... Rains is able to make the character appealing and actually garner sympathy from the audience. Masterful acting and script in this Hitchcock masterpiece...
Yes, he does manage to make the character AMAZINGLY sympathetic throughout the entire film, and even pitiful at the conclusion...the audience knowing full well what a cold blooded murderer he is.
It's an astonishing performance and all the more praiseworthy knowing this is the same actor who had played the delightful Capt. Renault in Casablanca just a few years earlier.
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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
