The good pre-Godfather movies on TV thread - For Galt, and anyone else

[The Sleeper]

Movies back then were much more about escapism than realism, so that's probably why the acting was "unnatural". it's really just a different type of acting, not better or worse than any other type. The rapid-fire dialogue actually makes some movies funnier than they normally would be. For example, the marx brothers or thin man movies were as much about line delivery as content. What you are saying is the same thing as saying "musical actors are bad cause people don't sing all the time in real life".