[Re: “What Will Red Eddie Muller Say?! TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET and 10 a.m. is Samuel Fuller’s Anti-Communist Classic, Pickup on South Street (1953)…”]
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Pickup on South Street (1953) Trailer
Film Noir
Published on Jun 26, 2016
Pickup on South Street (1953) is a Cold War spy film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller and released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters and Thelma Ritter. This movie was screened at Venice Film Festival in 1953.
Robert Osborne’s Intro
TCMisHeaven
Published on May 16, 2011
Robert Osborne host of Turner Classic Movies gives opening and closing remarks to this film noir goodie Pickup on South Street starring Richard Widmark and Thelma Ritter
And Now, for Our Featured Presentation, Without Commercial Interruption, Samuel Fuller’s Oscar-Nominated Masterpiece, Pickup on South Street (1953)!
Eddie was bonehead stupid in his outro. He claimed "jingoistic conservative reviewers accused Sam Fuller's 50's war films--The Steel Helmet, Fixed Bayonets, and China Gate, of being sympathetic with Communists. Absolute c***.
ReplyDeleteHe did admit liberals often called Fuller a right-wing hawk and acknowledged French Communists changed (through the dubbing) Pickup on South Street's bad guys to drug dealers. As you told us in a previous entry.
I saw The Steel Helmet on TV age 14 and Fixed Bayonets a year or so later. The Americans (Fuller loved the American GI) were heroic in a realistic way and the Reds were the evil enemy.
Anybody who thinks China Gate (1957) is pro-communist has a mental disability.
I would add that in the 1950's nearly all Democrats, liberal ones included were anti-communist.
ReplyDeleteTCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 am ET (and 10 am ET Sunday Morning) is Shadow on the Wall (1950). It features Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Nancy Davis, Gigi Perreau, John McIntire, Kristine Miller, Tom Helmore, directed by Pat Jackson.
ReplyDeleteFilm Noir Guide: "Architect Scott returns from a business trip to discover that his new wife (Miller) is having an affair with her sister's fiance (Helmore). While unpacking a gun, Scott gets into an argument with Miller and she, fearing he plans to shoot her, knocks him out cold with a mirror. Miller's sister (Southern) shows up and, in a jealous rage over Helmore, accidentally shoots her with Scott's gun. Scott, who believes that the gun must have gone off when Miller hit him with the mirror, is arrested for murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, the remorseful Sothern pens a confession but, before delivering it to police, she has a noirish vision of her own electrocution and tears it up. Then she discovers that Scott's six-year old daughter (Perreau), who's being treated by a psychiatrist (Davis) for shock, witnessed her stepmother's murder, and decides she must get rid of little girl before her memory of the killing returns. Sothern is terrific as a nice girl who metamorphoses into a vicious femme fatale before our unbelieving eyes."
Sound complicated?
First Lady (three decades later) Nancy Davis does well as an "ahead of her time" psychiatrist.