I've been watching these types of movies for years and never seen this one. A few well known actors and actresses in it and it was a well worth watch movie. Raymond Burr sure plays a lot of villains before Perry Mason and Ironside.
It's so dated, you're actually rooting for the FBI as the "good guys." It's one of the best Raymond Burr as Mr. Evil characters and must be the only time he's filmed running. Thank you for posting this... loved it!
I still believe they're the good guys. Because someone in your family is not good does not make the family bad. I'm not going to let you go unchallenged with your negativity
The written Hollywood movie code (I don’t remember the title of the document) of 1934 stated that the government and law enforcement could never be portrayed negatively. Knowing this, you’d know there was no way any movie of the 1950’s would have been permitted to show the FBI as anything but completely noble.
In the 1950s my mom graduated from a very small well one of the smallest high schools in the Western United she replied to an ad in a local newspaper road on her first bus all the way across the United States 🚌 to Washington d.c.she was very fast one of the fastest typers accurate and had full knowledge of shorthand. She was given a choice of three places to employ and she chose the FBI secretarial pool.
Good fer her. I had a half brother 27 years older than me that flunked his first CPA (Certified Public Accountant) exam. Went to work for FBI in DC as clerk. They wanted him to become an agent. But he was a pacifist. Wouldn't pack heat.
@@pigmeatmarkham898 You are correct! And I believe he had played for the Chicago Cubs back in the 1970's. I remember having his baseball card when I was a kid. Those were the days! Take Care!
saifonlawrence2044: If that's the best movie you've ever seen...Well you've lived a really sheltered life. That movie was what I call an ok timewaster & nothing more!
Ah, back in the day when the FBI was respected and trusted. How different are circumstances today when there is talk of doing away with the FBI and completely reorganizing it. God bless America.
@justthink5854 That’s what they say but today we see politicians in our government who are openly self-avowed socialists and communists. Hollywood, it turns out, is full of communists and perverts. We’re seeing the fruits of the slow growth of things that we’re taking root back in his day. So was Hoover really a monster after all?
The funeral Home attendant was played by well known character actor, O.Z. Whitehead. I can always tell him from his unique voice. I remember him best from the excellent cold war film, " Panic in Year Zero " with Ray Milland and a very young Frankie Avalon. He played the owner of Hogan's Grocery Store.
it's mind-blowing what we have just learned about them, it's like they think their agency is the actual leadership of the US, a non-elected govt just like a dictatorship.
Police helicopters were probably considered a really cool new technological innovation when this movie was made. Otherwise, this is notable for Audrey Totter playing a good girl for once.
@@markr.devereux3385many organisations need an overhaul, but the film was made to give audiences 75 minutes of entertainment, it was a film of its time. As director Frank Capra once said if you want to send a message use Western Union
Did you all know that Raymond Burr played the American reporter, Steve Martin, in the 1956 US release of the Japanese film " Gojira " ( 1954 )? The Western release was renamed " Godzilla King of the Monsters ".
Tommy Noonan was Peter Marshall's long-time comedy partner; they were together for most of the '50s, and even starred in a couple of movies circa 1960.
This movie was made when the FBI was respected and now it is nothing but an enforcement arm of current ruling party in power. No longer the untouchables.
Mr. Remero was certainly a better actor than his '60s "Batman" "Joker" rolls allowed him to be. They can't make movies like this anymore; Nobody dresses that cool, the cars aint that cool, and all the FBI guys dress like they're go'en ta Afghanistan
Some folks also sand them off. For many years, my mother could not be fingerprinted because her hands were so dry the teensy amount of moisture from dampness or body oils simply wasn't there, due to some of her health problems. We probably wouldn't have known except she bought a mail delivery route temporarily from my dad's older brother, and they kept trying to get a print of her fingerprints the whole time she had it, They found other ways in the small community to verify who she was, anyway, but before it became much of an issue, my uncle decided retirement didn't suit him as much as he thought it would and he bought the franchise back.. I go through periods where the credit card readers don't accept my fingers on the screen readers, and I have to use their stylus.
He played quite a few bad guys in the movies in the first decade of his career, before he "hit the jackpot" with PERRY MASON on CBS in 1957 - in such movies as "San Quentin," "Code of the West," "Desperate," "I Love Trouble," "Raw Deal," "Pitfall," "Station West," "Red Light," "Abandoned," "Love Happy," "Unmasked," "Borderline," "M" (the 1951 U.S. remake), "His Kind of Woman," "The Whip Hand," "Horizons West," "Rear Window," "Mannequins fur Rio" (aka "They Were So Young"), "A Man Alone," "Count Three and Pray," "A Cry in the Night," and "The Brass Legend." He also played an amoral playboy in "The Blue Gardenia" and good-guy roles in "Please Murder Me!" and "Crime of Passion" - and an interesting role in "Ride the High Iron." And he played King Balthazar in the 1952 "Family Theatre" Christmas drama "A Star Shall Rise."
A different world! The censors thought nothing about showing two women in the same bed, but married men and women were always shown in twin beds with an end table between them.
2:10 Barely two minutes in and the propaganda begins, hardcore gangsters had been mangling their fingerprints for years at this point. What is this, Dragnet? Nah, not enough cigarette commercials.
I want my money back. Based on the film's title, I assumed it would be the story of J. Edgar Hoover, who was known to cross dress and spend loads of time in DC hotels entertaining congressman with his, ahem, "talents".
Interesting off-beat film with great cast (largely wasted) in an uninspired story. Why go to all the initial trouble of getting the secretary to steal the print card when they could have just planted a dead bum to begin with. But of course, I do not work in Hollywood.
My uncle is in California and he was the director of the CIA four-number years I'm not sure if it was forty or fifty or 35 but a bunch but he retired is the director! And then was hired back out of retirement to help the CIA and the process of there dutys. Analyzing pictures and papers and etc! Frank West! Is real good man good Christian! I've lost touch with my uncle I don't know if he's alive or not! Wish I knew wish I could get some help from him with the corruption out here in North Carolina!
11 minutes into this movie I'm wondering why the FBI girl didn't go to her manager and have the manager give her a phony card on that fingerprint. At 29 minutes, why didn't the bad guy wear gloves? He's leaving fingerprints all over the place. 42 minutes, that TV comedy routine was awful. I wish that had been cut out. Not a bad movie. It must have been approved by Mr. Hoover himself. He didn't care what good or bad the FBI did, as long as it had a good image.
Google shows Happy Landing(1938) on my first try, but since they were both 20th Century Fox contract players at the same time it's really odd if they didn't appear in other things together!
A star-studded cast: George Brent, Cesar Romero, and Raymond Burr, all together in the same movie. 😃
um... yeah
I've been watching these types of movies for years and never seen this one. A few well known actors and actresses in it and it was a well worth watch movie. Raymond Burr sure plays a lot of villains before Perry Mason and Ironside.
I've never seen it or heard of it, before. Good Movie.
He was a "villain" in real life.
he and The Amazing Randi were some of the most un-gay-seeming gay men of all time.
billy what a great bad guy, its why im watching.
In that case, let me allow to recommend "Borderline", with Fred McMurray and Claire Trevor. Again, Burr's the heavy.
It's so dated, you're actually rooting for the FBI as the "good guys." It's one of the best Raymond Burr as Mr. Evil characters and must be the only time he's filmed running. Thank you for posting this... loved it!
I still believe they're the good guys. Because someone in your family is not good does not make the family bad. I'm not going to let you go unchallenged with your negativity
In “Your Favorite Story” he ran wildly ❤️😁
@@harrietweber2520those who are anti-FBI are probably a bit Bent. Like the Mafia & their pet poodle Donald J. Trump. thank you from Manhattan ©2024
Darned good semi-documentary noir. Strong performances from Romero, Brent and Burr.Thanks for posting.
I've seen this before but it's always good! Lots of good actors in this.
I am a Raymond Burr fan, good actor, etc. He certainly cuts an imposing figure physically in this movie!
Yes he does. Very good looking. 😊😊😊😊
It was a shock to find out he was in the closet for a number of years . Yes he was gay.😮
He ALWAYS did in my humble opinion.
@@darylcumming7119 Big deal.
@@kaydee4296 no one implied it was a big deal except you.
Nice movie. I love the old styles of class and integrity.
Enjoyed the movie😊
The written Hollywood movie code (I don’t remember the title of the document) of 1934 stated that the government and law enforcement could never be portrayed negatively. Knowing this, you’d know there was no way any movie of the 1950’s would have been permitted to show the FBI as anything but completely noble.
Back then it was. At least more so than today.
I think I would prefer sitting next to a woman with a baby than a bloke smoking.
And J.edgar Hoover could never be shown wearing make-up and an evening gown !
And it worked to America's advantage.
In the 1950s my mom graduated from a very small well one of the smallest high schools in the Western United she replied to an ad in a local newspaper road on her first bus all the way across the United States 🚌 to Washington d.c.she was very fast one of the fastest typers accurate and had full knowledge of shorthand. She was given a choice of three places to employ and she chose the FBI secretarial pool.
Thanx for sharing! You must be very proud of your dear mom! 🤗
VERY interesting!!!!!! My precious Mom could type great too & shorthand
wow! proud of your mom.
Good fer her. I had a half brother 27 years older than me that flunked his first CPA (Certified Public Accountant) exam. Went to work for FBI in DC as clerk. They wanted him to become an agent. But he was a pacifist. Wouldn't pack heat.
I'm sure she always did her best to spell correctly. Gpood for your mom.
A real rare Classic Story ❤
The cast even included "Pete Marshall" who later was the host of the original Hollywood Squares Show and is still alive at age 97!
And is the father of former major leaguer Pete LaCock! ⚾️
@@pigmeatmarkham898 You are correct! And I believe he had played for the Chicago Cubs back in the 1970's. I remember having his baseball card when I was a kid. Those were the days! Take Care!
THE BEST, LOVE THESE TYPE OF MOVIES, THANK YOU.
Wow! It kept me on the edge of my seat. Great movie.
Excellent cast. Excellent plot. Excellent film. July, 2024.
A high budget movie for those times as the helicopter suggests .
Far better than expected. I don't know why.
William Berke was a good director with decades of experience.
Another classic gem ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you 👍❤Good movie 🍿🥤🍫Nice to see so many of my favorite players in this movie . 🥰😍🤩
What a fun movie. The Joker's the good guy, and Perry Mason's the bad guy.
Mr. Bur was a character actor his whole career. He played many a bad guy character role.
Greatest movie of all time
saifonlawrence2044:
If that's the best movie you've ever seen...Well you've lived a really sheltered life. That movie was what I call an ok timewaster & nothing more!
Ah, back in the day when the FBI was respected and trusted. How different are circumstances today when there is talk of doing away with the FBI and completely reorganizing it. God bless America.
In this crooked political world, the fbi is just as crooked as Capitol Hill.😊
@justthink5854
That’s what they say but today we see politicians in our government who are openly self-avowed socialists and communists. Hollywood, it turns out, is full of communists and perverts. We’re seeing the fruits of the slow growth of things that we’re taking root back in his day.
So was Hoover really a monster after all?
The secret services were already tied up with the mob back then.
those who are anti-FBI are probably a bit Bent. Like the Mafia & their pet poodle Donald J. Trump. thank you from Manhattan ©2024
I didn't realize that Raymond Burr was such a big man!
Thank-You, I really enjoyed this!
Raymond Burr’s comment that George had died for a noble cause 😱😱😱😡😡😡😂😂😂
Slimmed down mason looks good
Orson Welles also looked good until his weight ballooned.
What more do you need if you can watch such a marvelous movie? Thanks give me the opportunitie!
RAYMOND BURR ALWAYS PLAYED A BAD GUY UNTIL HE STARRED IN THE PERRY MASON SERIES.
The funeral Home attendant was played by well known character actor, O.Z. Whitehead.
I can always tell him from his unique voice. I remember him best from the excellent
cold war film, " Panic in Year Zero " with Ray Milland and a very young Frankie Avalon.
He played the owner of Hogan's Grocery Store.
Great movie! Excellent acting and good plot! And also good to see a positive story about the FBI!
FBI spying on MLK, infiltrating and disrupting anti war organizations. G-men are boy scouts.
Thanks SV. Another good one.
Fabulous movie, thanks for sharing 🎬🇺🇲🏄☯️
A good example of the cover-up, being worse than the crime.
Watergate.
Jan 6 riot
Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates
Great to see The Joker helping law enforcement ! Batman, Chief O’Hara and Commissioner Gordon would be proud!
Dammmit, yet another Lipert production.
If only the FBI today had the integrity shown in this video.
No💩... I got more respect for the MexiCANT cartel. The nothing but criminal scum now.
it's mind-blowing what we have just learned about them, it's like they think their agency is the actual leadership of the US, a non-elected govt just like a dictatorship.
Just enjoy the film
@Just think it's only a movie
@Just think just a movie, lighten up for goodness sake
If only the DOJ and FBI were still so honorable. 😢😢😢😢😢
They still are for the most part. Propaganda is real
36:00 That's Blossom McDonald, sister of Jeanette McDonald. Blossom played Grandmama on the 60s Addams Family. She also went by Marie Blake.
and blossom rock....
Great movie! I think that Blake will need a lawyer after this, Hope thst he knows a good one!
41:00 That's 26-year-old PETER MARSHALL (the host of "Hollywood Squares") doing the comedy routine on the television!
That was awesome ❤
corrupt politicians with dirty secrets. Would never happen.
Police helicopters were probably considered a really cool new technological innovation when this movie was made. Otherwise, this is notable for Audrey Totter playing a good girl for once.
Golly- was the FBI ever this noble? If so, how TRULY LOW we have sunk as a Nation!! Always ❤️’d George Brent!😊
Just enjoy the movie
@@martinepstein3332 I did!
@@maryowen1722 as director Frank Capra once said if you want to send messages try Western Union
After witnessing the politically aligned FBI of recent years I am convinced this arm of the fed justice system needs a complete overhaul.
@@markr.devereux3385many organisations need an overhaul, but the film was made to give audiences 75 minutes of entertainment, it was a film of its time. As director Frank Capra once said if you want to send a message use Western Union
Good show!
Really good movie. I highly recommend it.
Released November 4th,1951
Did you all know that Raymond Burr played the American reporter, Steve Martin, in the 1956 US release of the
Japanese film " Gojira " ( 1954 )? The Western release was renamed " Godzilla King of the Monsters ".
Good movie.
I like the oldies.
The ending; Live and Let Die (1973) without the explosion!
Who’d of thunk it?? 😜
excellent
Whover says FBI and government was so much better then, missed the first part of this movie. Corruption and murder. No different today.
The guy that fell was OK. There was a jumping castle underneath. But those poor kids are still in orbit.
😆😆
Great movie 🎥
Oh how the FBI have fallen to the political class
Audrey Totter. 😁😁😁
Top actors and brassieres.
Ray Burr Bad Guy ! Who coulda thunk it !
He played the heavy in a lot of movies in the early fifties...His Kind Of Woman with Robert Mitchum, Borderline with Fred MacMurray, some others...
Peter Marshall is one of the comic duo shown in this flick.
Tommy Noonan was Peter Marshall's long-time comedy partner; they were together for most of the '50s, and even starred in a couple of movies circa 1960.
Audrey Totter....usually played the bad girls in noir,..good to see her in a different role
@johnspaulding1681 Do you like 'Alias Nick Beal'?
She played a truly EVIL woman in the 1950 MGM noir "Tension."
@@jmccracken1963 to the hilt in that one
Soo good
Very good
I Liked it 👍
This movie was made when the FBI was respected and now it is nothing but an enforcement arm of current ruling party in power. No longer the untouchables.
Was that Joi Lansing at 16:00 ?
Yes, it was. She played Susan, one of Shirley Wayne's two blonde roommates. Jan Kayne played Doris, the other roommate.
Mr. Remero was certainly a better actor than his '60s "Batman" "Joker" rolls allowed him to be.
They can't make movies like this anymore; Nobody dresses that cool, the cars aint that cool, and all the FBI guys dress like they're go'en ta Afghanistan
Raymond...❤❤🔥❤❤🔥❤
Wish we had decent FBI, DOJ, PRESIDENT, SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES. Too many CRIMINALS in government at this time 💖 DRAIN THE SWAMP NOW!
Voters all ALLOW who's in office and all they do
those who are anti-FBI are probably a bit Bent. Like the Mafia & their pet poodle Donald J. Trump. thank you from Manhattan ©2024
Perry Mason is a bad guy in this movie!
Before Perry Mason he was always a bad guy.
They said the fingerprint can never be altered or destroyed but I’ve heard that they can be destroyed by burning 🥵🤚them off.
Some folks also sand them off.
For many years, my mother could not be fingerprinted because her hands were so dry the teensy amount of moisture from dampness or body oils simply wasn't there, due to some of her health problems. We probably wouldn't have known except she bought a mail delivery route temporarily from my dad's older brother, and they kept trying to get a print of her fingerprints the whole time she had it, They found other ways in the small community to verify who she was, anyway, but before it became much of an issue, my uncle decided retirement didn't suit him as much as he thought it would and he bought the franchise back..
I go through periods where the credit card readers don't accept my fingers on the screen readers, and I have to use their stylus.
That leaves scars which are also traceable.
What is the name of the actress who played the role of Natalie Craig the sister / FBI SECRETARY who was murdered
Margia (pronounced Mar-Juh) Dean. She was in several Lippert moviies.
Nice to see Perry Mason on the other side of the law for a change.
He played quite a few bad guys in the movies in the first decade of his career, before he "hit the jackpot" with PERRY MASON on CBS in 1957 - in such movies as "San Quentin," "Code of the West," "Desperate," "I Love Trouble," "Raw Deal," "Pitfall," "Station West," "Red Light," "Abandoned," "Love Happy," "Unmasked," "Borderline," "M" (the 1951 U.S. remake), "His Kind of Woman," "The Whip Hand," "Horizons West," "Rear Window," "Mannequins fur Rio" (aka "They Were So Young"), "A Man Alone," "Count Three and Pray," "A Cry in the Night," and "The Brass Legend."
He also played an amoral playboy in "The Blue Gardenia" and good-guy roles in "Please Murder Me!" and "Crime of Passion" - and an interesting role in "Ride the High Iron." And he played King Balthazar in the 1952 "Family Theatre" Christmas drama "A Star Shall Rise."
Impeach Biteone 😊
Smh leaving that window open
I think this was when Raymond Burr proposed to Cesar Romero
Never saw Perry Mason(aka Raymond Burr) in a part as a criminal before. What would Della think ?
I don't know what Stella would think but Della would have been appalled...
@@JohnReitz-ps2ct
Corrected ... thank thee :-)
A different world! The censors thought nothing about showing two women in the same bed, but married men and women were always shown in twin beds with an end table between them.
1:13:49
Bwahahaha. Integrity! BWAHAHAHA!
When the FBI was an honorable outfit.
Hoover who? whoopsie. Must mean Herbert Hoover.
I think Tom drakes brother Chris , had an small role as an Television Host
Ending was strangely filmed.
2:10 Barely two minutes in and the propaganda begins, hardcore gangsters had been mangling their fingerprints for years at this point. What is this, Dragnet?
Nah, not enough cigarette commercials.
I want my money back. Based on the film's title, I assumed it would be the story of J. Edgar Hoover, who was known to cross dress and spend loads of time in DC hotels entertaining congressman with his, ahem, "talents".
Were we ALWAYS so naive about the FBI???
How about the CIA?
Yep
YES.
Interesting off-beat film with great cast (largely wasted) in an uninspired story. Why go to all the initial trouble of getting the secretary to steal the print card when they could have just planted a dead bum to begin with. But of course, I do not work in Hollywood.
I know a George Brent impersonator
You mean look miserable and have a moustache!
My uncle is in California and he was the director of the CIA four-number years I'm not sure if it was forty or fifty or 35 but a bunch but he retired is the director! And then was hired back out of retirement to help the CIA and the process of there dutys. Analyzing pictures and papers and etc! Frank West! Is real good man good Christian! I've lost touch with my uncle I don't know if he's alive or not! Wish I knew wish I could get some help from him with the corruption out here in North Carolina!
You are delusional or gullible.
William Webster
I knew his daughter a little.
He was is a straight arrow. We need a few hundred more men like him in government.
How far did you get in school? Your spelling and punctuation is not very good .
11 minutes into this movie I'm wondering why the FBI girl didn't go to her manager and have the manager give her a phony card on that fingerprint.
At 29 minutes, why didn't the bad guy wear gloves? He's leaving fingerprints all over the place.
42 minutes, that TV comedy routine was awful. I wish that had been cut out.
Not a bad movie. It must have been approved by Mr. Hoover himself. He didn't care what good or bad the FBI did, as long as it had a good image.
Tommy Noonan was quite the pervert in real life - a kind of extension of the character which he would play in the 1955 movie "Violent Saturday."
That was a biggie. Perry Mason wasn't being very nice.
the only time raymond burr was "nice" in movies was as perry mason....most of his movies, he played thugs or deranged character roles.
@@BAM-jc7uy true
No, he wasn't - especially when slapping Joan Burton (cf. "Women's Prison") around.
It's nice for a change to see a movie, where there is no peddling of woke stuff in it.
Only lies showing the FBI as an organization of integrity instead of an enemy of the people. The FBI is currently wide Awoke.
55:16 - he looks like a clone of Bobby Darin.
Wonder if Cesar Romero and Don Ameche ever were in a movie together . .
Google shows Happy Landing(1938) on my first try, but since they were both 20th Century Fox contract players at the same time it's really odd if they didn't appear in other things together!
@@jimmypeters : I used to confuse the two, lol. Thanks
They were both “musical”
Yes they were in a Sonja Hanie movies Happy Landing was one of them funny movie 😂I like both of them I'm sure there movies they were in together
Good movie Cast for entertainment, But the Script could use some help. If they didn't have bad luck, they would not have any luck at all. Ron PTL USA
My Goddess Joi Lansing is in this movie, but not long enough.
Actually, it is a 1951 movie.
@@mikedrown2721 No: it was released in the United States on 4 November 1951.
@@jmccracken1963At 0.44 on the bottom of the screen
ok movie
Why weren't there more FBI series or movies starring females as field agents or higher???
Gee. Maybe because that's not what women WANTED to do then.
@@kaydee4296 yeah!!! ur right 👍
It's bad enough that I get commercials every 15 minutes, or so. But WHY are they in a foreign language? (Spanish)
Spanish? That's a first, but we have no control over what Google/RUclips does. Thanks for watching and taking the time to write!