By David in TN
Friday, July 11, 2025 at 9:43:00 PM EDT
TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Gordon Wiles' The Gangster (1947), with Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring, Akim Tamiroff, Henry (Harry) Morgan, John Ireland and Sheldon Leonard.
Film Noir Guide: "Sullivan plays a neurotic hood who had to fight his way out of the gutter to get where he is. But now he spends all of bis time worrying about whether his showgirl lover (Belita) is cheating on him. Despite warnings from his high-strung associate (Tamiroff) that a rival (Leonard) is trying to take over the business, Sullivan continues to wander around in a paranoid daze, feeling ugly and unloved because of a facial scar, and seeking acceptance from Tamiroff's cashier (Lorring), who despises him."
"Morgan is cast against type as a soda jerk who sees himself as quite the ladies man, and Ireland is a pathetic gambler always just on the verge of hitting it big (sez he). It's overly melodramatic at times, but if you hang in long enough, murder will rear its ugly head."
"Sullivan gives a strong performance as the insecure hood who finds himself losing the little empire he's built. Look for some familiar noir faces in bit roles: Shelley Winters (Tamiroff's new cashier), Charles McGraw (a hood, of course) and Elisha Cook, Jr. (ditto)."
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning is Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949) with David Brian, Claude Jarman, Juano Hernandez.
Not on the Film Noir list, chosen by Eddie Muller. A black man (Hernandez) is falsely accused of the murder of a member of the most prominent family in a small Mississippi town. In the movies, every black man is "falsely accused." A lawyer (Brian) reluctantly takes the case, assisted by his nephew (Jarman).
Filmed in Oxford, Mississippi, this is better IMO than the much-praised To Kill a Mockingbird.
Two boxing films precede Noir Alley on Saturday Night. Killer's Kiss (1955) at 8 p.n. ET, and the classic The Harder They Fall (1956) at 9:30 p.m. ET. The latter was Humphrey Bogart's last film.
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