By David in TN
friday, october 21, 2022 at 10:03:00 p.m. edt
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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It HAD to be obscure--and a 1960 flick as well.Not too many good "film noirs" being made at that point,I don't believe--correct,if wrong.In fact,I'll ask:Were there ANY classic film noirs AFTER 1959?
--GRA
Correct, GRA.
There were some good crime pictures made after 1960, but they either weren't called "films noir," or they were called "neo-noir." The only example that might have been called "neo-noir" that comes to mind was John Boorman's Point Blank (1967), starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. That's where I finally learned why Hollywood types thought Dickinson was so hot.
Note, however, that while I saw Point Blank on TCM, it was not on Red Eddie Muller's show. I suspect that somebody at TCM has been intervening, showing classic crime pictures (like The Roaring Twenties last Tuesday), to compensate for the crap Red Eddie typically broadcasts.
Speaking of the crap Red Eddie typically broadcasts, TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is an Argentine horror film called El Vampiro Negro (1953).
David In TN: The English translation is The Black Vampire, a "reworking" of Fritz Lang's M (1931). Eddie Muller was very enthusiastic about it in his outro last week. He patted himself on the back for "rescuing" a supposed classic.
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