Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

Alda plays a bad guy

389 views
Skip to first unread message

deb...@comcast.net

unread,
Sep 18, 2005, 12:24:42 PM9/18/05
to
Anyone here ever seen the movie "Whispers in the Dark" (1992)? It's one
of the few times Alan Alda plays a bad guy (though I suppose his Sen.
Brewster in "The Aviator" was pretty rotten)

tan...@bellsouth.net

unread,
Sep 18, 2005, 2:27:46 PM9/18/05
to
Also in "Murder At 1600"....really hurt me to see him as a bad guy

Cyn

--

***********************************************
"Always tell them the truth, it's the one thing they'll never believe."
Andy Sipowitz - NYPD Blue

<deb...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1127060682.0...@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

PAUL GADZIKOWSKI

unread,
Sep 19, 2005, 7:03:01 AM9/19/05
to
I've rarely seen him *fail* to play a bad guy since M*A*S*H ended (of
course I've far from caught everything he's done). I once saw an article -
it was when he was in the water-rafting movie on HBO, which I didn't see -
in which his comments suggested he was consciously playing against type
after having been pegged as a nice guy for his years on M*A*S*H.


Paul Gadzikowski, scar...@iglou.com since 1995
http://members.iglou.com/scarfman/new.htm Fanfiction stories and cartoons.
http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com New cartoons daily.

"I really think you should take a look at the other battlestar."

shandarose

unread,
Sep 19, 2005, 9:59:57 AM9/19/05
to
oooh what a scary movie!!! I've only seen it twice (and I have it on tape)
.. but it spooks me out. Also, the one where he plays someone possessed
- can't think of the name of it off-hand, but it was made in 1972 I
believe.

Of course Murder at 1600 is another good baddie Alan Alda movie!


PAUL GADZIKOWSKI

unread,
Sep 20, 2005, 6:45:14 AM9/20/05
to
shandarose <shand...@aol.com> wrote:
: oooh what a scary movie!!! I've only seen it twice (and I have it on tape)

: .. but it spooks me out. Also, the one where he plays someone possessed
: - can't think of the name of it off-hand, but it was made in 1972 I
: believe.

'The Mephisto Waltz'.

shandarose

unread,
Sep 20, 2005, 1:12:04 PM9/20/05
to
*The Mephisto Waltz*

thanks, Paul (the server I'm on here doesn't let me quote others' posts)

Peter Morris

unread,
Oct 2, 2005, 10:29:22 PM10/2/05
to

<deb...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1127060682.0...@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Anyone here ever seen the movie "Whispers in the Dark" (1992)? It's one
> of the few times Alan Alda plays a bad guy (though I suppose his Sen.
> Brewster in "The Aviator" was pretty rotten)


Kill Me If You Can - somewhat ambiguous if he's a ggod guy or not.
He's a convicted serial rapist,. though he claims to be innocent. Played
sympathetically.


CaptJosh

unread,
Oct 3, 2005, 7:57:22 AM10/3/05
to

He also plays a bad guy in "Murder on 1600", IIRC...

--
CaptJosh

There are only 10 kinds of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.

0 new messages