Undertow (1949) Film noir
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2018
- Undertow 1949 full movie. Scott Brady stars in this film noir crime
drama as an ex gangster from Chicago who has gone straight but ends up framed for the hit on a powerful mob boss. this crime film has a great chase scene involving a LONG corridor which should not be missed. the film hits all the standard noir plot points and is a quality picture. - Broken Trout - 
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I've been so frustrated with the current film industry and their lack of quality content.
Then I rediscovered film noir!.
What a breath of fresh air!. 😊
I agree.
Spot on.
Amen
What makes films from this era so beguiling to watch is that there are no pretentious editing gimmicks, the shots are as long as it takes instead of being edited like a video game, no meaningless carousel cameras, no mumbling incoherent actors, decent story line and believable characters - nice one.
And they don't take their clothes off! Especially when I'm wishing they'd leave them on, which is most of the time.
True. And regarding clothes, the 'dress code' of the time was really something. I wonder if this will ever return to modern day style, it would be nice. Something to be said for civility and good manners. Golden Years 🎵
No CGI
@@lemorab1 love you lemorab1 need more ppl like you in the world.
all the comments below correct, as for the clothing - no words to describe the difference between than and how ppl dress today.
Love how on a hot day she is wearing spotless white gloves matching her white dress!such elegance such sweet style!1949 rocks!
I was thinking about that as I watched. Everyone dressed up back then. These days, we're all slobs lol
It was such a wonderful time, the style was was classy. The women the clothes the cars the music. Would love to visit that year and stay a while.
That was the year I was born. When sex was dirty and the air was clean.
When I was little, my mum and I wore white gloves if we went downtown on the bus in the summer. Dressing up made it more of an occasion.
I hate white gloves. I remember when I was young my mother made me wear them,even on hot days, on special occasions. I loved my mother. She was a great person,but this was not on. I'm glad when it fell out of favour.
I loved these movies, born in 1948 myself, and watched them on tv when shown as "afternoon movies" in the 1950's and some of the 1960's. This was back when good movies were made!
Most movies today really do insult the intelligence of some people. Juvenile, highly predictable, and even obnoxious at times.
@@user-my8bb6nc1x Unwatchable to me.🙄🙃
1948, me too! It was a very good year 😎
Watching such movies I am a kid again! (My age: 76) Thanks!
Love these old movies! I never tire of them. It makes me forget all the chaos and craziness going on in the world. Thanks for the upload!
lots of old de Sotos and LaSalles
Ouiiiii je vous rejoins pour les éloges tous les bons sentiments sont au rendez-vous
Merci beaucoup
Men who look and act like men. Women who look and act like women.
I feel the same way! nothing like a good classic movie. It's unfortunate we don't have quality scriptwriters, directors and actors like we once did back in the golden Hollywood glamour era. We have just a very few in todays age.
@@LUIS-ox1bv 100 %, unlike today, you're not sure which one it is, lol
Enjoy watching these old movies ...I was born in 1958, and during my youth I would watch movies like this..Such fond childhood memories...
I know the feeling !
Yes, these films 🎥 were great. Being born
in 1944, I was 5 when this movie 🎬 was made. So I remember these movies when
I was growing up in the 1950's very well.
Me too.
Quite apart from being classic Noir, the outdoor shots of 40s Chicago make this essential viewing for anyone with half a feel for the period. A coherent ,crisp storyline, and solid cinematography. A joy to watch a film that is artistically satisfying, yet uncluttered by pretentiousness.
Love, love the outside shots of the outside in these older films. It does take you back to the look and feel of life in that era quite successfully.
Everybody's a critic
@@dizzman5546 I Wish .
A good summary without giving away the plot
@@lambdalambdalambda257 given the pathetic standard of today’s ‘critics for cash’ they actually could be. I’ve never seen critics of today so out of step with what the audience like- because they are too busy crawling up Hollyweirds back passage ‘message’ films.
Even though this was considered a B movie ..it is far better than anything made today....I was born 1955 so in many ways this reminds me of my childhood.....even though this was made in the late 40's. This type of classic suspense movie is just so GOOD..!!
I have watched it 3 times in the last month.
I never seem to get bored with everything in the movie....from the plot ..to the cast and Happy endings.
Thank you for posting such a true classic...!!
born in 44 travelled extensively lived in chgo east erie st off michigan with first ex wife i agree with u well stated
I also was born in 1955. We had movies like this on TV on Sunday afternoon! You and I could be penpals. I’m in Australia, Melbourne! Xxx Sandra Hall
I was three years old when this movie was made. I wish I could go back for a visit. Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, and Grand Parents, gone forever.
Famiy❤❤❤❤
I was born that year
💙🕊️
Just checked, Peggy Dow, “an American philanthropist and retired actress” is still alive and kicking at 93. Fantastic! This film is so true to life, it’s always those chance encounters that prove to be the real thing… 👍
She had retired after only three years in the business and got married and raised five Sons.
No. And her real name was Varnadow.😀
@@Mercmad good clean story thank u
Beautiful movie. I got emotional. 1949. They dressed like my mom and dad, the year I was conceived. I felt a deep pang of emotion. Thank you for the beautiful movie.
You and me both!
This was the year I was born. I remember the clothes styles and cars from my toddler days. Simpler times for sure. It's nice to see an African American actor with a fair-sized role here--unusual in those days.
Same here. Just like my parents.. the conversation, clothes...
@@lawsonj39 And not the stereotypical role of that era, I noticed the same thing during the film. Also to your comment regarding the clothes styles and cars. (born 1950 here)
Born 1949. I am so grateful for these old movies. It helps keep me sane in Clown World.
"Gremlins" 1984 was Scott Brady´s Last Film. He Died in 1985. RIP.
Pure Gold.
This is when it was the Golden Era of Film, Radio, Stage.
Splendid!!! 😊
My attention never wavered!
Beautiful women. Handsome men.
And cool-looking old cars.
Superior little noir film. I'll certainly want to watch it again!
Like in all movies from the 40's on back, I love the way that nobody has to wait even 30 seconds to find a parking space, even on what's obviously an express motorway.
That would be funny if someone would redo The Cheap Detective
Ha ! Yes ! And they always get a parking spot right in front of the building they want to enter ! Only in Hollywood ! 😂
I enjoyed this movie! I grew up in Chicago. My 1983 high school prom was at the Palmer House. My mother used to take my brothers and me to see the Buckingham Fountain all the time. I enjoyed seeing what these places look like back in 1949. 🙂
Looks like a great place in the 50s.
The Palmer House was in a Monkees song called 'Don't Call on Me', as part of the intro. This movie is the only other time I've heard it referenced, in 50 years.
@@terencejay8845 Yes !!
Yes !!! It sure was; one on their biggest albums feature that song by Mike Nesmith !!
@@timklein3962 Micky does a voice intro in to the song as though it's either on radio or as compere. 'And now, from from the magnificent Palmer House high over Chicago..'
I still have all their albums on vinyl.
@@terencejay8845 In the film The Music Man, Prof Harold Hill asks a local man if he can recommend a good hotel, and the man replies, "Try the Palmer House in Chicago!"
It is refreshing no cussing etc.🎭💖
I’m actually surprised that I hadn’t heard of this film before. This is a GREAT movie. Very attractive actors, great scenery, pace, dialogue. What a wonderful experience. I’m very pleased. If you like old movies but know sometimes it’s a gamble and sometimes it’s a bust - place your bets on this one 😉 you’ll be sure not to lose!
Old movies are always great! Its the new ones that suck.
Sky~
I'm going to take your advice. I love old movies.
Have you seen "Too Late for Tears" starring Lizabeth Scott?
If not, toss the dice, as I promise you will be dazzled by this beauty.
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@@gregoriopalofuego9808 Love that ~ 🎲🎲🎲🎥🎞️🍿🎲🎲🎲
I enjoyed the movie all of the way through. As I was guessing who was involved, my suspicions were right, but the plot never lost my interest to continue watching. I agree with so many of the comments. Nostalgia at it's very best.!! The cars, the clothes, the airplane, etc. The clean language, what a blessing.!!
I had a feeling "Miss Lee" was up to no good from the moment she picked up he phone.
Someday in the near future people will pine and long for the days of, Covid masks, lockdowns, Communists rigged elections,
Race riots, filthy language, military occupation of the capitol, senile and lunatic leaders and they’ll be sorry they don’t have the brains to appreciate how dumb they have become.
@@roberteckert As you're "dumb" enough to believe the 'rigged election' lie.
For "filthy language", look no further than Donald and Melania Trump.
@@roberteckert You are Brilliant !!! I agree one million percent !!!!!
The look was a giveaway
Love these old movies and also reading the comments
Just watched it again. The clothes, the cars, Chicago in the 1940s, Peggy Dow's loveliness...fantastic movie!
I had never heard of Scott Brady before but he has the same graceful star quality as a young Sean Connery. In fact the suits, the dresses, the cars and the hats were all elegant and stylish - I think 'noir' undersells the film, which is a romance, a chase and a whodunnit all in one.
Scott Brady is real-life 5 year younger brother to Lawrence Tierney, long-time movie tough guy. In this film the resemblance is remarkable.
Brady did many western films but probably is best known for the 1954 classic Johnny Guitar and his syndicated tv show Shotgun Slade which aired from November 1959 thru 1961
John Russell sported a mustache in his hit television series Lawman which ran on ABC from October 1958 to October 1962
They had another actor brother. But Lawrence was more handsome.
Tierney was the security guard in that Simpsons episode where Bart stole the video game.. Catfish 🤣🤣
Lawrence Tierney was a tough-guy off-screen as well as on celluloid (didn't he throw someone out of a window ?): he certainly played believable killers.
Lawrence Tierney was very difficult to work with and quite the alcoholic. Which probably explains why he never married
no relation to gene tierney?
These old movies are great snapshots of the past and past culture...note how thin folks were back in the 40’s...not just the actors but the folks in the street.
Absolutely Erik.
I especially noticed it in this film..lots of good street shots
Erik Hertzer No McDonald's, Starbucks, KFC or GMO none of those horrible leggings that fat girls wear. There was style then for the men and women, now they will wear any old rags. Purple hair, green hair, pink hair blue hair. No class.
Barbara Crickley : indeed...our culture has increased in technology but decreased in quality. One could do a thesis on the reasons why...
This was right after WWII. Food was rationed, sugar, eggs and butter were almost impossible to get during the war. There were also no fast food joints on every corner like today.
Cinematography is superb. Really captures the gritty texture of the Chicago streets. This is no formulaic film
Thank you for the insightful comment @ShakespeareCafe
Yes even though this is still a hollywood set and location.
Looks like the backlot at Universal Studios was pretty realistic looking.
Scott Brady is a talented actor.. love his movies
Wow. Peggy Dow is still with us at 93 year old. 💐💐💐💐💐 Married for 60 years & raised 5 children after she retired from acting. She had played the nurse in Jimmy Steward's "Harvey".
I see a movie made during Hollywood's Golden Age and I click thumbs up before watching one frame; and I am never disappointed.
I almost always enjoy a good Film Noir like this one.
I'm with you!
Cuz they are awesome!
Craft
Really enjoyed this film. The plot, clothes, cars and locations were excellent.
Rock Hudson in an early role as "Roc" Hudson. It's always amazing to see them as so young and fresh, their whole life ahead of them.
yes I was curious bout HUDSON, and that John Russell who was in westerns later as in a small role in Rio Bravo and one of his last roles- as that leader of guys in trenchcoats gunning after CLINT EASTWOOD at end of Pale Rider
@@michaelceraso1977 Yeah, and Bruce Bennet was in Treasure of the Sierra Madre and a couple of noir films.
@@nominalegg5865 yes Bennet had that subdued way of talking, He just was a few notches below leading man
I missed him. Where was he in the film?
@@andrewfrancis7272 54:45
This dialog writing is exquisite. A fantastic movie!
Indeed!!
Roc Hudson - this is his second film appearance - starts at 54:42 . He appears only briefly in this movie - this is his only scene, with only five very brief lines (16 words) of dialogue.
Thank you. I saw Roc Hudson in the cast but missed his scene. Good eye my fellow old movie enthusiast!@
Wow, the plane started as a DC3 and ended up a DC6,,,, gotta love it
I thought the same thing at first, but if you listen to the intercom announcement of the flight in Reno it mentions the UAL flight to Salt Lake City connecting with the flight out of SLC to Chicago and New York. So, I guess they transferred to the DC-6 at Salt Lake.
Such a good film. Strongly recommend viewing. Three of my all time favourite actors. Brady, Bennett and John Russell in the same film. My cup runneth over.
Excellent movie. Really exciting and unpredictable. Scott Brady is a forgotten star as fun to watch as anyone. Love this film. Peggy Dow was a real knockout too.
Nice Noir movie! Peggy Dow is in her nineties and still with us in 2021!
You will enjoy Peggy Dow in Bright Victory even more if you haven't seen it. Knockout for sure.
@@mebeingU2 wow who knew.
Totally agree. It is great acting by the entire cast. Great film.
Scott Brady born
( Gerard Kenneth Tierney ).
Brother of Lawrence Tierney.
What a great film. I never knew William Castle directed film Noir in the 1940s! Thank you for posting this on RUclips.
Quality Entertainment all the way!
Great casting, plot and dialogue.
All the characters were realistic,
particularly the cops who were
not stereotypes, especially the
detective who examined the
evidence, realized it was a frame
and stuck his neck out and solved
the case.
Thank you for this treat!
The flying red horse, Pegasus, Mobil's trademark on the building to the left of the fountain brings back memories of my childhood.
I have always enjoyed Scott Brady's work. This was a good film, decent acting, interesting storyline.
Rock Hudson was such a handsome man.
One of Scott's brothers was Lawrence Tierney who was also a good actor.
Brady is also outstanding in another famous film-noir: He Walked By Night (1948) with Richard Basehart and a young pre-Dragnet Jack Webb.
Brady was good in The Model and the Marriage Broker, vehicle for Jeanne Crain but Thelma Ritter and a crazy support cast including Zero Mostel, Nancy Culp ( Miss Jane) and Frank Fontaine ( Crazy Guggenheim) steal the show. But Brady, and the equally unappreciated Michael O'Shea are rock solid.
@@9284vr Lawrence Tierney was a good actor but could have been a great actor had it not been for his off screen behavior which was uneccessary
Wonderful film. One of William Castle's 40 directed flicks BEFORE his B-Horror ventures in 1959 with 'House on Haunted Hill', 'The Tingler', etc.
Peggy Dow is alive and kicking at age 93. Rock Hudson is also in this movie playing a detective. Thank you for showing a excellent movie. And finding out about Grant's Park and the Buckingham fountain in Chicago. There is a lot of history about Grant's Park and Buckingham fountain that I looked up after seeing this movie.
Wonder if Hudson was dating his party line & she was unaware & blond.
Aww. She ran to him and lifted her right foot as she hugged him. Thoroughly smitten.
I like how disappointed she looked on the plane when Tony said he was going to Chicago to get married. She had her sights set on him from the beginning. I can think of far worse to deal with.
That was to straddle his shlong.
@@scottgoodman8993 left foot and it doesn't count lol.
Thanks for posting this one. That Peggy Dow was a real hottie! Very much enjoyed this film.
She was the nurse in the movie Harvey
Turned 93 last Thursday (March 18th).
@@Ace1King1 Not so hot now, sadly.
You can't beat these old B&W film Noir's She had his back all the way which made the movie even better !!
If only Hollyweird could put out movies like this today.
I agree but not a hope . Hollywood today seems to attract the most ghastly calibre of people , plus the studio heads have been replaced by investors and accountants , all money driven. Long gone the days when authors of note were contracted as script writers, actors had to adhere to strict rules of behaviour and conduct , at least be seen publicly , to be upholding values of morality , decency and good conduct . And no politics allowed. Today, led by number crunchers , they’re a bunch of self serving, unintelligent , often unintelligible, uneducated , uneducable crowd representing and encouraging the anarchic breakdown of society. The endless stream of guff churned out , the loss and lack of scripts and stories worthy has been replaced by a stream of sewage containing filled with repugnant violence and filthy language. On a better day , guff and rubbish , so simplistic and superficial - all indicative of the dreadful drop in standards and dumbing down of education , decency and discipline. And then there is Disney . Until and unless there is a return to the much mocked and derided attempted values of yesterday - no hope.
Impossible today. We are too far gone.
Good film. Love these film noir flicks from the 40s. I was born in 1949 the same year of the film. As a kid, these were essentially the only movies that were around then. Good memories.
What month I was born in 49 July.
@@alandehn8541 Me too..April.
@@annapurna2389 I was in 52, January, any good. ???.
I’m a 49 model also. All kinds of great movies on the late late show
I was born in 47, December
It is March 2020 and many of us around the country are in self-quarantine for a week or two following concerns about the Coronavirus. What a joy to be able to stretch out at home on the sofa...and watch these wonderful noir films. A great public service! Along with my personal library and house chores, I should come through this quite happily, indeed!!
Cool. You will!
Films like this got my wife and I though the early days of the lockdown. Things have eased up a bit, but the movies are still great.
So true! Hope you're VACCINATED. 😀
Hope you got through it like a summer breeze. Happy Thanksgiving.
12/2022 just found this film and diving in.
Tony Reagan dreams of living on his new lodge with his yet to be wife, but fate has other plans for him. Tony sets out for Chicago to see his girl and make peace with her uncle. But his detractors don't like the idea and need a fall guy. Framed for a murder he did not commit he must clear himself with the help of a cop. Undertow is a fine little B picture from Columbia. The tagline for this movie was "Every bullet in Chicago had his name on it!", not sure about that but every cop was out to get him except one who believed his story. Some fine shots of Reno and Chicago from 1949, and the beautiful Peggy Dow make this noir film worth watching.★★★
Thanks for the synopsis PTAblues. incredible as usual. hot enough for you? almost 100 in Michigan today. (parts anyway).
Thanks BT, in my neck of the woods rainy and high 60s.
Brrr!
in 1940s chicago was gangaster town
Great comment!
I was born the year of this film. I'd never seen it before. What a terrific movie. Wow... Peggy Dow... she was just so beautiful and wholesome in the way they presented her. Just tremendous characterizations and cinematography.
You have a certain nostalgia when you see the place you grew up. I was born in Chicago the year this film was made. I was back there a few years ago and visited Shedd Aquarium (which they didn't really show) but they did show Buckingham Fountain, which is exactly the same as it was 72 years ago and the Adler Planetarium, which is at the end of the street where the aquarium stands. Also in the scenes was Midway Airport, Ohare didn't open until about 1959, Midway's runways were too short for the jets back then. They only reopened it 15 or twenty years later, when the 737 could manage the 6000 foot runway. I got a kick out of how the lady parked her car on the street by Buckingham Fountain. Today you'd get a $100 ticket and have to park in a garage for $20-$40. Of course, the main character had to go up to an "EL" station. That's why downtown Chicago is called "The Loop" because of the elevated train which circles the area.
I love the white dress she's wearing with the horizontal stripes in a triangular-shaped cutout area suggesting it's where the décolletage would've been on its neckline. Just beautifully Spring-ready looking in appearance, and almost but not quite nautically-inspired in design. Here is one out of many shots of it @ 20:00 with those great white gloves, white clutch, & those absolutely STUNNING daisy-inspired shaped stud earrings. Just breathtaking!
wow you are highly articulate about fashion design!
I saw this movie yrs. ago and it took me a while to tract down, I knew it started in Reno and moved to Chicago and that is all I remembered. I didn't even know who starred in it. I did know it was a film-noir. I was so excited to find this and have watched it 5 times already thank you!
Excellent film. Scott Brady and Peggy Dow worked very well together.
I thought so too Bubby.
@@BrokenTrout Peggy Dow is still alive as of today Dec 4th 2021.
Peggy Dow is so charming. She had five boys - it's easy to understand how.
Great film. Wonderful cast. Scott Brady, Peggy Dow, John Russell, Dorothy Hart. Love it!
And little Bobby Hyatt as "Teddy"!
The transitioning from studio close-ups with rear projection to exterior long shots are high quality. Good camera work! Thanks for posting.👍
Big part of how the film engages, so little dialogue needed for long stretches of stellar camera work
Good movie. I saw Scot Brady at Warner Brothers studio. Very handsome. Always had a crush on him.
Great post-war noir with a perfect ending. Love the location shooting.
Peggy Dow as the ultimate prize would suit me just fine!
Broken Trout , you come out with the most unusual rare flicks , that makes us appreciate your channel that much more .... thank you so much for these great films 🎥 🌟 😊👌🏻
I like seeing the old cars. I remember when my dad got a new car, which must have been in ‘52 or ‘53, that didn’t have a running board and I was so disappointed because stepping up on that running board made it easier for me to get in the car with my short legs.
Wonderful movie clean. The clothes are just amazing the cops wore suites. Movies like this I could watch everyday all day especially if its raining or cold just a good clean movie. Thank for the upload.
I think the cops wore suits not suites, too big to carry around.
Good one from 1949 ! Really enjoyed it. Love to see the fashions, interiors and cars from those days. The chase sequence is excellent.
Indubitably !
I really needed to see a story with a happy ending. We just don't know how things are going to end right now, none of us. Now I understand well why they made films like this during the Great Depression and WW2, even though this is later. The style hung on a while. That's a good thing because hope needs care.
Nearly passed on this; had I done so, I would have missed a good film. Thank you.
Wow! Walgreen's Drugs! When you see a company's name it is usually one of the financial contributors. But how awesome that Walgreen's has been in business since at least 1949 and surely before. My second job in high school was as a cashier at Walgreen's and I also worked the soda fountain which also served hamburgers in addition to milk shakes and sundaes! I loved working there and only left to attend college on a drama scholarship at Lon Morris Junior College in Jacksonville, Texas. Vickie Swayze, Patrick's sister, was one of my classmates and a good friend.
Wonderful show, wonderful cast. Love Scott Brady, the Shotgun Slade guy, Peggy Dow, and all, thanks for putting this up.
Ditto !
Well that movie was a bit of alright.
I gotta say it held my attention all the way through. Great characters. Great acting. Thanks for posting this gem.
When I think " film noir ", I think ' Double Indemnity '. This one falls far short of that, but I like Scott Brady. The camera liked him too, but he never really made the top table.
I really enjoyed this movie taken in old Chicago. When I left SF in '46 for Chicago this movie brought back old memories.
Excellent movie, and good acting. This is definitely worth watching.
This is a great movie. I was intrigued from start to finish. The characters were all extremely attractive … especially Scott Brady and Ann Dow. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!
This has all of the elements for a classic double cross anyway. Good cinematography too. The pacing was very good; no extra diversions that weren't necessary even when it involved two dames, lol. My favourite line of the whole thing was the dopey kid at the diner, "Hey! There's a gun!"
Very good Noir movie. Never heard of Scott Brady; the cast was excellent. We even get a young "Roc" Hudson in basically a cameo.
That was SUCH a treat! Thank you so much. (Wasn’t it heaven when everyone dressed so well: not a disgusting grey track suit in sight)
Or lounge pants @Hannah McCarthy
or wearing pijamas at Walmart!
There are two reasons why i think i was born late:
1. i absolutely LOVE the 40's. fashion, where people dressed nicely, just to go out of the house.
LOVE the clothes, the cars, the polite language;
2. Technology does not seem to like me at all, and back in the 40's, there wasn't a lot of technology around. Lol.
Thank you Broken Trout, for giving us something worth watching, without cringing at the ridiculously foul language or sex scenes!
@@helainegaray8205 Even the accents were more mellifluous then. Something has made a large section of American voices terribly grating, whereby they don’t open their mouths sufficiently to pronounce vowels and so on. Or they sound like they are sloppily masticating while speaking. It’s most off-putting! But yes, like you I cleave to the forties. (And to the thirties, really) Perfect style, and one that’ll probably never return now that leisurewear has infected us! :-)
@@helainegaray8205 you must also remember this is a movie not real life. Ppl cussed, swore, and did everything ppl do today except the clothes. Movies were made in those days to escape reality. But now they're made as reality.
Ahhh... that was a great little film! Don't you just love endings like that?
💞💋🥰🥳
Had I sat next to Peggy Dow on a plane, I'm not sure that I'd be able to fall asleep.
Classy dames like her will fly up front in business class, while ordinary jocks like me will always be in coach.
She was gorgeous back then. She's still around at 92. She had a good life and a long term marriage; 60 years.
@@1940limited Which means......She was a keeper.
She is truly beautiful
@@isabellenicaud3725 You noticed that, too? :-)
Thank you. It was a really good, well acted and scripted movie, and the picture quality was A1. I've always liked Scott Brady and particularly in this role. 🌟🌟🌟
Your welcome TheYorkshirelady. The only credit I can take is sharing the film, Universal and Scott Brady did the hard part.
Thank you for the lovely comment.
This was such a good good film noir, one of the best - poetic justice at the end down to the same room where injustice took place and the real emotion and chemistry between Ann and Tony - how wonderful. Cinematogrpahy outstanding, opening street shots of chicago so real looks like they just planted a camera on the streets and shot, great acting, writing and directing - as always, film noir some of the best out there.
Love these old movies. People were more natural looking. Loved the classic dress attire.
Dang! That guy was framed! And cheated on too! But he got the grand prize at the end! These movies are great!
Thoroughly enjoyable movie but then again anything with Scott Brady in it does it for me. Thanks for posting this one. 7.21.22
What a Suprise, great example of film noir!
Yes Uncle Johnny it is a rather unknown noir but a high quality one. Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it.
Great flick Broken Trout. Enjoyed the storyline and scenes of Chicago. Keep up the good work bud. You have a lot of people who follow your postings
Thanks for posting. I used to walk around a lot of those landmarks when I worked in downtown Chicago, not in 1949, but in the 1990s. Great to see how a lot of them still endure and look similar -- Palmer House hotel, Buckingham Fountain, the EL at Adams/Wabash, lower Wacker, etc. A great location for such a movie.
Yes, but many disappeared during my years between 1980 and 2008. The city, especially during the Daley seniors reign, waa hellbent on eradicating its past, that much was bulldozed into oblivion. Miracle much of it survived.
Amazing how much 'menace' can be portrayed without a single "F" word!
fuck yea, I agree
@@slimeronio - I was waiting for that......:-) (I worked on a building site in the early 1960's and not one F word was heard for years - and if a person was called a bastard ( the insult of course relating to that man's parents being unmarried and therefore highly offensive, with their Honour needing defending,) then it always ended in a good smacking if no apology was forthcoming!!)
If the "F" word us replaced with say coitus, then the absurdity is self-evident along with of course the demonstration of a very limited vocabulary.
@@MaverickSeventySeven The "f" word, so primitive.
I'd rather someone swore at me than pointed a gun at me. But then, that's maybe eccentric of me.
Fcking A right!
What a great film. I love these old ones.
Me too Kevin.
Good movie 🎥! Very entertaining and enjoyable movie 🎥! Love film noir movies! Love these old movies!❤
Great film, thanks for posting. Peggy Dow a standout in every film of her short career.
A superb film made on a shoestring budget by Bill Castle. I remember him well in my Hollywood youth, another friend of my dad. Must be the first film noir where a black man is the hero - Loved it, excellent script , good camera work and acting by all. From the days when studios contracted and trained actors. Thanks -
Gee, that was good ! Thanks. I kove Scott Brady, and the very young Roc(k) Hudson, just for a while and two words...
I heard Rock Hudson was gay. Hard to believe a chick magnet like him wasn't really interested.
Great movie, even it was considered a 'B' type during that time. Very tight structure but down to earth and relatable. I wish the producer had the proper budget to make it a feature film!
Thanks again Broken Trout another classic. Does anyone else think the character who plays Tony looks a lot like Ray Liotta.
17 December 2022
Scott Brady, one of the most underrated actors in film history! He deserves to be remembered.
I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !
Man I love these old movies. Thank you very much for posting them.
Thank you Mike. Sometimes I think I am inflicting these instead of sharing them. this film is very special though @Mike S
@@BrokenTrout Not at all, I love these films, the lack of special effects, the straight talk, the sets: cars, clothes, architecture, and the morals, these are works of art.
I love these classic films!
Nice one! FYI, at the 41:41 mark, notice the trail of motor oil at curbside left from years of parked cars. Lol!
I love the way she pulls up to the curb at the park, not another parked car in sight
Wow. First appearance I’ve ever seen on film of Robert Easton. Over 200 film credits. The helpful young guy in parking lot of diner. Looks so young here. Thanks for posting this film!
This is what movies should be . Great two hours an easy to flow.
Robert Easton, the parking lot valet, was a prolific character actor as well as a much sought-after dialect coach.