Sentences with phrase «huckster played»
The chumps in this movie are the feds, the corporate weasels, the loud self - promoters, represented by a TV huckster played in appropriately grating fashion by Seth MacFarlane.
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Here, our wily superspy is actually a cheery huckster played by Leonardo DiCaprio who attempts to fraud his way to infamy as an outlet for his chronic daddy issues.
Not exact matches
He played supporting roles in films like The Hucksters (1946), The Tanks are Coming (1951), and Kronos (1957), and directed the 1959 Tommy Noonan / Pete Marshall vehicle The Rookies.
In this musical, Dan Dailey plays a medicine show huckster who becomes the reluctant guardian of orphanage escapee Chet Allen.
The Hucksters (1947) offers Gable as a veteran advertising man back from the war and making a play to break back in to Madison Avenue.
He draws the majority of the pic's laughs, playing wonderfully off Hamm's debonair huckster.
If the performance feels too big — if you're wondering about the location of the second balcony he seems to be playing to — perhaps that's because everything about this movie feels too big, starting with its depiction of Barnum as a sort of huckster saint whose freak - show circus was a family - like celebration of humanity and diversity.