54 thoughts on “Anthony Quinn Movies”

1. What a detailed conversation about Anthony Quinn between Steve and Bob. Glad Bob shared such great thoughts on Quinn after seeing Steve’s video. He has one of the largest pages in our database. Great information…that was both fun and informative. And now I go to bed….long day tomorrow (but it is already tomorrow)..lol.

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2. TONY QUINN PART ONE
   Anthony graduated from early supporting roles to stardom but I always regarded him as mainly Bottom of A List/Top of B List among Hollywood stars in that if there were other prominent players in his films such as Kirk Douglas, Widmark, Fonda and Peck Tony’s role and billing would usually be subordinate.

   However he was a terrific actor and some movie historians have admired his extensive range and opined that he was wasted inn those early supporting roles as in Power’s The Black Swan and Cooper’s The Plainsman and Blowing Wild.

   Tony himself though seemed quite happy, expressing great satisfaction with the wealth that his Hollywood career brought him. I enjoyed many of his performances – for example off the top of my head his “big rancher who owned the town” Craig Belden in 1959’s Last Train from Gun Hill with Kirk and his Tom Morgan, embittered crippled sidekick of Fonda’s in Warlock the same year.

   Best POSTERS in 50-26 in your video are in my opinion Raunchy ones for Attila the Hun and Heller in Pink Tights. The Mumbler is Dead, The Passage, Revenge, 1st one for Portrait in Black, two great ones for Hunchback of Notre-Dame, all foreign language ones for Lost Command and Magnificent Matador. The Savage Innocents and Sinbad the Sailor- [Derryabar! Derryabar! The Paradise Island of Derryabar! [ah nostalgia!]

   All STILLS covered in Part 2

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   1. Apologies my Part One Quinn covered entries 55-28 and not 50-26

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      1. Tony Quinn played many tough, villainous and unsympathetic characters during the course of his long 65 year career but he could also bring out a humorous streak in the some of the roles he played.

         For example in the 1953 City beneath the Sea [covered in your video]he and Robert Ryan both casually dressed and playing ship salvage reclamation experts are talking while slowly disembarking down a ship’s gangway when am impatient and smartly dressed businessman with a Joel Hirschhorn sense of his own importance and carrying a briefcase tries to push past them saying “Excuse me I am trying to get ashore!” to which Quinn refusing to yield retorts “What a coincidence– so are we!” [I saw that movie on a double bill with Willie and Joe in Tokyo starring Harvey Lembeck and Tom Ewell of 7 Year itch fame]

         Best POSTERS in Quinn video 1-27 are in my view Guns for San Sebastian, Buccaneer [Tony directs Chuck!] Across 110th Street, Blood and Sand, both Viva Zapata ones, all foreign Language ones for Last Train from Gun Hill, Warlock, They Died with Boots On, La Strada and Guns of Navarone and a magnificent 1st one for Lawrence.

         STILLS in entire video Barabbas, Blood Money, fooling around with Bing and Bob, as Paul Gauguin, with “Ollie” as Zorba [possibly Quinn’s most famous LEAD role with that wonderful dance music] the Guns of Navarone ensemble, in the desert with “Orance” and closing solo of a happy Tony.

         A par excellence 98% rated presentation overall from you in my estimation. You and The Invisible Man [a guy who is definitely TOP of A list in my book] agree on 5 of Tony’s Top 6 best reviewed with you putting Zorba in you 6 but Claude Rains going instead for The Message.

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         1. Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my extra long Anthony Quinn video, appreciate the info, trivia, quotes and comparison.

            Glad you liked the posters and stills.

            Quinn appeared in so many films this could easily have been a Top 100, I had to leave a lot of well known movies out in which he had a minor role. But I think I got the balance right.

            Quinn played so many Greeks I used to think he was from Greece or Cyprus, found out later he was Mexican.

            Quinn had 5 films scoring 10 out of 10 from my sources, they are –

            Lawrence of Arabia
            La Strada
            Ox-Bow Incident ,The
            Viva Zapata
            Lust for Life

            Two more scoring 9 – The Guns of Navarone and Zorba the Greek.

            At IMDB it’s a three way tie – Lawrence of Arabia, Lion of the Desert and The Message each scored 8.4. Lawrence is no.1 at Rotten Tomatoes and tops the charts at the UMR.

            Quinn on Tracy – “Spencer Tracy’s a dangerous actor. You never know what he’s going to do. He’s one of the few actors you can never steal a scene from. He and Olivier and Jean Gabin.”

            Quinn on Brando – “We forget how he revolutionized acting. Look at the chances he takes – think of all the stars who drift along playing themselves.”

            Quinn on his signature role – “I held out my arms, in a traditional Greek stance, and shuffled along the sands. Soon Alan Bates picked up on the move … We were born-again Greeks, joyously celebrating life. We had no idea what we were doing, but it felt right, and good.”

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            1. HI STEVE

               Thanks for feedback, ratings explanations and amplifications and of course more of those fantastic quotes.

               Nicholson, Babs, Dustin Hoffman and now Tony Quinn – what is it that these people, themselves all great entertainment icons, have seen in Mr Mumbles that Joel has missed?

               My own take in the matter is -and I’ve said it before – that Widmark, Peck Stewart and Laddie are my very favourite male stars because they have ENTERTAINED me the most over a consistently long period along with of course a bit further down the list The Duke, Glenn Ford and Chuck, Michael Caine and Dirk Bogarde

               Brando has entertained me in some of his films such as Godpop and Guys and Dolls but a lot of the time his stuff has been “dry goods” in my opinion and I think that I ADMIRE him more than I am entertained by him because of the way he changed acting and the risks that he has taken as Quinn says.

               Because Mr M was the pathfinder a lot of today’s actors who would hitherto have been confined to the status of character actors can and have become stars in offbeat parts Each of the Great stars is unique in his or her own way but for me in the Hollywood of the Classic era he was almost the most unusual one to achieve the kind he did stardom among the men.

               Almost everybody else in the AFI male legends list such as Gable, Grant, Cagney make for very easy viewing and it has always astonished me that someone who played the kind of the strange parts Marlon has played [such as that weird guy in Candy] was able to become one of AFI’s Top 10 Male Legends.

            2. STEVE

               My last post was meant for you and not Bruce. Apologies

               It seems to be the only way we can get to communicate with him, albeit in a one-sided dialogue, these days.is to send him by mistake posts meant for other people!

            3. Hi Bruce, sorry I mean, Bob. I know what you mean about trying to get Bruce’s attention, he seems to disappear for days on end. The site running on autopilot. Might just be the busiest man on the face of the Earth. If President Trump was boss here he’d be more available. 😉

               Thanks for posting your views on your movie idols. I’m with you on Brando, great actor no doubt, but few of his films are beloved favorites.

            4. RE: Nationality: Anthony Quinn was 3/4 Mexican and 1/4 Irish. Quinn was a family name. He did indeed play a lot of roles of various nationalities. Because he was Mexican it was considered okay for him to dance with Lena Horne. Blacks were not allowed in the Golden Age of Hollywood to dance while touching with all white partners.

               Another actor who played a lot of nationalities was Omar Sharif who was Egyptian. This was most likely because Sharif could speak nine languages fluently. I don’t think you have done a video on Sharif, have you Steve?

            5. Hi Flora, thanks for the interesting info on Quinn.

               I did indeed do a video on Omar Sharif late last year. What I didn’t know was that he and Barbra Streisand were quite close after making Funny Girl together. More than just friends if you get my meaning. I mean really close… [Stop winking Steve!] 🙂

3. Added Steve’s New Anthony Quinn Updated Video To This Page….My comments on that video.

   “Nice expanded video. I have seen 14 of the movies listed. I have seen 4 of of the Top 5…..I have not seen La Strada (#2) but I want to. Others that I enjoyed would be #15 Warlock…an underrated western. #45 Last Action Hero….one of the few that seem to like this one. #44 Revenge…..love the ending. Ones I disliked #46 The Desructors…what a waste of time….#31 Behold a Pale Horse….what a wasted cast. Nice video. Voted up. Shared at UMR.”

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   1. Hi Bruce, only 14? I’ve seen nearly twice as many, maybe you saw some of the ones I didn’t include and are on your chart page.

      As I was telling Flora – Quinn had appeared in well over 100 films so I left out some of his minor roles in classic movies to get a better balance of major and supporting roles. Some of the films I removed were The Black Swan, Ghost Breakers and Road to Singapore. But I did leave in Road to Morocco where he played the main villain.

      I haven’t seen La Strada either but I have read up on it, I don’t think I’ll enjoy it much. Thanks again for the vote, share and comment.

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      1. When I look at the movies on this table…I get up to 24 Quinn movies watched….but many are at the bottom of the rankings…so they probably did not make your Top 55. I am still surprised that The Destructors made your Top 55. Michael Caine thinks that is one of his worst movies….along with another movie he made with Quinn…The Magus….which is a very confusing movie. My list….has all his roles we could find box office on….from his many minor roles of the 1930s and 1940s….to his starring roles in the 1950s and 1960s…and back to his supporting roles he ended up getting. I actually know nothing about La Strada….other than it is considered a great movie. Glad to share your video.

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         1. I read the wikipedia synopsis on La Strada and the film does seem pretty downbeat, not something I’d enjoy. But the performances and direction have been highly lauded.

            Reading a movie synopsis at wikipedia is one of my pasttimes, especially classic movies I don’t really want to sit thru – like Bob’s favorite Magnificent Obsession. 🙂

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            1. I included The Destructors because it had some well known actors, looked like an action movie plus I liked the poster art. The rating didn’t matter to me, 😉

            2. Hey Steve….I try and stay away from the synopsis until I see the movie…..then read them after seeing the movie….if I am trying to understand something I missed.

               Debbie looks up the “Parents Guide To The Movie”…..it tells her what violence or language is coming…..she used to read it out aloud…until I requested that she keep the information to herself. Nothing worse than seating down in a theater and hearing…..an “Ice pick in the eye” scene is coming….I then spend the entire movie looking for that ice pick.

               I am not complaining about including a Michael Caine movie…..just surprised it made the Top 55. Good stuff as always….and now I go to work.

4. Excellent page enjoyed the fun facts about his life.

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   1. Thanks for the nice words on our Anthony Quinn page.

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5. The updated overall gross of almost $7.7 billion for Tony Quinn if taken at face value puts him among the highest grossing actors in history and suggests that he was a more successful box office star than for example Flynn or Power, the likes of whom he always merely supported, whereas he was never in the top box office league at any point in his career. However he was one of the most important supporting actors of his times and well-deserving of this page and its update.

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