By David in TN
Friday, July 5, 2019 at 5:43:00 P.M. EDT
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is The Tattooed Stranger (1950). This has a no-name cast of John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella, Frank Tweddell, directed by Edward Montagne.
Film Noir Guide: “A rookie homicide detective (Miles), his experienced partner (Kinsella) and their boss (Tweddell) investigate the shotgun murder of a Jane Doe, whose body was found in Central Park. With the help of a pretty botanist (White), the detectives uncover crimes in which the woman had been involved—bigamy, insurance fraud and blackmail. In addition to some great location shots of Manhattan and the Bronx, this noir is perfect if you like your crime movies seedy, speedy, and short. This top-notch, low-budget quickie pulls no punches and the relatively unknown cast does a fine job. It's an entertaining look at New York City police professionals tracking down a killer in the pre-computer, pre-DNA era.”
Saturday, July 06, 2019
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is a Seedy, Speedy, Short Crime Story about the Murder of a Jane Doe, Starring and Featuring a Bunch of Jane and John Does: Edward Montagne’s The Tattooed Stranger (1950), with John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella and Frank Tweddell, Written by Phil Reisman Jr.
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Sorry to ruin the film noir posting with what I'm offering,but what better way to highlight the stark differences of entertainment now and 70 years ago,then by presenting the opposite of "film noir"(high quality),with something I call "Television Nie"(Polish word for no).If I get disgusted enough,occasionally I'll bring to your attention,future television shows to avoid because basically--it's crappy,black oriented programming
Here's the first:
https://deadline.com/2019/05/kids-say-the-darndest-things-tiffany-haddish-abc-series-fall-2019-1202614232/
I just saw this advertised recently.ABC(All Black Content),as they tend to do,takes a classic white show,Art Linkletter's,"Kids Say the Darndest Things",in this case and makes it black.Tiffany Haddish(click the link to see her negro posings)will make this version unwatchable.CBS hired Bill Cosby many years ago for a late 90s version--which was passable (like a kidney stone),but at least Cosby was a professional comic,so he could somewhat entertain--Haddish is...what?
Black,that's all.There'll be tons of black kids,lots of black convo and no laughs--unless "you is black"."Who knows what the agenda will be?With an untalented black woman hosting,there WILL be an agenda.
So a heads up on this one,when it premiers,in the fall--after blackie Alfonso Ribera's "America's Funniest Home Videos"--ANOTHER formerly white hosted show turned black.As Nancy Reagan would have opined upon viewing this garbage,"Just say nie."
--GR Anonymous
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight ET (and 10 am ET Sunday Morning) is The People Against O'Hara (1951). John Sturges directed a cast of Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Eduardo Cianelli, James Arness, J.C. Flippen.
This is a particular Noir type-The wrong man. And per Film Noir Guide, fatalism and corruption.
Film Noir Guide: "A former district attorney (Tracy), now a civil lawyer, takes on a murder case against the wishes of his daughter (Lynn), who is afraid the stress will cause him to start hitting the bottle again. Arness (Matt Dillon of TV's Gunsmoke) plays the man framed in the murder of his boss. Determined to get his client off the hook and to beat the pompous D.A. (Hodiak), Tracy, already nipping the booze, resorts to bribing a witness (Flippen). When that fails, he puts his life in danger in an attempt to trap the real killer. O'Brien plays a homicide detective, an old buddy of Tracy, who tries to help his friend by passing on information. Cianelli is the gangster husband of Arness' girlfriend. Keep a sharp eye out for Charles Bronson (billed as Charles Buchinsky) in a bit role as one of six hoodlum brothers. Tracy and O'Brien, both looking older and more worn than their real ages (early 50's), are excellent in their first film together."
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