Saturday, May 18, 2024

TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is a Japanese film, Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)

By David in TN
saturday, may 18, 2024 at 1:24:00 a.m. edt

TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is a Japanese film, Take Aim at the Police Van (1960).

The plot, according to satellite direct magazine is: “A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.”

N.S.: This sounds like it’s so obscure, that not even Red Eddie has seen it.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The driver had better be Bruce Lee.

Kung fu noir.

--GRA

David In TN said...

TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Irving Rapper's Bad for Each Other (1954) with Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, and Dianne Foster.

This has never been considered a Film Noir. The plot per the TCM site is, "A doctor returning from the Korean War must choose between setting up a glamorous practice and helping the poor."

It sounds like a copy of The Citadel (1938). Charlton Heston's first film was a genuine noir, with the evocative title Dark City (1950). His co-star was Lizabeth Scott as well. It's a better film than Bad for Each Other but Red Eddie Muller has never shown it.