By David in TN
Friday, July 8, 2022 at 9:11:00 P.M. EDT
tcm’s film noir of the week saturday night-sunday morning at midnight and 10 a.m. ET is John Reinhardt’s High Tide (1947) with Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw, Regis Toomey, Douglas Walton and Anthony Warde.
Film Noir Guide: “The incoming tide threatens to drown the trapped occupants of a crashed vehicle (newspaper editor Tracy and P.I. Castle). A flashback explains how the two friends found themselves in this predicament: Castle is hired to protect former boss Tracy from a local hood (Warde). When Walton, the owner of Tracy’s newspaper is found murdered, homicide detective Toomey suspects Castle because the P.I. was once involved romantically with Walton’s wife (Bishop).
“Castle and Walton’s pretty secretary (Shaw) tries to prove his innocence. Sounds confusing, but it’s a pretty fair low-budget noir with snappy dialogue and a surprise ending. Tracy and Castle turn in good performances.”
David in TN: I haven’t seen it but it sounds good. This is a Monogram product, “Poverty Row.” Eddie Muller goes back to noir territory this week.
It DOES sound pretty good,but not enough to pay an extra $60`a month for the higher tier of cable.I wonder if that's one of those movies that you can get on YouTube for free.
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Yep-
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street (1945) with Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Rosalind Ivan, Jess barker.
ReplyDeleteFilm Noir Guide: "Robinson plays a henpecked husband (Little Caesar in an apron!), who uses his umbrella to protect a beautiful woman (Bennett) when she is attacked by what appears to be a mugger but is actually her drunken boyfriend (Duryea). Robinson gets lucky, knocking Duryea out cold and accompanying the damsel home. Flattered by Bennett's attention, Robinson eventually becomes her sugar daddy, setting her up in an expensive apartment and paying for it with embezzled funds.
Now if he could only figure a way to get rid of his shrewish wife (Ivan), who keeps an enormous portrait of her late husband in the living room. He would then be free to marry Bennett, a masochist who only has eyes for the vicious and scheming Duryea.
Forced to paint in the bathroom because his wife can't stand the smell, aspiring artist Robinson moves his equipment and paintings into Bennett's new apartment. When Duryea tries to pawn a couple of the paintings, he's told by an art critic (Barker) that the artist who painted them is a genius.
The con man sees dollar signs and manages to convince an art gallery owner that Bennett is the painter. His get-rich-quick scheme works for a while but is doomed to end in tragedy.
Robinson is sensational as the middle-aged patsy who foolishly allows himself to believe, to the ubiquitous strains of 'Melancholy Baby,' that a gorgeous young woman has fallen for him. Bennett and Duryea are terrific as the dysfunctional lovers. This was the second film for the Lang-Robinson-Bennett-Duryea team after their first joint venture in The Woman in the Window."
David in TN: In his outro last week, Eddie Muller said Scarlet Street is a return to classic Noir territory.