By David in TN
Friday, July 1, 2022 at 7:46:00 P.M. EDT
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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Good movie. It really kept me engrossed. It was a pleasure to see Pat Hingle playing a role where he wasn’t somebody’s father. Here’s a great interview Ben Gazzara about the film. https://youtu.be/hssNWkE-leI
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is John Reinhardt's High Tide (1947) with Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw, Regis Toomey, Douglas Walton, Anthony Warde.
Film Noir Guide: "The incoming tide threatens to drown the trapped occupants of a crashed vehicle (newspaper editor Tracy and P.I. Castle). A flashback explains how the two friends found themselves in this predicament: Castle is hired to protect former boss Tracy from a local hood (Warde). When Walton, the owner of Tracy's newspaper is found murdered, homicide detective Toomey suspect Castle because the P.I. was once involved romantically with Walton's wife (Bishop)."
"Castle and Walton's pretty secretary (Shaw) try to prove his innocence. Sounds confusing, but it's a pretty fair low-budget noir with snappy dialogue and a surprise ending. Tracy and Castle turn in good performances."
David In TN: I haven't seen it but it sounds good. This is a Monogram product, "Poverty Row." Eddie Muller goes back to Noir territory this week.
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