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Oh man, I got so many movies to watch now.
Thanks for posting that YouTube Noir channel, hopefully people will find some noirs there that they like and no ads too! That's a big plus in my book.
Noirvember 2024 - a seedy dive to hang out and drink rot gut gin...
Thanks for posting that YouTube Noir channel, hopefully people will find some noirs there that they like and no ads too! That's a big plus in my book.
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They had me at NO ADs!
Haven't seen Blonde Ice or Hold Back Tomorrow
The Long Haul, with Victor Mature and Diana Dors sounds promising, and I have some movie pals who enjoyed Shakedown and described it as a 1950s noir version of Nightcrawler.
Title of the day... Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949), lol - and it's directed by William Castle... I'm there.
Oh, and if you enjoyed Kansas City Confidential, I'd recommend 99 River Street (1953), by the same director, Phil Karlson.
Haven't seen Blonde Ice or Hold Back Tomorrow
The Long Haul, with Victor Mature and Diana Dors sounds promising, and I have some movie pals who enjoyed Shakedown and described it as a 1950s noir version of Nightcrawler.
Title of the day... Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949), lol - and it's directed by William Castle... I'm there.
Oh, and if you enjoyed Kansas City Confidential, I'd recommend 99 River Street (1953), by the same director, Phil Karlson.
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I don't think I've seen Kansas City Confidential, although I do have 99 River Street saved and ready to watch. I'm going to have to look for Kansas City Confidential at some point too.
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Tension (1949)
I read this brief description of the film: 'A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover.' and I seen it had noir femme fatale favorite Audrey Totter. I knew I had to watch it. I wasn't disappointment.
I really liked the setup and casting of Richard Basehart as the meek pharmacist who has the misfortune of being married to one cruel cheating woman...you guessed it, Audrey Totter. Basehart is the original man 'getting sand kicked in his face' and repeatedly. He comes up with a complete alter ego for a future murder alibi. I didn't know they had contact lenses back in 1949.
The flip side is police detective Barry Sullivan with his donut eating partner, William Conrad. Sullivan does a fourth wall intro at the start of the film telling the audience about using 'tension' of all types to break a cast. Sullivan proceeds to use emotional applied tension to get to the facts. And because of that tension take it was an interesting noir. I wouldn't mind watching it again someday.
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Howard Duff plays an ambitious dirt bag photographer, who'll stop at nothing to further his career and get everything he wants, money, women, fame. At the opening scene when he was taking a beating, I was like, "Oh, poor guy", as it went on that changed to, "when are the criminals going to start punching this sociopathic jerk?" lol.
Compared to other noirs It's not the most visually dynamic, but the story was a grabber, and a quality cast are an asset. 4 is perhaps a little high, but I enjoyed it more than a 3.5, so
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Anybody watching any noir? I watched The Big Clock last night and will pick another noir for tonight...hmm? Which one should I pick?
"The Glass Wall" refers to the glassy facade of the U.N. Bldg. in NYC. Actually my favorite use of that building in film is in the superb opening sequence of North by Northwest, with it's exciting music by the great Bernard Herrmann.
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Anybody watching any noir? I watched The Big Clock last night and will pick another noir for tonight...hmm? Which one should I pick?
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I usually watch more art-house films in November after my Horror-only October, but I may watch Mildred Pierce and Born To Kill this month in honor of Noirvember, which is not my thing but I respect it.
I don't think I've seen Kansas City Confidential, although I do have 99 River Street saved and ready to watch. I'm going to have to look for Kansas City Confidential at some point too.
I think my next noir will be Harder They Fall with Bogart. It's his last film. The film sounds great. Let's hope I don't set myself up for disappointment.
I usually watch more art-house films in November after my Horror-only October, but I may watch Mildred Pierce and Born To Kill this month in honor of Noirvember, which is not my thing but I respect it.
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I know you're a huge Gloria Grahame fan, as am I. You've probably seen The Glass Wall (1953) with Gloria and Vittorio Gassman, but if you haven't it's one of Gloria's best performances.
"The Glass Wall" refers to the glassy facade of the U.N. Bldg. in NYC. Actually my favorite use of that building in film is in the superb opening sequence of North by Northwest, with it's exciting music by the great Bernard Herrmann.
"The Glass Wall" refers to the glassy facade of the U.N. Bldg. in NYC. Actually my favorite use of that building in film is in the superb opening sequence of North by Northwest, with it's exciting music by the great Bernard Herrmann.
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WARNING: spoilers below
Howard Duff plays an ambitious dirt bag photographer, who'll stop at nothing to further his career and get everything he wants, money, women, fame. At the opening scene when he was taking a beating, I was like, "Oh, poor guy", as it went on that changed to, "when are the criminals going to start punching this sociopathic jerk?" lol.
Compared to other noirs It's not the most visually dynamic, but the story was a grabber, and a quality cast are an asset. 4 is perhaps a little high, but I enjoyed it more than a 3.5, so
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I've been wanting to watch 99 River Street forever, hopefully I'll get to it soon. Loved Kansas City Confidential and have seen it twice. Great noir story and Collen Gray is such a peach in this.
I enjoyed Harder They Fall, you can see on Bogart's face that he wasn't well at the time he made that film.
I enjoyed Harder They Fall, you can see on Bogart's face that he wasn't well at the time he made that film.
I'll fit a movie into my day soon. I don't mind watching film noir in front of the kiddos because film noir were made in the Code days so they can't be extreme and explicit and the kiddos probably wouldn't understand much of the content so I should be safe. The kiddos take a lot of focus so it's not always easy to find time to watch something. I have time this weekend too to watch a movie.
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Shakedown (1950)
I watched this one thanks to Captain Quint. Glad I watched it too as it's a subject matter that I liked. Howard Duff is a gonzo news photographer and aggressive is his middle name! Loved the part where he's in a cab and a drunk driver is driving erratically in the car in front of him. He orders the cab to follow the car and ends up at the pier where the driver has landed right in the bay!...The drunk in stuck in a sinking car and can't get out. So our newshound with camera in hand tells the poor man as his car is sinking, 'stick your arms out the window and lean out and look up' and he takes his picture and walks away! I thought that was a hoot. He does however tell someone on the peer to call the police for help.
I enjoyed the film and I like Howard Duff. Though he did go off the deep end as he started playing one gangster off the other and you know that ain't going to go well. But the craziest thing he did was ignoring that cutie in the photo, who really liked him, for the gangsters wife. Nuts I tell ya! Good noir.
I enjoyed the film and I like Howard Duff. Though he did go off the deep end as he started playing one gangster off the other and you know that ain't going to go well. But the craziest thing he did was ignoring that cutie in the photo, who really liked him, for the gangsters wife. Nuts I tell ya! Good noir.
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The Girl In Black Stockings (1957)
What a let down this one was. That poster made it look so cool...but it's more like badly bizarre, which might be fun for some. First off Mamie Van Doren is not the girl in the black stockings that's someone who's murdered in the first minutes of the film, we don't really see her as it's dark. Miss Van Doren only has a few minutes airtime though she makes the most of it. Secondly this is not noir, not at all. It's a murder mystery. It does have a lot of starts in it and on location shooting is cool. It even is a wide screen movie. It's been restored and is on Tubi.
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Fear (1946) I watched this today on Tubi. It's a film noir about a medical student who murders a professor that he owes money to. It's supposed to be an Americanized contemporary version of Crime and Punishment. For most of the film, I thought this was a decent noir. The ending is awful and really lessens the film. It has some good moments and is worth watching, until that horrendous ending.
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Fear (1946) I watched this today on Tubi. It's a film noir about a medical student who murders a professor that he owes money to. It's supposed to be an Americanized contemporary version of Crime and Punishment. For most of the film, I thought this was a decent noir. The ending is awful and really lessens the film. It has some good moments and is worth watching, until that horrendous ending.
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Without giving away too much can you say what was so horrible about he ending? You could use spoilers.
The main character should have
WARNING: spoilers below
been killed or imprisoned, but instead the ending is a huge cop out that undoes everything that came before
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The ending doesn't
The main character should have
The main character should have
WARNING: spoilers below
been killed or imprisoned, but instead the ending is a huge cop out that undoes everything that came before
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I finished Harder They Fall tonight. It's certainly a great film. I think its overall premise can be summed up vis; the pen is mightier than the boxing glove. The film is solid every which way although I hesitate to say it excels at anything. I really liked it though.
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The Long Haul (1957)
Directed and scripted by Ken Hughes
UK noir about a married American ex-soldier (Mature) who takes a job as a truck driver, and gets tangled up with some bad people, which includes (not bad, but involved with one) Diana Dors. Classically framed noir shots, the story will bring to mind other movies - it's not a rip-roaring tale, the trucking thing doesn't match what we saw in Wages of Fear for example, but there's this undercurrent of loneliness and broken hope that permeates the film, and that brings my grade up a notch. Dors was known as the British Monroe, but she also did some nice acting in her career (She impressed in Yield to the Night) and the closing scene with her is crushing, there is no way out for her and that cuts to the bone.
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