Friday, May 17, 2019
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET (and 10 a.m. ET) is John Huston’s Key Largo (1948), Starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, with Lionel Barrymore, Edward G. Robinson, and Claire Trevor, in Her Oscar-Winning Performance
By David in TN
Friday, May 17, 2019 at 12:17:00 A.M. EDT
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET (and 10 a.m. ET) is Key Largo (1948). This is one of the most famous Noir films, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, with Edward G. Robinson chewing the scenery as a deported (what an odd concept) gangster. Claire Trevor plays Robinson’s moll, with Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, John Rodney, Dan Seymour and Marc Lawrence as henchmen. John Huston directed.
Film Noir Guide: “When war hero Bogart stops in the Florida Keys to visit hotel owner Barrymore and Bacall, the father and widow of one of his men, he winds up a hostage in the middle of a hurricane. Deported gangster Robinson and his gang (Gomez, Lewis, Rodney, and Seymour) have taken over the empty hotel while waiting for another mobster (Lawrence) to arrive to buy their counterfeit dough. They then plan to head for Cuba by boat. Unfortunately for them, a hurricane delays their departure. They entertain themselves by terrorizing their captives, depriving Robinson's alcoholic moll (Trevor) of her booze, knocking off a deputy sheriff, and refusing to allow local Seminole families to take shelter from the hurricane inside the hotel... Bogey is entertainingly low-key as the cynical war hero, but the movie belongs primarily to that other film noir icon, Robinson, who reprises his famous gangster roles with a delicious exhibition of viciousness and lewdness.”
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jerry pdx
A teenage couple is assaulted and viciously beaten by a gang of negro teens and adults in a Gresham park: https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/428153-335435-gresham-teens-say-mob-attacked-them-near-park
This story has appeared on a few local TV stations and one local paper "The Tribune", other than that nobody is covering it, our local major media outlet the Oregonian hasn't bothered to report this one. Nowhere is the race of the attackers mentioned, there are no descriptions in any news report (which tells us the race right there) to help apprehend these thugs. I have no doubt the attackers are black and there is a county Facebook posting that gives some clues: https://www.facebook.com/pg/LaneCountyNews/posts/
You have to scroll down a few stories to see the assault story but check out the comments, people are trying to spin it into the kids being some kind of white supremacists or suggesting "they started it". That's how it works nowadays, unprovoked racist assaults on whites are spun into white on black hate crimes. All you have to do is suspect they are white supremacists and whatever violence the negro's have perpetrated is excused.
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET (and 10 am ET Sunday Morning) is Dead Reckoning (1947). Humphrey Bogart again plays a WW II veteran, with Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Marvin Miller, Wallace Ford, William Prince. John Cromwell directed.
Film Noir Guide: "Bogey stars as an Army captain whose publicity-shy buddy (Prince) deliberately disappears just before he is to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Bogey tracks him to his hometown, where he discovers that Prince has been murdered. Determined to find the murderer ("When a guy's buddy is killed, he ought to do something about it"), he soon runs into Prince's ex-girlfriend (Scott), a former night-club singer whose husband was supposedly killed by Prince several years earlier...Bogart's gritty performance compensates for the convoluted plot, told mostly in flashback, and Miller is in top form as the repugnant henchman. Look for a grown-up Stymie Beard, former "Little Rascal" Stymie, as a bellhop in Bogey's hotel."
Sounds like a typical Noir scenario. If you kill a buddy of Bogey's, you're in trouble.
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