By David in TN
friday, july 26, 2024 at 6:06:00 p.m. edt
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. et is The Housemaid (1960).
David in TN: Red Eddie Muller continues his streak of mediocre and/or uninteresting selections with a 1960 South Korean film titled The Housemaid. Eddie gushes over it being “ultra-violent,” like a previous Japanese film.
Noir Alley goes on its usual August hiatus during TCM’s Summer Under the Stars.
N.S.: To recap, the bad news is The Housemaid; the good news is that we will be free of Red Eddie, and his lousy taste and lying, racist, totalitarian politics, for the entire month of August.
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All weekend on "Catchy Comedy TV",they're showing full episodes of the "Carol Burnett Show" from its inception in 1967.What a time capsule.
--GRA
I hate to ask,because I don't want to hear bad news,but can someone give an update--please--on Nicholas?
--GRA
On Tuesday Night, September 3, at 9:45 Et, TCM shows Jesse Hibbs' The World in My Corner (1956) with Audie Murphy and Barbara Rush.
Murphy plays a welterweight contender from Jersey City who falls for the unhappy daughter (Rush) of his wealthy manager. This film is rarely on television. It's part of Barbara Rush night on TCM.
At 1 am ET TCM shows Vincent Sherman's The Young Philadelphians (1959) with Rush playing another rich girl, this time the love interest of Paul Newman. This is one of Newman's best performances, as an ambitious lawyer trying to make his way into high society.
Something I forgot.
This is Audie Murphy playing a similar character to John Garfield in Body and Soul, which set the standard for boxing films. Garfield was one of the greatest actors of all time. Murphy was in real life, somewhat like the character.
In Don Siegel's The Gun Runners, based on Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Murphy played the character John Garfield played in The Breaking Point (1950). The latter is considered the better film, Garfield could play most any role.
But Audie Murphy was, in real life, similar to the his role in The Gun Runners.
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947) with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie, Virginia Huston, Paul Valentine.
Film Noir Guide: "A small town gas station owner (Mitchum) has a dark past, which he has kept from the woman he loves (Huston). But when a hood (Valentine) from his previous life accidentally stumbles into his establishment, the former P.I. decides to come clean with his girl."
"Years earlier, he tells her, he was hired by a gangster (Douglas) to find his moll (Greer), who shot him and ran off with forty grand of his dough. Mitchum caught up with her in Acapulco and fell madly in live with her, buying into her story that, yes, she shot the abusive Douglas but didn't steal his money."
"They ran off together, always keeping one step ahead of Douglas' new P.I. (Brodie), Mitchum's former partner. Eventually, Brodie caught up with them and everything hit the fan, with Greer ditching Mitchum and leaving him to face a murder rap. Thus, his new identity and life. Huston decides to stick by her man as he's about to meet with Douglas and Greer, who's back with the gangster."
"Mitchum is sensational as the classic noir protagonist, doomed because he has stumbled into the web of a lethal femme fatale, convincingly played by the beautiful Greer. Douglas is terrific as the vicious, but lovesick, gangster who will forgive Greer anything, including shooting him four times. Despite its convoluted plot, Out of the Past really delivers and is worthy of its reputation as THE quintessential film noir."
David In TN: Red Eddie Muller and Film Noir of the Week return after a month's hiatus.
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