By David in TN
friday, june 28, 2024 at 9:01:00 p.m. edt
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is Harold F. Kress’ No Questions Asked (1951), with Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy, Jean Hagen and Richard Simmons.
Film Noir Guide: “After his gold-digging fiancee (Dahl) dumps him for a wealthy man (Simmons), insurance investigator Sullivan decides to climb the ladder of success the easy way. He becomes, in effect, a legal fence, working with fur and jewel thieves to return stolen merchandise for a price so his insurance company doesn’t have to pay up.
“While he makes a nice little commission on each deal, he soon learns an expensive lesson about working on the dark side. Hagen is the girl who loves him, and Murphy is the cop who’s trying to put him away. An effective little twist on the good cop gone bad, this noir supports the old adage, ‘there’s one born every minute.’”
David in TN: Another one Red Eddie Muller has previously shown on Noir Alley.
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is Richard Fleischer's Armored Car Robbery (1950) with Charles McGraw, William Tallman, Adele Jergens, Steve Brodie, Don McGuire, Douglas Fowley, Gene Evans.
Film Noir Guide: "McGraw and Talman give standout performances in this early heist noir, which was released the same day as its more famous noir cousin, The Asphalt Jungle. Talman, a vicious killer, is the brains behind the planned heist of an armored car during its stop at Chicago's Wrigley Field." (David In TN: WRONG! in 1950 there was a Wrigley Field baseball park in LA for its then minor league team) Fowley, Brodie, and Evans are his accomplices."
"Things go wrong (as they invariably do in a noir heist) and one of the gang is wounded in a shoot-out with police detective McGraw and his partner, who is killed by Talman. The robbers get away, but there's mofre dissension over the split and (surprise!) Talman winds up with all of the dough. In an attempt to trap the cop killer, McGraw and his new partner (McGuire) stake out Fowley's stripper wife (Jergens), who is also Talman's lover. A guaranteed no-snoozer."
David In TN: Another one on Noir Alley before. Richard Fleischer packs a lot of action in 67 minutes.
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