Yes, it's sad to lose Tony. Some of his films, e.g., "Houdini," were the type of mangled history and "Hollywood-ized" pap that the studios loved to grind out in the early '50s, and Tony's acting - probably by virtue of the directing as much as anything else - wasn't great.

(As for the infamous nobleman with a Brooklyn accent line, the way I heard it, the line was "Yonder lies the castle of my foddah" or "Yonder lies my fodder's castle," and I'm pretty sure I actually saw and heard the flim clip where he says it, Kat. But it wasn't in The Vikings, it was in one of the movies set in old England.)


Alan, I remember "Trapeze" well. Tony was pretty good in it - as I recall, being only in my early teens when it came out. Anyway I really liked the movie. And I'm pretty sure that Burt Lancaster did his own trapeze work in that film - that he was a former gymnast or acrobat in real life. But he played the catcher, not the flyer, so he didn't have to do any triple somersaults in midair.