By David in TN
friday, july 25, 2025 at 8:43:00 p.m. edt
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at 12:15 and 10 a.m. ET is Jules Dassin's Rififi (1955) with Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel, Jules Dassin (credited as Perlo Vita), Magali Noel and Robert Hossein.
Film Noir Guide: "Ex-con Servais, released after serving a five-year prison sentence, masterminds a jewelry store heist in Paris. Servais and his gang (Mohner, Dassin, and Manuel) meticulously plan and execute the daring caper, walking away with nearly a quarter of a million francs.
"Convinced they've gotten away with it, the gang relaxes, but Dassin's weakness for a beautiful nightclub singer (Noel) results in a series of noirish mishaps. A rival gangster (Marcel Lupocovi) and his drug addict brother (Hussein) want the stolen jewels and will stop at nothing to get them, including kidnapping and murder.
"Servais is excellent as the tubercular ex-con, and director Dassin does a surprisingly good job as the Italian safecracker who pays a big price for breaking 'the rules.' Hailed as the progenitor of all heist films by those who must have forgotten about 1950's The Asphalt Jungle, Rififi (French gangster slang for 'trouble') is known for its ingenous [sic] 30-minute long silent heist--no talking, no background music."
David in TN: Red Eddie Muller will undoubtedly moan about Edward Dmytryk's "naming" Dassin as a Communist. There will be no Noir Alley during August, as Muller takes a vacation.
N.S.: Didn't Red Eddie just get off from a month-long vacation for Oscar Month?!
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That's a diverse sounding bunch--is it being shown with subtitles(joking).
--GRA
Here's a good one: PORT OF NEW YORK (1949).
https://archive.org/details/1949-port-of-new-york-puerto-de-nueva-york-laslo-benedek-vo
A small-scale version of the Dick Powell classic, TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. Documentary-style "noir" about drug smuggling- with a young Yul Brynner (with hair!) as the villain!
Public domain movie which unfortunately has yet to be restored, but it's in passably-watchable quality. Nice location footage of NYC, including the long-gone elevated train.
-RM
White supremacists are losers.
There are no "white supremacists." If there were, whites wouldn't be facing genocidal extinction.
Whites are the only group who won't stand up for their own people and culture, who have misplaced compassion for their enemies, who have become too docile to fight (except amongst each other). They used to drink and smoke too much; now they're all addicted to drugs. Turned their backs on education and trashed their beautiful language. Thrown away religion and normal standards of behavior and judgment. Built civilization out of nothing- then gave it away.
If you want to say "White people are losers," okay. But don't talk about "white supremacists."
-RM
If White people are losers,which might be considered a truth,in about 20 years--what are blacks and mex?
--GRA
From Anthony Burgess' autobiography: At some hoity-toity party in the 1960s, an older woman gushed, "Maybe we should all become hippies!" To which he responded, "That would never work- parasites need something to live on!" They got rather mad at him for saying that! But maybe that answers your question.
-RM
On Thursday, August 14, TCM has a day of Sterling Hayden films. For Primetime, starting at 8 p.m. ET they have Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956), followed by Andre De Toth's Crime Wave (1954), and Five Steps to Danger (1957).
On his last Noir Alley in July, Red Eddie Muller said he would be hosting these films as Sterling Hayden is a favorite. I predict he will be moaning about Sterling Hayden's guilt for "naming names."
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