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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 366459" data-attributes="member: 57984">It's not cornball or schmaltz if it works --- "The Lost Child" works, more or less (although I'm not sure I would have cast that child actor, but he's okay).People have sometimes compared Patrick Duffy to Michael Landon ("Little Joe Ewing") but Landon was a maudlin narcissist and did a lot of disingenuous acting, directing and producing (although he was competent at all those things when he reined himself in, which he was rarely-inclined to do.The objective viewer always knew there was something wrong with Landon, an indulgent perversity laying right below the surface of his creaky veneer of wholesomeness. (He was even mean to Priscilla on a movie set prior to DALLAS).Not so with Patrick Duffy. He may have had his own quirks -- as everyone does -- but he was a good, straightforward actor who lacked the creepy, snot-slinging foolishness of Michael Landon.I liked Landon adequately on BONANZA, but couldn't stand to watch him, or his work, after that.</blockquote>