By David in TN
friday, september 23, 2022 at 6:44:00 p.m. edt
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:30 and 10 a.m. is S. Sylvan Simon's I Love Trouble (1947) with Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens, Steven Geray, Tom Powers, Glenda Farrell and Lynn Merrick.
The screenplay is by Roy Huggins, who also wrote the novel. Huggins wrote often for TV and was creator of The Fugitive TV Series.
Film Noir Guide: "Tone plays a jaunty gumshoe hired by a politician (Powers) to find out about his wife's past (she turns out to have been a bubble dancer). During his investigation, the private eye is beaten up several times, flirted with by just about every woman in the film except his faithful secretary (Farrell), and arrested for murder by homicide detective Powers [sic].
"Keeping track of the female characters (Blair, Carter, Jergens and Merrick) is the key to following this confusing noir. Geray plays a shady nightclub owner. Interesting primarily for a peek at two relative newcomers to film, Raymond Burr and John Ireland, who play Geray's hoods."
David in TN: I Love Trouble is supposed to have been a "lost" noir. Eddie Muller will probably claim credit for finding it. Franchot Tone's character is named Stuart Bailey. The name was given to Efrem Zembalist's character in the TV Series 77 Sunset Strip, which Huggins also created. It looks like a knockoff of Raymond Chandler.
LOUISE FLETCHER--OF "CUCKOO'S NEST" FAME,PASSES AWAY AT 88
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Louise Fletcher, the actress who won an Academy Award for playing the villainous Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died Friday in France, according to her agent David Shaul. She was 88.
Shaul said Fletcher died of “natural causes,” without providing further details. She was surrounded by family at her home in Montdurausse.
Shaul, who said he worked with Fletcher over the past few decades, said she lived in a converted a 300-year-old farmhouse there and also had a residence in Los Angeles.
“France was her favorite place on the planet; she built a home in a beautiful place that she loved,” he said. “She was a great woman – what a career.”
Fletcher’s Oscar came for her second movie after a long break from acting to raise her children.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” starred Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution, where Mildred Ratched – played by Fletcher – reigns as an authoritarian, controlling nurse.
GRA:One of my top three movies of all time.
--GRA
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:30 and 10 am is Delmer Daves' The Red House (1947) with Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Allene Roberts, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun, Julie London.
ReplyDeleteFilm Noir Guide: "Robinson, a crippled farmer with a dark secret that has driven him mad and paralyzed him with fear, and his devoted sister (Anderson) discourage their ward (Roberts) from venturing in to the surrounding woods to locate an ominous red house. Hired hand McCollister can't be stopped, however, and he and Roberts join forces to uncover a 15-year old mystery."
"Gorgeous Julie London is McCallister's fickle high school sweetheart, and Calhoun is the armed guardian of the woods. Strong performances, eerie photography, and a haunting musical score do wonders for tis otherwise slow-moving noir."