unwatchable Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 21 minutes ago, JamesJazGuitar said: ...so we need to heist this thread at least for another week or so. At your service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 1 minute ago, unwatchable said: At your service For your sake make sure you don't hire Vince Edwards as your assistant. He is known for heisting a heist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unwatchable Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 I got my own crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fading Fast Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 48 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said: Since you critque several of the Repeat Performance cast members, I'm surprised you didn't mention Richard Basehart. He's such an under-rated actor; I consider him to be one of the best of his era, and am always interested in seeing anything he was in. He plays a difficult role in Repeat Performance, but as always with him, he pulls it off very well. 22 minutes ago, JamesJazGuitar said: Solid point Miss W, which is why within the post I made my wise crack I included this: and often featured noir actor Richard Basehart. At first I had "iconic noir actor" but then I wimped out because I believed I would be challenged for using the term "iconic". I would have stuck to my guns if I knew you had my back (ha ha). Repeat Performance was his first film performance, but, as I'm sure you know, he was in many other mystery\noir films, and was solid and memorable in all them, as either the lead or supporting actor. Cry Wolf, He Walked by Night, Tension, Outside the Wall, Fourteen Hours, and The House on Telegraph Hill. As a youngster I only knew him from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, so it took me a while to discover him and his solid film legacy. Hats off to Richard! I'm a big fan of Basehart too. Although, have to also mention Paul Douglas' performance in "Fourteen Hours," as it's incredible. He's another favorite. Grace Kelly has (what I believe is) her first movie appearance in "Fourteen Hours." I don't think we've mentioned Basehart in another good one of his, "Finger of Guilt." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameselliot Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Has Noir Alley ever shown The Scarlet Hour? I read that Noir City once programmed a quality print. I've only seen a beat-up dupe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 36 minutes ago, jameselliot said: Has Noir Alley ever shown The Scarlet Hour? I read that Noir City once programmed a quality print. I've only seen a beat-up dupe. Sorry, I wouldn't know. But, with that poster of it, I'm sure you got our friend Eucalyptus P. Millstone's attention anyway! (...in fact when he comes across this, I'll bet the look on his face will be just like the one Tom Tryon has up there) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmovieviewer Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 20 minutes ago, jameselliot said: Has Noir Alley ever shown The Scarlet Hour? I read that Noir City once programmed a quality print. I've only seen a beat-up dupe. It appears that The Scarlet Hour (1956) has never been shown on TCM. It does look like a good candidate for Noir Alley if TCM can secure the rights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 17 minutes ago, cmovieviewer said: It appears that The Scarlet Hour (1956) has never been shown on TCM. It does look like a good candidate for Noir Alley if TCM can secure the rights. Reading up on this film it doesn't sound very good. It looks like producer \ director Curtiz was trying to repeat what he did years before with The Unsuspected, but with The Unsuspected Curtiz had access to interesting, high quality actors (since Warner Bros was involved this being the first film Curtiz did with his own production company), with the exception of the secondary lead actor Ted North (who was clearly the weak link). In The Scarlet Hour this was the first film for the 3 main actors and it appears it shows. The film does have some solid supporting actors in James Gregory, E.G. Marshall, David Lewis, Edward Binns and Richard Deacon. Regardless, I would watch it if Eddie was to show it. . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Twilight Zone marathon on Decades channel. Nobody smokes a better cigarette than Rod Serling, nobody. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 1 hour ago, Thompson said: Twilight Zone marathon on Decades channel. Nobody smokes a better cigarette than Rod Serling, nobody. Oh, I dunno, Thompson. I guess you have a point here. But, you don't ever recall hearing the phrase "Don't Serling that joint" back in the day, now do you?! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Okay, Bogart could smoke a good one, better yet he was adept at rolling one too. Oh, Ha Ha, “don’t bogart that joint my friend “. — I never put those two together before. Man, you hang around Noir Alley and all kinds of connections are revealed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 50 minutes ago, Thompson said: Okay, Bogart could smoke a good one, better yet he was adept at rolling one too. Oh, Ha Ha, “don’t bogart that joint my friend “. — I never put those two together before. Man, you hang around Noir Alley and all kinds of connections are revealed. bogart | Etymology, origin and meaning of bogart by etymonline 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 The commercial that gets me is the insurance commercial about the woman who wakes up in the morning and there is no hot water in the shower. Can you imagine? No hot water in the shower. But she calls the insurance company and gets it fixed the same day. They come out and fix it the same day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 The music in Repeat Performance was wrong. Other things were wrong too, but the score was anti noir IMO. I can see why several here passed on a second viewing. My cable connection went out a couple of times during the film, for which I was grateful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoganman1 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 REPEAT PERFORMANCE was interesting. Although I'd seen it before, it was enjoyable to watch again. I was amazed to hear that in the novel the roles of Barney and Sheila were reversed. It actually reminded me a little of A STAR IS BORN. One character's career is on the rise while the spouse's career is in decline. Also, I love Tom Conway. I watch THE FALCON movies whenever I can find them. I've always thought he would have been a great James Bond. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Sheila’s lipstick in the final scenes (most notably when she’s lying in bed waiting on midnight) is smeared on her upper lip. Surely someone on the cutting floor noticed that. And what was the reason for the bandage on Barney’s head? I might have missed that crucial plot progression when the cable went out, but I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midwestan Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I enjoyed "Repeat Performance", a movie I'd never seen before. Like Hoganman1, I found it interesting that the original source material in the book had the wife playing the villainous part, while the husband was the tormented, sympathetic character. Joan Leslie was the epitome of a bi-polar person. One minute she's happy, enthusiastic, and optimistic about her future, and then with a flip of a switch, she becomes sour, angry, and paranoid and usually over the mention of the name: Paula Costello! I thought the New York Times' critic roasting Louis Hayward's performance was unfair. He was taken with Ms. Costello and dismissive and contemptible toward his wife, especially after his accident when he was confined for a while to a wheelchair. He had a look in this movie with his facial expressions, his mannerisms, and dialog that reminded me of a cross between Raymond Massey and Orson Welles. Natalie Schaefer played a somewhat ditsy, yet blunt socialite whose money was a theater producer's best friend. I loved the scene how she spilled the beans about Barney and Paula's tryst to the naive and unsuspecting Sheila. I wonder how a remake of "Repeat Performance" would be done today, in terms of whether or not the wife's part would be portrayed as the victim or the antagonist? I have no doubt the part of William Williams would be expanded to include his 'dark secret', since censorship today is basically self-regulated in the film industry. The one major flaw for this 1947 picture is the glossing over of how Richard Basehart's character came to be institutionalized, and how he escaped from said institution to play a critical role in the climactic scene. Other than that, I'd give the film a 7 out of 10 rating. Not close to perfect, but better than mediocre. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet0312 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I thought Repeat Performance was great. The ending kept me on the edge of my seat. 1st time viewing for me. I enjoyed it very much. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 On 1/1/2022 at 5:09 PM, Thompson said: Twilight Zone marathon on Decades channel. Nobody smokes a better cigarette than Rod Serling, nobody. Thompson, this is a coincidence ( I think?) My son, who's in his 20s, has recently discovered the original Twilight Zone series. He has not seen many episodes, it's more that he's heard / read a lot about it recently, I suppose on some of the websites he goes on. Anyway, knowing his Dad and I are old-school about "filmed entertainment", and that we still collect and watch DVDs, he asked for the complete boxed set of the original Twilight Zone series, on DVD, for Christmas. So, that's what we got him. We're planning to watch the entire series together. In fact, we've already started: We watched "Where is Everybody?", "One for the Angels", and "Mr. Denton on Doomsday". We really enjoyed all 3 of them, and are looking forward to watching the rest of the episodes. I've always loved the original "Twilight Zone" show, it strikes a perfect combination of mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, and drama. * edit:* and sometimes horror. It's all and yet none of these genres...it can't be categorized. One of the best, most unique tv shows ever. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Well, I actually enjoyed this repeat performance of Repeat Performance more than the first time I saw it. This time around, because I already more or less knew the the plot, I was able to focus more on things like the clothes the women wore, and the glamourous New York settings. I realized I really like 1940s films that depict that fancy sophisticated urban world...theatres, nightclubs, unbelievably opulent penthouse apartments. Beautifully designed evening gowns, with cut-out necklines and sparkling jewelled appliques.....and lots of booze. Oh yes, the movie. Well, I didn't need Eddie to tell me that the Richard Basehart character was not of a sexually traditional persuasion (how's that for a circumlocutious way of putting it?) Basehart does a great job of somehow conveying that, without any overt "camping it up" or any of the usual 1940s behaviour that signalled "queer". But what I don't understand is, how, exactly, did he end up in an institution for the mentally ill? The rich Mrs. Shaw had that much power? Even though she was neither married to nor related to William? "Insane", in fact, is the word they used back then. But he appeared to be completely sane , albeit a little quirky, throughout the entire story. I'm left a little worried about William Williams at the end. Are we to assume that he just gets stuffed back into the asylum, but at least avoids capital punishment because he's deemed insane? How come the police had no questions for Sheila, who could have and would have attested that he shot Barney to save her life? It all seems a bit odd and rushed. I disagree with Midweston's assessment of Joan Leslie's character: "Joan Leslie was the epitome of a bi-polar person. One minute she's happy, enthusiastic, and optimistic about her future, and then with a flip of a switch, she becomes sour, angry, and paranoid and usually over the mention of the name: Paula Costello! " Midweston, I did not see that rapid mood transition at all. What she was trying to do was preserve her marriage, which meant at times being incredibly patient with her childish and resentful husband. As for her rudeness to Paula Costello, of course that, while incomprehensible to others, was because she knew that Paula Costella was going to steal her husband and make him hate her ( hate Sheila, that is.) It's almost as though you missed that part of the film that clarifies that plot point. Tom Conway was fun to watch as the elegant, sophisticated, yet sympathetic theatre producer. Big mistake, though, when he sent those roses to Sheila in Barney's name. He was trying to make her feel better, but the end result was, he was just perpetuating a lie. I do think the best way for Sheila to have dealt with the whole problem of avoiding shooting her rotten husband on New Year's Eve would have been to recognize that he was no good for her, in fact, no good, period, and get a divorce from him ( although that would have been no guarantee that he'd go quietly away...) Kudos, by the way, to the woman who played "Bess", the friend who's always searching for sparkling Burgundy . She added a comic element to the film, and also, seemed like she would have been kind of a fun person to hang out with. Benay Venuta was her name. Never heard of her, but I liked her. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fading Fast Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 33 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said: Thompson, this is a coincidence ( i think?) My son, who's in his 20s, has recently discovered the original Twilight Zone series. He has not seen many episodes, it's more that he's heard / read a lot about it recently, I suppose on some of the websites he goes on. Anyway, knowing his Dad and I are old-school about "filmed entertainment", and that we still collect and watch DVDs, he asked for the complete boxed set of the original Twilight Zone series, on DVD, for Christmas. So, that's what we got him. We're planning to watch the entire series together. In fact. we've already started: We watched "Where is Everybody?", "One for the Angels", and "Mr. Denton on Doomsday". We really enjoyed all 3 of them, and are looking forward to watching the rest of the episodes. I've always loved the original "Twilight Zone" show, it strikes a perfect combination of mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, and drama. It's all and yet none of these genres...it can't be categorized. One of the best, most unique tv shows ever. As a little kid in the '70s, I spent a lot of time at my grandmother's apartment where we'd watch TV on her 1950s B&W set. We'd watch shows like "The Twilight Zone," "The Honeymooners" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in reruns later in the evening. For me, it was my first time seeing these shows and for my grandmother it was fun, I think, to experience them again (she'd watched them in first run and in reruns since) with someone seeing them fresh. I bet you guys will have a lot of fun watching "The Twilight Zone" together. Enjoy. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 It’s ironic you should post that, MissW, because there’s always the one that got away. I love The Twilight Zone too (Eddie steals a bit from Serling and good for him) and watch what I can of all the marathons because of an episode that so affected me and I only can bring up the theme which is rain and a car and the driver of the car keeps driving by the same roadhouse or roadside barroom or motel, and I keep hoping I can see that one again, but I never do. I know the episode is there, but I don’t know enough about it to secure it. There is a lot of rain, windshield wipers, the driver is driving somewhere but he/she(?) always ends up back at the roadhouse, then drives off and ends up back at the roadhouse again. It’s nighttime, the episode takes place at night. Anyway, waxing nostalgic, I’ll probably never see it again, but it’s just one of those things that stick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 2 hours ago, Hoganman1 said: REPEAT PERFORMANCE was interesting. Although I'd seen it before, it was enjoyable to watch again. I was amazed to hear that in the novel the roles of Barney and Sheila were reversed. It actually reminded me a little of A STAR IS BORN. One character's career is on the rise while the spouse's career is in decline. Also, I love Tom Conway. I watch THE FALCON movies whenever I can find them. I've always thought he would have been a great James Bond. Yes, good point, Hoganman, I thought of A Star is Born too. Show Biz married couple, the husband is the famous one at the beginning, but before too long it's the wife who's become the star and her once-popular husband is on the decline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 1 hour ago, Thompson said: It’s ironic you should post that, MissW, because there’s always the one that got away. I love The Twilight Zone too (Eddie steals a bit from Serling and good for him) and watch what I can of all the marathons because of an episode that so affected me and I only can bring up the theme which is rain and a car and the driver of the car keeps driving by the same roadhouse or roadside barroom or motel, and I keep hoping I can see that one again, but I never do. I know the episode is there, but I don’t know enough about it to secure it. There is a lot of rain, windshield wipers, the driver is driving somewhere but he/she(?) always ends up back at the roadhouse, then drives off and ends up back at the roadhouse again. It’s nighttime, the episode takes place at night. Anyway, waxing nostalgic, I’ll probably never see it again, but it’s just one of those things that stick. Thompson, that's a NIGHT GALLERY episode. Same host. Easy confusion! I'll get back to you on the title.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eucalyptus P. Millstone Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 On 12/30/2021 at 4:12 PM, Dargo said: Sorry, I wouldn't know. But, with that poster of it, I'm sure you got our friend Eucalyptus P. Millstone's attention anyway! (...in fact when he comes across this, I'll bet the look on his face will be just like the one Tom Tryon has up there) Yo, Dargo! Thanks for the alert, which might also be of interest to fellow crurophile NipkowDisc, who seems to be an admirer of Carol Ohmart. The Scarlet Hour Extensively Red Feeling Kind of Bleu Watch it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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