He buys some heavy-duty acidic compounds that can dissolve just about everything from a dead human body to a steel girder he also purchases some huge knives that can cut through the toughest hides. In that regard, Bart doesn't mess around. Problem number one: what to do with the body. Demonstrating his "method" on Jerry, which includes some serious physicality, Bart inadvertently strangles his so-called friend. Then the two thespians head back to Bart's apartment and that's where the fun really begins. Despite the animosity between these "competitors," they eventually go nightclubbing together, boozing it up while listening to some beatnik music. He spends plenty of his time telling Jerry as much and continually insults him. The two have a history together and Bart, a Method actor disciple, thinks that Jerry has no chance to beat him out for the role. His worn-out and exasperated agent arranges an audition for him and Bart thinks he's perfect for the part until a rival actor named Jerry Lane (Charles Robinson) shows up at the rehearsal office. "Bad Actor" is standard Hitchcock but it gives viewers a good look at a young Robert Duvall before he hit it big in features like "The Godfather." Duvall plays Bart Collins, a party-hard semi-alcoholic actor who hasn't gotten a decent role in recent memory.
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