Playing Pudding (and...)

[Tom Stanton]

At 08:31 PM 5/10/97 +0000, Umberto Rossi wrote:
>Ok, in the end it all depends on what is your idea of Pudding. 
>[snip] As for O'Toole, couldn't work.  His speciality is masochism
>(see Lawrence of Arabia), not coprofagy.

Physically O'Toole's not the type. I always saw Pudding as
a corpulent white haired buffoon. Hitchcock or Charles Laughton
for me.

>Personally, I'm thinking of an aged, more bitter, more serious John 
>Cleese.

He'd be better at Pirate Prentice, IMHO

>But who should play Captain Blicero, then?

An actor who specializes in masochism (Peter O'Toole?). IMHO
I'd pick Jeremy Irons or the actor (name?!) who played Richard III 
in the more recent version set in pre-WW2. Blicero was always a 
charicature of the ultimate Nazi in my eyes, more like a cartoon 
Nazi than a human actor...