What a ripper of a movie and such believable acting! The film industry has lost a lot since those mighty days of cinema entertainment. I'm going to recommend this film to all my friends. Hey, no foul language either. Not half bad for a 72 year old movie. Many thanks for making it available to us in 2021.
I was thinking the same thing. I just thought, "How is it I can't get through 15 minutes of a modern blockbuster, but this film (created when my dad was 8 years old) grabs my attention?"
@@rupertbear6883 Okay, but that's really the only instance, and it's embedded beautifully. It has a function. It illustrates the ordinariness of the new situation Williams has gotten into, it's not just wreathed in as if normal.
@@mandarkastronomonov2962 This film has been made just something like twenty years after the emergence of spoken language in films. Perhaps that was a moment around which the talking-movie technology just had ripened sufficiently for good actors to get involved while the industrialization of the business had not yet plunged all of it into a hell of mediocrity.
No matter how many times I've watched this, it never loses its "impact"! Seriously, I absolutely love film noir and this is one of the best! The story knits together beautifully and the actors are superb. This will never happen again....sad!
I like to watch black and white movies. This is a classic one. After seven decades these movies become favourite to the present generation because those film makers and actors knows the basics of film making and it tells a lot to present day film makers if they want to learn about film making.
Yes, they know the basics of filmmaking, and above all - they also apply them. One such basic they (sometimes) apply is that only hard work will generate a good film.
Yep. Brian Donlevy is always good. The film prescence. That wife what a piece of.......work. And the poor guy loved her so much. Plink goes the wedding ring, into the drink.
Agree, love these old movies. They don't make them anymore because Hollywood has an agenda and making clean family oriented movies is not in their agenda.
I can't believe how good this movie is! I watch it once every month because I love the nostalgic charm and everything else about it. This was post World War II America before I was born. This movie is perfect. Perfect script, perfect cast, perfect timing. Every time I see it I find more details I hadn't notice before.
Oh my gosh for any film addicts such as I, the hotel she walks out of is the same hotel Kim Novak supposedly lives in, in Vertigo. As with all truly great films., the scenery and backdrops are integral to the story. Thank you for this!❤️❤️
But Kathy, you wouldn't want to waste all that fine effort by the prop boys would you? Wouldn't it be great to do a tour of all the film sets which have been used over the years.
A small film but a great one. I have watched it many-a-time and is a perfect movie. Not a wasted word, not a wasted scene, delivering superb entertainment and one of Brian Donlevy's best.
What a brilliant film. I prefer watching black and white movies to the drivel they put on tv these days. Thank you for up loading. Keep Safe everyone x
I absolutely love this movie. I love the car Donlevy drove too. Hated to see it go over a cliff. I absolutely love all the dresses and hats. I wish they would go back to hats.
@@eyecandy5984 I see. I know how decisive a single frame less or more can be, after having made RUclips videos. In the forties they could not yet handle such things as flexibly as it's possible now. Can you tell me if it was possible then to add and remove single frames as often as one liked it?
The question remains; *why* she decided to leave an actual _good man who has lots of money who can take great care of her,_ to... Go off with a lying attempted murderer with questionable funds, who probably was willing to ditch her if her face was re-arranged by a mugger. I think it's just an "unfaithful wife of Hosea thinks it's better to go with the idiot" moment.
Walter Wms played the sucker a lil stiffly, but otherwise his acting was good. But that wife of his, that conniving grieving widow really played her role to the max. She should've gotten an award for it.
@@paulyhoffmann I was also very impressed by her acting. I even have made a new playlist "Acting" so far only comprising this film, while I still was watching.
I really enjoyed every moment in this classic thriller movie, unfortunately, today film producers don't make such a good movies, lot of garbage instead
Hi Nancy, of course you should sit up. I'm 77 and sitting up having a ball watching all of these really great quality movies. Warmest greetings from Australia.
I have lived in the Bay Area for 70 years. I really liked seeing and hearing about San Rafael, old Highway 50 over Echo Summit to Lake Tahoe. Downtown Sausalito and Nob Hill haven't changed. The old KSFO airport terminal has. Great script and acting.
Funny how I luv watching these old Movies: & better, I know deep down that I've seen most of them in my Childhood; so it's especially sweeter this time around, because I also know weer Living in Last Days & Everything in My Life is coming Full Circle for Me🤩 Yes, PRAISE the Lord God for His cheritable wisdom in ALL Things💝🏇🎈
You can still see these places in Sausalito today...+67 years. Behind the Rexall is the Ferry Slip. They're driving North on Bridgeway, past the shipyards, Madden & Lewis, Subchasers, and Marinship, Liberty ships, later Arques and The Gates. Eventually many Bay and Delta Ferries were drydocked, beached, and scrapped. The Vallejo was rebuilt as a houseboat and the home of Alan Watts. The Charles Van Damme became a Rock Venue as The Ark during the late 60's and hosted many bands of the San Francisco era including Big Brother, Country Joe, Moby Grape, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Dan Hicks, and Quicksilver. It was later bulldozed, but the boiler, stack, and sidewheel remain at that location as a memorial to the vessel.
@@catchaser52 The store fronts are pretty different, if I'm remembering correctly, but the basic layout around the little park looks exactly the same to me.
This movie, which was very good. The wife had me screeching different things about her unlucky attitude, but once that was out of my system, then it was every good. Thank you for that.
And the famous Anna May Wong of earlier cinema. She was overlooked sadly because she was Chinese back in the silent days of movies and for some great parts due to the fact she was Chinese
Moral of the story: No one really knows who they're really marrying until they're married, and then still might be in for a few surprises aong the way.
Very good. An obviously well-used print that has done service on the TV circuit judging by all the additional cue-marks, but well worth viewing nonetheless.
Brian Dunlevy without his moustache for the first half of the film. Probably his best performance in this film. Charles Coburn is always very entertaining.
They never thought of the most obvious way to establish what happened the night of the accident - the two guys with the Bekins Moving Van saw Jim Torrance get into Williams car and drive from where they stopped down to where he crashed into the fuel truck. Maybe the Bekins guys might have said they could not identify whether it was Williams or Torrance, but the investigators never asked. I suppose they left that out of the plot because it would have simplified the case and reduced the suspense in the courtroom.
The whole idea that they let the wife go and prosecuted the husband was ridiculous. They did not have one piece of evidence to suggest anyone murdered the guy! The prosecution had a laughable story that the supposed killer jumped off at the last moment. It really irked me!
A strong story well acted and great plot to go with it there were some really good actors you can easily relate this to real life thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It's a "Darling, I'm home" greeting that a husband and wife might do for each other when one or the other comes home. The man was heartbroken over his wife cheating on him to the point of trying to conspire to murder him, he cherished her up until he realized she didn't care at all. It's not like he used her as a doormat.
I enjoyed this movie I love how everyone dress back then.the wife really tried to cover her tracks but some new came in his life to show him what true love was all about. the detective was good at his job like the way he handle business.
TY Sallis. Very much enjoyed. Excellent movie. Also, love seeing the old cars, house furnishings, dress, etc of that time. I liked Dunlevy better clean shaven.
'what a tangled web we weave, once we practice to deceive' here's another quote, from the film this time: Hotel desk clerk says ' quite a dish hey ? ' to the Irish detective who replies ' a bit too highly seasoned for my digestion thanks ' referring to Mrs. Williams.
I remember seeing this as a kid. Always loved Phillip Ahn. Thank you for the terrific upload. (And to everyone who posts positive things without slamming contemporary films.😂) Paz y luz ✨️ to all
It was good, but all they had to do is ask the furniture moving guys. They saw Jim in the convertible by himself and take off by himself and then crash by himself.
I thought the whole idea of prosecuting the husband was ridiculous. There was not one scrap of evidence that could have been used to convict him, of course.
Perhaps the two only see the fire from afar. Given the amount of traffic on the road, it's not clear if they recognize that it has been this one particular driver. They can see from afar that an ambulance and police have already arrived, assuming that it's fine if they continue their own journey on a different course. When they turn over the briefcase, they can already be far away and still fail to grasp what has happened, simply forgetting the incident with the seemingly mad fellow. After all, it is already the next day. Perhaps they do not even find a police station themselves, leaving the business of turning over the briefcase to others without revealing their identities. Those turning over the briefcase perhaps don't remember of what company they have been, for example because they have not seen their vehicle. We do observe how they're nervous not to get involved, when one of them says "Don't touch it!".
I like this old movie, especially the white Packard convertible. Back when Packard was the premier American luxo boat. But, the story is a stretch to believe. That this two timing woman would choose a young, pennyless drifting murderer over a nationally known Executive with a fancy apartment in San Francisco, handsome, powerful, and drives a Packard convertible.
Lots of implausible things. Sure he drives his car into a truck at 60mph and jumped out at the last minute and lived, that's a real plausible accusation. He gets assaulted and doesn't ask for help or call police. But it was very entertaining, I watched it to the end and loved how Mrs W got destroyed.
@@johnnycalifornia9790 There is also the weakness that men who have seen the culprit and have clearly noticed him as behaving unusually do not appear as witnesses testifying that it wasn't Williams - although they have contacted authorities and in doing so have provided a central piece of evidence. Have there not yet been driving licenses, in those times, with a help of which these two should have been able to identify themselves?
25:21 I've watched the collision scene over and over wondering how they created it in an age where CGI wasn't even imagined. I can only guess it was done with miniatures, but it's so well done.
They may have used some sort of projection. As few frames as fit into a second or two can also be cut apart. Artificial imagery has been around since the very first years of the history of cinema.
At 48:46 the policeman is reading a San Francisco newspaper and the headline reads "Oaks beat S..." that's a reference to the old Oakland Oaks minor league baseball team, back in the old days when there were no Major League teams on the West Coast. S... might mean the Sacramento Solons, both Oakland and Sacramento were in the Pacific Coast League.
Think again honey, my ex would think that way, she was as dodgy a nine bob note. I'm always sceptical of a woman who's eyes grow bigger, not looking at me, but at the jewel's she looks at.
What a ripper of a movie and such believable acting! The film industry has lost a lot since those mighty days of cinema entertainment. I'm going to recommend this film to all my friends. Hey, no foul language either. Not half bad for a 72 year old movie. Many thanks for making it available to us in 2021.
I was thinking the same thing. I just thought, "How is it I can't get through 15 minutes of a modern blockbuster, but this film (created when my dad was 8 years old) grabs my attention?"
he did say 'swell'
@@rupertbear6883 Okay, but that's really the only instance, and it's embedded beautifully. It has a function. It illustrates the ordinariness of the new situation Williams has gotten into, it's not just wreathed in as if normal.
@@mandarkastronomonov2962 This film has been made just something like twenty years after the emergence of spoken language in films. Perhaps that was a moment around which the talking-movie technology just had ripened sufficiently for good actors to get involved while the industrialization of the business had not yet plunged all of it into a hell of mediocrity.
@@rupertbear6883 The Walter Williams pretending to be a Bill Walker also tries to sound plain.
An oldie but goody and what a cast. No blood, no gore, no meaningless fights or chases.
Excellent movie! Well written and well played!
There is nothing like the classics. They appeal universally to human nature throughout the ages.😊
Very good movie! The oldies are the best,they sure knew how to make back then!
If you have to ask someone if they love you...a good chance they do not. Love this movie never get tired of it.
No matter how many times I've watched this, it never loses its "impact"! Seriously, I absolutely love film noir and this is one of the best! The story knits together beautifully and the actors are superb. This will never happen again....sad!
Well said!
Oh yes, you can expect a reincarnation of the film. In c. 25 years, that's the average pace.
This will be my third time watching this movie. One of my favorites.
Have you ever listened to Dangerous Assignment on Old Time Radio Episodes with Brian Donleavy? Surprisingly good 30 minute segments.
I like to watch black and white movies. This is a classic one. After seven decades these movies become favourite to the present generation because those film makers and actors knows the basics of film making and it tells a lot to present day film makers if they want to learn about film making.
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Yes, they know the basics of filmmaking, and above all - they also apply them. One such basic they (sometimes) apply is that only hard work will generate a good film.
I have watched a couplle of these old films , and this one is until now THE BEST
Why they don't make movies like this anymore... man oh man this is good! I swear I much be an old soul. I can watch these movies all day long♥️🎬
Yep. Brian Donlevy is always good. The film prescence. That wife what a piece of.......work. And the poor guy loved her so much. Plink goes the wedding ring, into the drink.
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It's all I ever watch anymore. Love old film!
Agree, love these old movies. They don't make them anymore because Hollywood has an agenda and making clean family oriented movies is not in their agenda.
Totally understand. I'm an old soul too. In fact, the people I know say if it's not in black and white she won't watch it. 😊
He loved his wife, but the wife hated the husband who loved her.
Kind of like Hosea's unfaithful wife.
I can't believe how good this movie is! I watch it once every month because I love the nostalgic charm and everything else about it. This was post World War II America before I was born.
This movie is perfect. Perfect script, perfect cast, perfect timing. Every time I see it I find more details I hadn't notice before.
I'm curious to hear about such details you have not noticed.
I've watched this movie again. Good ol' classic! Always liked Charles Coburn. One of my favorite actors of these classic days of all time!
Well written & played by people of the past. 100% performist approval
Loved seeing the old actors...they had class.
Oh my gosh for any film addicts such as I, the hotel she walks out of is the same hotel Kim Novak supposedly lives in, in Vertigo. As with all truly great films., the scenery and backdrops are integral to the story. Thank you for this!❤️❤️
_such as me*._
_"as" is a pre-position, use an objective pronoun_
But Kathy, you wouldn't want to waste all that fine effort by the prop boys would you? Wouldn't it be great to do a tour of all the film sets which have been used over the years.
@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 "Now and then, there's a fool such as I."
@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 "Now and then, there's a fool such as I."
@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 "Now and then, there's a fool such as I."
This is the best version of Impact on RUclips.
Time capsule from an era when style was abundant.
*Um dos melhores filmes noir que eu ja assisti nos últimos anos, obrigado pela postagem*
Great stuff! Can't get enough of these film noir movies :)
I've seen this before, and am delighted to watch it again. A very good viewing. Thanks for posting it.
A small film but a great one. I have watched it many-a-time and is a perfect movie. Not a wasted word, not a wasted scene, delivering superb entertainment and one of Brian Donlevy's best.
What a brilliant film. I prefer watching black and white movies to the drivel they put on tv these days. Thank you for up loading. Keep Safe everyone x
Anne May Wong was a topnotch actress. Blazing the trail for many of today's top Asian actresses.
This was another better than most film and is really worth watching with good acting and suspense all around. Thanks for the show~!!!
Really good. They kept the suspense going right until the very last second.
THIS STORY WAS EXCELLENT & WELL DONE !!! THE END WAS EDGE OF SEAT...TY FOR POSTING !!!
Old movies cannot be matched! Thank you...
Great movie , well done, with great cast. Charles Coburn, Ella Raines, and of course the lead. Thank you for posting.
I absolutely love this movie. I love the car Donlevy drove too. Hated to see it go over a cliff. I absolutely love all the dresses and hats. I wish they would go back to hats.
Thankfully it didn't go off the cliff- it was a very unconvincing piece of model work
What make car was it ?....
Dixie, me too, and gloves ~ so delicate and gentile.
@@lappylappy7269 I believe a Packard
So wear a hat.
Great Movie..conniving wife,murder,small town values ,all ending in a court drama. Superb acting.plot,character development and happy ending.
Just a fantastic oldie !
Superb movie - great plot, great acting and crisp editing
What is the crisp editing you mean?
@@HansDunkelberg1 it means the editing is perfect with good flow of narrative from one scene to the next
@@eyecandy5984 I see. I know how decisive a single frame less or more can be, after having made RUclips videos. In the forties they could not yet handle such things as flexibly as it's possible now. Can you tell me if it was possible then to add and remove single frames as often as one liked it?
Rich, gullible, trusting, generous, loving, older man, marries gold digging, evil, younger woman. What could possibly go wrong ?
Never get too comfortable in your marriage. You have no idea what your spouse is up to.
The question remains; *why* she decided to leave an actual _good man who has lots of money who can take great care of her,_ to... Go off with a lying attempted murderer with questionable funds, who probably was willing to ditch her if her face was re-arranged by a mugger.
I think it's just an "unfaithful wife of Hosea thinks it's better to go with the idiot" moment.
I don't recall ever seeing DONLEVY in a role of this type.. Of course he played it flawlessly. Good B film.
Excellent movie! In the film noir genre, it has a taut story line and well defined 3 dimensional characters. Well done! Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting. That was one that got away. A very good film noir except for the happy ending!
Walter Wms played the sucker a lil stiffly, but otherwise his acting was good. But that wife of his, that conniving grieving widow really played her role to the max. She should've gotten an award for it.
_Hasn't_ she gotten it?
@@HansDunkelberg1 Gee, I don't know.
@@paulyhoffmann I was also very impressed by her acting. I even have made a new playlist "Acting" so far only comprising this film, while I still was watching.
i enjoy these old movies. i dont have to worry about sick sex senes or dirty unwanted swearing . real people dont swear like in the movies
This movie impacted me with the typical thrill of a film-noir of the time. Recommended !
I really enjoyed every moment in this classic thriller movie, unfortunately, today film producers don't make such a good movies, lot of garbage instead
Ella Raines was so adorable in this movie. Love these old movies!
Raines was cast as "so adorable" as a contrast to that wicked witch Helen Walker.
Ella Raines was always, well, instead of adorable, I'd say beautiful.
Rogerable ?
Great story. Thanks for posting
This is a really great movie and a great plot to make you really think
Excellent movie. Have seen it several times. The only question is should I stay up way too late tonight to watch it again?
Hi Nancy, of course you should sit up. I'm 77 and sitting up having a ball watching all of these really great quality movies. Warmest greetings from Australia.
Wonderful movie! Thank you for posting.
I love these movies. I noticed Mrs. Williams first goof: “I told him he should never pick up hitchhikers!” Oops! That’s gonna haunt her later.
I have lived in the Bay Area for 70 years. I really liked seeing and hearing about San Rafael, old Highway 50 over Echo Summit to Lake Tahoe. Downtown Sausalito and Nob Hill haven't changed. The old KSFO airport terminal has. Great script and acting.
Funny how I luv watching these old Movies: & better, I know deep down that I've seen most of them in my Childhood; so it's especially sweeter this time around, because I also know weer Living in Last Days & Everything in My Life is coming Full Circle for Me🤩
Yes, PRAISE the Lord God for His cheritable wisdom in ALL Things💝🏇🎈
Beware of the people you love. They may be ur worst enemy..
the police say that when there is a murder the first person they suspect is the spouse.
Loved this old gem ,looking forward to watching more ,on my days off ,thank you for the upload.
WHAT AN AMAZING MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best ever, in the top 10 in my opinion.
the plot is preposterous, but it is fairly entertaining.
What are the other nine?
Terrific old film. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting it and sharing.
Never get too comfortable in your marriage. You never know what your spouse is up to.
You can still see these places in Sausalito today...+67 years. Behind the Rexall is the Ferry Slip. They're driving North on Bridgeway, past the shipyards, Madden & Lewis, Subchasers, and Marinship, Liberty ships, later Arques and The Gates. Eventually many Bay and Delta Ferries were drydocked, beached, and scrapped.
The Vallejo was rebuilt as a houseboat and the home of Alan Watts.
The Charles Van Damme became a Rock Venue as The Ark during the late 60's and hosted many bands of the San Francisco era including Big Brother, Country Joe, Moby Grape, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Dan Hicks, and Quicksilver.
It was later bulldozed, but the boiler, stack, and sidewheel remain at that location as a memorial to the vessel.
thanks
@@catchaser52 The store fronts are pretty different, if I'm remembering correctly, but the basic layout around the little park looks exactly the same to me.
It was quite a plot twist, husband being prosecuted, but that would be payback, in dramatic terms, for his actions: that's a theory any way 😉
Love it An Old Souls Platform.
These Movies Are So Comforting .
Who Couldn't Enjoy Some Classic Time?
Take Care All. 💞
An exceptional and remarkable movie! The themes and acting are more than up to the task. Thank you.
This movie, which was very good. The wife had me screeching different things about her unlucky attitude, but once that was out of my system, then it was every good. Thank you for that.
"Suffering Chopsticks" indeed! Love how they filmed Larkspur, in Marin County, and place it in Idaho. Enjoyed the movie!
You know, I was thinking to myself, Is there really a Larkspur in Idaho too?
I enjoy these old movies so much that I have subscribed to your channel. Thanks for the uploads!
Thanks for this amazing Movie 🙏🙏🙏.
GREAT MOVIE GREAT CAST GREAT ENDING!!!
I had seen this movie years ago, and forgot how it went. Great movie, I've always liked Brian Donlevy
And the famous Anna May Wong of earlier cinema. She was overlooked sadly because she was Chinese back in the silent days of movies and for some great parts due to the fact she was Chinese
Moral of the story:
No one really knows who they're really marrying until they're married,
and then still might be in for a few surprises aong the way.
True words.
Amen I learned that the hard way
Phooooey. Feel the love, brothers.
( "Love is giving.")
Gotta love a scratchy print of a classic film.
Very good. An obviously well-used print that has done service on the TV circuit judging by all the additional cue-marks, but well worth viewing nonetheless.
Brian Dunlevy without his moustache for the first half of the film. Probably his best performance in this film.
Charles Coburn is always very entertaining.
You have totally backwards about Dunlevy. It was, however, a film worth watching.
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Coburn is the police lieutenant.
He more frequently played comedy characters.
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@@arlynnoel I thought Dunlevy did a great job both with and without mustache!
Good job. Good picture, good sound, good movie.
Absolutely brilliant. The story was so realistic and likely. B+W movies definitely have more reality about them.
It might seem old fashioned but this sort of movie is reminiscent of times past.
That’s why we watch em….
Wonderful movie with outstanding performances from entire cast.
Excellent story and excellent old movie. Those days were just the best of the best for film. Thank you for posting this, Sallis65!😊
This is classic noir, with all the elements. Very entertaining!
Great stuff! Thank you so much for
uploading 👍💖👏
They never thought of the most obvious way to establish what happened the night of the accident - the two guys with the Bekins Moving Van saw Jim Torrance get into Williams car and drive from where they stopped down to where he crashed into the fuel truck.
Maybe the Bekins guys might have said they could not identify whether it was Williams or Torrance, but the investigators never asked.
I suppose they left that out of the plot because it would have simplified the case and reduced the suspense in the courtroom.
.the belkin moving guys were married to each other though
The whole idea that they let the wife go and prosecuted the husband was ridiculous. They did not have one piece of evidence to suggest anyone murdered the guy! The prosecution had a laughable story that the supposed killer jumped off at the last moment. It really irked me!
I thought of that too during the trial scene. There were other holes in the procesecutors case regardless of the wife's testimony.
@@markr.devereux2713 yeah! But makes good for a great film noir movie 🍿!
Same thought especially since they turned in the briefcase! But that would've cut a great film in half!
A strong story well acted and great plot to go with it there were some really good actors you can easily relate this to real life thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
'In this world when you turn the other cheek you get hit with a lug wrench.' Yeah, noir baby.
Yeah, but the "lug" who swung it got himself killed in the process.
Why does he Whistle as he walks through the door. He's whistling like you would whistle a 🐕 dog.
Misogynistic
It's a "Darling, I'm home" greeting that a husband and wife might do for each other when one or the other comes home. The man was heartbroken over his wife cheating on him to the point of trying to conspire to murder him, he cherished her up until he realized she didn't care at all. It's not like he used her as a doormat.
Enjoyed this movie very much. "Thank you" 👍👋
This was a great film and Ella Raines was quite a tomato!
I enjoyed this movie I love how everyone dress back then.the wife really tried to cover her tracks
but some new came in his life to show him what true love was all about. the detective was good at his job like the way he handle business.
A very good story movie and casts...
TY Sallis. Very much enjoyed. Excellent movie. Also, love seeing the old cars, house furnishings, dress, etc of that time. I liked Dunlevy better clean shaven.
Yes, it's a film revealing a lot on the style of its decade.
Great movie... What a tangled web we weave once we practice to deceive....
Gets better. With. Time
'what a tangled web we weave, once we practice to deceive' here's another quote, from the film this time: Hotel desk clerk says ' quite a dish hey ? ' to the Irish detective who replies ' a bit too highly seasoned for my digestion thanks ' referring to Mrs. Williams.
@@gregoryhaden5475 Like fine wine in black & white film noir.
I remember seeing this as a kid. Always loved Phillip Ahn. Thank you for the terrific upload. (And to everyone who posts positive things without slamming contemporary films.😂)
Paz y luz ✨️ to all
Which ones are the good contemporary films you mean?
GREAT MOVIE! Good, happy ending. Thank you.
Ah, San Francisco in its golden age...everyone well-dressed, and no tent cities of vagrants.
Just as good the second time, thanks!
It was good, but all they had to do is ask the furniture moving guys. They saw Jim in the convertible by himself and take off by himself and then crash by himself.
I thought the whole idea of prosecuting the husband was ridiculous. There was not one scrap of evidence that could have been used to convict him, of course.
They had to make a movie. 😂
Perhaps the two only see the fire from afar. Given the amount of traffic on the road, it's not clear if they recognize that it has been this one particular driver. They can see from afar that an ambulance and police have already arrived, assuming that it's fine if they continue their own journey on a different course. When they turn over the briefcase, they can already be far away and still fail to grasp what has happened, simply forgetting the incident with the seemingly mad fellow. After all, it is already the next day. Perhaps they do not even find a police station themselves, leaving the business of turning over the briefcase to others without revealing their identities. Those turning over the briefcase perhaps don't remember of what company they have been, for example because they have not seen their vehicle. We do observe how they're nervous not to get involved, when one of them says "Don't touch it!".
Fantastic movie - loved it! Thank you for sharing!
I like this old movie, especially the white Packard convertible. Back when Packard was the premier American luxo boat. But, the story is a stretch to believe. That this two timing woman would choose a young, pennyless drifting murderer over a nationally known Executive with a fancy apartment in San Francisco, handsome, powerful, and drives a Packard convertible.
Lots of implausible things. Sure he drives his car into a truck at 60mph and jumped out at the last minute and lived, that's a real plausible accusation. He gets assaulted and doesn't ask for help or call police. But it was very entertaining, I watched it to the end and loved how Mrs W got destroyed.
probably he was her old boyfriend.
@@johnnycalifornia9790 There is also the weakness that men who have seen the culprit and have clearly noticed him as behaving unusually do not appear as witnesses testifying that it wasn't Williams - although they have contacted authorities and in doing so have provided a central piece of evidence. Have there not yet been driving licenses, in those times, with a help of which these two should have been able to identify themselves?
25:21 I've watched the collision scene over and over wondering how they created it in an age where CGI wasn't even imagined. I can only guess it was done with miniatures, but it's so well done.
Models and gasoline
I don't watch films that use CGI.
You'd be surprised what they could do in the movies back then without computer generated effects.
They may have used some sort of projection. As few frames as fit into a second or two can also be cut apart. Artificial imagery has been around since the very first years of the history of cinema.
At 48:46 the policeman is reading a San Francisco newspaper and the headline reads "Oaks beat S..." that's a reference to the old Oakland Oaks minor league baseball team, back in the old days when there were no Major League teams on the West Coast. S... might mean the Sacramento Solons, both Oakland and Sacramento were in the Pacific Coast League.
Fellas! See how quick that toothache was healed with just a few jewels?! Hint, hint.
Think again honey, my ex would think that way, she was as dodgy a nine bob note. I'm always sceptical of a woman who's eyes grow bigger, not looking at me, but at the jewel's she looks at.
Excellent, thank you!
What a great movie. Thank you!!!
This movie was so good!