TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:30 a.m. ET (and 10 a.m. ET Sunday Morning) is Nobody Lives Forever (1946), Directed by Jean Negulesco, Written by W.R. Burnett, and Starring John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan and Faye Emerson, with Georges Tobias and Coulouris

By David in TN
Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 10:00:00 P.M. EDT

TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:30 a.m. ET (and 10 a.m. ET Sunday Morning) is Nobody Lives Forever (1946), directed by Jean Negulesco, written by W.R. Burnett.

Nobody Lives Forever stars John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, George Tobias and George Coulouris.

Film Noir Guide: “Recently discharged from the Army because of wounds sustained in combat, con man Garfield returns to New York expecting to find his torch singer girlfriend (Emerson) waiting for him and his money earning interest. He discovers instead that Emerson has found herself a new man and has given him Garfield’s dough to start a business. After ‘persuading’ the man to return his fifty Gs plus interest, Garfield kisses Emerson goodbye, slaps her hard across the face and heads for California with his henchman (Tobias) for rest and recuperation. Once there he hooks up with his old mentor (Brennan) who’s selling peeks at the moon through a telescope for ten cents and lifting wallets from drunks. Coulouris, Garfield’s archrival in the confidence game, convinces him to finance his latest sting—ripping off a rich widow (Fitzgerald). But when Garfield meets the gorgeous mark, he begins having second thoughts. Garfield is terrific, as usual, and Emerson is first-rate as the blonde femme fatale.”

Let’s see if Eddie moans again that Garfield was a Victim of the Witch Hunts. Will he recognize Walter Brennan as one of the most right-wing actors of all time, as well as an all-time great character actor?