By David in TN
Friday, September 11, 2020 at 8:09:00 P.M. EDT
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Robert Florey’s Danger Signal (1945), starring Zachary Scott, with Faye Emerson, Rosemary DeCamp, Bruce Bennett and Mona Freeman.
Film Noir Guide: “What little this film has going for it belongs to Scott, who’s sensational as a contemptible but charming scoundrel. He woos public stenographer Emerson and then drops her for her younger sister (Freeman) when he learns that sis will inherit twenty-five thousand dollars when she marries. Unknown to the siblings, Scott is being hunted by police in connection with the supposed suicide of a married woman he had been seeing. Unfortunately, it takes forever for anything really interesting to happen, but watching smooth operator Scott at work compensates for having to sit through such a tedious film. DeCamp plays Emerson’s psychiatrist friend and Bennett is an absent-minded professor, too shy to make a play for the lovely stenographer."
Earlier Saturday Night at 8 p.m. ET, TCM shows Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947), an all-time great film noir. Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer are at their best.
Film Noir Guide concluded, “Despite its convoluted plot, Out of the Past really delivers and is worthy of its reputation as THE quintessential film noir.”
Friday, September 11, 2020
See a TCM Film Noir Doubleheader Saturday and Sunday: On Saturday Night at 8 p.m. ET, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer Sizzle in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947), Called by Some the Greatest Movie of Its Genre, and in TCM’s Film Noir of the Week, Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET, Zachary Scott Shines in Robert Florey’s Danger Signal (1945)
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET and 10 am ET is Charles Vidor's Gilda (1946). Rita Hayworth has her most famous role as the Love Goddess. Also with Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, and Steven Geray.
TCM shows Gilda half a dozen times a year, but Eddie Muller decided to show it on Film Noir of the Week.
Film Noir Guide: "When a casino owner (Macready) saves the life of a down-and-out gambler (Ford) and gives him a job, an almost unbreakable bond is formed. But not long afterwards, Ford's new boss returns from a business trip with a gorgeous bride (Hayworth) who was once Ford's lover. Feeling betrayed by the man who informed him that 'gambling and women don't mix,' Ford now must share Macready, whom he obviously cares for, with a woman he considers a tramp. Feeling a responsibility to protect his friend, Ford takes it upon himself to shadow Hayworth but keeps her many romantic trysts to himself. Hayworth, who cares nothing for her middle-aged husband, keeps throwing herself at Ford, but he stubbornly resists her advances...."Ford turns in an excellent performance, but all eyes will be on the love goddess, whose rendition of 'Put the blame on Mame' (and not her acting) is the highlight of this interesting melodrama, which tiptoes guardedly around the homosexual attraction between the two men."
On Monday, TCM runs one of the greatest noirs, with one of the greatest actors of all time, John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Garfield plays a drifter who stops at a diner and romances Lana Turner, the owner's wife, whom he helps become a widow.
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