Garner’s favorite role of his career was Lieutenant Commander - TopicsExpress



          

Garner’s favorite role of his career was Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison, an admiral’s “dog robber” (or scrounger) in London during World War II in The Americanization of Emily (1964). Madison is content to serve well behind the lines, not because he’s actually cowardly but because he’s already lost a brother at Anzio and has a younger brother full of the mythology of war who is aching to join up — experiences that have caused him to rethink what war really is. The film was written by Paddy Chayefsky, who was wounded by a land mine in 1945 while on patrol near Aachen, Germany, directed by Arthur Hiller, who’d served as a bomber navigator with the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII, and also starred Melvyn Douglas, who served in both World War I and II. It reflected Garner’s own distaste for the glorification of violence. alan/2014/07/20/james-garner-an-appreciation-of-a-liberal/
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:12:04 +0000

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