Anne totally rocks!! Thanks 🙏 for suggesting “Old Time Radio” on RUclips. I’ve been getting my fix through Radio Garden channels Audio Noir Radio and ABN Old-Time Radio. So happy to add these RUclips options.
I heartily concur ! One of my favorite aspects of the internet is that so many sites offer programs from the Golden Age of Radio (especially here at RUclips, of course).
Also one of my favorite Jack Benny skits. He had done a parody of "The Killers" set in a diner previously on his long running radio program (in Nov of '46), with Edward G Robinson playing the head gangster. ruclips.net/video/06kiDoZsWuE/видео.html
Another vastly entertaining & informative episode ! As always, a world of thanks go out to our beloved Anne & Eddie ! Good going, you two ! Excellent replies to some excellent questions ! A shame we didn't get to see Tizzy or Emily. That would have made the experience purrrr-fect !
A triple feature of Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932) hooked me onto Classic Cinema and set me on the path to Film Noir of the 40s, 50s and beyond. I've been a major classic movie fan ever since. I've always found myself analyzing, comparing, and contrasting the ideas and themes of classic movies to contemporary movies to see just how many ideas are either homaged, borrowed, or maybe just plain ripped off from the foundation of the great filmmakers of the yesteryears.
The first Film Noir I had seen was Double Indemnity in a film class. I'm pretty sure we actually watched a film print on a screen set up in the lecture hall.
Blues in the Night is a fantastic film! It mos def has noir elements-- road movie travels, hopping trains, getting harassed by police...and the racial elements of the film are very forward thinking. Highly recommended.
Loved the Bad seed. Love pre code. It seems like everything is being called noir now which is a bummer. Thank you Ann!!!! Margot Robbie would be great as Nora but at least get a male lead same age. You are so refreshing Ann thank you so much!!! I adore the thin man films. I don’t think they could ever come close. To me they aren’t noir at all just some of the best films ever!
I recently saw The Bad Seed and I agree with Eddie that it has problems. The story is really dark but for some reason Mervyn Leroy seems to tell it as a black comedy (the silly censor-induced ending makes sense in that context, though). One thing about locations: As a fan of John D MacDonald’s novels, I’m disappointed that there are so few noirs set in Florida. Only Key Largo and Cape Fear (the 1962 version) come to mind. There are some neo-noirs set in Florida like Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat and Bob Rafelson’s Blood & Wine. I would love to see a Technicolor noir (like Leave Her to Heaven) set in Florida but I don’t think there is one.
I too was wondering if the footage sits in the vaults at Columbia Pictures (now owned by SONY). Would love to see it ! I'd also love to see the original ending of "Double Idemnity", where Edward G Robinson watches Fred MacMurray go to the gas chamber.
There's a different version of middle or ending of The Big Sleep. Eddie has discussed it; but nobody cares about it. I think it just went away. Seems there are alternative endings for many films.
You mention A Star Is Born as a musical with some noir feeling. The same I think could be said for Love Me Or Leave Me. To me Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective, both written by Dennis Potter, are noir musicals, both the TV-series and the film versions. Pennies From Heaven has crime and a downbeat ending, the way a noir should have, and The Singing Detective has lots of the stuff from the noir films of the 1940s and 1950s. In the film version of Pennies From Heaven the diner is taken straight out of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. And to dance in front of photos from the Great Depression could only be done in a noir musical. ruclips.net/video/f3Q11jsN54A/видео.html
Musicals include unreal music scenes. But films about musicians without these unreal music scenes aren't musicals. And by unreal I mean people breaking out in song when no one in real life does it, like when they sing their thoughts.
Wow, you're back so soon!
I am nominating Noir City Magazine for an award! 🏆
There's not enough hats or smoking in "L.A. Noir"! 🚬
Totally agree with Eddie… the Smokehouse martini 🍸seated at the far corner of the bar is very atmospheric
I'll drink to that !
I have been on most of the Hollywood studio tours. They are all wonderfully unique when thinking of their history. Warners was particularly good.
Anne totally rocks!! Thanks 🙏 for suggesting “Old Time Radio” on RUclips. I’ve been getting my fix through Radio Garden channels Audio Noir Radio and ABN Old-Time Radio. So happy to add these RUclips options.
I heartily concur ! One of my favorite aspects of the internet is that so many sites offer programs from the Golden Age of Radio (especially here at RUclips, of course).
the trailer for Slightly Scarlet still looks pretty good (on IMDB). That white sweater.
Anne, on last week's show you mentioned the Jack Benny Show comedy/noir episode featuring Dan Duryea. I watched it and it was great fun. Thanks!
Also one of my favorite Jack Benny skits. He had done a parody of "The Killers" set in a diner previously on his long running radio program (in Nov of '46), with Edward G Robinson playing the head gangster. ruclips.net/video/06kiDoZsWuE/видео.html
I am glad that you enjoyed it!
Another vastly entertaining & informative episode ! As always, a world of thanks go out to our beloved Anne & Eddie ! Good going, you two ! Excellent replies to some excellent questions ! A shame we didn't get to see Tizzy or Emily. That would have made the experience purrrr-fect !
A triple feature of Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932) hooked me onto Classic Cinema and set me on the path to Film Noir of the 40s, 50s and beyond. I've been a major classic movie fan ever since. I've always found myself analyzing, comparing, and contrasting the ideas and themes of classic movies to contemporary movies to see just how many ideas are either homaged, borrowed, or maybe just plain ripped off from the foundation of the great filmmakers of the yesteryears.
Suspense 4-11-46 The Name of the Beast w/ Vincent Price
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As to wearing a coat in Los Angeles in Mildred Pierce, yes, in the winter is does get cold enough to wear a coat. It's not warm weather year round.
The first Film Noir I had seen was Double Indemnity in a film class. I'm pretty sure we actually watched a film print on a screen set up in the lecture hall.
1:17:00 Myrna Loy was 29 when she first played Nora Charles.
Blues in the Night is a fantastic film! It mos def has noir elements-- road movie travels, hopping trains, getting harassed by police...and the racial elements of the film are very forward thinking. Highly recommended.
For what it's worth, Margot Robbie is four years older than Myrna Loy was when she made The Thin Man.
Loved the Bad seed. Love pre code. It seems like everything is being called noir now which is a bummer. Thank you Ann!!!! Margot Robbie would be great as Nora but at least get a male lead same age. You are so refreshing Ann thank you so much!!! I adore the thin man films. I don’t think they could ever come close. To me they aren’t noir at all just some of the best films ever!
I recently saw The Bad Seed and I agree with Eddie that it has problems. The story is really dark but for some reason Mervyn Leroy seems to tell it as a black comedy (the silly censor-induced ending makes sense in that context, though). One thing about locations: As a fan of John D MacDonald’s novels, I’m disappointed that there are so few noirs set in Florida. Only Key Largo and Cape Fear (the 1962 version) come to mind. There are some neo-noirs set in Florida like Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat and Bob Rafelson’s Blood & Wine. I would love to see a Technicolor noir (like Leave Her to Heaven) set in Florida but I don’t think there is one.
"Miami Story" 1954 - Barry Sullivan, et al.
Just for the record. Margo Robbie is older than Myrna Loy was when she played Nora the first time.
all you have to do is read CITY OF QUARTZ by Mike Davis to realize how right Eddie is in describing LA as corrupt from the beginning.
I don't mean to go back to the
Spanish "Californio" period when I refer to the beginning. Just read the book
Excellent book!
does the different ending of LONELY PLACE still exist?
I too was wondering if the footage sits in the vaults at Columbia Pictures (now owned by SONY). Would love to see it ! I'd also love to see the original ending of "Double Idemnity", where Edward G Robinson watches Fred MacMurray go to the gas chamber.
There's a different version of middle or ending of The Big Sleep. Eddie has discussed it; but nobody cares about it. I think it just went away.
Seems there are alternative endings for many films.
You mention A Star Is Born as a musical with some noir feeling. The same I think could be said for Love Me Or Leave Me. To me Pennies From Heaven and The Singing Detective, both written by Dennis Potter, are noir musicals, both the TV-series and the film versions. Pennies From Heaven has crime and a downbeat ending, the way a noir should have, and The Singing Detective has lots of the stuff from the noir films of the 1940s and 1950s. In the film version of Pennies From Heaven the diner is taken straight out of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. And to dance in front of photos from the Great Depression could only be done in a noir musical. ruclips.net/video/f3Q11jsN54A/видео.html
New Nick and Nora? Jason Bateman and Busy Phillips.
Musicals include unreal music scenes. But films about musicians without these unreal music scenes aren't musicals. And by unreal I mean people breaking out in song when no one in real life does it, like when they sing their thoughts.
Robert Downey 🌟🎬