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Narrow Margin (remake) used The Canadian and the scenery was spectacular. Not sure what you mean by "vignettes overheard." Which "visual impressions?" Running around on top of a moving train is a Hollywood staple. Some of the best movies have featured that type action. Lots of things done in movies do not show the "high percentage of fatalities." Incidentally, a car of that period trying to keep pace with a high speed passenger train at night on country roads would surely have resulted in the car crashing in short order. Will have to watch NM again for the helicopter chasing train scene as I do not recall that. There is the scene where the two hit men arrive on a helicopter, but that is at Anne Archer's home and the train shows up later in the movie. I think it was shot down by Gene Hackman, but not sure. However, helicopters chasing vehicles and trains in the mountains is another Hollywood staple. If the pilot is paying attention and flying the aircraft, it won't crash. The passenger is the one doing the shooting, etc.

The Blue Gardenia, 12:30 PM Monday. Not to be confused with The Blue Dahlia. Gardenia is another very good noir movie and features Raymond Burr in one of his many bad guy roles of the period. He had a lot of them. Somewhat different from many noir/mystery movies of the period, but well worth watching. Dahlia is good also.

That's the way I remember it. There was suspicion that McGraw could be crooked.

As I said earlier this is the movie that made me appreciate McGraw and Windsor. I really recognized them in movies and TV shows after that. McGraw had memorable role in a Route 66 episode and Windsor was in one or two Perry Masons. Windsor was also excellent in a early part in Hearts of the West. While not a classical success, her role in Swamp Women is memorable as well.

Will have to disagree with you on this one. Not everybody can the main characters in a movie. Walsh and Walsh had good roles and plenty of screen time. As for too many implausible and predictable train action sequences, can you be more specific? I have ridden passenger trains and did not find the sequences to be that far out, considering it is an action movie. Actually more realistic than The Narrow Margin. Also, you may not have noticed but at least in NM, they used the same train or type train. TNM begins with a long, luxury train which at times is shown as a very short secondary train. The Narrow Margin is the better movie, but Narrow Margin rates much higher than 5/10.

Didn't watch The Narrow Margin as I have two copies, but I did record Eddie Mueller's intro and outro. Both very good. I agree that the ending for His Kind of Woman is really not that good. Eddie explained how it got changed by Howard Hughes and not for the better. The ending fight scenes are way too long and I usually fast forward through them. Fortunately Hughes couldn't get Narrow Margin ending changed.

Reminder: The Narrow Margin (1952) with Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor is on Noir Alley, midnight Saturday and 10 AM Sunday. Not to be confused with the 1990 sort of remake, Narrow Margin with Gene Hackman and Anne Archer, which is also a very good movie but somewhat different.

Just a reminder that The Narrow Margin is on Saturday at Midnight and Sunday at 10 AM. This is a really good noir. In my opinion, one of the better ones. I had probably seen Marie Windsor before, but seeing TNM several years ago really brought her to my attention. Have subsequently recognized her in many movies and TV shows since then. Same for Charles McGraw. The rest of the cast does a good job as well. TNM should not be confused with Narrow Margin, the 1990 sort of remake with Gene Hackman and Anne Archer. NM is also a very good movie and takes advantage of being made 40 years later. The train scenes are far more accurate. Don't miss The Narrow Margin.

Got mine yesterday. Did a quick scan of topics and deleted it. Too much trouble to open all the items to find out not interested in them. Make sure TCM is in your contact list or you won't get it. No-reply@tcm.com (I think.)

According to TCM.com schedule, Hollow Triumph is the Noir Alley movie for today and tomorrow. In fact, I don't see The Scar listed today or tomorrow. And what sound/sync issues?

Apr 27, 10:30 PM, The Las Vegas Story. While Brad Dexter is in this movie, the real stars are Jane Russel, Victor Mature and Vincent Price. Of course, Dexter does a good job of being a sleaze. Hoagy Carmichael and Jay C. Flippen are good as well. Russel's role is somewhat similar to the ones she played in Macao and His Kind of Woman. It last 90 minutes, which I think is a good length for this type movie.

Actually when I view this movie, I get kind of confused about the old house and how the police are supposed to know where it is and where to look for the money. If they already know location, why didn't they search it since they searched Rhonda's trailer several times?

I watch it on cable 95% of the time. May record something to DVD-RW if comes on late or will be away from home. So, voted for first two choices. On the other hand, we have a lot of movies/shows that TCM shows for which we have DVD's. We learned of them through viewing on TCM originally. So is that another choice? Maybe under other, but I did not check that. We do not watch anything on smart phones, computers, smart TV's, apps, etc. Just cable and DVD's.

130,000 people did not think so in 1949. This was a 20% increase in sales for Nash and they outsold Chrysler, De Soto, and Studebaker among others. Nash was considered a mid-price car.

I often see the posters or DVD covers for many movies from this period. Very misleading. Similar to the covers for pulp fiction.

During that period De Soto's and even Packards were used as taxis because they had large back seats. You will frequently see De Soto's as taxis in movies from the 30's and 40's and maybe even early 50's.

Actually the Edsel did not come out unitl 1958 and was actually considered a fairly good car. However, the timing was wrong as there was a recession and America did not want another mid-priced car, especially one that was not that different from Ford and Mercury. The unique grill didn't help. As for Nash, at the time of this movie they were fairly popular cars for the independent brands. They eventually evolved into Ramblers and then American Motors.

Actually the Nash's of the period were even more difficult to park. In the pictures, note the front wheel wells. Almost completely enclosed. Very limited turning circle, but Nash kept them because they made the cars distinctive. (Compare to car picture at left) The cars were considered very advanced for the time because they were more aerodynamic than other "boxy" cars. And it was often referred to as the upside down bathtub style. Packards were somewhat similar, but better looking. Lot of police departments used these cars so they often show up in Noir, mystery and drama movies from the period. Eddie had an interesting bit of information about the car during the outro.

Back to Noir. 12:15 AM (Midnight Saturday) and 10:00 AM Apr. 22 (Sunday) Cry Danger is a very entertaining one. Dick Powell gives his standard credible performance, but some others made a bigger impression on me. Richard Erdman, Regis Toomey, Jean Porter and William Conrad. The "cyclops" instrument cluster on top of Erdman's car's steering wheel is unusual. It was a Nash style that eventually went away.

I liked the other Bond actors except for Brosnan. Never have liked him. Although Roger Moore was more humorous than Connery and took the character to a different perspective. Craig actually sort of returns the character to a more serious vein ala Connery. And I do believe stories about spies currently is very timely. After all we have the CIA for some reason. Although, I do not believe the real espionage people are anything like what you see in Bourne, Bond, Atomic Blond or others. I do remember reading the Bond books and also The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Also saw all the movies. I think le Carre was probably closer to actual "spy" life than Fleming, etc. BUT, we pay for entertainment, not reality in these type books and movies. The reason the James Bond movies work as new ones is that they are well written, well directed and well acted for the most part. Whereas a lot of others, such as Star Wars, Terminators, etc. are just rehashes trying to milk the name.

Good advice. Many threads morph into something entirely different from the original title. Original posters may want to periodically see if they need to change thread titles. Bogie56 might want to consider a title change to his Trump's Biggest Whoppers in Off Topic. It has pretty much evolved into a general discussion of Trump and the government in general. It has also become a favorite location for jakeem to post huge number of copies of posts from other sites, to include large type and graphics.

What's Britbox?

Mine would be Rockford, Law and Order, Hill Street Blues, Perry Mason, Cagney and Lacey, In Plain Sight. Watch an episode of Rockford on DVD weekly and at least two Perry Mason's weekly. Watched the episodes of 77 sunset Strip on TV this past year. Most are fairly entertaining, but not one of the better detective shows. Watched Honey West and Decoy on OTA HD stations a couple of years ago. Pretty entertaining. While Rockford, L&O and PM are on TV, they are beat to death with commercials now. Never liked Columbo. Too silly and Mr. Monk and Miami Vice fall into the same category for me. Never liked any Sherlock Holmes movies or TV shows. A really good recent Canadian series is Motive. Sometimes shows up on USA network or one of others. Recently got into watching Midsomer Murders on PBS and they are quite good. Original Silk Stalkings was a pretty good one. Unfortunately it is no longer available on DVD, except for season one. It was an early offering by USA Network.

Hearts of the West (1975), 6:00 ET, Saturday is a very good movie. Beau Bridges, Andy Griffith, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin and a host of good actors. Set in 1930's Hollywood about making westerns. Watch this and you will never view a 1930's western the same again.

My opinion is that all threads should die after 24 months. Or maybe just reduce them to the last 12 months if most recent post is within 6 months.