Today's Noir, The Breaking Point, with John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, and an outstanding supporting cast was not only the best Noir shown by this channel in years, but the only good Noir shown this year. Previous films have been B-films at best and made me lose interest in this Sunday morning tradition that my wife and I had of watching Noir together.
Several times, Eddie Muller would go on and on about a forthcoming Noir only to disappoint us with a very poor film. I would assume that he did not have control of the films to be shown and was trying to hold on to his film