♦Neo-Noir Classics♦ '13 WEST STREET' (1962) Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger, Michael Callan
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- 1962 • approved • 1h 20m • June 6, 1962 (USA)
An aerospace engineer (Ladd) ignores a policeman (Steiger) and hunts down a gang of juvenile delinquents.
Alan Ladd will be synonymous with one movie..you know it..the best western of all time..Shane...I have watched it over a hundred times! Good triumphs over evil...underdog wins...quiet unassuming guy kicks ass...and the scenery
If he'd never ever made another movie after that I would have considered him a star!
I concur 100%
Ladd's career went downhill after he made "Shane" for Paramount in 1951: he went from one mediocre picture to another.
@None-zc5vg Too busy hitting the bottle. I actually thought he looked drunk in one scene of this movie.
@@riverraisin1 I suspect that his marriage was strained after his affair with another actress in the early '50s. On top of that, the move into British-made pictures produced some real clunkers.
Rod Steiger sure has presence in any movie he is in. What a great actor.
You couldn't be more correct. I had the pleasure of meeting him once in Sardi's bar in NYC in the early 1980's and he was a totally nice guy.
The name he uses here is so similar to the one he used in 'The Heat of The Night'
A few signature moves he used in "In the Heat of the Night," such as "Bye-bye," and even the name "Koleski" sounds like "Gillespie."
@@KutWrite I saw him in "Heat of the Night" decades ago and then watched him in another movie years later. I was shocked it was the same actor because his acting is so versatile. He's an average looking guy, but there's something about his presence in a movie that stands out. I'll have to check out "Bye-bye". Thanks for the suggestion.
Dr Zchivago
If anyone reading this hasn't watched the movie "The Pawnbroker," you need to. That is Rod Steiger's best film out of many. Any role he plays, he's brilliant.
I just watched The Pawnbroker a month ago after hearing it mentioned on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast. His performance was incredible.
Yes, I agree. The Pawnbroker is very impressive. To sustain that level of self-disgust and depression in his character must have taken its toll. I remember his wife saying how after his Oscar win for In The Heat of the Night Mr Steiger lay on his sofa for six months in the deepest of depressions. Show biz is such an illusion.
His best performance ever. He and Richard Burton cancelled each other out that year and Lee Marvin won the Best Actor Oscar.
@@stevensica89 Yup. Cat Ballou. I did have to look it up. Great actors all.
How about 'Waterloo' or 'In The Heat Of'? Bravura/iconic performances both!
What a GREAT movie! Acting was outstanding! Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much for this movie! I love these classic stories of justice and right vs wrong. Our world has too much repetitive crap happening, that it's nice to know some people still care about morality. Thanks again!
You're welcome!
This movie is not B rated to me . The story , dialogs , actors … it is very good .
Good story. Alan Ladd brought it up to a B+ movie. Thanks.
Steiger, brought it up to a A movie
@@beverlylawyer2286 He did a good job
Definitely Quality. Compared to any other trash Hollywood puts out today and it is a A+. It’s such a shame Hollywood has lost their focus on putting out quality products come to political to walk to focused on shaping culture brainwashing pushing agendas that’s why either slowly dying withering away one customer at a time. These older movies are terrific
Alan Ladd made every film he was in better.
@90FF1.
Is that 'B' for bollocks?
The "payback" scene was so satisfying I rewatched it
...😎👍☕
Cool daddy O . I dig it da most
Steiger and Ladd, nothing B-grade about 2 fine actors
hell yeah
Best movie on PTSD I’ve ever seen. It changes you
Thank you for posting this lovely film Rob
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dynamic between Ladd and Steiger is terrific--TY
Interesting note:
Ladd was 49 when this film was made. He was found dead at age 50 in his bed by his butler. Ladd died of alcohol and drug coctail overdose in an attempt to get to sleep.
Wow...I didn't know that I was an Allen ladd fan myself..
I also didn't know how Ladd died, and I'm also a big Ladd fan.
@billsherrard8452
Did he manage to get to sleep?
@@jackwalder2602
You must be very simple-minded, then! All you need to do is a simple search on Google!
Yes I read that too so sad .. accidentally @@jackwalder2602..of I read too his boy was devastated ....David Ladd. Cheryl Ladds .. later husband ...if Charlies ' Angels " fame ....😮💨
Good one ! Thanks for sharing. Sometimes, I enjoy a good B movie more than the typical seen 100 times top rated films
Totally agree!
@@robtw88 Ted Knight almost slipped by me in this film. He was "Baldwin" in the principal's office...
Amazingly good for a so called B-movie.
This unknown (to me) movie pulled me in and kept me watching to the end; a rarity these days. I was looking for Alan Ladd and it took me a moment to recognize him as he had aged greatly from his heyday 20 years prior. Thanks for posting.
Right. From his younger western days.
Yes, lower energy, too, compared to his pairing with Veronica Lake.
Such a cool film🌴
Booze certainly had taken its toll on him by the time we get to "13 West Street."
Still, he did a great job in a number of "revenge films" in the last decade of his movie career, including "Hell on Frisco Bay" (1955), "The Badlanders" (1958), "The Man in the Net" (1959), and "One Foot in Hell" (1960), along with "13 West Street" (1962). He also was the narrator of the opening sequence of "A Cry In The Night" (1956) - and he had just enough left in the tank to do a good job as Nevada Smith in "The Carpetbaggers" (1964), right before his untimely death at the age of 50.
Philip Leacock, who directed this film, had directed "Take A Giant Step" in 1959 - and, in 1962, would also direct "The War Lover," with Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, and Shirley Anne Field.
And, after "13 West Street," Jeanne Cooper would also play Vi Griffin (Leo Gordon;s wife) in the excellent 1962 movie "The Intruder," directed by Roger Corman. (No, it ISN'T a horror film - but it IS well worth 84 minutes of your time to watch it.)
yeah, unfortunately Alan Ladd chronic alcoholic..that will age you
I love watching Alan Ladd movies. He has to always defend himself. He gets the job done 👍!😊!
@yevonnehorn6196.
He gets the job done because it's scripted that way, but only in his films. In reality, anyone can knock the shit out of him.
@@redblade8160They wouldn't have much trouble today, in 2024, since he's spent the last 60 years in a mausoleum.
@@None-zc5vg
Let's see him act his way out of his mausoleum!
What?! Ted Knight as the principal of Cortez High School. I never realized he had a long career in movies.
Whaaaat? That was Ted Knight as in Caddyshack?
Excellent character development and study. Each individual is fully believable. Top notch acting by everyone.
I have always loved Alan Ladd, God bless him
Truly enjoyed this movie. Dolores Dorn was so pretty.
I like Alan Ladd especially in the legendary western movie Shane
This movie was awesome! Classic movies rule! No political agenda, no DEI, just good stories and great acting. Sad all new movies today suck.
So true!
You can say that again
Aquatarkus was the tour de force of this set.A complete prog masterpiece.
Some excellent cane strikes there in the final scenes!
I imagined that, in the movie theater showings, the audience cheered-on the whipping the boy took.
Excellent acting 👍 Thanks for uploading.
Wow, Can't believe I missed that 5 months ago.. Thanks for the show😊
Alan Ladd died two years after this movie was made. In 1964. He was only 50 but looked 65.
You could see he was already suffering from alcoholism
@TheTradosaurus.
He would only make the film on the condition that it had an alcohol bar in the home.
Billy's aunt is played by Jeanne Cooper, who was Katherine Chancellor for many years on The Young and the Restless.
Excellent eyes!!!👍
I wondered if that was her! Thanks.
She was also Corbin Bernsen's mom.
That's Bernie Hamilton at 42:36. He was the police captain in "Starsky and Hutch" on TV in the 70's.
His character name in the IMDB credits is "Negro".
@@BeachsideHank WOW!
Hmmmmm....
@@BeachsideHank Yikes!!
@@BeachsideHankTo be fair though, a lot of minor characters in movies don’t have names in the credits like “Guy with sunglasses” for example.
Negro was just a description.
A powerful story it was so well told and acted good lesson for youths to follow ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Not B Actors, that's for sure.
Good acting all around. I always like seeing Rod Steiger, he always delivers a good performance.
@@dougcase7545 watch The Pawnbroker if u haven’t seen it
Steiger? "A" list all the way. Alan Ladd is another story. He made some "A" movies and won a Best Actor Oscar, but he generally played the same guy: A short man who played leads.
Back when a average movie had Quality acting all the way around. It’s a shame what has happened to Hollywood how they have abandon Quality replaced it with woke affirmative-action political BS. They have lost focusing on putting out a good products for their customers.
@@Whitegorillaboy Alan Ladd was never nominated for an Oscar. He should have been for "Shane" but 1953 was crowded with great male performances. Another not nominated was Richard Widmark, for Pickup on South Street. Ladd was very good in this film. Oh yes, Michael Callan was in the original cast of West Side Story on Broadway. He played the leader of a gang. He was an excellent dancer, as well.
Alan Ladd looked older than his 48 years. Dolores Dorn was 20 years younger but the age difference is more pronounced by the ravages of alcoholism on Ladd's face. David Janssen or Cliff Robertson would have been better choices. For me Rod Steiger did some of his best work here. He underplayed his role, which was rare for him. He did his best work when he underplayed his part. I always thought Steiger was robbed of the Oscar he really deserved for "The Pawnbroker" instead of "In The Heat Of The Night". Dolores Dorn was really good in this film. Alfred Hitchcock could have done good things with her. He was obsessed with blondes.
It is indeed sad to see Alan Ladd prematurely aged by alcoholism. But I believe it actually adds to his character's trauma of being emasculated by a gang of youths.
It's a shame, but I thought Alan looked better in 1964's The Carpetbaggers, his final film role and posthumously big at the box office.
Great movie, very-well done!
Thank-You for uploading!!!
(In real-life, Chuck wouldn’t stop there.)
ALAN LADD AND ROD STEIGER, TWO PRETTY SOLID ACTORS.
Soooooo, Steiger - an Oscar winner - is a pretty solid actor. OK, got it....
Always loved Alan Ladd, great actor.
Thanks for the U/L Rob W 👍
from Australia
I liked this movie.Thank you for posting it
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow !! Rod Steiger looking like Les Nessman !!!
I'm only half an hour into it, but find it quite watchable.
Rod Stieger : powerhouse actor
15:27 Snazzy hospital robe with shoulder pads.
20:05 That is Ted Baxter from the Mary Tyler Moore Show. That voice. 😂
Whenever an actor doesn't look familiar, their voice often gives them away.
This film reminds me of the 1973 made-for-TV movie "Outrage" with Robert Culp.
Yes
absolutely brilliant!!
My middle name is Alan after Alan Ladd, I was born in 1962. My dad just told me after all these years I had no idea. I was happy to hear that, I've always liked Alan Ladd .
this was a brilliant film, i'm glad i decided to watch it, Michael Callan was a good looking young man
Glad you liked it!
@@robtw88 thank u for uploading this film, the picture and sound was very clear
Good Film. Battling Rich Punks
He Is Risen!
The detective played a movie producer in "The Big Knife".
He has a distinctive accent and way of speaking.
thanks, enjoyed it
It's Rod Steiger, Academy Award winner for In the Heat of the Night playing a Southern Police chief opposite Sidney Portier. On the Waterfront as Brando's brother...I could have been a contender...as the Pawn Broker, survivor of a concentration camp. He was one of America's greatest actors.
That "detective" -- Rod Steiger -- played a psychotic serial- murdering theater director in "No Way To Treat A Lady" opposite George Segal (who did get nominated for an Oscar that year).
@@WhitegorillaboyIt must have been 1966, then.
Pretty funny seeing Ted Knight as the high school principal.
Oh, I didn't catch that!
there's a lot of badness in the world, danny.
i wouldn’t have caught it by looks at first, but his voice and posture was unmistakable!
@@cecelo6651Now I'll have to watch it again!! His voice is definitely distinctive.
"It all started in a 5000 watt radio station in Fresno California..." 😊
This was great.! Thoroughly enjoyed it. Getting addicted to your channel. Cheers.!👍
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you for posting!
Ladd's voice sounded slurred in this picture: he's said to have been a hard drinker by the early '60s and he looks older (to me) than his late '40s. He "accidentally" shot himself in 1962 and recovered only to fatally overdose on drugs in 1964.
Didn't know that. How sad.
How sad!! 😢
Wow! I didn't know that! Great actor!
I remember seeing Ladd's death reported on an inside page of a cheap British paper. In a few months ( from October '23), that'll have been 60 years ago. Time really flies.
Exciting film. Thanks for uploading.
Thanks for watching
I love the movie!💕
Glad you liked it!
Definitely B Movie, but interesting! Thanks for posting.
Thanks for watching
Great movie! Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
I'll watch anything with Rod Steiger in it.
Fine movie! Likable finishing!
Thanks for watching!
I agree with the other comments, this is a great movie!
Excellent movie with convincing performances .
Thanks Rob. Dolores Dorn was my hot favourite. I thought Steiger was the more convincing male actor, Callen was good. Possibly not one of Ladd's better films, may have had something to do with his health issues. All in all though, quite a thought provoking movie and more graphically violent than I would have expected for the time.
Extremely well directed with attention to small details
In 62 Ladd turned 49, Dolores Dorn was 29, and highschooler Michael Callan 27 (I vaguely remember Occasional Wife, he deserved a better career). Remember they were thrown out of the bar on sight. We get used to weird Fred and Ethel age pairings, but this didn't track at all; she hanging around the beautiful home in a dress all day, with no sign of kids. More appropriate casting and fewer plot holes [shes leaves the curtain open but then.. decides not to tell hub about the projectile] would have sold this better. Still, an OK noir.
Yes, in the memoirs by the films creators they did mention how future nerds would over ANALize everything about the film.
The wife was written to repeatedly frustrate the audience, on the level of, "Don't go into the basement!" She was definitely not the brightest bulb.
@@roundtwo3321 Nerds, represent!
I remember Occasional Wife too. Very short lives 60s series.
I think John Wayne and Cary grant might have had some young leading ladies late in their careers.
nice to see he got some payback
great flick. thx
Exceptionally Brilliant Story ❤
Such a good film. Bravo Rob W for this find.
Glad you liked it!
For me, Ladd's target practice in this film recalled "Shane" (1953 - Dir.: George Stevens). In the approximately ten (10) years between that film and this one, Ladd aged appreciably.
It's said that Ladd had been hitting the bottle and his appearance here would support that
VERY GOOD MOVIE .....THANKS ROB W
Glad you liked it!
"Are you lerning fast(to shoot)"Offcourse!After dozen of western movies!Great Alan Ladd!
thanks for sharing this.
My pleasure
💕👍 great cast.....🌹
It really is!
-Some of the actors in this were in another good movie about the same time as this. 'The Young Savages' can ge seen here on YT. Starring Burt Lancaster as a prosecutor. Today we forget that there was a time where underprivileged white teens also were thugs, gang members & committing crimes, not only the minorities as we may like to think or are too young to have seen back then. Or weren't born yet. T.Y.S. is a stark, reality of the then, real urban problems of slums & juvenile crime.
Rod Steiger- while not objectively attractive - had an ethereal charm and intensity that was felt through the black & white screen . I’m thankful his career was only half in color because we got to realize how powerful his presence was . Imo his interrogation scene in “ The Heat of the Night “‘was a top 10 scene in cinematic history . His character had clear racist sensibilities but the viewer could see his redeeming qualities and Wiley police instincts unfold in real time
Clair Bloom was married to Rod Steiger. She claimed that he was emotionally abusive of her to the point of being sadistic. As far as his acting is concerned, personally I was never too impressed, but then, I'm no critic or thespian, so who cares.
If not attractive then why did the film producers keep hiring him as well as paying oddles of dollars. He may have smelt as mature as mature cheese but that is what some find attractive. I buy more mature than non yet mature. So what have you that makes you so much more attactive than 'Mr Rod Steiger'?
@@MikeGreenwood51 Mercy, Mike Greenwood. The large majority of his comment was most flattering of Mr. Steiger. And of course good looks are by no means the only attribute that makes someone an excellent actor. I don't notice that he's objectively insulting Mr. Steiger nor blowing his own horn where his own looks and/or talent are concerned. One gets the impression that you're perpetually on the defensive, with a hair trigger. But that's on you, of course.
I was born in the 80s with only so much context . ..never even heard of Claire bloom
@@jordancarlin9687 You might have seen the original version of "The Haunting" 1963 starring Julie Harris. Bloom played a character named Theo, a stylish and hip young woman whom the script hints is a lesbian. She also starred opposite Cliff Robertson in "Charly" 1968 for which Robertson won best actor. In 1958 she was in "Look Back In Anger" starring Richard Burton.
This movie has its good points, among them, the skintight dress wearing Jeanne Cooper at the one-hour mark. Wow.
Oh those 50s and 60s waistlines!
It's just so refreshing to see men and women that aren't morbidly obese!
Thin was in for sure!
@@cns7139 I forgot to mention it was a pretty good movie too... Thanks for posting!
I was just glad to see women acting like women and men acting like men.
Good movie, I enjoyed it.
Interesting but slow moving why these two top class actors did this film ALAN LADD did a classic SHANE and STIEGER went on to make DR ZHIVAGO
Sadly, this was Ladd's last starring role before his untimely death at age 50.
Ladd was washed-up: he knew it and certainly looked it.
wow, no moral filter on this one, loved it!
Definitely- not B-rate Actors
Top shelf
&
Top billing
Like Allan Ladd
Too bad he killed himself 😢
Check out that Friden calculator Ladd uses at 22:11
Lol!
Almost a cash register technology. Just levers and gears- a basic adding machine.
My mother worked for Friden for many years, and then Friden was bought out by Singer. The best placement for Friden in movies was Billy Wilders "The Apartment" 1960
@@stashyboy1 They were much more than an adding machine, but it is amazing that it was all done mechanically.
Ladd was in his late 40s when this picture came out, but he seems a lot older, maybe because his acting career was going downhill fast and he was drinking hard. He shot himself 'accidentally' in 1962 and fatally overdosed with drugs [via needles] early in 1964.
That's a realistic touch at 28:32 when the Sergeant puts his pistol in a cabinet when he enters his office. Didn't lock it up, though, unless it does so automatically.
It was a much different time and place. You can't judge a 1950's film by 2023 standards. Want to complain about mishandling of weapons in movies? Start with any Quentin Tarantino film and work your way up to Alec Baldwin. Kill Bill and its sequel. Now there's real responsibility in film making. 🤣
@@robertwilliams533 The film was made in 1962, not the 50's.
@@dougcase7545 I was 8 at the time and there wasnt much difference between 1958 and 1962. Socially, morally or otherwise. Attitudes about guns remained unchanged for decades after the 1950's. Trigger locks werent even being g discussed until the late 1990's.
I noticed that too!
Henry Beckman, the detective's colleague, played a great role in the TV show "Here Come the Brides." He played a salty sailor mostly for laughs.
And a regular weekly paycheck for likely a 39-episode season (they were lengthy back then).
@@Whitegorillaboy Correct. More episodes and likely longer too.
To one of the commenters, I'd take this movie anytime over the ones in last 30 years that were crap, but got many awards. Ladd should have gotten at least a couple Academy awards but he was not the run of the mill party goer and backside kisser so many other actors were. Paul Newman never got the Oscar until the top dogs in the s... industry he was in were maybe shamed into it after he was about done. Newman and Ladd had integrity; Hollywood, as govt, sports, have little to none.
Thank goodness we may still see these fine actors we like.
This Gun For Hire, had Alan Ladd, at his best!!!
Ladd was 49 and Tracy was 29. But that's Hollywood for you. Good movie until Finney chased the gang up the mountain road. It made no sense. Strange that they ended it so suddenly. A possible ending - a great defense lawyer gets Chuck off the hook and Walt is charged with attempted murder.
Michael Callan was 27. A bit old to play a high school teenager.
I agree Steiger is one of the Greats.
Great ending. I am glad Sherrill didn't kill that punk. The kid will endure many years in prison.
I wish we could go back in time to when a man like Alan Ladd was so cool, he wore sneakers with a suit & tie (1:19:01). I wonder what the average movie-goer back then thought of Ladd's vendetta- did they also hate the rise in juvenile crimes and worry? Either way, I'm glad Ladd did what he did with the boy at the end.
That one had a few surprises. Good movie.
Now that's a movie!
Steiger and Ladd lifted this B-Movie nicely. Nifty noir that kept Kept me edgy.
So satisfying to see Ladd cosh that thug at the end although he relents and doesn't kill him wisely. (I had been attacked 3 times by goons in London over the years and there was nothing that could be done-the most annoying time was when they were caught and I wasn't even asked to give evidence in court .Was I some drunk out boozing on a weekend night? No I was a social worker coming off duty later working late getting off a bus attacked by drunks)
A decent movie of its kind. Didn’t deserve to be regarded as a poor b class movir
Those young guys remind me of the Menendez Brothers. Same types.
Very good, so-far!☺️
Just wanted to make the observation that it’s unusual to see a Detective Sargeant dressed as Koleski(?) does.
…Bow-tie, black-jacket, white shirt and greased hair - he looks like He’s just coming-from a Dinner-Party.😉
Across the Bridge is another Rod Steiger flick that is superb..
Great Movie !!!!!
Thanks for watching!
This is a great film; you can really see the influence on Death Wish! I will have to find a way to talk about it on my own channel :)
never knew Alan Ladd had GIGANTIC ears
😝🤣🤣
You so mean 😂
Great acting! The ending a Shittum bit the dust! He went for a midnight swim!
Was a great actor Rod Steiger , I have seen him in action . Our Al Capone he did the story .
Revenge is a dish best served cold.