Friday, October 30, 2020 at 8:08:00 P.M. EDT
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Mark Robson’s The Seventh Victim (1943), with Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks and Hugh Beaumont (the Beaver’s future father!).
Film Noir Guide: “Hunter, in her film debut, plays a boarding school student notified that her sister (Brooks) is missing.
“She travels to New York City to look for her and soon discovers that Brooks, hopelessly neurotic and suicidal, is on the lam from a coven of Satan worshipers.
“Beaumont is Hunter’s brother-in-law, and Conway is the psychiatrist who’s helping Brooks hide out.
“Although ominous and atmospheric, as one would expect from B horror film producer Val Lewton, this eerily filmed mystery (marking Robson’s directing debut) is a bit slow.”
David in TN: Kim Hunter is best known for winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress is Streetcar Named Desire (1951). She was "STELLA!"
In his outro last week, Eddie Muller was enthusiastic about The Seventh Victim. Eddie considers it a B film just right for Halloween Night.
I have never seen it.
N.S.: I apologize to David but although I entered the entire text he'd sent me, and it's all here, only the title showed when I just checked my blog. This new Google blog interface has been a disaster, requiring much more work for much less results.
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 1 am (hour later than usual) and 10 am ET is Jacques Tourneur's Nightfall (1956), with Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, James Gregory, and Rudy Bond.
ReplyDeleteFilm Noir Guide: "Artist Ray is being pursued by cops, who think he's a murderer, and by two bank robbers (Keith and Bond), who believe he has their loot. Gregory (Inspector Frank Luger in TV's Barney Miller) is the insurance investigator trailing Ray, hoping to find the money. Bancroft, a model, falls for the artist and tries to help clear him. This is a fast-moving and enjoyable film, but Ray is unexciting in the lead role. Bond, however, is excellent as the psychopathic bank robber who's just itching to nock off Ray."
This week's entry is a good one not shown on TCM often. Unusual for Aldo Ray to be cast as a commercial artist. Ray was best known in the 50's for playing rough soldiers or marines. Nightfall is based on a David Goodis novel with the same title.