"My impressions of Hank are of a man reaching but unreachable, gentle but capable of sudden wild and dangerous violence, sharply critical of others but equally self-critical, caged and fighting the bars but timid of the light, viciously opposed to external restraint, imposing an iron slavery on himself. His face is a picture of opposites in conflict.” -- John Steinbeck

run by gregorypecks and farleysgranger.

Henry Fonda, Jesse James (1939)

We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don’t know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that’s something that’s very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it’s sure.

hedda-hopper:

The Return of Frank James (1940)

He moved me always, this reserved man. There was a reason he was a star.
Sidney Lumet

I realized he wasn’t Tom Joad or Clarence Darrow or young Abe Lincoln or the character in “The Ox-Bow Incident”, but that he had chosen to do them because he believed in those values. I think he hoped some of it would rub off - and it did.
Jane Fonda

He had the personification of the public’s eye of the American male: quiet, courageous, capable, sensitive.

Rod Steiger

lars134:

Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda at El Morocco Restaurant. January 1961