By David in TN
friday, december 12, 2025 at 4:45:00 p.m. est
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Cash on Demand (1962).
This is a British film recycled from a Noir Alley showing six years ago.
TCM is showing two boxing films earlier Saturday Night. Stanley Kubrick's Killer's Kiss (1955) at 8 p.m. ET, followed by Mark Robson's The Harder They Fall (1956) at 9:30 p.m. The latter was Humphrey Bogart's last film.
N.S.: Sorry about the delay, David!
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Did you know about Kubrick's short film from 1951, DAY OF THE FIGHT? I only discovered it by chance a couple of years ago, when I was gathering stuff for a tribute to the late composer Gerald Fried. It's very good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cty3bUsoUDU
-RM
TCM's Film Noir of he Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Mednight and 10 a.m. ET is Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake (1947) with Ronert Montgomery (who also directed), Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Leon Ames, Jane Meadows,
Film Noir Guide: "Montgomery is Raymond Chandler's famois private eye, Philip Marlowe, in thi slow-moving and hard to follow mystery. He's hired by a magazine editor (Trotter) to find the missing wife of her boss (Ames). A woman's body is soon discovered in a country lake, and Montgomery finds himself mixed up with a shady cop (Nolan) and a mystery lady (Meadows)."
"Along the way, he suffers a few beatings, gets framed for drunk driving (twice) and of course, falls in love with Trotter. The film's biggest attraction is Montgomery's innovative use of the camera, allowing the viewer to see things through his eyes. But even that gets annoying, especialy with the excessive number of mirror shots, the only purpose fo which seems to be to provide Montgomery with ample screen time."
"This strange film does have its good points, however--namely, Trotter as the femme fatale and Nolan as the toughtwo-fisted cop.. Meadows does a fine job of overacting. Although it's been said that Montgomery was the screen's closest counterpart to Chandler's fictional private investigator, Chandler himself did not appreciate Montgomery's portrayal, preferring instead Dick Powell's in Murder My Sweet."
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