If this has any chance of a dvd release? I would kill to see it. The trailer played before White Heat at the Egyptian Theater and I am kicking myself for not watching it when I had the chance.
Arghhhhh!
This reply is not really a reply except that its a listing of some noirs I wonder if you've seen. Some of them are fairly obscure, but then that's why I like them. I'll start with a huge fave that could be classed as a neo noir, but others may not agree. It stars Mandi Patankin and James Spader and is called "The Music of Chance". Its very different and makes you have to think. It came out in 1993. I watch it ever few years when I have forgotten things about it.
Another is "Street of Chance" from '42 and starred Burgess Meredith. Then Decoy with that English babe who played the perfect American. She was quite a handful and I can't remember her name. Then there's Destination Murder from '50 and then Nightfall from '57 directed by Jacque Tourneur; I've never seen it, but its supposed to be very fine. The last one is the Night Runner with Ray Danton and somewhat like Psycho, but made a few years before that classsic.
Hope you have a fine holiday and we'll meet again on the farside of midnight.
Bathman
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
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Yowza, you are a veritable fountain of information about all them dudes and dudesses. I remember the stuff about Dekker, but I don't know how you can remember all the other stuff especially about movies you haven't seen in years -- a very good memory which I don't seem to have any more.
Maybe you'll go out this weekend and buy a cheapo dvd and why not subscribe to netflix like I do along with millions of others. They've got tons of noirs of every stripe. They even have many that were just released from Hammer and Warners. The Warners ones may or may not play on TCM cuz they want to sell these newly digitized discs. I'm on the waiting list for Decoy and some others. Netflix is a better deal than Blockbuster and I have been a loyal flixer for a long time now.
Bye bye.
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
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Just found out that it was Aldo Ray in Nightfall and not Meeker, but that's all right cuz they get mixed up every once in awhile. Two other oscure ones are Vincent Price's Shock which many say was the nastiest role he ever did and The Manipulator with Mickey Rooney as a maniac movie maker in an old studio who kidnaps a girl for nefarious reasons. I've run them down, but haven't watched yet.
Bye again.
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
Hello Son of Film,
reporting back to you after seeing V. Price in "Shock". I think you will like it as I did. I don't believe it is his nastiest role as he is pretty much lead along by the femme fatale played by Lynn Bari. Even so, he does come up with a nasty treatment of the female protagonist. You could say he is a shrink from Hell and that would be fitting. A good little noir "B".
About Price as Matthew Hopkins, I don't know if you know it or not, but the real Witch Finder General died at home in his sleep, he wasn't whacked with a battle axe, but I bet many wanted to do that to the real guy.
I know you know "The Devil Commands" with Boris Karloff was on again recently and I had to watch it as it is one of my very favorites with BK and I don't mean Burger King. Anyway, when I was a boy I could've sworn it was titled "When the Devil Commands" but that "when" now seems to have vanished. I loved it and it still appeals. I remember the Catholic Church even condemned the film so that made it that much more interesting to me. The only part of it that isn't made clear is why he had to have all those other dead bodies strapped into his infernal machine when he was trying to contact his wife's spirit. That wasn't explained. I've also wondered whith all the remake fever out there this one hasn't been redone. It would be nice to see a mad scientist flick again instead of acres and acres of insane mosnsterous slashers. Here's to hoping you had a good and refreshing holiday.
Bathman
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
Sent a reply to you, I thought, but maybe I didn't. Look it up here. I wrote one, but perhaps I pushed the wrong button, ha!
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.