Amazing, they went thorough a desert, crashed the car and still had clean clothes and perfectly set hair. They made them tough in the 50s, Great movie.
@@robertsamson4610 Not sure where you first heard it. Me? In early '93 in Nikiski, Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula on a bluff overlooking the Cook Inlet. Bad weather finally passed, cloudless sky w/bright sun and we were out removing snow and ice from the blades of the helicopter (we had no hangar) when someone remarked while taking off a jacket, "It's hot out here today with no wind." Another of our crew quickly came back with, "Yeah, but at least it's a dry heat". Any chance you were working with helicopters in Jan-Mar of '93 in Alaska?
A thriller full of thrills, twists and turns, and an original ending. Richard Conte, no matter what role he played, was always top-notch. Great entertainment. Thank you!
Loved it... fun old film. And what a cute Wanda Hendrix. A real tragic actress deserving of much more and who died so young at only 52 in 1980. She put up with the very worst that could be dealt to her during her short marriage to Audie Murphy. The PTSD he suffered from just wasn't diagnosed back then, and his bravery on the battlefield took a horrible toll on him. Much of that bottled up rage was taken out on Wanda, who divorced him purely out of self-protection. Unfortunately, Hollywood and the audiences back then treated her lie a deserter of a national hero, and her career never really took off as it should have. Now I need to renew my knowledge of the Salton Sea history. Thanks for posting a wonderful copy of this gem of a picture, Breaker! Much appreciated.
Richard was an excellent performer and remained active well into the 70s, being seen in "The Godfather" series of films. My favorite role of Richard`s was in "The Twilight Zone" episode, "Perchance to dream", where he was superb! Being totally believable regardless of it being a TV or film role, obviously, a true professional at work always........
Good Oldie.. Great writers,Directors and Actors/Actresses.. This Good Oldie had some really nice twists to it. It keeps the suspense going. I always loved these Good Old Movies.. Nice Happy Ending.
Just love the dialogue in these old movies. Crisp, to the point and often funny. Where were you last weekend? With my lady friend. Was your lady friend alive when you left her? She wasn't even alive when I was with her!
The twist? Once the dog leash was discovered to be missing, it was *obvious* who the killer was ... and I have *never* seen an "acting" performance as bad as Joan Bennett gave in this one.
Richard Conte is always a treat. This early Conte role is pretty good for a low budget "thriller"... But, what is a Las Vegas cop doing anywhere near the California border, let alone crossing the state line in pursuit of a suspect where he has Zero jurisdiction??? Yeah, low budget plots.... with that LV sheriff, sans the mustache , being a near stand-in double for Lee Van Cleef (too)!! And older Joan Bennet is also a treat here.... She was always a favorite actress in a full range of classic 40s films!! :-)
Highway Dragnet, released 27 January 1954 (USA). Richard Conte as Jim Henry; Joan Bennett as Mrs. Cummings; Wanda Hendrix as Susan Willis; Reed Hadley as Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle; Mary Beth Hughes as Terry Smith; Iris Adrian as Dolly; Harry Harvey as Mr. Carson; Tom Hubbard as Det. Sgt. Ben Barnett; Frank Jenks, Marine in Civvies; Murray Alper, Ice Cream Truck Driver; Zon Murray, Trooper in Café; House Peters Jr. as Steve; Joseph Crehan, Elderly Border-Inspection Officer; Charles Anthony Hughes (as Tony Hughes) as Chubby Border-Inspection Officer; Bill Hale as Harry, Fred Gabourie as Trooper Al; Johnny Duncan, Marine.
THIS WAS A WONDERFUL TRIP BACK. FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT LIKE IT SO SAD. YOU WERE NOT THERE. SAVE "YOUR" MEMORIES FOR 78 YEARS AND SEE IF THEY ARE AS GOOD. GOOD LUCK.
Highway Dragnet is a 1954 American crime drama film noir directed by Nathan Juran, based on story by U.S. Anderson and Roger Corman. The film stars Richard Conte, Joan Bennett and Wanda Hendrix.A former Korean War-era Marine hitches a ride with a female fashion photographer and her young assistant to escape from the Las Vegas police on a murder charge.
This is the greatest film noir it was so good I watched it twice in one day. Richard Conte is the king of film noir. Clever story & plot with many unexpected surprises. A bit far fetched & improbable but entertaining. I like how he turned the tables on the police & escaped in a patrol car & then stopped to help the 2 women fix their car. And when the car broke down they get into a station wagon & he crashes thru roadblocks & 2 motorcycles & the car is a total wreck & still running in the desert. Laughed my head off. Great movie.
Ronald Addison Old movies have so much more class and style than most of the crap these days, for example my x wife thought citizen Kane was crap but legally blonde was good, go figure!!
Richard Conte was an under rated actor. Watch thieves Highway he and lee J Cobb were terrific in that movie. Also 13 Rue Magdalane. He was in a lot of low budget movies they were all very good. He died young he was good friends with Frank Sinatra.
Don't miss The Brother's Rico -- Conte at his best and Larry Parks in a really fantastic role in a film hardly mentioned today but it will blow your socks off!
Wow.....a combination of Highway Patrol and Dragnet!! ;-) They said it wasover 100* and he's wearing a jacket and none of them are sweating?? Uh, huh......
The lady in the White dress played lead actress in the Scarlet Letter with Edward G Robinson. That was a great movie, she was younger then, but still looks pretty much the same.
Vegas was built,(casinos), nefariously so by the various worst of the mobsters of the time! Corporations moved in as if it was a rivalry. As if it is any different today. Crooks are crooks at any level.
@@jubalcalif9100 Believe it or not, Captain Audie L. Murphy himself swore me into the Army in '55 then came around shaking the hands of us raw recruits..
It's annoying how movies always say, "A wife can't testify against her husband," as this one does. It's "A wife can't BE MADE to testify against her husband." If she wants to, she can. So be careful, men!
@@dharter100 Nope. The reason for the rule was (and is) public policy. They don’t want to violate the sanctity if the relationship and want them always to feel free to be honest with each other ... the am same reason there is a counsel privilege.
About 23:55 the California inspection station. I saw that in 1942. Still kicking, I love these old movies with real Actors and actresses. Boy would I love to have a time machine.
🌹 great acting and thanks 4d 🎥. Nowadays the flooding would be blamed on climate change and folks would take political sides. This was just a good old-fashioned love story ----- WHO DONE IT. Very suspenseful as well as entertaining movie.😍🌄🌄🌄🌄
I love the way the Police left the suitcase on the side of the road when they initially picked him up and then it magically appeared later on. :) Good movie though. It was good, clean entertainment.
Wow! How things change...I was stationed at Naval Air Facility El Centro 1979-81... Salton Sea back then was starting to dry up..it’s probably halfway covered with the desert by now 2018..
In the scene where Tiger was run over, the film’s director wanted to actually run the dog over “for the sake of realism” but was talked out of it by Richard Conte.🌀
I thought this was a great, suspense filled thriller and it benefits from having been shot on location. Interesting to see Fremont Street as it was in c '54. Richard Conte and Wanda Hendrix give strong performances. Joan Bennett is not quite on Woman in the Window form but still watchable.
Well said and well put ! As you pointed out, Joan Bennett just didn't have as strong a part or script as she did in the Fritz Lang noir classics "Scarlet Street' or "The Woman in the Window" !
An entertaining B movie starring the under rated Richard Conte. It was fscinating to see brief glimpses of Las Vegas and the rest of Nevada in the mid 1950s. There were a number of times the plot didn't make sense but Conte and the rest of the cast kept going. Well worth a viewing.
@@davidhull1481 I am talking about the real , tough man back in the days. Nowadays we have as bunch of crybabies , people who wear a vagina hat when they loose an election !
@@jan22150 those people were women. Apparently you haven’t been close enough to one to recognize her. You ought to try it, lotsa fun and you may even lose some of your anger issues.
The Cop is really the Lone Ranger played by Clayton Moore.. name doesn't show but may have changed it before using his real name. Check him out in the Movie Kansas Pacific about a train that was being built just before the outbreak of the Civil War.
why in the world did they need the cheesy sound stage backdrop during the campfire scene when they had the wonderful desert location to work with - the real star of this movie.
Because no one in their right mind wants to be in a freezing desert at night surrounded by Rattle snakes, scorpions and tarantulas when they can have a nice lunch at the studio cafeteria then turn down a couple lights on the "Gunsmoke" set, film a couple dozen old scripts rolled up like firewood burning, call it quits and go home early! Pretty much exactly how the Democrats run things in Washington nowadays, only instead of old scripts they use the constitution as fire wood!
i would have liked the movie better if the Dog was Saved by the man instead of letting a car hit him and die... the end was kinda corny but still a happy ending...
Yes, i did not see the point in the dog dying, other than the inconvenience of dragging the dog along for the rest of the story line. Here is our main man, letting the dog out to do it's duty for ten minutes by the diner. Here he is again by the gas station. Now here he is walking the dog in the desert! Here he is once again carting the dog out in his arms to see the half submerged house. Lets face it. The dog had to go! Plus he knew too much. It was his leash, after all, that was used to kill the blonde bimbo. Dead dogs tell no tails! I mean tales!
...Wasn't the murder victim strangled with a leash??? I'm only 17 minutes in, and it looks like the list of suspects just got narrowed down to two. Plus the murder victim used to be a top model in New York city, and I'd bet anything that the lovely fashionista who owned the unfortunate dog is originally from New York city, too.
9:20 That cop removed the magazine from the pistol, but didn't rack the slide . There could've been a round in the chamber!!! How could a cop who claimed to be a Marine combat vet be so CARELESS??
These movies depict a time when California was populated with men . We boys learned to be men watching these . LITTLE DID WE KNOW THAT WE WERE BEING PREPARED FOR A WORLD THAT WOULDN'T EXIST WHEN WE GOT THERE !
Same heavy dark jacket! Hot heavy sun absorbing dark jacket! And getting along rather nicely without any water in 118 degree heat for 12 hours. No parched voices , heavy sweating or light headed stupor.
Amazing, they went thorough a desert, crashed the car and still had clean clothes and perfectly set hair. They made them tough in the 50s, Great movie.
Plus Dick was wearing a jacket all day, in 120 degree desert heat, over a long sleeve shirt. Wanna bet he had a t-shirt on too?
@@andrewfrankovic6821 Yeah, but it was a dry heat.
@@europeon2wheels89 like the Sahara ... people are covered up
@@robertsamson4610 Not sure where you first heard it. Me? In early '93 in Nikiski, Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula on a bluff overlooking the Cook Inlet. Bad weather finally passed, cloudless sky w/bright sun and we were out removing snow and ice from the blades of the helicopter (we had no hangar) when someone remarked while taking off a jacket, "It's hot out here today with no wind." Another of our crew quickly came back with, "Yeah, but at least it's a dry heat".
Any chance you were working with helicopters in Jan-Mar of '93 in Alaska?
@@robertsamson4610 Oh, don't watch science fiction and never saw any of the Alien movies. But I'm guessing you weren't in Alaska in '93
A thriller full of thrills, twists and turns, and an original ending. Richard Conte, no matter what role he played, was always top-notch. Great
entertainment. Thank you!
I'm just going to say that I'll take the older movies any day...
Amen to that
I realize Im quite randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to stream new movies online?
@Archer Nickolas flixportal :P
@Stephen Marvin Thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service =) I appreciate it !
@Archer Nickolas glad I could help :)
Loved it... fun old film. And what a cute Wanda Hendrix. A real tragic actress deserving of much more and who died so young at only 52 in 1980. She put up with the very worst that could be dealt to her during her short marriage to Audie Murphy. The PTSD he suffered from just wasn't diagnosed back then, and his bravery on the battlefield took a horrible toll on him. Much of that bottled up rage was taken out on Wanda, who divorced him purely out of self-protection. Unfortunately, Hollywood and the audiences back then treated her lie a deserter of a national hero, and her career never really took off as it should have.
Now I need to renew my knowledge of the Salton Sea history.
Thanks for posting a wonderful copy of this gem of a picture, Breaker! Much appreciated.
Richard was an excellent performer and remained active well into the 70s, being seen in "The Godfather" series of films. My favorite role of Richard`s was in "The Twilight Zone" episode, "Perchance to dream", where he was superb! Being totally believable regardless of it being a TV or film role, obviously, a true professional at work always........
"Mr. Straps!" I love it! Anything on location circa 1954 is worth the viewing!
HaHa, that was the funniest line.
Corman's first film, and the only early film of his I'd never seen before; always amazed by how much he gets out of so little.
Gotta love how the Nevada cop is operating out of his jurisdiction by the end of the movie. Fun film!
Aah, the good old days, you could fall in love in two days and live happily ever after!!! Amore, Amore
You beat me to it. Was gonna say the same thing.
Debora Miller-Giuliani or never after hmm 🧐😁
Great smile Debora !
Yes, I know, I did it as late as 1965. It's been 55 years now & I've long known, it was always meant to be!
Sort of cynical but funny.
Excellent movie.Really enjoyed it.Great to see a movie without bad language.A fast moving movie.Thanks for the upload.
"How tough can it be with a swim pool in every room?" A pleasant, solar noir. Loved the pace.
Yes I love them nothing like the 30s.40s.50s.movies no sfx . No cussing great bantering and slang
Good Oldie..
Great writers,Directors and Actors/Actresses..
This Good Oldie had some really nice twists to it.
It keeps the suspense going.
I always loved these Good Old Movies..
Nice Happy Ending.
I don't watch new movies . I love old movies
Glad you enjoyed it!
They are pure gold!
You like old mexicans movies too? There s a good one of 1940 call ¡¡ allá en el rancho grande ¡
When photography, writing, and directing mattered.
me2
I've seen this twice now. It is a great story.
Just love the dialogue in these old movies. Crisp, to the point and often funny.
Where were you last weekend?
With my lady friend.
Was your lady friend alive when you left her?
She wasn't even alive when I was with her!
Love the twist at the end! Actually I loved the whole movie, what a classic!
The twist? Once the dog leash was discovered to be missing, it was *obvious* who the killer was ... and I have *never* seen an "acting" performance as bad as Joan Bennett gave in this one.
Richard Conte is always a treat. This early Conte role is pretty good for a low budget "thriller"... But, what is a Las Vegas cop doing anywhere near the California border, let alone crossing the state line in pursuit of a suspect where he has Zero jurisdiction??? Yeah, low budget plots.... with that LV sheriff, sans the mustache , being a near stand-in double for Lee Van Cleef (too)!! And older Joan Bennet is also a treat here.... She was always a favorite actress in a full range of classic 40s films!! :-)
el mago, But she played a bad dude in this movie
Highway Dragnet, released 27 January 1954 (USA). Richard Conte as Jim Henry; Joan Bennett as Mrs. Cummings; Wanda Hendrix as Susan Willis; Reed Hadley as Det. Lt. Joe White Eagle; Mary Beth Hughes as Terry Smith; Iris Adrian as Dolly; Harry Harvey as Mr. Carson; Tom Hubbard as Det. Sgt. Ben Barnett; Frank Jenks, Marine in Civvies; Murray Alper, Ice Cream Truck Driver; Zon Murray, Trooper in Café; House Peters Jr. as Steve; Joseph Crehan, Elderly Border-Inspection Officer; Charles Anthony Hughes (as Tony Hughes) as Chubby Border-Inspection Officer; Bill Hale as Harry, Fred Gabourie as Trooper Al; Johnny Duncan, Marine.
John Morris Thanks for the information January 11,2021
Oh that lady in the white dress n Pearl's looks so classy, i loved the short hairstyles too..classy
Right! I would have given her a couple more pearl necklaces!
I think she later was in the TV show "Dark Shadows"
THIS WAS A WONDERFUL TRIP BACK. FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT LIKE IT SO SAD. YOU WERE NOT THERE. SAVE "YOUR" MEMORIES FOR 78 YEARS AND SEE IF THEY ARE AS GOOD. GOOD LUCK.
All time great old movie in 1954 they made Awesome movies :) thanks for sharing :-)
Highway Dragnet is a 1954 American crime drama film noir directed by Nathan Juran, based on story by U.S. Anderson and Roger Corman. The film stars Richard Conte, Joan Bennett and Wanda Hendrix.A former Korean War-era Marine hitches a ride with a female fashion photographer and her young assistant to escape from the Las Vegas police on a murder charge.
I love those great old movies. Thank you for showing them.
This is the greatest film noir it was so good I watched it twice in one day. Richard Conte is the king of film noir. Clever story & plot with many unexpected surprises.
A bit far fetched & improbable but entertaining.
I like how he turned the tables on the police & escaped in a patrol car & then stopped to help the 2 women fix their car.
And when the car broke down they get into a station wagon & he crashes thru roadblocks & 2 motorcycles & the car is a total wreck & still running in the desert. Laughed my head off. Great movie.
Oldies are the best stories, and actors.
Well said Ronald I totally agree with you
Much better than the crap
Put out today
Ronald Addison Old movies have so much more class and style than most of the crap these days, for example my x wife thought citizen Kane was crap but legally blonde was good, go figure!!
Realism
Yup, they actually had to act back then. The singer's too had to have talent.
Thanks for the oldie. This guy did about everything you could to get caught, not very realistic, but still a good movie.
It held it's own from beginning to end. Suspense from beginning to end with a surprise ending and a human interest story too boot.
@9TheMajor How did you get the line through 'it was really great? 3 years ago
This is Dan Mathews. Toss up a couple of road blocks.
Super film.
Good actors - Richard Conte, Joan Bennett et al. Crisp, sharp dialogue.
Thankyou for posting.
Xx
I remember watching this movie in Reno in 1970. 50 years ago??
Any movie with Mary Beth Hughes, Richard Conte, Reed Hadley, and Iris Adrian has got to be good!
Joan Bennett is chopped liver??
What a good movie!
Richard Conte was an under rated actor. Watch thieves Highway he and lee J Cobb were terrific in that movie. Also 13 Rue Magdalane. He was in a lot of low budget movies they were all very good. He died young he was good friends with Frank Sinatra.
He was also good in the Twilight Zone episode, "Perchance To Dream." Creepy episode.
I was about to mention that episode but probably Conte is best known for playing Barzini in "The Godfather".
He had that quality yearned for by every actor..........charisma. Just being on screen, wordless, was enough.
Also the lead adversary to Henry Fonda in "12 angry men" where he plays a very complex character driven by hidden anger over past failures.
He was a good actor but those many low-budget movies were a waste of his talent and he must have felt it.
I remember seeing this film when I was a child. THANKS FOR DOWNLOADING!
A rainy afternoon film noir, On Locations shots make this movie worth viewing.
1954 Richard Conte...famous actor of that time!
Entertaining, good B-noir effort, great to see Conte and Bennett together. Cheers, '62 Mathew St. (Total Retro Rock)
Don't miss The Brother's Rico -- Conte at his best and Larry Parks in a really fantastic role in a film hardly mentioned today but it will blow your socks off!
Excellent movie, a gem and thank
you so much for uploading 👍💖👏
"Was your lady friend alive when you left her? She wasn't even alive when I was with her!" HA...what a line..!!
Joan Bennett!! Thanks for uploading. A treasure
Highway Dragnet is a marvelous fifties movie I never get enough of. I looked and looked but I couldn't find Jack Webb anywhere in it!
Love the Salton Sea story. Nice backdrop.
Excellent suspense film. Thanks for sharing.
Joan Bennett had a very unusual and
distinct manner of speech.
AT 6:15, THAT WAS A NASH AMBASSADOR. LOVE THESE OLD MOVIES TO LOOK AT THE CLASSIC CARS.
I loved that kaiser Fraser at 45.46
1952 Ambassador Super, Not the best-handling patrol car on the road!
@@gcfifthgear I saw TV program about a Nash won the grueling Baja auto race. Pretty rough and tumble to win that.
Wow.....a combination of Highway Patrol and Dragnet!! ;-)
They said it wasover 100* and he's wearing a jacket and none of them are sweating?? Uh, huh......
Nah, it was cooler than. Climate change has made it much warmer,Lol.
@@stevelopez372 Hahahahaha......good one!
*Man this movie was cliffhanger. Dudes.I need a nap after watching it. nite nite, hehe. Good old flick( ; )*
I can't believe it ,driving around in the hot Mojave desert with the top down ? Unbelievable.
Before the days of a/c , the more fresh air and breeze the better .
They probably raked forest floors back then....
@@filianablanxart8305 that is just it , there is no fresh air. Everything is hot, hot, hot.
They had those zircons on the side of the windows .
@@dharter100 They did, no wonder Forrest fires are worse now, and they blame climate change,lol.
@@stevelopez372 I think he was mocking Trump’s comment about raking. No one with any sense took him seriously
The lady in the White dress played lead actress in the Scarlet Letter with Edward G Robinson. That was a great movie, she was younger then, but still looks pretty much the same.
Great movie...Loved it!!
Nice scenes of mid 1950s Las Vegas , before the corporates took over the Strip.
and killed its true charm and charisma with manufactured, pre-packaged banality.
Vegas was built,(casinos), nefariously so by the various worst of the mobsters of the time! Corporations moved in as if it was a rivalry. As if it is any different today. Crooks are crooks at any level.
Vegas was created on prostitution and gambling. That's all.
Yes, the good old days when the mob controlled it!
Richard Conte was another good actor whose career soon crashed into one crap gangster picture after another:
I have no idea who the little actor that played the model is, but back in the 50s, she would be called a hot little babe. Beautiful.
She was Wanda Hendrix
@@raymondsaquet2922 Yes, that was Wanda ! She was briefly married to actor / WWII hero Audie Murphy.
Yes ! She was strictly from wowsville ! Hubba hubba !
@@jubalcalif9100 Believe it or not, Captain Audie L. Murphy himself swore me into the Army in '55 then came around shaking the hands of us raw recruits..
@@jubalcalif9100 Captain Audie L. Murphy swore me into the Army then came around shaking our raw recruit hands.
Very good movie ! I love it , and he show the life as we can sometime found in our scape , despite the modern world
It's annoying how movies always say, "A wife can't testify against her husband," as this one does. It's "A wife can't BE MADE to testify against her husband." If she wants to, she can.
So be careful, men!
We will! How many poor saps found that out the hard way!
There was a Sopranos episode called "Watching Too Much Television" that dealt with this legal misconception.
HA - not if she LOVES you.
Wives were considered property then and they had to get permission from the husbands first.
@@dharter100 Nope. The reason for the rule was (and is) public policy. They don’t want to violate the sanctity if the relationship and want them always to feel free to be honest with each other ... the am same reason there is a counsel privilege.
Thanks for uploading, that made for an enjoyable Monday night's noir ambience.
I grew up on these movies
About 23:55 the California inspection station. I saw that in 1942. Still kicking, I love these old movies with real Actors and actresses. Boy would I love to have a time machine.
Sign me up for that trip! One way!
From that point in the movie where the little dog.Tiger got flattened by that car his name was no longer Tiger, he was then known as Flap Jack
+Rob Sokolyk Coulda' changed his name to Matt and let him sleep by the door.
Groan !
Loved it!..before the Salton sea was poisoned and life was simple!
I would give anything to have lived back then and seen it!
It was probably just as bad for most ordinary people, but you don't see it in these old movies: it seemed a simpler world back then.
🌹 great acting and thanks 4d 🎥. Nowadays the flooding would be blamed on climate change and folks would take political sides. This was just a good old-fashioned love story ----- WHO DONE IT. Very suspenseful as well as entertaining movie.😍🌄🌄🌄🌄
...this is the first screen play Roger Corman ever sold to Allied Artists for $3.000 originally titled "The House by the Sea"
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Joseph, what are you saying, if anything?
+alex tworkowski What Is He Talking About
What A Bunch Of Crap
I love the way the Police left the suitcase on the side of the road when they initially picked him up and then it magically appeared later on. :)
Good movie though. It was good, clean entertainment.
cadrolls...WHAT movie are you watching...the deputy picked it up and put it in the car as they were leaving.
Broadrick. Crawford. .Highway Patrol.
Yeah the car driver picked up the case and put it in the trunk.
The police definitely picked up the suitcase.
love the music and the drama. life was so different back then. so much excitement
Great film.Acting and pacing were well done.
The two cops in the diner are complaining about the heat and both are wearing jackets and drinking coffee.
What did you want - intelligent cops??
@@herbert9241 There is always hope!
thanks for upload. i did like seeing the desert footage from back then, the mojave hasn't changed too much.
No one gets across the state line without their identification. How California has changed.
If the Democrats get their way the boarders will be the same!
@@freemarketjoe9869 If the Democrats get their way they'll teach you to spell.
@@freemarketjoe9869 borders
@@freemarketjoe9869
They already are.
And certainly not for the better.
A great old movie. Worth watching.
Thanks for these old Classics :))
Wow! How things change...I was stationed at Naval Air Facility El Centro 1979-81... Salton Sea back then was starting to dry up..it’s probably halfway covered with the desert by now 2018..
In the scene where Tiger was run over, the film’s director wanted to actually run the dog over “for the sake of realism” but was talked out of it by Richard Conte.🌀
Nothing like driving in the hot desert in a convertible
Dan Tanna did exteriors for the Vegas series wearing a tweed jacket & suede vest in an early TBird. Bob Urich made fun of it years later.
Good classic 'B' movie in black and white. Worth a second watch. 👍 Thanks.
Joan Bennett looks just like Debra Messing from Will and Grace...the resemblance is uncanny....Love the movie!
poor tiger,,,,
I thought this was a great, suspense filled thriller and it benefits from having been shot on location. Interesting to see Fremont Street as it was in c '54. Richard Conte and Wanda Hendrix give strong performances. Joan Bennett is not quite on Woman in the Window form but still watchable.
Well said and well put ! As you pointed out, Joan Bennett just didn't have as strong a part or script as she did in the Fritz Lang noir classics "Scarlet Street' or "The Woman in the Window" !
What about her in the TV show "Dark Shadows".
Move forward s decade for CRIME STORY for a slightly more modern Fremont.
An entertaining B movie starring the under rated Richard Conte. It was fscinating to see brief glimpses of Las Vegas and the rest of Nevada in the mid 1950s. There were a number of times the plot didn't make sense but Conte and the rest of the cast kept going. Well worth a viewing.
Agree completely!
The lawman shot in the shoulder with a 45, gets up and walks down to the Salton Sea holding his arm. LOL.
In real life he would have probably gone into shock. A .45 to boot! Those things pack quite a punch!
But in those days men were real men . Not the snowflakes we have now!
@@jan22150 oh yeah? You take the shot in the arm and see how tough you are. You’d be crying for your mama, if you weren’t in shock
@@davidhull1481 I am talking about the real , tough man back in the days. Nowadays we have as bunch of crybabies , people who wear a vagina hat when they loose an election !
@@jan22150 those people were women. Apparently you haven’t been close enough to one to recognize her. You ought to try it, lotsa fun and you may even lose some of your anger issues.
Help, I'm drowning in 2 feet of water! I confess!
Great film!
The Cop is really the Lone Ranger played by Clayton Moore.. name doesn't show but may have changed it before using his real name. Check him out in the Movie Kansas Pacific about a train that was being built just before the outbreak of the Civil War.
Did not know that. His acting in this was rather poor but who cares. I still loved the movie.
Great Movie. Never underestimate a women's scorn!! THK U.
Parts of this were filmed in my hometown of Apple Valley Cali.......Many famous movies have been filmed there.....
Roy and Dale
One of the better scenes leading to a kiss I saw in my life.. there's that real tension in it and so..
why in the world did they need the cheesy sound stage backdrop during the campfire scene when they had the wonderful desert location to work with - the real star of this movie.
Because you know nothing about film making.
Because no one in their right mind wants to be in a freezing desert at night surrounded by Rattle snakes, scorpions and tarantulas when they can have a nice lunch at the studio cafeteria then turn down a couple lights on the "Gunsmoke" set, film a couple dozen old scripts rolled up like firewood burning, call it quits and go home early! Pretty much exactly how the Democrats run things in Washington nowadays, only instead of old scripts they use the constitution as fire wood!
"For sixty cents I bought a martini mixed with dynamite." 58:18 🤔 Raymond Chandler what did you unleash?
Based on the title, I expected worse. iT became enjoyable to see what kind of ridiculous escape was coming next.
i would have liked the movie better if the Dog was Saved by the man instead of letting a car hit him and die... the end was kinda corny but still a happy ending...
Yes, i did not see the point in the dog dying, other than the inconvenience of dragging the dog along for the rest of the story line. Here is our main man, letting the dog out to do it's duty for ten minutes by the diner. Here he is again by the gas station. Now here he is walking the dog in the desert! Here he is once again carting the dog out in his arms to see the half submerged house. Lets face it. The dog had to go! Plus he knew too much. It was his leash, after all, that was used to kill the blonde bimbo. Dead dogs tell no tails! I mean tales!
Boy, they did a number on that Dodge station wagon...
Or was that a plymouth? Little b-4 my time?🤔
52:10 it is a Plymouth
Great movie. I love the older movies
the reason for leash laws in the 50's - R.I.P. Tiger..
...Wasn't the murder victim strangled with a leash??? I'm only 17 minutes in, and it looks like the list of suspects just got narrowed down to two. Plus the murder victim used to be a top model in New York city, and I'd bet anything that the lovely fashionista who owned the unfortunate dog is originally from New York city, too.
Susan... And her AMAZING COLOR-CHANGING DRESS.
Start at about 51:05
Yep, spotted that too!!
Good catch
Terrific noir movie...thank you for uploading it.
9:20 That cop removed the magazine from the pistol, but didn't rack the slide . There could've been a round in the chamber!!!
How could a cop who claimed to be a Marine combat vet be so CARELESS??
These movies depict a time when California was populated with men . We boys learned to be men watching these . LITTLE DID WE KNOW THAT WE WERE BEING PREPARED FOR A WORLD THAT WOULDN'T EXIST WHEN WE GOT THERE !
Love the dramatic muzak and camp!
Whatta movie !!!!!
Two different dresses in the desert
Same heavy dark jacket! Hot heavy sun absorbing dark jacket! And getting along rather nicely without any water in 118 degree heat for 12 hours. No parched voices , heavy sweating or light headed stupor.
9 years later than Scarlet Street, Joan Bennett seems to have aged twice as much. Looks like she had a rough time.