JamesJazGuitar Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 13 minutes ago, Hibi said: One more week till the return of Noir Alley! YIPPEE!!! What's on the schedule??? The next Noir Alley film is Hit and Run (1957): A United Artist film produced, written, and directed by Hugo Haas, who also acts in the film along side Vince Edwards and Haas' favorite gal from his Columbia days, Cleo Moore (in her last film). 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElCid Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 13 minutes ago, Hibi said: One more week till the return of Noir Alley! YIPPEE!!! What's on the schedule??? Can't get the TCM schedule to open for Sat, Sept. 10 after 10 PM or Sun., Sept. 11. It does this fairly often. If use arrow at end of day tabs to move to next screen, it skips the next day, which in this case is Sunday. Probably both showings are on the Sunday schedule since NA comes on at midnight or later on Saturday nights. The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity are on at 10 and 8 respectively on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElCid Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Hit and Run - never seen it. Always liked Cleo Moore and her movies, so I will watch it. Vince Edwards is not very appealing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 14 minutes ago, JamesJazGuitar said: The next Noir Alley film is Hit and Run (1957): A United Artist film produced, written, and directed by Hugo Haas, who also acts in the film along side Vince Edwards and Haas' favorite gal from his Columbia days, Cleo Moore (in her last film). Great. Haven't seen this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shank Asu Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 and i can watch it on youtube! a really bad version of it where the image is hardly visible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameselliot Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 If you like Hugo Haas' melodramatic pulp, you'll like this and Cleo always made his films better. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 1 hour ago, jameselliot said: If you like Hugo Haas' melodramatic pulp, you'll like this and Cleo always made his films better. Yea, Hass' plots were melodramatic pulp but Cleo Moore is worth watching; Watching Cleo provides one a good reflection of the 50s and the storyline of what can happen to blondes built like she was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilypond Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 I also was having a hankering for "Noir Alley" today, and looked up "Hit and Run". Good, it sounds like a potentially fun, over-heated B thriller, and I love anything with the kind of koo-koo twists that this seems to have. I like Cleo Moore too, although I didn't know her name until you guys started discussing her. Could be wrong, but am thinking she might have populated a "Perry Mason" or two.... Instead of Eddie and Noir Alley, we get "Some Like it Hot" in that slot this week. Ho, hum. It is heresy, but Billy Wilder often puts me off. Oh, he's wonderfully clever and talented, no doubt about that. But that ice-cold sensibility behind the jokes, the gimlet eye that I feel peering out beyond the script and screen, brrr. Feel free to quarrel with my characterization.... might be quite half-baked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody1949 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 On September 24 and 25 Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley will show I LOVE TROUBLE (1948) with Franchot Tone and Janet Blair. The last time it was shown on TCM the quality of the print was quite poor as other viewers noted. I hope this time around they will be showing a restored print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 13 hours ago, cody1949 said: On September 24 and 25 Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley will show I LOVE TROUBLE (1948) with Franchot Tone and Janet Blair. The last time it was shown on TCM the quality of the print was quite poor as other viewers noted. I hope this time around they will be showing a restored print. Nice to see Eddie is featuring I Love Trouble: Hopefully it will be a better print than when TCM lasted showed the film. Also in the film is Janis Carter known for her "B" noir\crime films and Steven Geray who was also featured in many noirs, and even was the lead in one: So Dark the Night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fading Fast Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 ⇧ You guys are so right. That was an awful print. It's like the entire movie was filmed at night with poor lighting. I had trouble keeping a few of the characters straight because of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody1949 Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 I think the main problem with I LOVE TROUBLE was TCM’s use of a public domain print. I remember how pleased I was to see a restored print of THE RED HOUSE after seeing an awful public domain print for so many years. There must have been a restored print of I LOVE TROUBLE that they could have used a few months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElCid Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Hit and Run is on YouTube, but the print is terrible. Hopefully TCM shows a better version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jameselliot Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 On 8/27/2022 at 11:42 AM, JamesJazGuitar said: Nice to see Eddie is featuring I Love Trouble: Hopefully it will be a better print than when TCM lasted showed the film. Also in the film is Janis Carter known for her "B" noir\crime films and Steven Geray who was also featured in many noirs, and even was the lead in one: So Dark the Night. Carter was a real baddie in Framed with Glenn Ford and Barry Sullivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 2 minutes ago, jameselliot said: Carter was a real baddie in Framed with Glenn Ford and Barry Sullivan. For me, Framed was Carter's best femme fatale role. She was also a naughty gal in Night Editor (1946). MOVIES-TV shows the Whistler serial so I get to see Carter in The Mark of the Whistler (1944) and The Power of the Whistler (1945). Richard Dix is a wooden actor thus having Janis Carter in these films is the main reason to watch them (along with cute and funny Jeff Donnell in Power of the Whistler as Carter's sister). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElCid Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 1 hour ago, JamesJazGuitar said: For me, Framed was Carter's best femme fatale role. She was also a naughty gal in Night Editor (1946). MOVIES-TV shows the Whistler serial so I get to see Carter in The Mark of the Whistler (1944) and The Power of the Whistler (1945). Richard Dix is a wooden actor thus having Janis Carter in these films is the main reason to watch them (along with cute and funny Jeff Donnell in Power of the Whistler as Carter's sister). Just to be specific, Mark and Power of the Whistler are parts of the movie series, not a serial. Regardless, Carter was really good as a femme fatale in several movies. Critics Choice has the DVD set of the Whistler movies. And Dix is pretty wooden in all his roles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 On 8/26/2022 at 1:51 PM, jameselliot said: If you like Hugo Haas' melodramatic pulp, you'll like this and Cleo always made his films better. Yes, I've seen several. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 On 8/26/2022 at 10:26 PM, cody1949 said: On September 24 and 25 Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley will show I LOVE TROUBLE (1948) with Franchot Tone and Janet Blair. The last time it was shown on TCM the quality of the print was quite poor as other viewers noted. I hope this time around they will be showing a restored print. That's disappointing. A rerun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 These Balance of Nature vitamin commercials are an assault on the brain. You gotta buy both the vegetable and fruit vitamins and then you have to take three capsules of each one every day. They don’t tell you how much the “vitamins” cost. Whatever it is multiply it by six. The funny part is they’re probably gonna sell the heck out of it. It’s a new idea in a way with these ads, each one has different people from different walks of life, and they all have in common they don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables. I thought I’d seen all twelve of these commercials (several times) but today there was a new one — well, anyway, you sit around and watch commercials and count the days ‘til the next showing of Noir Alley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesJazGuitar Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 4 hours ago, Thompson said: These Balance of Nature vitamin commercials are an assault on the brain. You gotta buy both the vegetable and fruit vitamins and then you have to take three capsules of each one every day. They don’t tell you how much the “vitamins” cost. Whatever it is multiply it by six. The funny part is they’re probably gonna sell the heck out of it. It’s a new idea in a way with these ads, each one has different people from different walks of life, and they all have in common they don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables. I thought I’d seen all twelve of these commercials (several times) but today there was a new one — well, anyway, you sit around and watch commercials and count the days ‘til the next showing of Noir Alley. So chief, the guy you want me to ruff up, that is responsible for those vitamin commercials, is in what room? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 13 hours ago, JamesJazGuitar said: ...and they all have in common they don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables. Oh my yes! People must always guard against this. (...or else they're very likely to find themselves begin to pop out at parties and so becoming quite unpoopular) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 16 hours ago, Dargo said: Oh my yes! People must always guard against this. (...or else they're very likely to find themselves begin to pop out at parties and so becoming quite unpoopular) You lost me there, Dargo. Oh, no, wait, now I see the double o. (Thanks to all who post in a bigger font) . . . But I’m still not getting it, probably because I never go to parties. “Want to go to a party Thompson?” “No I do not thank you just the same.” Dargo, these vitamins are not like Metamucil, no benefits in that area, if that’s what you mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Balance of Nature vitamin commercials are really annoying and don’t belong on the INSP westerns in the afternoon. There’s one where the grandkids come over to Gram and Gramps‘s place to play golf and they putt putt into the hole. The theme is Gram and Gramps have to keep up with their grandkids by taking these vitamins to play miniature golf. I’ll save everybody further comments on other Balance of Nature commercials, you just have to see them for yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 2 hours ago, Thompson said: You lost me there, Dargo. Oh, no, wait, now I see the double o. (Thanks to all who post in a bigger font) . . . But I’m still not getting it, probably because I never go to parties. “Want to go to a party Thompson?” “No I do not thank you just the same.” Dargo, these vitamins are not like Metamucil, no benefits in that area, if that’s what you mean. C'mon now, Thompson. Whaddaya mean you didn't get this? Surely you've seen Lucy doin' this routine on her original sitcom at least once in your lifetime, I'm sure... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thompson Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 On Gunsmoke Chester shot a rabbit and stole a chicken in order to save Doc. He didn’t order no vitamins over the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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