But aside from his roles in The Hustler, various pairings with Robert Redford and one or two other films, he has not been taken seriously by critics and other sobersides.
At the time, there were those who doubted that Buchwald would feel comfortable in the presence of such sobersides as Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann or find anything funny about .
Decent acting in movies of this sort is, of course, merely an extra added attractiona sort of dish night for the sobersides.