By David in TN
friday, september 5, 2025 at 7:00:00 p.m. edt
TCM's Film Noir of the Week returns saturday-sunday morning at midnight and 10 a.m. ET after a month's hiatus; Dalton Trumbo, Sam Ross, and John Berry's He Ran All the Way (1951), was John Garfield's last film. The film has been run on Noir Alley before.
This was John Garfield's last film. He died of a heart attack while visiting "a friend." Red Eddie Muller will claim he was a victim of those evil anti-Communists.
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Sent this in a few weeks ago, and it was never highlighted, so let's try again:
https://archive.org/details/back-to-the-wall-1958
BACK TO THE WALL
Excellent French "noir" starring Jeanne Moreau. Begins with a man burying the body of his wife's lover in cement; the story of how it came about is told in flashback. Beautiful photography, restored quality. Probably not shown on TCM.
-RM
He should have "walked"--Garfield ,that is. The woman "friend"---was she ever named for causing Garfield to become "stiff" all over?
--GRA
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is David Miller's Sudden Fear (1952) with Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett.
Film Noir Guide: "Playwright Crawford believes that Palance isn't good-looking enough to play the lead in her new Broadway play and has him replaced with a more appealing actor."
"Letting bygones be bygones, Palance romances her on a train trip to San Francisco and settles the question once and for all --- he's romantic all right, romantic enough to bed and wed her in record time. Crawford is deliriously happy, but Palance, when he's not counting his bride's money, is committing adultery with his old flame (femme fatale Gloria Grahame)< who's arrived in town to share his good fortune."
"When Palance discovers that Crawford is updating her will, he mistakenly believes that he is going to be shortchanged and decides to kill her before her attorney (Bennett) returns from a business trip to finalize things. While Palance discusses his plans with Grahame, their conversation is accidently recorded on Crawford's newfangled dictating machine."
"The next day, with the proof of their criminal intent in her fidgety little hands, Crawford drops the record, shattering it. She's then forced to come up with her own plan to turn the tables on the scheming couple. And does she!"
"Downright lethargic for the first 60 minutes, the film eventually gains momentum before finally exploding in one of film noir's most exciting climaxes. Crawford and Palance received Oscar nominations for their performances."
Right after Sudden Fear, at 2:15 a.m. ET, TCM shows Suddenly (1954) with Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden. A hit man (Sinatra) and company plan to shoot the president when he gets off his train in Suddenly, California.
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