By David in TN
friday, december 8, 2023 at 6:00:00 p.m. est
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 1 a.m. and 10 a.m. ET is William Nigh’s I Wouldn’t be in Your Shoes (1948) with Elyse Knox, Don Castle, Charles D. Brown and Regis Toomey.
David in TN: This is a little-known film from Monogram that isn’t in the Film Noir Guide, never before on TCM. Nevertheless, this time Eddie Muller has chosen a good one.
Elyse Knox tries to rescue her husband (Castle) from execution, after he is wrongly convicted of murder. This one is based on a Cornell Woolrich novel.
Knox was a B-movie actress who married Michigan Heisman trophy-winning football hero Tom Harmon when he came back from the war. She was the mother of actor Mark Harmon.
I saw I Wouldn’t be in Your Shoes once before, and recommend it.
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Commercial on today's "Face the(Commie)Nation":
"Tomorrow,Steven Colbert is back--with Liz Chaney--on cbs."
GRA:And I'm supposed to want to watch that?
--GRA
Tuesday Night-Wednesday Morning at 1:15 a.m. ET TCM shows George Marshall's The Blue Dahlia (1946) with Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard da Silva, Tom Powers, Will Wright.
This is one of the Ladd-Lake classics. The screenplay is by Raymond Chandler. Eddie Muller has yet to show The Blue Dahlia on Noir Alley.
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Harry Horner's Beware, My Lovely (1952) with Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting.
Film Noir Guide: "A paranoid-schizophrenic handyman (Ryan) hops a freight train after killing a housewife and lands a job with homeowner Lupino in a nearby town. He isn't on the job five minutes before he starts behaving strangely, turning the widow's Christmas holiday into a film noir nightmare."
"Holmes plays Lupino's boarder and Whiting is her annoying teenage niece. Although Ryan is chilling, and Lupino is convincing enough, Beware is a bit dated, managing only an occasional fright. The film was based on the successful Broadway play The Man, which starred Dorothy Gish."
David In TN: The crypto-communist Robert Ryan made a living playing the most negative characters Hollywood of that time could conjure up. Ryan sometimes had positive roles but is remembered for psychos, bigots, Western villains, etc. One of his last roles had Ryan plotting to assassinate JFK. Robert Ryan's friends claimed he was such a nice guy off screen.
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