A classic fim noir in every sense of the term. Tough dialogue, memorable characterizations, narrative drive, and the brilliant camerawork of John Alton. The cast is pitch-perfect and filled with real pros. Also reminds us of what a great an actor we had in Richard Conte.
I really appreciate an adult film that allows the viewer to use his or her imagination in a scene rather than actually showing it. The director was decades ahead of his time. Always appreciate his treating his audience like adults. Loved this film. Thank you.
During the pandemic I discovered these golden nuggets of the golden age of film noir and I completely agree with many of the people commenting that this one really has it all. All the actors were great in this, a really interesting storyline that keeps you on the edge of your seat with many twists and turns and the cinematography is simply incredible and reminds me of some of the Orson Welles movies the way it was directed. I think this is my new favorite Noir film! Thanks for bringing this to us you have a new subscriber. Peace, Bob
Richard Conte could play a totally sympathetic good guy to totally despicable bad guy. One of the best noir actors. Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Cornell Wilde, Earl Holiman are great. Excellent film on a low budget. Definitely a keeper. Thanks.
Brian Donlevy, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Lee Van Cleef ... A time, when the second actors and the 3d actors of a movie, where ten time better actors, than nowdays Protagonists... From the fist minutes of this movie, noticing all those great actors, I already knew it would be a masterpiece, a timeless classic!!!
I saw this movie when it came out in 1955, but I was with my girlfriend and we smooched all the way through ! So this is actually the first time I ever really saw it. Great movie !
It has been an incredible privilege to watch this movie, and an incredible privilege to learn more about Cornel Wilde. Wikipedia his name and learn more about who he was!
A movie where people actually talk to each other, communicate. Not like movies today. Where it's all action much of it the mindless kind and not much else. Here we have real character development and a well crafted storyline. An ensemble cast that work well.together to bring an audience a captivating human interest story.
Priceless movie on crime in the mid fifties. Thank God they made films like this so we can witness what it was like in that incredible era! This one was especially well done. In my opinion these movies capture a more realist view of America at that time than any other form of historical evidence. Plus they are loads of fun to watch! Thank you TMC!
One of the few noir films that actually has a jazz score. 1:00:52 the look on Sam's face. Great acting. Use of lighting, lots of shadows and mist, very stylized in the noir tradition and visually appealing. A well wrought crime noir.
I remember seeing this film when it came out many years ago and had forgotten how good it was. Captures the gritty,duplicitous and sleazy atmosphere of big city crime with Richard Conte giving an interesting interpretation of a criminal psychopath. In my view the true art of "good" film making has been lost. This an example of a film from that era that has it all,excellent musical score,story,sharp dialogue,direction,cinematography, good pacing,and a wonderfull cast. There were during those years many such interesting films.
This soundtrack is incredible!!! It's one of the most intense and deep music I've heard in my whole life so far! And I've listened to a lot of stuff...But this! IT's just incredible, everybody should hear this soundtrack! David Raksin, for me you're a hero!!!
Jason Kessler- I beg your pardon. I met David Raksin and he did not like people addressing him as Raskin. Check the film credit if you can read and spell. It right in front of your eyes. Put your glasses on.
Among the best noir thrillers of the 1950's including Fritz Lang's The Big Heat from 1953, Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place from 1950 and Orson Welle's Touch of Evil from 1958. The great John Alton did the superb photography for several noir films directed by the talented Anthony Mann such as Raw Deal and T-Men.
Did anyone notice the guy who's torturing is also named mr.brown in this movie and he's torturing a cop. Just like tarrantino's reservoir dogs. Where mr.brown tortures a cop. Shows how Quentin tarrantino's gets influenced from
See my girl Marsha Hunt in Raw Deal, What a Babe! Great Dialogue: Ann Martin: "I'd stop you if I had a gun." Joe Sullivan: "You Don't Need a Gun." Marsha look good at 100. M.
Just about nothing touches that amazing many-minutes long, continuous tracking shot that opens "Touch of Evil"! It is incredible how much thought, creativity, and planning went into it to get it on film!
I agree with the comments about the musical score for this movie; the music is fantastic! Also, the movie is first-rate! Cornel Wilde playing detective Diamond, was a great actor, always bringing intensity to any part that he played!!
I really liked the Timeless Movies I've seen in the last two weeks but this one sucked. Yeah the Actor playing Diamond was good. With a list of stars like this had I thought it would be good but the acting was pretty bad... not believable,...Sucked
What a classic line! "First is first...and second is nobody".Amazing how the character actors steal the scenes right away from Wilde. Conte is brash, glib and confident here. The execution scene of Donlevy with no sound just gun flashes... classic film noir visual artistry. Wow. Greatly underrated film, like it more than Lewis' "Gun Crazy".
Conte is my favorite noir character of all time. In the movie House of strangers, he is riveting! I have watched that movie 20~maybe 30 times and that’s not hyperbole!
This film is severly underrated and underappreciated.One of the best examples of noir,has all the noir elements and some cunnilingus and homoerotic references thrown in to mix things up a bit.Way better than some so called noir classics like Sunset Boulevard and Mildred Pierce (really just melodramas).The cinematography and score are the icing on the cake
who cares about labels? and why are melodramas (touch of evil, sirk, sunset blvd, terms of endearment) not worthy of yr fine-tuned mind esp considering that this is prolly barely top 20 noir. jeez, if this is better than sunset blvd a hot dog is better than a steak diane; tony orlandio and dawn are better than the beach boys. nope.
I like how they do variations of the theme thru-out the movie. This movie to me shows the advent of modern film...no corny mannerisms..original and innovative....
Great but brutal. Richard Conte really did a number on Cornel Wilde when he tried to get him to talk. The Noir aspects are classic with the dark shadows and great dialog.
Any movie with Brian Donlevy is worth watching. One of the greatest classic actors. I saw him for the 1st time as Pr. Quatermass in the 1957 ''Enemy From Space'' and was struck by his sternness as the unlikable but no-nonsense scientist.
I don't really understand why, but Nigel Kneale, who wrote the original teleplay for "Quatermass Experiment ", wasn't too pleased with Donlevy's performance in it. Kneale is sort of a Household Deity of mine. I read it in an interview (Starlog Magazine, done by Bill Warren) that Nigel Kneale, the dean of British sci-fi (an American equivalent would be, hm I don't know Richard Matheson maybe?), found Donlevy to be past his prime (?). The BBC had already filmed Quatermass for TV as a serial (with Reginald Tate as the professor), and Hammer Studios went on to remake Kneale's story as a feature film with Brian Donlevy as Quatermass, but had to cut down the story significantly to get it down to movie length (that's probably one reason why Kneale was displeased right there), being released in the US as "The Creeping Unknown". That was actually Hammer's breakthrough, during the new regime at Hammer (the Carrera family together with Anthony Hinds), I think they started out under the name "Exclusive" in the '30's. From then they went on to make Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Horror of Dracula (1958), both with the great Terence Fisher as director, and both starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee of course. The rest is as they say history. Cushing, who already was a star on TV in the UK, had starred in or would go on to work with other Nigel Kneale written projects in the UK; "The Abominable Snowman" as well as an Kneale's adaptation of the George Orwell novel "1984", the latter with Donald Pleasence. Kneale said in the same interview that he appreciated Brian Donlevy's performances though for Preston Sturges.
@@per-olofwiktorsson2650 I recommend you Nigel Kneale's 2 short stories : 1_ "Minuke" British deadpan humour at its best. 2_ "Jeremy In The Wind" Scary scarecrow.
Helene Stanton, my next door neighbor in Philadelphia, mother of Hollywood's Dr. Drew Pinsky. She taught my older sister piano in the mid-1040s before moving to Hollywood in 1946. Stanton was her stage name .. Good flick!!!
I love how it goes silent when the guys ear plugs ( sorry I don't know what they're called ) just before he dies and everything goes silent. I didn't expect that stuff from a 50s noir
The Shot is called a P.O.V. SHOT (or Point of View) A Camera Angle which shows what some in the film is seeing. It's also called a Subjective Camera Angle. And if the Character is moving, it's called a Subjective Pan Shot or Subjective Tracking Shot.
@@khalgarrison i am in western Washington 🇺🇸, so yes. We have lost over 240000 people while our selfish reprobate mind of a lame duck president is ensuring more people die by crippling the gov as much as he can on his humiliating way out.
It rates as one of the best film noir for good reasons. The cinematography is perfect and the lighting is just right with every scene done to perfection. The cast played their parts well so that not one can be singled out for praise. It was a team effort. As for the score, it was appropriate although cumulatively by the end it seemed to be just too noisy; too much of a good thing at higher than necessary. It is well written too with several memorable lines delivered right. "Nobody knows how another person feels." 1:00:48 So true.
One of Lee Van Cleef’s early roles was as one of the gunmen in the shootout with Gary Cooper in “High Noon.” I think there was a closeup of him in the very first scene of this classic film with Tex Ritter’s “Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling” theme song playing in the opening credits.
Cool movie. Richard Conte as the suave crime boss was tremendous. The blonde was really something, Jean Wallace, with that sultry look, nice closeups. This movie had me engrossed from start to finish. Thanks.
What a wonderful movie -great story well acted with complex characters each consistent within themseves - so different from the usual dross around at this time-definitely worth a watch
My grandfather was born in 1870...my mother was born in 1924...I was born in 1952! Wish my grandfather had not been born so long ago! I would like to have been a young man during this era! Today's world is a mess!!!
Wow! How classic! Thank-you. What a cast. All the guys and gals who lived so long ago... I was one when this came out. Times were dark in this film. Mine was just blooming into my wonderfully adventure-filled life. I wish all of you today might have a life like mine has been -- so far -- and never get caught-up in the horrors of deception and strife that seems to pervade the present day. Perhaps things have always been dark for some. Let that not be yours... Peace, out.
(10:07) Wonderful Richard Conte. Trivia bit: he was seriously considered for the role of Don Corleone, in THE GODFATHER. Anyway, he was great as Don Barzini. His villains are almost always articulate, thoughtful, and well dressed! Catch him in HOUSE OF STRANGERS as Max Monetti. In it, he plays the type of character he does superbly well - a good guy, basically compromised...Excellent!!
This flick is on my top 10 Noir list. Has all the elements and all the best actors of the time-All of the leading actors were in the Untouchables, TV/Features
Wilde can be a convincing tough guy when he plays it more loose and relaxed. But here he TRIES to sound tough and the results are less convincing. Still, an excellent noir with a great supporting cast, strikingly vivid cinematography and a great score.
Good film. Has a decent story, interesting characters, excellent villain. Well acted . Unlike the moon, this movie has great atmosphere. Fog everywhere. Good fun.
i was ten years old when this movie came out........wish I could go back to being ten again (just a thought). At seventy five years old life just blew on by kiddies..........love these older movies though and can thank my father for bringing me up on them....thanks dad, see all of ya soon!!!
@@joejones9520 absolutely, never make any mistakes hanging around other people and keep my distance. Wash hands VERY frequently anyways and use hand sanitizer and carry it with me when I go for my DAILY walks. BUT, thanks for asking and hope you are well also...WE here in Ontario Canada are all doing the best we can with what is out there....BE WELL, stay healthy!!
OMG! I just fell in love with Jean Wallace. She was so beautiful! I knew that she was married to Cornel Wilde, but I really had no idea who she was until now.
I absolutely love that spotlight scene Trying to hide from it. Just like evil and those who try to hide their evil spirits. The light shining on it is their worst fear. It’s comical watching them trying to hide what they do. Shine that light, Baby! 🙋♀️
Yeah, I see what you mean but the bad shots couldn't be helped. Many of the sets were very small and cheap hence the heavy use of shadows and some static camerawork.
Man, I thought there wasnt gonna be anybody left but the camera man !!! That final scene as they drag the "hoodlum" away couldnt be more "noir" , with just the girl and the cop in silhouette against the thick fog ; beautiful !
I knew of this movie back when it was made but I was only 7 years old. 😁. I am finally getting to see it and it was terrific!!! Cornel Wild and Richard Conte in the same movie playing against each other, a story full of secrets to reveal, deep emotion when Cornel's some time girl friend is murdered. Just a great movie and I appreciate your posting this or us!!!
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Do not give away the story lines!
Loved the jazz.😎👍👍👍👍.
Excellent classic movies and I definitely enjoy every moment of watching
Mr. Brown Looks like that Alf muppett thing.
Looks a Bit like lieut. Colombo as well.
This is why I don't see many "new" movies. These 50s films carry gold
The magic of b & w. Light and shadow.
A classic fim noir in every sense of the term. Tough dialogue, memorable characterizations, narrative drive, and the brilliant camerawork of John Alton. The cast is pitch-perfect and filled with real pros. Also reminds us of what a great an actor we had in Richard Conte.
What's truly crazy is this would have been considered a "B" film back then, and it blows away any movie coming out of Hollywood today.
Not to mention actors were much harder workers then, because they did so many extremely long scenes without cutting to another one.
I really appreciate an adult film that allows the viewer to use his or her imagination in a scene rather than actually showing it. The director was decades ahead of his time. Always appreciate his treating his audience like adults. Loved this film. Thank you.
Top 2 of five fav late noir films
Big Combo
Kiss Me Deadly
The Scarf
House on 92nd Street
Shield For Murder
"His or her" was gramatically absolutely unecessary, bud. Just keep the old way
It's great to see an old movie that you've seen years ago but now you delight in recognizing the wonderful actors that you didn't know back then.
During the pandemic I discovered these golden nuggets of the golden age of film noir and I completely agree with many of the people commenting that this one really has it all. All the actors were great in this, a really interesting storyline that keeps you on the edge of your seat with many twists and turns and the cinematography is simply incredible and reminds me of some of the Orson Welles movies the way it was directed. I think this is my new favorite Noir film! Thanks for bringing this to us you have a new subscriber. Peace, Bob
Richard Conte could play a totally sympathetic good guy to totally despicable bad guy. One of the best noir actors. Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Cornell Wilde, Earl Holiman are great. Excellent film on a low budget. Definitely a keeper. Thanks.
I love the amateur and wannabe movie critics' analysis of these films. Many are quite good and, in fact, probably could be professional.
Brian Donlevy, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Lee Van Cleef ... A time, when the second actors and the 3d actors of a movie, where ten time better actors, than nowdays Protagonists... From the fist minutes of this movie, noticing all those great actors, I already knew it would be a masterpiece, a timeless classic!!!
I saw this movie when it came out in 1955, but I was with my girlfriend and we smooched all the way through ! So this is actually the first time I ever really saw it. Great movie !
WELL, I AM BLESSED WITH LONG LIFE, I AM 83 YEARS YOUNG AND IN GREAT HEALTH !
"smooched". Oh man. I was born too late.
Lee Coffman i was in the jungles in 1960
Were you Tarzan?
*Ha hahahahahaha. Now that was Funny dude.*
*He could have been a tree(;)*
It has been an incredible privilege to watch this movie, and an incredible privilege to learn more about Cornel Wilde. Wikipedia his name and learn more about who he was!
A movie where people actually talk to each other, communicate. Not like movies today. Where it's all action much of it the mindless kind and not much else. Here we have real character development and a well crafted storyline. An ensemble cast that work well.together to bring an audience a captivating human interest story.
The dialog in this was so gritty and real, and Jean Wallace was drop dead gorgeous.
It's good to see the excellent Lee Van Cleef. What a great villain he was!
Noirs are truly Intimate ... Passionate Poison... A great Noir ... Love the drunken jazz score!
«Nobody knows how another person feels […] I treated her like a pair of gloves»-. Excellent noir.
Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman in this one! Great actors, all of them!😁👍
One of the last real film noirs shot by the best film noir cameraman, john alton.
thanks TCM channel
due to you i was found a youth lee van cleef
who hero of the classic western movie from here 👍
Priceless movie on crime in the mid fifties. Thank God they made films like this so we can witness what it was like in that incredible era! This one was especially well done. In my opinion these movies capture a more realist view of America at that time than any other form of historical evidence. Plus they are loads of fun to watch! Thank you TMC!
One of the few noir films that actually has a jazz score. 1:00:52 the look on Sam's face. Great acting. Use of lighting, lots of shadows and mist, very stylized in the noir tradition and visually appealing. A well wrought crime noir.
They called it Crime Jazz. M
Nice to see a young Lee van Cleef ❤️
what a great quote..."we are fighting a swamp with a spoon"....doesn't this describe one's struggle with life...applies to so many things...
I don't even have a spoon-
trying to make do with a broken fork.😞
LIKE WASHINGTON, D.C.
a film noir classic in the top 100 list of film noir films excellent noir cinematography and jazz sound
Terrific film noir. Terrific cast. Stunning cinematography!
I remember seeing this film when it came out many years ago and had forgotten how good it was. Captures the gritty,duplicitous and sleazy atmosphere of big city crime with Richard Conte giving an interesting interpretation of a criminal psychopath. In my view the true art of "good" film making has been lost. This an example of a film from that era that has it all,excellent musical score,story,sharp dialogue,direction,cinematography, good pacing,and a wonderfull cast. There were during those years many such interesting films.
Wish they would have made so many more like this
The library is way too small
Just moved to a podunk town in Wis.: Beaver Dam...everybody makes a big deal that Fred MacMurray grew up here...I say, " and Brian Donlevy!" "Who?"
This is what film noir was always meant to be.
Fanny and Mingo,their relationship should have been explored a little more. Subtle.🤪😴
@@charles-cl6xj Only in the sick views of the world of today.
@@charles-cl6xjNo way in 1955.
This soundtrack is incredible!!! It's one of the most intense and deep music I've heard in my whole life so far! And I've listened to a lot of stuff...But this! IT's just incredible, everybody should hear this soundtrack! David Raksin, for me you're a hero!!!
Bravo
It hit me, too!!!! GREAT CALL. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes indeed! Even as a musician, I must admit, it is a masterpeice, plain and simple!
Yea, I love it, too...
@@shredred1212
Yep. Me too ...
Excellent film noir movie. Good jazz score by David Raksin.
Except his name is Raskin, not Raksin.
Jason Kessler- I beg your pardon. I met David Raksin and he did not like people addressing him as Raskin. Check the film credit if you can read and spell. It right in front of your eyes. Put your glasses on.
I was misinformed and stand corrected, your peevish snottiness not withstanding.
Many thanks.
Remember when film scores were memorable ? Now it's this repetitive, "minimalist" crap.
The first few notes were what hooked me. I was browsing noir films and started it and knew I had a winner.
Love the old world charm that this picture brings. Amazing what they were able to do with the technology available at the time. Classic filmmaking.
"Old world" refers to Europe,
Among the best noir thrillers of the 1950's including Fritz Lang's The Big Heat from 1953, Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place from 1950 and Orson Welle's Touch of Evil from 1958. The great John Alton did the superb photography for several noir films directed by the talented Anthony Mann such as Raw Deal and T-Men.
William McDonald The Big Heat was excellent 👍🏼
Did anyone notice the guy who's torturing is also named mr.brown in this movie and he's torturing a cop. Just like tarrantino's reservoir dogs. Where mr.brown tortures a cop. Shows how Quentin tarrantino's gets influenced from
See my girl Marsha Hunt in Raw Deal, What a Babe! Great Dialogue: Ann Martin: "I'd stop you if I had a gun." Joe Sullivan: "You Don't Need a Gun." Marsha look good at 100. M.
Kiss me deadly,The Lost Weekend,Pick-up on South Street,Kiss of Death,The Desperate Hours,Double Indemnity,Night and the City,etc....
Just about nothing touches that amazing many-minutes long, continuous tracking shot that opens "Touch of Evil"! It is incredible how much thought, creativity, and planning went into it to get it on film!
I agree with the comments about the musical score for this movie; the music is fantastic! Also, the movie is first-rate! Cornel Wilde playing detective Diamond, was a great actor, always bringing intensity to any part that he played!!
He was a pretty good director also. He directed and starred in "The Naked Prey" 10 years after this film.
@@dougcase7545 Damn I'd forgotten about that... have to check RUclips for it
LOL I find the music really annoying, at least in the opening scenes
I really liked the Timeless Movies I've seen in the last two weeks but this one sucked. Yeah the Actor playing Diamond was good. With a list of stars like this had I thought it would be good but the acting was pretty bad... not believable,...Sucked
Love the name
What a classic line! "First is first...and second is nobody".Amazing how the character actors steal the scenes right away from Wilde. Conte is brash, glib and confident here. The execution scene of Donlevy with no sound just gun flashes... classic film noir visual artistry. Wow. Greatly underrated film, like it more than Lewis' "Gun Crazy".
Richard Conte was a brilliant actor, one of my favorites. He was ice cold in this.
Barzini in the Godfather.
Conte is my favorite noir character of all time. In the movie House of strangers, he is riveting! I have watched that movie 20~maybe 30 times and that’s not hyperbole!
I love it when Conte says “First is first and second is nobody.”
A real treasure of a film. Cast , direction , photography, light, music, all perfect for me. Thank You.
This film is severly underrated and underappreciated.One of the best examples of noir,has all the noir elements and some cunnilingus and homoerotic references thrown in to mix things up a bit.Way better than some so called noir classics like Sunset Boulevard and Mildred Pierce (really just melodramas).The cinematography and score are the icing on the cake
who cares about labels? and why are melodramas (touch of evil, sirk, sunset blvd, terms of endearment) not worthy of yr fine-tuned mind esp considering that this is prolly barely top 20 noir. jeez, if this is better than sunset blvd a hot dog is better than a steak diane; tony orlandio and dawn are better than the beach boys. nope.
Well made movie.Script and visual effect good.Acting was convincing. Lee Van Cleef was perfectly casted.
The opening soundtrack has been stuck in my head for two weeks straight now.
I like how they do variations of the theme thru-out the movie. This movie to me shows the advent of modern film...no corny mannerisms..original and innovative....
Great but brutal. Richard Conte really did a number on Cornel Wilde when he tried to get him to talk. The Noir aspects are classic with the dark shadows and great dialog.
Just like the scene from reservoir dogs and ironically his name is mr brown just like Quentin Tarantino
Crisp dialogue, great drama, great story line.
+Steven Torrey The list of cast is completely wrong! Whoever put it together, wasn't thinking, it does not even describe the characters in the film!
A great film, with more twists and better character development than most noirs of its kind. I loved it. Thanks for the post.
excellent film!I appreciate this very much! Thank you! Some great names in there. The double act of Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman was priceless!
Wow, so great to see this. A lot of meat on the dialog. This one I'll be watching over and over.
Any movie with Brian Donlevy is worth watching.
One of the greatest classic actors. I saw him for the 1st time as Pr. Quatermass in the 1957 ''Enemy From Space'' and was struck by his sternness as the unlikable but no-nonsense scientist.
I don't really understand why, but Nigel Kneale, who wrote the original teleplay for "Quatermass Experiment ", wasn't too pleased with Donlevy's performance in it. Kneale is sort of a Household Deity of mine.
I read it in an interview (Starlog Magazine, done by Bill Warren) that Nigel Kneale, the dean of British sci-fi (an American equivalent would be, hm I don't know Richard Matheson maybe?), found Donlevy to be past his prime (?). The BBC had already filmed Quatermass for TV as a serial (with Reginald Tate as the professor), and Hammer Studios went on to remake Kneale's story as a feature film with Brian Donlevy as Quatermass, but had to cut down the story significantly to get it down to movie length (that's probably one reason why Kneale was displeased right there), being released in the US as "The Creeping Unknown". That was actually Hammer's breakthrough, during the new regime at Hammer (the Carrera family together with Anthony Hinds), I think they started out under the name "Exclusive" in the '30's. From then they went on to make Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Horror of Dracula (1958), both with the great Terence Fisher as director, and both starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee of course. The rest is as they say history.
Cushing, who already was a star on TV in the UK, had starred in or would go on to work with other Nigel Kneale written projects in the UK; "The Abominable Snowman" as well as an Kneale's adaptation of the George Orwell novel "1984", the latter with Donald Pleasence.
Kneale said in the same interview that he appreciated Brian Donlevy's performances though for Preston Sturges.
@@per-olofwiktorsson2650
I recommend you Nigel Kneale's 2 short stories :
1_ "Minuke" British deadpan humour at its best.
2_ "Jeremy In The Wind" Scary scarecrow.
A movie loaded with talent and a interpreting a good script. As I recall, most of these actors had successful careers.
American sitting in the Philippines on lockdown enjoying these older films. Love them.
Helene Stanton, my next door neighbor in Philadelphia, mother of Hollywood's Dr. Drew Pinsky. She taught my older sister piano in the mid-1040s before moving to Hollywood in 1946. Stanton was her stage name .. Good flick!!!
What an excellent movie this is.Great acting.Crime ruled in these movies.Really enjoyed this movie.Thanks for the upload.
The movie is very good, yet the opening score is excellent.
Well written; well directed. Mr. Wilde supported each of the supporting actors and gave them their scenes; very impressive.
Amazing cinematography by John Alton. Great dialog.
I love how it goes silent when the guys ear plugs ( sorry I don't know what they're called ) just before he dies and everything goes silent. I didn't expect that stuff from a 50s noir
M.O.S (or MOS) meaning Mit Out Sound.
The Shot is called a P.O.V. SHOT (or Point of View) A Camera Angle which shows what some in the film is seeing. It's also called a Subjective Camera Angle. And if the Character is moving, it's called a Subjective Pan Shot or Subjective Tracking Shot.
Hearing aid. Lol.
"You won't hear the shots."
That was good, i enjoyed it while quarantining. Sure hope everyone doing the same makes it through safely
7 months later....still a believer?
@@khalgarrison i am in western Washington 🇺🇸, so yes. We have lost over 240000 people while our selfish reprobate mind of a lame duck president is ensuring more people die by crippling the gov as much as he can on his humiliating way out.
@@khalgarrison
Need to know??
It rates as one of the best film noir for good reasons. The cinematography is perfect and the lighting is just right with every scene done to perfection. The cast played their parts well so that not one can be singled out for praise. It was a team effort. As for the score, it was appropriate although cumulatively by the end it seemed to be just too noisy; too much of a good thing at higher than necessary. It is well written too with several memorable lines delivered right. "Nobody knows how another person feels." 1:00:48 So true.
Great movie. Thank you. I never heard of Jean Wallace before. Excellent job by her (and everyone else), and what a lot of charisma she had.
She was a honey
Whenever I see Lee Van Cleef I'm always expecting Clint Eastwood showing up staring him down and say "GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY!"
LOL.
LEE HAS A DIGIT MISSING ON ONE OF FINGERS.
Richard Burriesci yeah like Lee Van Cleef was in Dirty Harry🙄🙄🙄
One of Lee Van Cleef’s early roles was as one of the gunmen in the shootout with Gary Cooper in “High Noon.” I think there was a closeup of him in the very first scene of this classic film with Tex Ritter’s “Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling” theme song playing in the opening credits.
@@autumnt.allgood8895 Lee didn't lose the tip of that finger until 1958 and this movie was made in 1955.
conte is a great actor!!i love him in all his roles,,he was a class actor,,
Awesome score and credits. A great-looking film.
Cool movie. Richard Conte as the suave crime boss was tremendous. The blonde was really something, Jean Wallace, with that sultry look, nice closeups. This movie had me engrossed from start to finish. Thanks.
This is stunning! Thank you so much for making it available! Killer dialogue and music. What a dame!
This one has depth and character. Lots of familiar faces. Acceptable picture quality. Great movie.
Excellent noir! Jean Wallace did 3 films with Cornell Wilde, and was married to him for 30 yrs, before their divorce.
The opening music is great! I love it!
This is the gold standard -- everything from music to jagged script used for title credit.
Take a good look at the scenes with Rita, played by Helen Stanton, she is the mother of Dr. Drew Pinsky.
What a wonderful movie -great story well acted with complex characters each consistent within themseves - so different from the usual dross around at this time-definitely worth a watch
My grandfather was born in 1870...my mother was born in 1924...I was born in 1952!
Wish my grandfather had not been born so long ago! I would like to have been a young man during this era!
Today's world is a mess!!!
Wow! How classic! Thank-you. What a cast. All the guys and gals who lived so long ago... I was one when this came out. Times were dark in this film. Mine was just blooming into my wonderfully adventure-filled life. I wish all of you today might have a life like mine has been -- so far -- and never get caught-up in the horrors of deception and strife that seems to pervade the present day. Perhaps things have always been dark for some. Let that not be yours...
Peace, out.
(10:07) Wonderful Richard Conte. Trivia bit: he was seriously considered for the role of Don Corleone, in THE GODFATHER. Anyway, he was great as Don Barzini. His villains are almost always articulate, thoughtful, and well dressed! Catch him in HOUSE OF STRANGERS as Max Monetti. In it, he plays the type of character he does superbly well - a good guy, basically compromised...Excellent!!
Cynthia Hawkins just watched “House of Strangers” yesterday...fantastic! He elevates every movie he appears in. Love that guy!
mr brown so cocky great movie love these black and white movies
looks like it was filmed entirely in New York--tough line up of good actors!
No, it was filmed entirely on a soundstage.
Madison Square Garden.
Outside scenes look like Chicago, that sure looks like the outside of Chicago Stadium in the beginning.
This is Classic Film Noir with a great Actor Richard Conte.
These Old movies sure had every thIng great casts story and plot every minute is suspenseful and enjoyable thank you for top viewing ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This flick is on my top 10 Noir list. Has all the elements and all the best actors of the time-All of the leading actors were in the Untouchables, TV/Features
Great Film Noir Classic. Thanks.
A really good film. I was thoroughly engrossed. An excellent music score very atmospheric and great cinematography.
THE BEST noir theme in the history of the universe...period.
My opinion is this is a good crime movie.
Thanks for the upload Timeless Classic Movies
Ed
These older movies tend to make the star sound like his voice is on helium!
Hoodlum!
This was a great movie!
RUclips + movies like this one = TV IS DEAD!! from Puerto Rico, Thanks T C M.
The opening music really sets the stage for this one. Really good one, thanks. :)
Fanti and Mingo? Now...where have I heard those names before?
Oh yeah! Serenity!! They are the two who give the crew the first job in the film! ;)
possible the best noir song written, unforgettable classic opening.
Wilde can be a convincing tough guy when he plays it more loose and relaxed. But here he TRIES to sound tough and the results are less convincing.
Still, an excellent noir with a great supporting cast, strikingly vivid cinematography and a great score.
Good film. Has a decent story, interesting characters, excellent villain. Well acted . Unlike the moon, this movie has great atmosphere. Fog everywhere. Good fun.
i was ten years old when this movie came out........wish I could go back to being ten again (just a thought). At seventy five years old life just blew on by kiddies..........love these older movies though and can thank my father for bringing me up on them....thanks dad, see all of ya soon!!!
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OMG! I just fell in love with Jean Wallace. She was so beautiful! I knew that she was married to Cornel Wilde, but I really had no idea who she was until now.
She really tried to kill herself in real life,,, how sad,,,,,,She was married to Cornel Wilde for 30 years.
I absolutely love that spotlight scene
Trying to hide from it.
Just like evil and those who try to hide their evil spirits. The light shining on it is their worst fear. It’s comical watching them trying to hide what they do. Shine that light, Baby! 🙋♀️
She is something rare
dave raksin should have used this in one of his lectures, still, an impressive film after all these years.
Thank you for uploading this movie.
What an awesome flick! Thanks for posting it.
The Cinematograhper was brilliant at times
Yeah, I see what you mean but the bad shots couldn't be helped. Many of the sets were very small and cheap hence the heavy use of shadows and some static camerawork.
@Ed Miller , He wrote a book on Cinematography as well.
Like everybody has said, THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE... Enjoy....
No one could have played Mr. Brown better than my favorite Richard Conte.
"UNTIL THIS TIME I didn't know who it was, but it was Barzini all the time..."
Man, I thought there wasnt gonna be anybody left but the camera man !!! That final scene as they drag the "hoodlum" away couldnt be more "noir" , with just the girl and the cop in silhouette against the thick fog ; beautiful !
I knew of this movie back when it was made but I was only 7 years old. 😁. I am finally getting to see it and it was terrific!!! Cornel Wild and Richard Conte in the same movie playing against each other, a story full of secrets to reveal, deep emotion when Cornel's some time girl friend is murdered. Just a great movie and I appreciate your posting this or us!!!
34:29 - "Got any liquor?'
"How 'bout some paint thinner?"
"Naww, that'll kill him, anything else?"
"Hair tonic, forty percent alcohol."
"Fine."
Gangsters without liquor? No way! Noir gangsters always had liquor, cigarettes and playing cards 24 -7.
@@michaelward9880 And _dames._
Good movie, perfect viewing, gorgeous cast, good plot. That's a movie that perfectly makes an evening! THANKS for showing it on You Tube!