Rough Shoot (Shoot First) (1953) - Joel McCrea & Evelyn Keyes
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- Rough Shoot, also known as Shoot First, is a 1953 British thriller film that stars Joel McCrea and Evelyn Keyes, and features Herbert Lom, Marius Goring and Roland Culver. The scenario is set in Cold War England when tensions ran high regarding spying. A retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt.
👍🏽Joel McCrea is one of my favorite actors! I’ll watch all his movies. Thanks 😊 for the upload😉
He is great in this!
Me, too! And Herbert Lom, a real character.
I loved him too such a natural believable actor
Talk about your "sleepers" ~ this is a heck of an espionage movie that I never saw, and I'm a big fan of all 3 stars!
Great B movie!
Thank you for the great movie.
With my favorite actor Joel Macrae.
❤
You're welcome!
Joel McRea is a favorite. I remember his comment after being asked about doing a follow on ("I married a Witch") to the successful comedy "Sullivan's Travels". He said "Life is too short to do two movies with Veronica Lake". Apparently she was a mean drunk -- and she was drunk a lot. Joel, however, was one of Hollywood's true nice guys.
Good post!
But, she was smaller than me and he was a big strapping fellow. Just pick her up holding both her arms tight to her body and let her kick till she tires out or passes out. There's another trick about being paid past a set time to get the movie wrapped - some actor made a small fortune when it went past the contracted finish time (and they suspected something would 'happen'). I suppose drink was what finished Veronica's career.
Very good film, just right amount of action, intrigue and wit. Also not spoiled by colourings. Balu, 🇮🇳 india
Good post!
Indeed, coloring destroyes the old movies and dont make sense.
Where was I in 53'? At home with Mom and Pop was working in his office, working from Home and walking to the Post Office. Those were the Good Old Days.
Great post!
Wonderful Movie. Really very enjoyable. So glad the rough stuff was not as rough as it often is in such movies. a NICE and Pleasant Change, yet Still Very Well Done.
Glad you enjoyed it
I rather enjoy these British thrillers. Herbert Lom was in many of them, including the smashing "Hell drivers" and was a great actor. While not the greatest film, this was still enjoyable and it's always fun seeing England in this post war era.
Herbert Lom was an amazing character actor.
He played the Phantom of the Opera in 1962.
Another British film good cast
It sure is!
The story and screenplay was done by one of my favorite writers: Eric Ambler. He is famous for
writing intricate and absorbing WW2 and post-War spy stuff. This one is a typical Ambler. My favorite
is A Coffin for Demetrious.
A Coffin for Demetrious --- got to check that out!!! The Mask of Dimitrios
Ambler got his fame for WWI and between the wars reality based spy novels. "A Coffin For Demetrious" is one of his earliest, best and saddest. He was a brilliant writer and many others,have shamelessly copied him. Thia is a well plotted add acted intrigue movie. Thanks for allowing me to discover it.
Ambler got his fame for WWI and between the wars reality based spy novels. "A Coffin For Demetrious" is one of his earliest, best and saddest. He was a brilliant writer and many others,have shamelessly copied him. Thia is a well plotted add acted intrigue movie. Thanks for allowing me to discover it.
Evelyn Hayes was amazing plus she's so beautiful and adorable her hair looks so elegantly nice
A true forgotten star of the Golden Age of Hollywood!
Hitchcock may not have directed this film but his fingerprints are all over it and H Lom has become one of my favorite character actors A PETTY GOOD FICK and little known here in the far west TY
A real good B movie!
@@ClassicRobbEvelynKeyes Eric Ambler worked with Hitchcock.
Feels very similar to "The trouble with Harry" at the beginning, except, this was made 2 years earlier.
Thanks for sharing it! I always enjoy watching Great Old Movies though. 👍👌👏
An of course, I'm a subscriber!
Thanks Again Though.
Thanks and you are very welcome!
Thanks for showing this great old British film. It is based on a book by Geoffrey Household, and that's still a good read. Household is more famous for the novel and films of ROGUE MALE.
Nice post!
I love evelyn keys. She was a very smart woman. A surviver in a rough industry.
She sure was!!!
@@ClassicRobbEvelynKeyes survivor
She also seems to have been rather evil.
A really good one! Well how could you go wrong with the original story being written by Geoffrey Household, and the screen-play by Eric Ambler? Herbert Lom's role fitted him like glove. And I thought that Lex character was a dead ringer for Walter Benjamin.
Great post!
really good spy movie, thanks
It sure is!
An enjoyable spy romp thanks for posting.
You're welcome! A great B movie!
Great movie!
A wonderful B movie!
The colonel could use a refresher in gun safety (pointing and shooting a shotgun at someone who might possibly be a poacher). And, yes, Joel McCrea is a real favorite.
Joel McCrea is great!
Great stuff - enjoyed it immensely.
A great B movie!!!
I did wonder though at the very beginning that when our erstwhile American officer played by Joel McCrea fired his shot gun of buck shot - then 'examined' the body he should have realised straight away that he couldn't have killed anyone with buckshot! He would or should have seen the wound of the rifle bullet (his character) being an experienced army officer who probably also saw service in the war... but then we wouldn't have had a movie ha ha! Or I tell myself don't let these details get in the away of a good movie!
youtube should make some of these old movies with static running in and out every then make you think you need to run out turn the antenna a bit lol Thats how it was in the old days
Ha!
What a great story good balance action history and plot
A real good B movie!
Very strange. Hitchcock's "The trouble with Harry" was made in 1955, two years after this, but it has a very similar look and feel to this film's opening sequence. I
@@freemarketjoe9869 You're right!
Well I never Joel McCrea in a spy thriller set in Dorset. I enjoyed this film, Herbert Lom was quite the actor. 😃
Yes and yes!!!
Great movie
Classic B movie!
Who knew Commissioner Dreyfus was so good about disguises!!!
Ha!
Good Heavens, Miss Jane Marple is in it too. 1:14:?? by sight.
Always a B movie star but boy a class act Realtor
Yup!
Even the best of actors can't save a bad movie. Sigh. Moving on to another movie.
Great cast. Most people really like this B movie!
If you like Joel McCrea, check out "Interns can't take money" with Barbara Stanwick, an excellent film about a doctor and the underworld.
@@freemarketjoe9869 Thanks for the recommendation!
THE ATTACHE CASE HERE MUST HAVE INSPIRED THE ONE WE SAW IN ""From Russia with Love!!""
Yup!
Using buckshot on poachers. Guess they take that poaching pretty serious. Lol
Still hurts!!!
McCrea was right, if you are a certain distance which is NOT terribly far from your target, whether a man or a hunting dog either one, the buckshot will sting but not even leave a mark. I was horrified when my husband was using it on his hunting dog, a few hundred yards - or was it feet??? - away. But when I was soon next to the dog again and looked him over well, not a mark on him and he was just as sassy as ever. But when he was shot at from about that distance, he quickly began behaving again. It didn't change his happy frolicky mood one whit.
I remain shocked, over 45 yrs later.
A man wearing jacket and hat, in the brush, prolly wouldn't have even been terribly scared, though quick to leave the area in case the shooter immediately came at the man again with his FISTS, and a much more solid landing.
NOT to say getting shot at close range with a substantial Gauge shotgun wouldn't be ENTIRELY different.
Vanguard, chevy, Wolseley, Herbert lom, what more could you ask.
Great cast!
You can't cheat an honest man...but you can drag him kicking into international intrigues.
1:12:48...Best moment
Nice post!
Karel Stepanek best known in English-speaking cinema for his role as Admiral Lutjens in the film, Sink the Bismarck
Good catch!
(The "Lutyens" in the 'Bismarck' picture was a caricature Nazi fanatic, reportedly nothing like the real-life Admiral ).
@@None-zc5vg I know. . It was Lindemann who was the real-life Hitler-lover.
At 23.12, one can see (very briefly) on the right, the person who moved the bush ... LOL !
Funny!
Took a while to get to the cold war cloak & dagger stuff but this was a good one. 1949 Chevy right hand drive.Wouldn't that be a hoot to own? Thanks.
A great B movie!
Awesome
We think so!
I am an 81 gay man. I love Joels movies. He used to live with my other favorite actor Cary Grant. Those were the days.
The man, the myth, the legend: Cary Grant.
Pretty good film. A little different from the other Joel McCrea films. But is he an ACTOR! And Evelyn Keyes was suburb. Too bad her makeup artist wasn't up to scratch. Her face was a bit too shiny in some of those shots. She's the type that looks good with the minimum.
We agree!
Should be released on dvd or bluray
Yes!
Darling don't leave everything to Sandorski
Never!
Actually, it a 1953 movie.
Fixed it.
But why did he try to move the body after calling for an ambulance??
Crime scene was not established!
Bj,je ne comprends jamais rien aux films d’espionnage..dommage merci quand même
Translation: Bj, I never understand anything about spy movies.. too bad thanks anyway
A Western to me is based in the 1800's...as soon as I saw a Horseless Carriage it lost me.
Western?
What? What the hell are you talking about?!! It is a spy thrill er!
Who is Evelyn Keyes and was that filmed in ire land
Filmed in England -- the great Evelyn Keyes appeared in a small little independent movie called Gone With The Wind (1939) and her career took off soon after its release. Starring in six movies with Glenn Ford, she made a name for herself. Enjoy these movies from a forgotten star of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Il joue très bien dans le film ou il incarne Buffalo Bill !!
He plays very well in the film where he plays Buffalo Bill!!
His hair is too long for an American military man.
Definitely at the time.
Back when McCarthy was flying high
Yup.
Rate 6.1
Drama Thriller
10
Ofcourse! Telephone cells in the middle of nature!
lol I noticed that as well
Of course, Hollywood magic!
Maclean Burgess Philby Blake Bourke.
Spies!
@@ClassicRobbEvelynKeyes did you know that Philby was honored on a Russian Postage stamp?
@@ClassicRobbEvelynKeyes A poem just for you. POEM TITLE Codeword POEM BODY 'Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde' / Maclean Burgess Philby Blake Burke.
@@johngreen3543 A stamp to Julian Assange. Will we see?
THE A
The B
I didn't care for this film. McCrea's performance was lifeless, and it's too bad for Keyes because she did her best as the clever, supportive wife. Lom was terrific and turned a cartoon character into a believable, likeable character. There was a lot of running around that substituted for a solid plot. The Madame Tussaud's scene at the end was okay - but think how terrific it would have been well directed. Most viewers wouldn't know anything about Tussaud's anyway. = All in all and okay movie, but a lot of meaningless action filling time.
Good post! We agree!