“Cropdusters don’t wave guns.”
Maybe Walter Matthau isn’t a name with which you’re familiar. Dennis the Menace probably is. Before Matthau claimed all the grandpa roles like the one on Dennis, he was already known as a guy in Hollywood who could treat dialogues with just the right touch of comedic undertoning, which isn’t much unlike Harry Callahan, come to think of it. After first bringing us Dirty Harry, Don Siegel takes his old broom and makes the sweep again, walking on familiar ground in this director/actor collab. The rigid comedian Matthau plays “one man against the mafia,” and drives the comedy on home as he (nearly) takes flight in a cropduster’s airplane.
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