ChristineHoard

I love Jean Hagen in THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. In fact, that movie has one of the best casts ever - everyone handled their roles perfectly. I also remember Jean playing Danny Thomas's wife in the old Make Room for Daddy TV show before Marjorie Reynolds took over.

Love the Clifton Webb pix.

I got caught up on a couple of Noir Alley offerings this weekend: The Won't Believe Me has a shocking ending (probably Code-mandated) and the three female leads are good. I like Robert Young playing a jerk. He's more interesting. Looks like he was trying to branch out like Dick Powell and John Payne. Young did play a dark character in The Mortal Storm a few years earlier. Scandal Sheet was enjoyable with a nice performance by Brodrick Crawford in a not-so-nice role. Henry O'Neill, who played the has-been alcoholic reporter was really good and the standout performance for me. This is the third time I've seen John Derek and Crawford together in the same film (All the King's Men and The Posse). The actors playing the barflies certainly looked the part - good casting.

If I knew how to post this I would: Armie Hammer from CALL ME BY MY NAME dancing joyously for 40-some seconds in a clip from the movie. It's on the Vulture.com web site under the heading (paraphrasing here) Six Good Things That Happened This Week. It's been a rotten news week for reasons I needn't get into here but if you would like a little something to cheer you up, check this out.

True, you are like 20 years younger than me so our perspectives are a little different.

Very poignant, TomJH, I remember those scenes from both movies. Thanks.

I love The Sea Wolf. How is it that Eddie G never got nominated for an Oscar? So many great performances and this is one of his very best.

Good memory. I watched NORTHERN EXPOSURE but not much ST. ELSEWHERE. The doctor being raped in prison may be more about control than sex, just like in the outside world.

This shows the same team evolved over time in creating new shows. If I recall correctly, I think ST. ELSEWHERE came out in the 1980's and NORTHERN EXPOSURE in the 1990's.

Yes, a lot of people did feel this way in the 1970's, at least in more conservative social circles. Remember that it wasn't until sometime in the 1970's that the shrinks decided that being gay was not a mental illness. Anyway, shows like THE WHITE SHADOW are sort of a time capsule and in hindsight we can look back at them now and see they weren't really so progressive after all.

I think Dracula would be scarier. A shark can be avoided by staying out of the water but Dracula seems to find his victims no matter what. I do like JAWS, though. I guess we have to ask ourselves: would we rather become one of the undead or get eaten alive? Tough call.

I agree with what you say about the seventies but you're off about the eighties. Reagan was president for most of the eighties so it's not post-Reagan and the eighties were hardly prudish. Even when AIDS and HIV finally made the mainstream media news (and it was made clear that it was not a "gay disease" and anybody could be vulnerable including those getting blood transfusions or Magic Johnson) , it was about wearing condoms for protection but not giving up sex altogether. You are right about capitalist greed - that seems to be a part of every decade.

film lover 293, Glad you caught the Val Lewton doc. I watched it again, too, for the third time and I still think it's excellent and might bump up your rating a bit. I like that TCM still runs this every now and then, usually when they run a bunch of the Val Lewton RKO flicks. I think THE BODY SNATCHER is my favorite and I think it's one of Karloff's best performances. I also like how Lewton used a lot of the same people repeatedly and gave roles to fading stars; Richard Dix in THE GHOST SHIP gives a fine performance.

TopBilled, It is archaic as you so rightly point out. It is symptomatic of the times in movie & TV portrayals of gays. Actually, the show was considered progressive in that white liberal way of the 1970's. I remember watching the show pretty regularly when it was originally broadcast but haven't seen it since then. If the show was made today there is no way you're going to have three white kids on an eight-man team in an inner city high school.

Yeah, that's Brucie in the book - the lady they both knew in England during the war.

I haven't read the Lisa Maria afterward but I think you will enjoy reading Megan's comments.

For someone "just confused about his sexuality" he sure had a lot of gentlemen relationships. I'll stand by with what I wrote.

Yes, but as Stewart explains, it isn't justified homicide; he had to be crazy at the time. I always thought Remick was raped because she had bruises ("all over" as she tells Stewart) so I don't think it was consensual sex.

Maybe TCM should run a night of programming of KItchen Sink films.

I hope it isn't true that Tony had reversion therapy, or pray the gay away therapy or whatever you want to call it. I would hope he wanted kids but knew he wouldn't be able to adopt any as a single gay dad back in those days, so he found and married an empathetic partner in Berry. As for fans of Tony and/or Tuesday, do watch PRETTY POISON when it comes on. I haven't seen it in years but am looking forward to it. Look for Beverly Garland ("The Monster That Challenged the World") as Tuesday's mom.

Thank you, Gordon. I don't have a bookstore near me so I got it at Amazon, published by the New York Review of Books with a new afterword by Megan Abbot.

I don't think PTSD is a factor in this story, cmovieviewer. I heartily recommend the book; the violence is pretty subtle but no doubt that Dix is a very dangerous character.

I'm going back a few weeks to In a Lonely Place. I saw the movie again after I finished reading the book. The book, by Dorothy Hughes, is dynamite and one of the best books I've ever read. Really, really good and I can't add much to what others have said other than a big "thank you" for talking about it. Now I want to read some of her other stuff. I still like the movie a lot although it's not my favorite noir but it's very good with fine performances by all involved. The only similarities are the characters' names and the LA setting. The courtyard/apartments are pretty much the way I envisioned them from the book. In the movie, Bogart's Dix Steele is a screenwriter. In the novel, Dix is a mystery writer although he doesn't seem to be doing any actual writing. It might be interesting to have a movie that follows the book's narrative more but I don't know how you could pull of the interior monologue. It would be a challenge. I would definitely keep the setting as post-WWII because LA and America after the war are important aspects of the story. Again, thanks so much for the recommendation of the novel.

Be sure to check out the Val Lewton TCM doc. I've seen it a couple of times. Martin Scorsese does an excellent job. If your a Val Lewton fan or fan of classic horror beyond Universal, it's a must-see.

If the pattern continues, you'll get it in four months.