Philip French's screen legends | Charlton Heston
There was, from the start, something monumental, something reminiscent of Mount Rushmore, about Heston with his 6ft 3in height and chiselled features. He could be angry, threatening and cruel, but he couldn't be commonplace, diffident or funny. In a 1960 article in Cahiers du cinma called "In Defence of Violence", French critic Michel Mourlet made