DownGoesFrazier Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 There were certainly no scenes that were reminiscent of anything in Philadelphia. Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Did you notice how much of the lighting was noir? I saw maybe 10% max or less, the use of mirrors a few times but really only the ending was noirish to me. Not much, this is a good example of a film where the characters and their actions are what drives it into the Noir designation. Me, personally I like the Stylized Noir lighting and the sleazy Diegetic Noir World to be depicted, and this film barely has any of that. But it does have two great Femme Fatales "sisters under the mink" that makes up for it. B-) Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 There were certainly no scenes that were reminiscent of anything in Philadelphia. probably because it was all shot on a sound stage and or in LA, which is too bad, because if they had gone to Philadelphia and shot some actual exteriors it would have improved it even more. Edited by: cigarjoe on Oct 16, 2011 3:58 PM Link to post Share on other sites
misswonderly3 Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 MovieMadness and cigarjoe, come on, guys, the "million dollar trust fund" is of course the suicide note, the letter that Duncan writes and leaves on his desk just before his suicide, which Mrs. Duncan finds and uses for her own purposes, i.e. blackmailing the gangsters. Banion meant that such a letter was just like a million dollar trust fund, it would produce money for Mrs. Duncan almost as though it were. Yes, ok, MovieMadness did figure this out in their second post on the subject - but surely it's obvious from the start, I knew that's what Banion was talking about, and I don't always "get" plot subtleties. Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Thanks misswonderly, I haven't watched it for a while, that is why I said I didn't remember that reference on the trust fund. However in the novel when O'baninon questions Lucy she tells him Duncan was the happiest she remembers since she'd known him (she at least doesn't believe he commited suicide and he was happy in his decision to come clean). Is that sequence in the film fresh enough in your mind to confirm this? Link to post Share on other sites
MovieMadness Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 They could have always had Norman Bates go into the bank and be Mrs. Duncan if they needed it, he had that look. Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Just mentioning that a film is supposed to be in a certain city without doing anything at all to have scenes vaguely looking like that city is ridiculous. Link to post Share on other sites
mrroberts Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 When Glenn Ford and Lee Marvin have their final shoot out if you look closely you'll see Lee Marvin taking cover behind the Rocky statue, what more do you want? Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 ..and that cup of hot coffee Marvin was drinking, he was using to wash down a cheesesteak from Geno's. Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Weird TCM schedule today. Five noirs from 6AM-8PM EDT, with COLORADO TERRITORY AND CABIN IN THE SKY mixed in. Link to post Share on other sites
ValentineXavier Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 I haven't seen it yet, but *Colorado Territory* is supposed to be a western noir, a loose remake of *High Sierra*. Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted November 2, 2011 Share Posted November 2, 2011 Colorado Territory, I actually like it better than High Sierra. Link to post Share on other sites
MovieMadness Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Upcoming TCM noir in the next 14 days according to my super list. This Gun For Hire The Blue Dahlia The Postman always Rings Twice The Bad and the Beautiful Marlowe Caged The Glass Key Edge Of The City Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 So all 3 of the Ladd-Lake noirs are on the list. Edited by: finance on Nov 4, 2011 9:58 AM Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Nobody's been giving alerts lately. FLAXY MARTIN was on this morning. Underrated noir. Link to post Share on other sites
C.Bogle Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Okay. Noir/Cradle Robbing Alert. 12 midnight. Pushover (1954) with Fred and Kim. Looking forward to this, if only for the reason I don't think I've ever seen it before. Sometimes I tune in to watch a picture that I think I haven't seen and it turns out I have. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen this one. Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 *Crossroads* (1942) William Powell, supposed to be a Film Noir according to Selby's book Link to post Share on other sites
mrroberts Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I like *Crossroads* a lot, like many other earlier (pre *Double Indemnity* ) films it does have some "noir" elements. This could have been a good Hitchcock film too. If *Crossroads* had been made in the late 40's it might have been done a lot darker, grittier, like a true film noir. Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Another film to add to the title confusion of CROSSFIRE and CRISS-CROSS Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 TCM has films noir starting at 8:00PM tonight Saturday "Out Of The Past" and followed by another at 12PM "While the City Sleeps" Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 The latter is one of Fritz Lang's last American films. Link to post Share on other sites
mrroberts Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Tonight is "Rhonda" night. Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Tues 11:45 AM Between-Midnight-and-Dawn (1950) Link to post Share on other sites
C.Bogle Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Pushover turned out to be a pretty routine flick. It started out well, but all those stakeout scenes grew old pretty fast. Fred didn't look quite as old as I thought he might, so his romance with Kim wasn't totally unbelievable, just slightly unbelievable. It is movies like this that demonstrate the idea of genre bias. We will accept a rather average movie as long as it is in one of our favorite genres and overlook its faults to a certain degree because of that. I suppose you could call this a poor man's Rear Window, but that isn't quite fair. I didn't notice Fred was wearing a wedding ring, probably too busy watching him drink a gallon of coffee and smoke a couple of cartons of coffin nails. Overall, I'll give it a C+. Link to post Share on other sites
cigarjoe Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 TCM has film noir *Angel Face*- Robert Mitchum & Jene Simmons starting at 845 AM today Dec 5th 2011 Link to post Share on other sites
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