jblowzir

Fun thread. I’ll start with T-Men. Anthony Mann didn’t have a big budget, but he made a great, gritty noir with incredible lighting and photography by John Alton. Next up is Scarlet Street. Fritz Lang feeds hen-pecked cashier Edward G. Robinson to the proverbial wolves, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. The Kino DVD is stunning. Next we have Bad Day at Black Rock, a western-themed noir that features John Sturges doing what he did best: directing an almost all-male cast of all stars and giving each his due. Great racism-related plot that is still relevant today. I've often thought someone would try to remake this one. The final screening: Chinatown. Polanski turns the darkness up to 11. Bleak. Beautiful. Wrenching. Noir to the core.

Fun thread. Here are two of my favorites: Chinatown: "Forget it, Jake...It's...Chinatown..." Odds Against Tomorrow (gets my vote for great score, too): "Well...These are the two that did it..." ---"Which is which?' "Take your pick." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAK_RiCfc5Q

Recently Robert Osborne introduced a screening of Bullitt and mentioned that Walter Matthau had an unbilled bit part in the film. Curious, I tried to find the scene. Folks online pointed to a scene where Bullitt requests a car from the auto pool and is informed by a desk clerk (presumably Matthau) that no cars are available. The scene takes place at about the 75 or 80 minute mark. I can’t deny that the clerk looks a bit like Matthau, but I have a hard time believing that he’d have taken such a nothing role at that point in his career. By 1968 he’d already played a bunch of important lead roles (The Odd Couple was in the can, The Fortune Cookie, Charade, Lonely are the Brave, and many more.) Can anyone confirm or deny that Matthau appears in the film, and if so, in what scene? Edited by: jblowzir on Nov 14, 2012 7:28 PM