You have to love these old films from the 1930s to 1950s, I enjoy the clothes, the cars, the music, the street scenes. I prefer watching these old films to today's Hollywood output to be honest.
@@oliviervece6121 You're in the middle of a culture shift. Don't worry, you're acting just as stupid as your parents did. And soon you'll be gone and replaced, and that generation will shit one the one that will replace them. Your song is old and boring, old man.
Clifton Webb, what a subtle, sly , delicious actor of great skill and sophistication. His character here is very much like his Waldo Leidecker in Laura.
I keep reading that Clifton Webb played quite a few very likable characters. Yet, so far, the only ones I've seen him in, he's been these really intensely-self-centered arrogant BASTARDS. This film felt like a thematic follow-up to "LAURA", if Leidecker had actually conned the woman he was OBSESSED with (that's not "love") into marrying him. I still remember the first time I saw "LAURA", thinking, Webb would have made a perfect "Dr. Smith" on "LOST IN SPACE". More intelligent, malevolent and dangerous than Jonathan Harris!
Lucille Ball was very beautiful and very talented. Wow! I haven't seen William Bendix in such a long time. That is one reason I like to watch old films. You see actors at every stage of their lives.
Boy did Ms Ball look great: lovely complexion, great hair and wonderful profile. Her talent was legendary, on top of it all. I Love Lucy was a favorite of millions, including me. RIP
I read somewhere that Lucille Ball began her acting career as a blond. I couldn't tell for sure from a black and white film if she is blond or red haired in this film. I think blond!
When a film opens with "Street Scenes " you know you are in for a film noir treat. Fast talking, shady characters spewing double entendre. Shadowy streets where everything happens at night. Oh, and a skirt with long gams who can't say No. Thank you!
"Street Scene'' was composed by Alfred Newman for a 1931 Samuel Goldwyn film of the same name. When Darryl F. Zanuck hired Newman to run the 20th Century-Fox Music Department in 1940, he told Newman to use the ''Street Scene'' theme for New York-themed Fox films. Newman is not the credited composer for this film, but he probably told his brother, Emil (the film's conductor) to use the theme.
A great film noir and to see Lucille Ball is a real treat. She had such wonderful comic timing even in a film noir. She was definitely underrated by Hollywood.
Excellent movies, perfect crime noir! Stardust eyes, Ms. Balls eyes were so beautiful over coffee hearing the story) two bottle mix with one hand, the need for new nylons well made clothes and a nickel roll for brace knuckles! Good guys and “RATS” , how can you not love these great movies! Thank you for sharing!
Comedy is great, but This film shows us the Lucille Ball worth remembering. Lucy broke a lot of New ground within the constraints of a 'prudish' film & television industry. She deserves our recognition and our respect for the subtle ways she utilized humor to bring the industry closer to the real world. May we Never forget the heroism of All the 'Iconic Greats' like Ms. Lucille Ball !!! Much gratitude to 'Silver Screen Classics' & 'You Tube' for sharing this 76 year old classic And LUCY at her best !!!
Lucille Ball is my favorite actress of all time. Loved her in her 3 Lucy shows and in at least 10 of her movies - b/w and color. #1 Lured; #2 Dance, Girl Dance, #3 The Dark Corner b/w. #2 Lucy did all her own singing. While people mention Stage Door - her part is very small; also in "The Big Street" with Henry Fonda, well played, but an unusual part for her. Co-starred with Bob Hope 4x; with Henry Fonda 2x; and with William Holden, and other greats as well. Even before she hit comedic gold with "I Love Lucy" her comedic talents came thru: Du Barry Was a Lady; Easy to Wed; and in the Hope pictures and in Dance Girl Dance. She could sing and dance but that's another story. Thank you Lucy for the many hours of laughter you gave to me, and need I say, to the world as well.
She was a gift to the Movie Industry,yet Hollywood did not give her the praise admiration Lucille Ball deserved. Desi Arnaz,the husband she so adored,should have never divorced the woman who helped him into the movie industry. Remembering how talented she was. She will never be forgotten
@@dgm2485 You are referring to Long Long Trailer. Please see above the movies Lucille Ball was in. Also, she and Desi starred in Forever Darling which was not as well received as The Long Long Trailer - however I liked it.
We love Lucy, you love Lucy...I LOVE Lucy! The first time I watched Lucille Ball playing a serious dramatic roll; I was in complete and total shock - amazed by her staggering range and versatility. She can nail a dramatic role as well as comedy.
Hi I ❤ Lucy too ,check out the movie she was in where she played a gangster girlfriend big cabaret singer ,I shouldn't tell you anymore ,I forgot the title . Excellent tear jerker.
Excellent movie!! Lucille Ball is in top form, (always, in my opinion) Mr Bendix was perfect as the vindictive henchman and Mr Webb well he is so convincing as a snobbish conniving gallery owner! Just watch this movie👍👍👍!!
I have seen this movie before. I have never seen any movies that I did not love watching Lucille Ball in. Many years ago, I learned that Lucille Ball acted in some silent films (when she was very young). I don't expect I would recognize her in any of those old silent films. I love watching these old black and white films to see the beautiful garments they wore back then. I have never enjoyed watching anyone smoke.
Every time I watch a hard core film noir move I start craving unfiltered lucky strikes and a bottle of Old Crow. This was right at the end of the war and Lucy mentions nylons a few times.....which were in short supply. Nylon was needed for parachutes, part of the war effort. My late mother told me women used a colored make-up on their legs to simulate the color of nylon stockings.....they even would draw a fake seam down the back with an eyebrow pencil.
This is a great movie.I'm have always been a Lucy fan and this is a good part for her .She was so talented in any part she ever played. It came so natural to her.
This is a very good film. Very dramatic about the cinematography and great characters. Henry Hathaway was a great director. Thanks so much for uploading it. 🙏
It's interesting that Henry Hathaway was "known" for Western movies. But he directed many types of films. The director has much more to do with the "quality" of a film than anyone else involved.
I too "loved Lucy". Talent and beauty and brains....she started the first female film studio! My memories of her in I Love Lucy and the spin-off..."The Lucy Show" will always be there...... wonderful to see her in this serious role as Well! Rest in peace from a beloved fan...
What a cliff hanger! So many plot twists. In spite of reading a post first saying Bendix would get pushed out of a window, it was unexpected and I gasped. What a beautifully timed scene. GREAT FILM. THANK YOU!
@@lindaibarra5614 The PHILO VANCE character was way better than Nick Charles. I'm hoping somebody actually goes and does proper RESTORATIONS on those first 3 Paramount films, all 3 of them the currently-available prints are in dreadful shape (especially the 3rd one), and they deserve better treatment.
@@henrykujawa4427 well I've only seen the old movies with the actors and actresses in the thin man with his co star Myrna loy. I've heard of Philo Vance but never seen those films
This is a very fine Film Noir, it's very high on my personal list. All the actors are cast to perfection, except for one. Towards the end of the film the woman who turns on the lights in the gallery. (she does a good job so I have no criticism of her), but how I would have loved to see Hillary Brooke play that part. If you know Hillary Brooke's work you'll know what I mean. (perhaps she wasn't under contract to this studio, I don't know). Although I think this film is splendid, there is one that I like even more.'Laura' also with Clifton Webb. If you haven't seen 'Laura', and can tale a look, see what you think?....and yes, Lucille Ball is wonderful in this. Frankly, I love Film Noir as a genre.
Dang, another heretofore unknown movie featuring Lucille Ball that rocked. Maybe it's that I only know her from Lucy and seeing her outside that character is so refreshing but dang she had stage presence. Bonus points for seeing Clifton Webb as a villain ala his role in "Laura". Don't forget Bendix either....his role as "Gus" in LIfeboat has stuck with me. Good Movie all the way.
I found it funny the similar parts Clifton Webb played in this and Laura considering he was gay. It was like the characters simply admired beauty and may have been slightly ambiguous in action. Art imitating life? I've read Webb lived at home with his mother's ghost! Loved his disdainful characters.
AND Mission: Impossible! Her only mistake was listening to her 2nd husband and selling Desilu to Paramount. They had no interest or respect for Desilu's TV series.
@@henrykujawa4427 Actually I heard her 2nd husband gave her bad advice in some areas, but I heard from her daughter that her mother never wanted to be a head of a studio, and waited till it was worthwhile to sell it. After all, Lucy was in The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, both as main actress and producer and Head of Desilu too. She said to her friend Carol Burnett when the Cuban was with me all I had to do was just be the "Lucy"character and intimated that the work was tripled and she was tired doing so much.
Enjoyed this very much. Memories flood back of the 1960s where everything stopped in the UK on a Sunday afternoon to watch The Lucille Ball Show and I Love Lucy. Great to see her in a straight(ish) role. I'm surprised there was no credit for the opening and closing title music which is from Alfred Newman's 'Street Scene'. The music score is credited to Cyril Mockridge but the listing of Alfred's younger brother Emil as music director is surely key.
Great 40s movie. Don't know why. Lucy didn't do more drama she's great at it such a versatile actress...too bad the really great actors are gone...and really beautiful ones..
@@tomripsin730 Also Marc Daniels, her first director on I Love Lucy, said she was the best actor he had ever directed which included Paul Newman, Olivier and the like. When Orson Welles appeared on I Love Lucy and was assiduously watching Lucille Ball for a while, when asked what are you looking at? He said the best actress ever.
Tom Ripsin: Maybe you are right - Welles said about Lucille is best actress in America. Considering Marc Daniels and Orson Welles so taken by Lucille abilities (Welles knew her in the 1940's) Also, listening to her writers Madelyn Pugh and Robert Carroll and two other Bob writers on the ILL show, all said when she did her first reading she wasn't so good, but as the days went by she got better and better till the point that nobody could do it better. Also, can you ice skate? No, but give me two weeks (by gosh she did it); also, can you play the sax? no really played a bit in high school, give me some time, as time went she was told Stop, you're getting too good and you sup to be terrible in the skit. Same thing about throwing pizza in the air, she would always says give me two weeks. Very funny. Love the abilities, the determination and whatever it is - it's WOW!
Great mystery. It kept me guessing how he was going to get out of that jam. Loved the gallery. I noticed a Vermeer, Girl with the Pearl Earring when he entered. I notice the strangest things when I watch a movie. 😂
I felt Lucille was still beautiful in I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show. One of my favorite scenes is when Lucy does a Gracie Allen type banter with George Burns, then they did a song and dance skit together. Lucy was 55 and George was 70 - great, enjoyable and Lucy looked beautiful. Also, in the Lucy Show which involved Dean Martin, again great acting, fun, the two stars were phenomenal together and she looked beautiful. Lucy said that was her favorite show of the series - Dean was a pleasure to work etc etc.
Also two of her movies that got panned - one with Desi (Forever Darling) and the other Mame - while they were not her best, I still liked them and have seen them more than once. The only movie that I felt was terrible, Critics Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball - now that was awful. (both stars agreed)
@@LJ-ht4zs Critics choice wasn't that bad. My Lucy & Desi fav is the Long Long Trailer. I have a house around the corner that looks exactly like the house in the scene where he takes out her relatives porch. I smile everyday when I see it
I saw Lucille Ball on The Lucy Show with George Burns - they did a Burns & Allen skit together which was great, then did a song and dance number. Lucy looked beautiful (age 55) and George was a spry 70. When they show her modeling pictures in NYC she was breath taking - as beautiful as any of the top glamour women of Hollywood.
I like any movie with a milkman in it, because I was his kid. There's a lot of character development and then the story kicks in and it gets interesting. I recommend it.
Guy at the bar that the detective talks to is MR REED HADLEY who had HIS OWN TV SERIES in the mid 1950s: RACKET SQUAD!!!! He was also the reporter sailing with the U S MARINES on to GUADALCANAL in the 1943 film: GUADALCANAL DIARY also featuring WILLIAM BENDIX and LLOYD NOLAN/ANTHONY QUINN/PRESTON FOSTER/RICHARD CONTE****
The Dark Corner art connection: Van Gogh, Raphael, Vermeer, Donatello, JMW Turner, and James Whistler(watch closely, there’s more than just the name + painting mention).
They really knocked it out of the park with this one and Lucy totally stole my heart. But the atmosphere, the cinematography, directing, script, makes this one of my favorite noirs. I like Mark Steven’s too, though I read some negative comments on his performance. I have to strongly disagree. Oh yeah, William Bendix….great job playing the creep.
This is a great movie. Do also, by any chance, have "Lured" 1947 with Lucille Ball??? That would be quite something😊 Thank you so much. I enjoyed watching.❤
Both in this and other noir films, (Lured) she still had comic timing. (DuBarry Was a Lady, Easy to Wed). I have read that the cinema folks did not realize her star potential esp in the comedic areas. I do doubt it - have always seen her in many films, always had it, then and later. I think that it why she landed the radio show, "My Favorite Husband", which led to I Love Lucy.
From 1957 til 1961 we had delivery of fresh milk once a week from the milk truck. Sometimes the market 1 block away had no more milk. It came in glass bottles with cardboard caps. The market had 2 cash registers with a rolling mat to move the products. This was in Woodside, Queens, NYC during the Mad Men era.
thanks for this upload. I watch this every time it airs on Movies! Tv Network. living in NYC I have visited all the locations where this was filmed. according to IMDb, this was not a fave film of Lucy's she was suing to get out of her MGM contract, loaned out to 20th century Fox at a much lower pay rate, thinking her career was on a downswing. Little did she know her and Desi were about to change the TV world as we know it ..
Also in the late 1940's (47 or 48) Lucy did a radio show for CBS with Richard Denning (My Favorite Husband) which became I Love Lucy on CBS tv. Same writers and producer - Jess Oppenheimer, Madalyn Pugh and Robert Carroll jr. Of course, the plot changed Denning was a 5th VP at a bank, while Desi Arnaz was a bandleader.
The script is sharp and witty. The revelation however is Lucille Ball, not playing the zany wife in the TV series, I love Lucy. Real mean would melt in her presence. Her potential wit is in the timing of her delivery. Excellent film noir.
You have to love these old films from the 1930s to 1950s, I enjoy the clothes, the cars, the music, the street scenes. I prefer watching these old films to today's Hollywood output to be honest.
LOVE THESE MOVIES BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE PEOPLE DRESS, LIKE THE FURNITURE AND THE CARS, REGULAR TELEPHONES AND NO INTERNET.
It’s because of internet I’m able to view these films
the irony is lost on you
Absolutly right hermano. Look how aglee things are today..see woke people...
@@oliviervece6121 You're in the middle of a culture shift. Don't worry, you're acting just as stupid as your parents did. And soon you'll be gone and replaced, and that generation will shit one the one that will replace them. Your song is old and boring, old man.
@@oliviervece6121
Not a hint of self awareness, huh?
I grew up watching these old movies with a elderly neighbor.
She was my babysitter.
I really like the old b/w movies.
Me to the old day's were the best days ! I miss the 1940s and 1950s so much
Clifton Webb, what a subtle, sly , delicious actor of great skill and sophistication. His character here is very much like his Waldo Leidecker in Laura.
I keep reading that Clifton Webb played quite a few very likable characters. Yet, so far, the only ones I've seen him in, he's been these really intensely-self-centered arrogant BASTARDS. This film felt like a thematic follow-up to "LAURA", if Leidecker had actually conned the woman he was OBSESSED with (that's not "love") into marrying him. I still remember the first time I saw "LAURA", thinking, Webb would have made a perfect "Dr. Smith" on "LOST IN SPACE". More intelligent, malevolent and dangerous than Jonathan Harris!
Lucy was so beautiful as well as ultra talented..
Lucille Ball was very beautiful and very talented. Wow! I haven't seen William Bendix in such a long time. That is one reason I like to watch old films. You see actors at every stage of their lives.
Boy did Ms Ball look great: lovely complexion, great hair and wonderful profile. Her talent was legendary, on top of it all. I Love Lucy was a favorite of millions, including me. RIP
I read somewhere that Lucille Ball began her acting career as a blond. I couldn't tell for sure from a black and white film if she is blond or red haired in this film. I think blond!
Love I love Lucy
Long live Desilu Productions.
And she gave us Star Trek
@@mikedaniels3009 And Mission Impossible
When a film opens with "Street Scenes " you know you are in for a film noir treat. Fast talking, shady characters spewing double entendre. Shadowy streets where everything happens at night. Oh, and a skirt with long gams who can't say No. Thank you!
"Street Scene'' was composed by Alfred Newman for a 1931 Samuel Goldwyn film of the same name. When Darryl F. Zanuck hired Newman to run the 20th Century-Fox Music Department in 1940, he told Newman to use the ''Street Scene'' theme for New York-themed Fox films. Newman is not the credited composer for this film, but he probably told his brother, Emil (the film's conductor) to use the theme.
Clifton Webb is always a treat, class act and great dresser.
A great film noir and to see Lucille Ball is a real treat. She had such wonderful comic timing even in a film noir. She was definitely underrated by Hollywood.
Don't think Lucille Ball was underrated ...very loved & popular
Well her and Desi, started Desilu
Studios..which had lots of shows
It's weird, similar to Leslie Nielsen🤣
Even Ted Knight did Noir. Before Mary Tyler Moore
60 million people watched I love Lucy 💖
If underrated, certainly not under paid.
Soundtrack and acting pretty good. " Do you want me to call the quiz kids ? " Full of one liners !
Excellent movies, perfect crime noir!
Stardust eyes, Ms. Balls eyes were so beautiful over coffee hearing the story) two bottle mix with one hand, the need for new nylons well made clothes and a nickel roll for brace knuckles! Good guys and “RATS” ,
how can you not love these great movies!
Thank you for sharing!
The iconic Lucille Ball she was definitely a beautiful woman back in her day tremendous talent also rest in peace Ms Ball...
Great to see and hear Eddie Heywood and his orchestra. His piano playing was superb and who can forget Canadian Sunset back in the day.
Comedy is great, but This film shows us the Lucille Ball worth remembering. Lucy broke a lot of New ground within the constraints of a 'prudish' film & television industry. She deserves our recognition and our respect for the subtle ways she utilized humor to bring the industry closer to the real world. May we Never forget the heroism of All the 'Iconic Greats' like Ms. Lucille Ball !!! Much gratitude to 'Silver Screen Classics' & 'You Tube' for sharing this 76 year old classic And LUCY at her best !!!
Lucille Ball is my favorite actress of all time. Loved her in her 3 Lucy shows and in at least 10 of her movies - b/w and color. #1 Lured; #2 Dance, Girl Dance, #3 The Dark Corner b/w. #2 Lucy did all her own singing. While people mention Stage Door - her part is very small; also in "The Big Street" with Henry Fonda, well played, but an unusual part for her. Co-starred with Bob Hope 4x; with Henry Fonda 2x; and with William Holden, and other greats as well. Even before she hit comedic gold with "I Love Lucy" her comedic talents came thru: Du Barry Was a Lady; Easy to Wed; and in the Hope pictures and in Dance Girl Dance. She could sing and dance but that's another story. Thank you Lucy for the many hours of laughter you gave to me, and need I say, to the world as well.
She was a gift to the
Movie Industry,yet
Hollywood did not
give her the praise
admiration Lucille
Ball deserved.
Desi Arnaz,the husband she so
adored,should have
never divorced the
woman who helped
him into the movie
industry.
Remembering how
talented she was. She
will never be forgotten
One of my favs is the Long Long Trailer...
@@dgm2485 You are referring to Long Long Trailer. Please see above the movies Lucille Ball was in. Also, she and Desi starred in Forever Darling which was not as well received as The Long Long Trailer - however I liked it.
Lucille ball is soooo beautiful❤
I enjoyed this Movie. It is nice to see Lucy in these old
Movies that she is in. She was really good in this Film.
Jeff❤
Great film - from beginning to end.
I've watched this movie a few times over the years and it's still fantastic. Lucille Ball is icing on the proverbial cake.
Still fantastic😂.
A great cooincidence.....two great fifties sitcom stars only a few years later....Ball in I Love Lucy and William Bendix in The Life of Riley!
Both in comedies
The Music, and the choice of music in this movie, is absolutely dreamy and beautiful, and I love it !🥰😁
The movie is great too !🥰😁
This is my second time seeing this film and it never gets old. Lucy is such a treat.
THANK YOU for making it loud enough.
Lucille Ball, as we've never seen her before. Drama does work well for her. I'm impressed ❤.
She also plays a straight role in the movies The Big Street, and Five Came Back.
@@stereoplayers Also in Lured A+
One of the greatest lines in film noir history: "there's a pepper-pot under the hat, buster. Let's take a walk."
Well finally, after accidentally watching a couple of depressing movies 🍿, I watched this uplifting one ☝️ that has left me with a happy 😊 heart ❤️
We love Lucy, you love Lucy...I LOVE Lucy! The first time I watched Lucille Ball playing a serious dramatic roll; I was in complete and total shock - amazed by her staggering range and versatility. She can nail a dramatic role as well as comedy.
Me too! I ❤ Lucy
Fun to see her in an early role- so wholesome
She was a babe in a Three Stooges Short.
I think Leslie Nielson started in dramatic roles and ended as a comic genius too.
@@mochiebellina8190 and an Imp in a very very early film called Zigfried Follies. Im not sure how to spell it)
Hi I ❤ Lucy too ,check out the movie she was in where she played a gangster girlfriend big cabaret singer ,I shouldn't tell you anymore ,I forgot the title . Excellent tear jerker.
Excellent movie!! Lucille Ball is in top form, (always, in my opinion) Mr Bendix was perfect as the vindictive henchman and Mr Webb well he is so convincing as a snobbish conniving gallery owner! Just watch this movie👍👍👍!!
I have seen this movie before. I have never seen any movies that I did not love watching Lucille Ball in. Many years ago, I learned that Lucille Ball acted in some silent films (when she was very young). I don't expect I would recognize her in any of those old silent films. I love watching these old black and white films to see the beautiful garments they wore back then. I have never enjoyed watching anyone smoke.
Every time I watch a hard core film noir move I start craving unfiltered lucky strikes and a bottle of Old Crow. This was right at the end of the war and Lucy mentions nylons a few times.....which were in short supply. Nylon was needed for parachutes, part of the war effort. My late mother told me women used a colored make-up on their legs to simulate the color of nylon stockings.....they even would draw a fake seam down the back with an eyebrow pencil.
This is a great movie.I'm have always been a Lucy fan and this is a good part for her .She was so talented in any part she ever played. It came so natural to her.
i agree
She was a comedic genius
Great film. Thank you. It wonderful to find a movie that you never heard of that is well made and is this good.
Two bottles , one handed pour..... my new hero.
Love finding these hidden gems.
I never saw this movie, and it is awesome! Thank you for posting. Clifton Webb was perfect in this role.
Lucille Ball is great at delivering those lines.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful film noir. The sets and photography were excellent and all the actors, superb. 👍👍
If y'all like this movie with the great Lucille Ball, you'll love Lured with George Sanders and fascinating appearance of Boris Karloff.
Lured is my favorite Lucille Ball movie
I agree - "Lured" my favorite film Lucille Ball ever stared in - great story and great cast.
Check out the Hitchcock-type series
Karloff hosted, Thriller.
Five Came Back is another movie that she plays a straight role. She's part of a group that gets stranded after the plane they're in crashes.
Terrific film noir murder mystery. One of the best movies on You Tube.
Yes she was great.
This is a very good film. Very dramatic about the cinematography and great characters. Henry Hathaway was a great director. Thanks so much for uploading it. 🙏
It's interesting that Henry Hathaway was "known" for Western movies. But he directed many types of films. The director has much more to do with the "quality" of a film than anyone else involved.
This is a terrific film, and I love the music in it too. Many thanks indeed, SSC.
I too "loved Lucy". Talent and beauty and brains....she started the first female film studio! My memories of her in I Love Lucy and the spin-off..."The Lucy Show" will always be there...... wonderful to see her in this serious role as Well! Rest in peace from a beloved fan...
I really liked her in 10 different movies 1/2 in b&w and 1/2 in color.
Don't forget, she put Star Trek on the air.
Such a good movie. Lucy wonderful of course but great performance again from Clifton Webb. Also great scream from Ellen Corby aka Grandma Walton.
Good movie! They don’t make them like that anymore. Ms Ball is wonderful !
The problem today is
People want instant entertainment
They don't want to think
To used to having mysteries
Solved in 60 minutes
I was thoroughly entertained by all aspects of this movie. Thanks!
All the actors and especially Lucy have done a beautiful job with this film . I love it . May they all RIP . 💐🌹🌼🌺🌻🌷🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
" How I detest the dawn; the grass always looks like it's been left out all night." What a line....I'll have to remember that one...!!
What a cliff hanger! So many plot twists. In spite of reading a post first saying Bendix would get pushed out of a window, it was unexpected and I gasped. What a beautifully timed scene. GREAT FILM. THANK YOU!
I hadn't read that... but, the instant the guy said "Meet me on the 31st floor", I just KNEW what was gonna happen.
@@henrykujawa4427 I didn't expect it - surprise - thinking that Webb was a small thin man and Bendix the opposite. Brilliant how the scene unfolded.
A second viewing for me. Don't hesitate - should be 500 comments. This is one of the genre's best!
Lucille Ball mentions William Powell, popular at the time for his Philo Vance detective movies, nice pop culture reference.
Yeah, i did catch her reference to the thin man;
@@lindaibarra5614 The PHILO VANCE character was way better than Nick Charles. I'm hoping somebody actually goes and does proper RESTORATIONS on those first 3 Paramount films, all 3 of them the currently-available prints are in dreadful shape (especially the 3rd one), and they deserve better treatment.
@@henrykujawa4427 well I've only seen the old movies with the actors and actresses in the thin man with his co star Myrna loy.
I've heard of Philo Vance but never seen those films
Excellent all around : the acting, the plot, the atmosphere. I'm not usually a fan of fim noir but this is really very good and I enjoyed it.
To be a film fan and not like noir is like being a rock fan and not liking the Stones.
This is a very fine Film Noir, it's very high on my personal list. All the actors are cast to perfection, except for one. Towards the end of the film the woman who turns on the lights in the gallery. (she does a good job so I have no criticism of her), but how I would have loved to see Hillary Brooke play that part. If you know Hillary Brooke's work you'll know what I mean. (perhaps she wasn't under contract to this studio, I don't know). Although I think this film is splendid, there is one that I like even more.'Laura' also with Clifton Webb. If you haven't seen 'Laura', and can tale a look, see what you think?....and yes, Lucille Ball is wonderful in this. Frankly, I love Film Noir as a genre.
"I spell my name: Danger". This really is a great film yet forgotten.
Nice to see Lucille Ball in a totally different role. She did a great job.
Dang, another heretofore unknown movie featuring Lucille Ball that rocked. Maybe it's that I only know her from Lucy and seeing her outside that character is so refreshing but dang she had stage presence. Bonus points for seeing Clifton Webb as a villain ala his role in "Laura". Don't forget Bendix either....his role as "Gus" in LIfeboat has stuck with me. Good Movie all the way.
I found it funny the similar parts Clifton Webb played in this and Laura considering he was gay. It was like the characters simply admired beauty and may have been slightly ambiguous in action. Art imitating life? I've read Webb lived at home with his mother's ghost! Loved his disdainful characters.
Thank you so much dear sir/madam. You've truly made my evening great.
Wow! Excellent movie! Thanks
My favorite Redhead of all time! ❤❤❤l legend!
Wow! Thanks for the good movie, keep’em coming, please.
That is when writing was good and acting was even better . Thanks for sharing a wonderful movie 🎬
"This is a pretty dirty town, so cleaners spring up like mushrooms." Too funny!
Lucy was so special 💗
It's novel to see Lucy getting someone else besides herself out of trouble when they have "some splain'in to do"....Great ending.
Funny
Excellent movie. Thanks for making it available.
Lucille Ball, brains, , beauty, and besides our beloved I Love Lucy, the reason we had Star Trek!
AND Mission: Impossible! Her only mistake was listening to her 2nd husband and selling Desilu to Paramount. They had no interest or respect for Desilu's TV series.
@@henrykujawa4427 Actually I heard her 2nd husband gave her bad advice in some areas, but I heard from her daughter that her mother never wanted to be a head of a studio, and waited till it was worthwhile to sell it. After all, Lucy was in The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, both as main actress and producer and Head of Desilu too. She said to her friend Carol Burnett when the Cuban was with me all I had to do was just be the "Lucy"character and intimated that the work was tripled and she was tired doing so much.
Enjoyed this very much. Memories flood back of the 1960s where everything stopped in the UK on a Sunday afternoon to watch The Lucille Ball Show and I Love Lucy. Great to see her in a straight(ish) role. I'm surprised there was no credit for the opening and closing title music which is from Alfred Newman's 'Street Scene'. The music score is credited to Cyril Mockridge but the listing of Alfred's younger brother Emil as music director is surely key.
20th Century Fox owned the rights to "Street Scene" and used it as title music for a number of New York and New York-ish movies -- often Noirs.
Great 40s movie. Don't know why. Lucy didn't do more drama she's great at it such a versatile actress...too bad the really great actors are gone...and really beautiful ones..
Lucille Ball was such an amazing actress
I've never seen Lucy in anything that wasn't a comedy, but she was really good here. I'm going to have to check out some of her other earlier work.
Orson Welles once called her the best actress in America.
@@tomripsin730 Also Marc Daniels, her first director on I Love Lucy, said she was the best actor he had ever directed which included Paul Newman, Olivier and the like. When Orson Welles appeared on I Love Lucy and was assiduously watching Lucille Ball for a while, when asked what are you looking at? He said the best actress ever.
Tom Ripsin: Maybe you are right - Welles said about Lucille is best actress in America.
Considering Marc Daniels and Orson Welles so taken by Lucille abilities (Welles knew her in the 1940's) Also, listening to her writers Madelyn Pugh and Robert Carroll and two other Bob writers on the ILL show, all said when she did her first reading she wasn't so good, but as the days went by she got better and better till the point that nobody could do it better. Also, can you ice skate? No, but give me two weeks (by gosh she did it); also, can you play the sax? no really played a bit in high school, give me some time, as time went she was told Stop, you're getting too good and you sup to be terrible in the skit. Same thing about throwing pizza in the air, she would always says give me two weeks. Very funny. Love the abilities, the determination and whatever it is - it's WOW!
@@tomripsin730Quite a compliment coming from Mr.Welles.
@@LJ-ht4zsYes,she has the ability to do what she sets her mind to do at those petiods of time in her career.
Great movie.
A very goood movie. Love the dialogue and of course I love Lucy.
Love this film!
Quality performances from all.
Great mystery. It kept me guessing how he was going to get out of that jam. Loved the gallery. I noticed a Vermeer, Girl with the Pearl Earring when he entered. I notice the strangest things when I watch a movie. 😂
I noticed the same painting. Think there was a movie about the painting.
Great movie! Thank you.
Ms. Ball sure was a looker. The bonus was - she could act, as well.
the lady: ''this is a Donatello'' the guy: ''ok, i take it wrap it up'' ...like it was a bag of potatos LOL
Great movie!
Good mystery and a nice change of pace for Lucy.She was so well known as being a clown some people forget what a beautiful girl she was in her youth
i agree this movie was really good.
I felt Lucille was still beautiful in I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show. One of my favorite scenes is when Lucy does a Gracie Allen type banter with George Burns, then they did a song and dance skit together. Lucy was 55 and George was 70 - great, enjoyable and Lucy looked beautiful. Also, in the Lucy Show which involved Dean Martin, again great acting, fun, the two stars were phenomenal together and she looked beautiful. Lucy said that was her favorite show of the series - Dean was a pleasure to work etc etc.
Also two of her movies that got panned - one with Desi (Forever Darling) and the other Mame - while they were not her best, I still liked them and have seen them more than once. The only movie that I felt was terrible, Critics Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball - now that was awful. (both stars agreed)
@@LJ-ht4zs Critics choice wasn't that bad. My Lucy & Desi fav is the Long Long Trailer. I have a house around the corner that looks exactly like the house in the scene where he takes out her relatives porch. I smile everyday when I see it
I saw Lucille Ball on The Lucy Show with George Burns - they did a Burns & Allen skit together which was great, then did a song and dance number. Lucy looked beautiful (age 55) and George was a spry 70. When they show her modeling pictures in NYC she was breath taking - as beautiful as any of the top glamour women of Hollywood.
Thank you so much for this wonderful gift!
This is top notch material, thank you SSC.
Really enjoyed this and the actors
I like any movie with a milkman in it, because I was his kid.
There's a lot of character development and then the story kicks in and it gets interesting. I recommend it.
Guy at the bar that the detective talks to is MR REED HADLEY who had HIS OWN TV SERIES in the mid 1950s: RACKET SQUAD!!!! He was also the reporter sailing with the U S MARINES on to GUADALCANAL in the 1943 film: GUADALCANAL DIARY also featuring WILLIAM BENDIX and LLOYD NOLAN/ANTHONY QUINN/PRESTON FOSTER/RICHARD CONTE****
Lloyd Nolan was also in one of my favorite Lucille Ball films Two Smart People; and Preston Foster starred with Lucy in Mame
The Dark Corner art connection: Van Gogh, Raphael, Vermeer, Donatello, JMW Turner, and James Whistler(watch closely, there’s more than just the name + painting mention).
Great picture
Awesoime! Lucy pre Ricky. oooh yeah gritty. from 1946.
No, this movie was 1946 - they married in 1940 (after her movies Dance Girl Dance, and Too Many Girls.
I love the antique slang.❤
I grew up I love Lucy show! She was a self-made celebrated strong woman!
They really knocked it out of the park with this one and Lucy totally stole my heart. But the atmosphere, the cinematography, directing, script, makes this one of my favorite noirs. I like Mark Steven’s too, though I read some negative comments on his performance. I have to strongly disagree. Oh yeah, William Bendix….great job playing the creep.
This is a great movie. Do also, by any chance, have "Lured" 1947 with Lucille Ball??? That would be quite something😊
Thank you so much. I enjoyed watching.❤
Lucille ball has always had thick curly hair,with so much bouncy body. A very good actress in everything she does!!!!!!
Both in this and other noir films, (Lured) she still had comic timing. (DuBarry Was a Lady, Easy to Wed). I have read that the cinema folks did not realize her star potential esp in the comedic areas. I do doubt it - have always seen her in many films, always had it, then and later. I think that it why she landed the radio show, "My Favorite Husband", which led to I Love Lucy.
BOY, MILK FROM THOSE GLASS BOTTLES, DELICIOUS!!! I USED TO DRINK IT AS A KID BEFORE GOING TO SCHOOL.
They forgot to mention the main character, Mark Stevens. He did a great job.
True;
❤
What's not to like! I fell in love with the theme song, the characters, and the storyline. Lucy can do drama well.
Great movie have this on dvd in my collection a real classic
From 1957 til 1961 we had delivery of fresh milk once a week from the milk truck. Sometimes the market 1 block away had no more milk. It came in glass bottles with cardboard caps. The market had 2 cash registers with a rolling mat to move the products. This was in Woodside, Queens, NYC during the Mad Men era.
thanks for this upload. I watch this every time it airs on Movies! Tv Network. living in NYC I have visited all the locations where this was filmed. according to IMDb, this was not a fave film of Lucy's she was suing to get out of her MGM contract, loaned out to 20th century Fox at a much lower pay rate, thinking her career was on a downswing. Little did she know her and Desi were about to change the TV world as we know it ..
Also in the late 1940's (47 or 48) Lucy did a radio show for CBS with Richard Denning (My Favorite Husband) which became I Love Lucy on CBS tv. Same writers and producer - Jess Oppenheimer, Madalyn Pugh and Robert Carroll jr. Of course, the plot changed Denning was a 5th VP at a bank, while Desi Arnaz was a bandleader.
I Love the Eisenhower jackets that Howard Hughes used too wear they were very popular back in the 1940's
VERY GOOD MOVIE...IT WAS GREAT LIKED IT VERY MUCH AND LUCY
The script is sharp and witty. The revelation however is Lucille Ball, not playing the zany wife in the TV series, I love Lucy. Real mean would melt in her presence. Her potential wit is in the timing of her delivery. Excellent film noir.