By David in TN
Friday, September 4, 2020 at 9:45:00 P.M. EDT
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week returns. This week Sunday, only at 10 a.m. ET, Night Editor (1946) with William Gargan, Janis Carter, (Miss) Jeff Donnell and Paul E. Burns, directed by Henry Levin.
Film Noir Guide: “Despite the devotion of his wife and young son, homicide detective Gargan is having an affair with the beautiful Carter, who’s married to a wealthy older man. While Gargan and Carter are parked in a secluded spot near the ocean, another car parks nearby. They watch in horror as the driver viciously beats his female companion to death with a tire iron. Instinctively, Gargan begins to give chase but stops when Carter reminds him about the scandal that would surely follow. Guilt-ridden and fearful, Gargan begins a cover-up. An innocent man is arrested and convicted of the murder, and when Gargan recognizes a local banker as the killer, he faces a tough moral dilemma—arrest him and end up in jail himself or let the patsy go to the chair. Narrated by a New York newspaper editor, this is a suspenseful and intriguing film, with Gargan nicely underplaying his role, and Carter deliciously wicked as the femme fatale. The surprise ending will be hated by some, loved by others. Gargan, brother of veteran character actor Ed Gargan, starred in the early TV series Martin Kane, Private Eye.”
I haven’t seen this one, of the “Bad Cop” genre.
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET and 10 am ET is Robert Florey's Danger Signal (1945) with Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Rosemary DeCamp, Bruce Bennett, 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 pm 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."
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