There was no better American actor than Paul Newman. In my mind, you can’t argue that statement. Charismatic, charming, sly, a rebel, Newman was everything movie stars should be. There’s a lot of tributes floating around the net right now. It would take too long to name all his great roles in all his great films. In the spirit of the Movie Loner I prefer to remember Newman in perhaps his most underrated performance: Washed-up lawyer Frank Galvin in Sidney Lumet’s exceptional legal drama The Verdict. In the following scene Galvin speaks of humanity’s desire to be just. A desire that Newman himself sought countless times in his art and in his life.

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