[See also: “Three Cheers for Red Eddie! TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET (and 10 a.m. ET Sunday Morning) is Norman Foster’s Lost Film, Woman on the Run (1950), Starring Ann Sheridan, with Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, and Ross Elliot, with a Story by Sylvia Tate, and a Script by Foster and Alan Campbell.”]
By David in TN
Friday, June 7, 2019 at 8:22:00 P.M.
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET (and 10 a.m. ET) is Nora Prentiss (1947). Ann Sheridan stars along with Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda and Rosemary DeCamp, directed by Vincent Sherman. N. Richard Nash wrote the script, based on a story by Paul Webster and Jack Sobell.
Film Noir Guide: “This is an appealing tale about a successful doctor (Smith) who falls for a nightclub singer (Sheridan) but can’t get up the nerve to ask his wife for a divorce. What he eventually does about the situation takes a lot more nerve than simply ‘fessing up to his old lady.
“Bennett is Smith’s partner, a playboy doctor whose lifestyle Smith frowns upon until he finds himself in the proverbial glass house. Alda is the nightclub owner smitten with Sheridan, his star performer, and DeCamp is Smith’s overly secure wife, whose hectic schedule contributes to her husband’s straying.
“Sheridan is terrific as the facetious, worldly dame, a role she played so well in an earlier film noir, They Drive by Night, and would do once again a few years later in Woman on the Run. James Wong Howe’s expressionistic photography and Nash’s fine script makes this ‘woman’s picture’ a real winner.”
2 comments:
Nora Prentiss won't be shown on Sunday Morning at 10 am. TCM is running Doris Day movies all day Sunday.
Speaking of Ann Sheridan, she could toss of wisecracks like nobody else. She has plenty of good lines in Nora Prentiss at Midnight ET tonight.
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET (and 10 am ET Sunday Morning) is Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953), with Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley, Murvyn Vye, Willis Bouchey.
Film Noir Guide: "Widmark plays a pickpocket, a three-time loser recently released from prison, who snatches a top secret microfilm from Peters' handbag on a New York City subway. Peters was delivering the information for Communist spy Kiley, her former lover. Unaware of her handbags contents or of Kiley's true identity, she promises him that she'll try to find the thief. A street vendor and professional snitch (Ritter) who's already sold Widmark's address to police captain Vye and F.B.I. agent Bouchey, also sells it to Peters. (Ritter is saving for a cemetary plot and tombstone so she won't have to be buried in Potter's Field.) Vye and Willis fail in their appeal to Widmark's sense of patriotism ('Are you waving the flag at me?'), and Peters tries to seduce him out of the microfilm. But he's so intent on making a profit from it, even that doesn't work. Sparks fly for Peters, however, and she falls in love with the greedy crook. Widmark and Peters are teriffic, especially during their torrid love scenes, and veteran character actress Ritter shines in her Oscar-nominated performance."
I don't know what Eddie Muller will say this time. Several years ago he guest-hosted for TCM and called Richard Kiley's characterization of the Commie villain "the same boy scout he played in The Phenix City Story."
Note Jean Peters' indignant response when someone suggests she's a communist ("I'M NOT A RED!").
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