By David in TN
friday, december 13, 2024 at 9:43:00 p.m. est
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is Helmut Kautner's Schwarzer Kies (1961).
This is a West German Film; the English translation is Black Gravel. Kautner was a moderately famous German director, known for staying in the Third Reich during WWII. Actually there were relatively few "political" German films during the war, as Goebbels mandated escapist fare.
The U.S. Air Force establishes a base in a small German town. The inhabitants don't want it but know it would help them economically. The Germans are shown to still have Nazi and anti-Jewish feeling. The Americans are also portrayed negatively.
The above is from opinions on the film I have read. It isn't (or didn't used to be) one of Kautner's better-known films. The only film of his I've seen is The Devil's General, which made Curt Jurgens a star.
Naturally, Eddie Muller seems to love it.
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is Tay Garnett's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) with John Garfield and Lana Turner.
Red Eddie Muller ends 2024 with the prototypical Film Noir based on James M. Cain's novel. The story begins with the protagonist (Garfield) seeing the sexiest woman he's ever seen (Turner) and ends with him on San Quentin's Death Row waiting to die in the gas chamber.
The Postman Always Rings Twice has been on Noir Alley before and is shown by TCM about half a dozen times every year, but is always good.
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