By David in TN
friday, october 14, 2022 at 11:01:00 p.m. edt
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Cy Enfield’s The Argyle Secrets (1948), with Marjorie Lord and William Gargan.
The Argyle Secrets is about a reporter searching for a list of Nazi collaborators. An obscure film, “newly restored,” not in the Film Noir Guide. I’ve never seen it. An over-the-top plot of pulp fiction according to the few reviews.
N.S.: Marjorie Lord went on to play the mother on The Danny Thomas Show, after the original actress, Jean Hagen, quit, for reasons that vary, depending on the source (her role was a big nothing, or she didn't get along with Thomas).
Cy Enfield, aka Endfield, was a Communist who was blacklisted, so Red Eddie will surely plug him for that. A better reason to talk up Enfield/Endfield is that he was an inventor, and that once he was permitted to return to the picture business, he made an acclaimed picture, Zulu about the 1879 battle between a hopelessly outnumbered British company and thousands of Zulu warriors at Rorke’s Drift, which starred Stanley Baker and a young Michael Caine as very real British officers on whom would be bestowed the highest decoration of the British Empire, the Victoria Cross.
History Buffs: Zulu
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Edward L. Cahn's Cage of Evil (1960), with Ronald Foster and Patricia Blair.
Wikipedia: "Scott Harper (Foster) is a frustrated police detective who is constantly passed over for promotion. When he is assigned to gain the confidence of Holly (Blair), the girlfriend of a robbery suspect, the couple fall in love and then plot to murder Holly's boyfriend and run off to Mexico with the loot."
David In TN: This is not on any Noir list. Patricia Blair played Daniel Boone's wife in the 1960s TV series starring Fess Parker. She is billed as Pat Blair in the film.
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