Name the pre-1970 film

[Edythevanhopper]

Is it The Burglar from 1957 ?

[lavenderblue19]

YAY! I was beginning to wonder if anyone watched TCM's Friday Film Noir Night with Eddie Muller, besides my fav *Dark Passage* . This was the most interesting film for me, because it's been so rarely shown and I love Dan Duryea. After all the hub bub in the dis threads about Jayne Mansfield I was sure this one was going to go down after the first clue. Did you watch *The Burglar* .Edythe? Good job, it's your thread

[Edythevanhopper]

I did not see it. I read an article awhile ago on the life a burglar cuts out for himself. It referred to The Burglar so I looked it up in Wiki and read the plot & year, etc. It came to mind when I read your amusement park clue referring to the Atlantic City location. Great selection. Will have a new one a little later.

[Edythevanhopper]

A 50s film involves a retail hub whose members focus on their dreams of success. A young boy changes all of that. Film title and what did the boy believe to be true?

[lavenderblue19]

 

another clue, please

 

 

[Edythevanhopper]

The retail hub is in London's East End. The little boy and his mother live above the local tailor shop and directed by an Oscar winning director.

[Edythevanhopper]

If only that little goat with his twisted horn could save the riddled parts of our country today, huh?? Thanks, 6's your turn.

[forlorn_rage]

Coming of age story about a young girl growing up in Indianna with an hardworking mother, imaginative father, a younger brother, and an aunt with a "reputation" in the 1900's.

[lavenderblue19]

It's been quite awhile, and no new clues. Please post new clues, or this this thread needs to move on to a new question.

[Kid Dabb]

I'll throw this one out:

An American film noted for the last appearance of a great lead and

supporting actor of the 1930s and 1940s. This originated as a U.S.
radio series in 1947 with half-hour episodes which was later adapted
into a 1949 novel by Fulton Oursler, a senior editor at Reader's Digest.
An unknown actor who had never appeared in an English-language film

was chosen to play the character this story revolves around.

The original running time was 4 hr 20 min. The time was revised three times,
to 3 hr 58 min; to 3 hr 17 min for the United Kingdom, and finally 2 hr 17 min
for general U.S. release. Commercially, the film was not successful (by 1983
it had grossed less than $8 million, perhaps 17 percent of the amount required
to break even), and its inability to connect with audiences discouraged production
of these types of films for years.

[Kid Dabb]

Do I know you..? YES! :^0

 

Correct on ALL counts. Nice one, mr6's

 

Your turn

[Kid Dabb]

Well dUuhh :^0 *West Of Broadway (1931)*

[Kid Dabb]

That's ok

 

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[Kid Dabb]

Hiya.. of course. The new couple: He is an actor and she is pregnant.

[flashback42]

Tannis root, anyone? In *Rosemary's Baby*, the plotters rid themselves of the less-worthy vessel when the more-suitable Rosemary became available.

??

[Kid Dabb]

:^0 But of course, monsieur Flash. Thank you!

 

Your thread

[flashback42]

Thanks, Kid. The coven's standards for who should serve as Mother to the Awaited One: She had to be young, strong and not a virgin.

 

I'll try to find a new one by tomorrow

[flashback42]

Police procedural, focusing on a murder charge. A Homicide Investigator tracks down the victim's former roommate. He gains a confession, and the man is executed. Later, while investigating another death, the investigator learns that someone else was the killer, and that he had gotten a confession from an innocent man.

[flashback42]

(48,409)

The Homicide cop is glad to close the case, but he does not feel good about the man going to the chair. -- He feels that the man was insane. There follows a death at a race track. The investigators

conclude that this one was a suicide. But the widow petitions for further investigation, claiming that her husband was murdered.

[flashback42]

Investigation into the death at the track takes some strange tangents. Corruption. Hints that the inquiry should be dropped.

[flashback42]

The inquiry also wanders off into the world of gay hustlers. This story is pre - AIDS, but that subculture does become part of the investigation.

[lavenderblue19]

I haven't watched this one in years, but could it be Sinatra and Remick in *The Detective* ?

[flashback42]

Bingo, lavender, at about 240 Views. It was hard to clue this one up without using that word that serves as the title.

 

Your thread.

 

Edited by: flashback42 on Jul 21, 2013 12:08 PM

[lavenderblue19]

Yes, but that's not what gave it away. Because it was Sinatra and Remick, the film was not forgetable.

 

next

 

A woman's husband is dead. She's helping the police catch the killer.

[DownGoesFrazier]

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT?