By David in TN
Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8:58:00 P.M. EDT
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is Arnold Laven’s Down Three Dark Streets (1954), starring Broderick Crawford, with Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer, Marisa Pavan, Max Showalter and Claude Akins.
The Complete Films of Broderick Crawford: “Down Three Dark Streets is a superior police/murder mystery that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end and one of Broderick Crawford’s best films.”
David in TN: Eddie Muller finally puts on a good one. Broderick Crawford plays an FBI agent based in Los Angeles who finds himself working three separate cases. Ruth Roman is a target for an extortionist in one. In another, Martha Hyer plays a burlesque dancer involved with a gangster. Akins is a violent thug terrorizing Pavan.
Crawford’s performance as a tough-talking, dedicated FBI agent paved the way for his most famous role, Dan Mathews in the TV series, Highway Patrol.
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is The Strange One (1957) with Ben Gazzara, George Peppard, Pat Hingle, and a good portion of the Actor's Studio.
Google: "Cadet Jocko De Paris (Gazzara) pulls all the strings at the military school he attends. With the help of his roommate, Harry (Hingle), Jocko bullies the younger students into doing his bidding. Because he has the entire student body under his thumb, Jocko always manages to stay one step ahead of his teachers, and even succeeds in getting a well-connected student kicked out of the academy. However, he makes a mistake when he crosses freshman Robert Marquales (Peppard)."
David In TN: I saw it once. Underwhelming. Eddie Muller likes the "subversive" undercurrent. The film debut for Gazzara and Peppard.
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