By David in TN
friday, june 13, 2025 at 9:41:00 p.m. edt
TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is Irving Reis’ Crack-Up (1946), with Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Wallace Ford and Ray Collins
Film Noir Guide: “Ex-G.I. O’Brien, who served as an art expert in postwar Germany exposing Nazi forgeries, now conducts art appreciation seminars at a New York museum. After he’s arrested for breaking into the museum, seemingly while intoxicated, he tells detective Ford that he was aboard a train that was involved in a head-on collision with an oncoming train.
“After being dismissed as a kook because there have been no recent train wrecks, O’Brien investigates on his own and discovers that he owns the key to breaking up an art smuggling ring.
“Trevor plays his newspaper reporter girlfriend, Marshall is a mysterious art expert visiting the States from England, and Collins is a physician employed by the museum. The convoluted plot is difficult to follow, but O’Brien and Trevor are enjoyable and the photography so wonderfully eerie that you might not notice the holes in the script. Or if you do, you won’t care.”
N.S.: Pat O’Brien was a sensational actor who was rarely given juicy roles, and never developed a personality cult. I’d say more, but the witching hour approaches, and GRA’s war coverage awaits!
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning is Pale Flower (1964)
Pale Flower is a Japanese film. Released from prison, a murderous gangster forms a mutually destructive relationship with a mysterious woman.
At 6:15 p.m. ET, TCM shows John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor and John Vernon.
A ruthless crook (Marvin) seeks revenge against the partner (Vernon)who betrayed him and left him for dead on Alcatraz Island.
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