David in TN
friday, november 28, 2025 at 6:55:00 p.m. est
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Guy Green's Postmark for Danger (1955), also known as Portrait of Alison with Terry Moore, Robert Beatty and William Sylvester.
A British crime film. An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
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Terry Moore (probably best known for MIGHTY JOE YOUNG and an unsubstantiated marriage to Howard Hughes) is still alive, 96 years old! May she have many more! (Well, a few more, anyway...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Moore_(actress)
-RM
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Robert Siodmak's Cry of the City (1948) with Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Betty Garde, Berry Kroeger, Tommy Cook, Debra Paget, Hope Emerson.
Film Noir Guide: "Director Siodmak gives the noir treatment to this familiar tale of two Italian-American kids who grew up on the same side of the tracks, one becoming a cop (Mature), the other a cheap hoodlum (Conte). Conte gives an impressive performance as the vicious cop killer who escapes from jail snf risks his freedom and his life for Paget (making her film debut at 15), the nice girl he wants to marry."
"Mature is the homicide detective who, despite his affection for Conte's family, must bring in his old friend even though he faces the electric chair for his crime. Clark is Mature's partner and Winters is Conte's former girlfriend, who gamely drives the wounded murderer while an unlicensed immigrant physician works desperately in the back seat to save his life."
"Garde is Conte's sympathetic nurse and Emerson is the wicked, Amazonian masseuse, who desperately wants the jewels that Conte has stolen from crooked lawyer Kroeger. Cook plays Conte's cop-hating kid brother, who is already exhibiting signs that he'll wind up just like his idol."
"Excellent peformances and some terrific New York City location shots make thisgrim crime noir a must see. Garde and the delightfully evil Emerson would work together again in the 1950 prison drama CAGED. From 1958to 1959, Emerson played "Mother" in TV's Peter Gunn, and Garde went on to play in The Real McCoys and the daytime soap operas The Edge of Night and As the World Turns. Look for Roland Winters (one of Hollywood's Charlie Chans) as a shady prison guard."
David In TN: I wonder if Red Eddie Muller will make mention of the "illegal immigrant physician?"
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