Film Screening: The Outfit @ Library of Congress
July 5, 2008 by Svetlana 
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| July 10, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
free
details here: http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pickford/pickford-current.html
The Oufit (MGM, 1974). Dir John Flynn. Wrt Flynn, based on the novel by Richard Stark. With Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey, Richard Jaeckel, Sheree North. (103 min, Metrocolor, 35mm)
Timothy Agoglia Carey (1929-1994) was one of the great American character actors, an indescribable original on and off screen. He was known to go to unusual lengths to get a role. Hoping for a part in Prince Valiant, he donned medieval robes and climbed a fence to brandish a knife at Henry Hathaway. At a casting call for The Godfather, he shot blanks at Francis Ford Coppola, who returned fire with glee. Carey didn’t get either of those parts, though Coppola kept trying to hire him anyway. Not satisfied with chewing somebody else’s scenery, Carey directed himself in the notorious underground film The World’s Greatest Sinner, and upon his death was working on a stage production of a play he called “The Insect Trainer,” a salute to the irrepressible creative energy of flatulence.
Carey was best known for supporting roles in Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing and Paths of Glory. The Outfit reunites him with two fellow co-stars from The Killing, Marie Windsor and Elisha Cook. Robert Duvall stars as an ex-con set to avenge his brother’s death at the hands of gangsters (led by Robert Ryan, in his penultimate role). (PP)
