![]() Now in fairness there is nothing wrong about a bit of lawyer showboating, in fact the best courtroom movies tend to have some sort of showboating in them but "Shadow of a Doubt" feels like it is only about the showboating with the actual crime story being less important. Of course you wonder whether being a drunk means he is also a patsy in all this. And of course as an old flame the expected scenes surrounding the spark between them appear but are so ridiculously over the top with one culminating with a romp on a desk near the chalk outline of her dead husband being so bad it is laughable.īut then we also have the trouble that here we have a court case which is supposedly about Charley trying to get Angel off but then ends up all about the character of Charley, his almost arrogance in court whilst also the DA's defamation of character as he makes out he is an unfit lawyer. When Charley walks into his office and finds Robin standing there looking out of his window with a cigarette in hand it is like a femme fatale character from a 1940s film-noir has been dumped into a 90s movie. This poster for Suzanne was scanned from an original in the Northernstars Collection.Part of the trouble with "Shadow of a Doubt" is the simple fact it is over the top from the word go and feels incredibly forced. Spearfield’s Daughter (mini-series, 1986) The Execution of Raymond Graham (TV-1985)ĭistant Drumming: A North of 60 Mystery (TV-2005) Like many people from the Canadian Players, he ended up in Stratford, eventually acting there for ten seasons. He was then hired by the Crest Theater and later joined the Canadian Players, touring Shakespeare up and down the East Coast of the United States. ![]() Trained as a stage actor, Pogue took individual training with teachers and coaches in Toronto, as well as learning on stage as an amateur actor. ![]() Ken Pogue pictured as Beautiful Joe in a 2000 publicity still. ![]()
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