Every rogue cop has a black sidekick who is infinitely hipper than him.

Every Movie Catholic Priest is GOOD.

Every movie Rabbi is even better (and very wise)

Every Movie "Born again" type preacher is corrupt (and usually licentious)

Harvey Keitel plays ONLY crazies and cops (and occasionally crazy cops)

Every Movie biography of a famous person invents a mythical "sidekick". In the thirties, this could have been Oscar Levant, or Adolph Menjou. In the forties, Jack Carson filled the bill. Red Buttons took over in the fifties.

Every British movie star at one time played an American. Some make it work (Jonathyn Price, even Lord Larry was passable) some don't. (poor Richard burton, in Night of the Iguana, or in that other thing where he was a slave -owner)

Rick