and style of film-making, although Suddenly was contradictory in terms of what was shown on screen in regards to many pictures of the mid-fifties i.e. the John Baron character was hugely despicable with ZERO redeeming qualities. Compare him to, say, Duke Mantee from The Petrified Forest. Mantee was more accomodating than Baron, whose only charitable act was to pull Stirling Hayden's character's broken arm into place, and probably just because it would hurt like hell.
The kid, the mother, grandfather, even the cop, are/were all idealised versions of who they were -- whiter-than-white and all-American, so to speak. Baron was stark in contrast, and, even though the kid was a pesky one, maybe this was required or, in fact, the point. Maybe if the film was made by a more prolific studio, the above could have been ironed out, but would that have been at the expense of Baron being so vile? I don't know, but I do think this is a splendid film and Sinatra was marvellous -- I'd even go so far to say that it was almost on a par with The Petrified Forest and The Desperate Hours, the latter, benefitting hugely by its budget.
I would have liked to see Sinatra play an out-and-out villain again, especially as he developed as an actor and could hand-pick roles.
NOW TARZAN MAKE WAR!
I aint shamed to admit that I wanted somebody to punch Pidge right in the mouth!!!
When someone is holding your family hostage with guns, he needed to shut up the hellz up not make the situation worse by being a brat.
Come on, admit it, you gave a lil chuckle when Rhoda got toasted by lighting in The Bad Seed!!!!
I even liked the tongue n cheek ending of The Bad Seed when "Rhoda" got the spanking!!
Patty McCormack owned that role as Rhoda!!!
Evil lil shintz!!!
Many people wished the annoying kid from "Shane" would die too and they got their wish, but only after he grew up into a surprisingly attractive, unannoying man, killed in a van accident en route to seeing his newborn baby.
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