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I'll look it up

Why is the Star Trek Enterprise like a roll of terlet paper?

I saw it in a theater so it was probably some "B" movie or independant film, no neighborhood theaters were showing vintage films in the early 60s. But yes The Roaring Twenties and He Ran All The Way are similar but this was Christmas Eve and snowing on a street corner under a streetlight.

Great, I know What I'm doing tomorrow, I don't recall seeing Second Chance so that's a bonus.

riff-raff - not used a whole lot these days geezer - an old man is the most common.... but an old geezer - also means a heroin addict geezing - is shooting up geezed - is loaded - high Oh, and I finally remembered that odd expression you hear in films and at least two Film Noir, and one of those by Gloria Grahame, it's..... Tell tales out of school.

No, that was He Ran All The Way 1951. I saw it in a theater on a double bill. And it's definitely Christmas time and the guy was a gangster a greaseball type, kinda looked a bit like Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Gene Barry, Steve Cochran

Seen liked The Wolf of Wall Street The Great Beauty The Other Side of the Wind seen Manchester by the Sea Gravity Beasts of the Southern Wild The Revenant Birdman Haven't seen the rest

I've been looking for this film for years, actually, not looking for it but more trying to identify it. I saw it as a kid at a small theater on Steinway Street in Astoria, NY. The theater was originally called the Cameo later the Olympia theater. I didn't go to it very often but I did see this film I'm looking for in the early 60's. I seem to remember it was in Black & White, but the key scene that sticks in my mind was at night. It may have been a second bill with whatever the main film was. The film I definitely remember seeing at the Olympia was Man's Favorite Sport (1964), it may have been the second bill, but I'm not sure. I figuring it had to be around 1963-64-65. It was some type of gangster flick. It was similar in one respect to Sam Fuller's Underworld U.S.A. (1961). The gangster gets shot at the end, dying on a snowy sidewalk with diegetic Christmas music coming from someplace (may have been a church, but don't remember where for sure, don't remember which tune). In Underworld U.S.A. Cliff Robertson dies in an alley with auld lang syne playing that is the similarity. So I thought maybe I just mis-remembered it. What was different was that the gangster was married and had a family that he never got back to on Christmas Eve, a tear jerker. Like Cliff Robertson, the gangster had black hair. Ring a bell with anyone?

Do you see the image in your post just above?

True, but what is or isn't a Film Noir has definitions all over the map, and usually starts heated arguments. Using the personal experience subjective explanation can explain why something that is Noir for you may not ring noir for someone else, using this definition will avoid the arguments, nobody is wrong. 😎

Here above TomJH provided a good example of how your various life experiences, allow you to "tune" to certain Film Noirs more that others. "A thought to throw into the equation of what makes a Noir/Neo Noir is an individual internal factor. It's subjectivity. Noir is in all of us. Think of us all as having an internal tuning fork, these tuning forks are forged by our life experiences which are all unique. When we watch these films their degree of Noir-ness resonates with us differently, so we either "tune" to them or we don't. The amount of "tuning" (I'm appropriating this term from the Neo Noir Dark City (1998)) to certain films will vary between us all also."

Another Spook Trade film worth having on Noir Alley is The Amazing Mr. X (1948)

I watched it but wasn't watching for the scene.

I liked it up to the ending which I thought was a bit much. If you've seen the Spaghetti Westerns of Franco Nero especially The Mercenary and Companeros you'd see that actor Christoph Waltz was doing a pretty good immitation of Nero in those two films. Is it a serious Western? no, is it a comedy Western? no, is it a picaresque tongue-in-cheek over the top homage to American Westerns, Spaghetti Westerns, Blaxpoitation films, and American popular culture, YES! The theater was packed when I saw it, young, old, black, white. At the end there was even a scattering of applause. Is it a Great Western no, but it was refreshing to see a non PC Western that wasn't a remake, wasn't historically accurate, wasn't touchy freely, wasn't serious in the least. 7-8/10.

Like them also but I think Two Men In Manhattan is in English for The Cid which is why I listed it.

I Became a Criminal (1947) The Long Memory (1953) Never Let Go (1960) French.... Two Men In Manhattan (1959)

If it was it would have been pornographic......

An open suggestion to TCM and Noir Alley. Once we exhaust the TCM Noir Film Library, it would be nice to make a conscientious effort to screen for us all The British and French Film that are out there that we never see along with the Paramount and Fox Noirs. 😎

The animation cartoons I really hated were the ones that looked like they had real human mouths doing the talking when they spoke, I think there was a name for that process, but it escaped me now an so do any of the cartoon series that used it.

You mean like the $30 flip phone I use and put $15 on every month, lol 😎

I can just imagine what was popping out of the screen, it may go up a notch with the 3D version, even I would give it a shot

Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959) Stars: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard. A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them. Yvette Vickers is a cutie worth a watch for her. 5/10 Source: Film Detective Channel

Well being a AficioNoirdo these: The Killer Inside Me (2010) The Iceman (2012) Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014) Cop Car (2015) Too Late (2015) The American Side (2016) Hell or High Water (2016) Nocturnal Animals (2016) Frank & Lola (2016) The rest: Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, US (2018) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen) 12 Years A Slave (Steve McQueen) Nebraska (2013) Roma (Alfonso Cuaron) Of the original list didn't like 01. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) 03. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) 04. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 05. The Social Network (David Fincher) 18. Her (Spike Jonze) 21. Inception (Christopher Nolan) 23. La La Land (Damien Chazelle) Haven't seen 06. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) 08. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) 09. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) 11. Get Out (Jordan Peele) 12. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) 13. Carol (Todd Haynes) 14. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan) 15. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade) 16. Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 19. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) 20. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer) 25. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami) 26. The Florida Project (Sean Baker) 27. Amour (Michael Haneke) 28. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)

I don't remember, but did Lorre play a flute too?