Menace With A Vengeance
Not since the frithtening heyday of the late Laird Cregar has the screen seen so much menace in one piece as is flashed on the screen these days by Raymong Burr.
Six foot two-and-a-half inches tall and weighing a hard-packed 235 pounds, Burr has just completed his 15th “heavy” assignment as Michelotto in Paramount’s melodramatic thriller, “Bride of Vengeance”, costarring Paulette Goddard, John Lund and MaDonald Carey.
“Bride of Vengeance” tells a racy story about the poisoning Lucretia and her powermad brother, Cesare. Michelott was Cesare’s hatchet man and probably one of the most despicable men in history, the king of man right up Burr’s alley.
Back in 1939 in Australia, Burr played his first real “heavy.” He was a sensation as walked around with his employer’s head in a box in “Night Must Fall”. “From that moment, I was doomed to play rats,” Burr says happily. Fans will remember his as the sex maniac in “Pitfall” and the yellow lawyer in “Stations West ”.