Decades before he carried Batman’s breakfast, grunted “bah-humbug” at the Muppets, and launched a thousand mediocre Cockney impersonations, Michael Caine mostly played transgressors.Listen: Kasi Lemmons: The Power of Myth, History, And Black Love [Be Reel Podcast]In films like “Alfie” (1966), “The Italian Job” (1969), “Get Carter” (1971), and “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975), Caine brought a streetwise intelligence to a gallery of anti-social rogues: philanderers, killers and colonialists.Continue reading The Man Who Would Be Caine [Be Reel Podcast] at The Playlist.
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