Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of watching old movies all night at my friend's house when his parents were away. We both worked the fields for our parents. His family had the TV set so on a Saturday night we'd watch old movies till dusk I was 14 my friend was 15, his dad owned 160 acres that he farmed. Too bad we didn't have a couple of girlfriend's, but I'm afraid we wouldn't have watched too much TV if we had girls there! 😄
Ava Gardner was so beautiful and George Raft was so handsome. They just had to be together, but they certainly went through a lot to get there! Awesome story and top notch acting! Thanks!🌈🌈🌈
These black and white movies are way , way before my time, but George Raft is one of my favorite actors , next to James Cagney. RIP to both of these legends.
Nothing is like the old movies, and I don’t mind that they’re before my time, I wish more people on my generation gave old films a chance, they’re amazing. And Clark Gable and Frank Sinatra are my faves ❤️
just wake up out of coma?..lol...the greatest period in the history of Hollywood was the late 30s into the early 50's......and if you want to break it down even more...39-48...were when the majority of the greatest movies ever...were made!
I think se watch so many móviles, and al the books and información we hace aquierd oye brain computer Is slow, but safe yo get the información at the end...with latiendo and a feo tricks...;)
What A Cast!!! What a Story! OMG Ava Gardner looked so Young! I have time check because I would almost bet she was 15 3/4th! I am not good at age guesses so if I am very off it has nothing but her age at the time of the movie! Also an extra lesson about Miss Gardner's Career!!! George Raft was still Perfection in a twist of many films in career,but I wonder how many fans of other movie channels know that? Gorge Raft had a great Character Actor thing going,not sure how many films but it is great finding another! Thank you for movie PizzaFix
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George Raft was a class A actor in his early days in Hollywood. He turned down many major movies that he regretted in later years all those movies went to Humphrey Bogart that made him a big star.
@@omi_god There was no suggestion that Bogart didn't desrve his status. Raft turned down roles, which Bogart accepted. The rest is history. In " They drive by night ", Raft had star billing, with Bogart playing a minor role.
the old actresses and singers were fantastic, WITHOUT a soundboard OR showing a LOT of skin! today's singers are damn near nude and lip sync their way through. sad that real talent is gone!
Tom R Yes you're so right look how the world has changed and sorry to say it's much uglier then back in those days...I love watching these old movies good clean decent people with standards. Ava was stunning and the actresses of that day truly had talent and didn't have the props today's actors has.You were right...
@@davidhull1481 so why do you watch the old movies?!? or do you just scroll around to check out the posts about an old movie. So you'll have something to boo boo about?!!?
@@davidhull1481 David. I love the old movies for a few reasons. They don't rely on showing as much skin as possible, to distract the audience from the lack of talent. When especially the women sing, there is no lip syncing or kick ass sound board. That could make a pig squealing sound like a great opera singer and when they dance, with or w/o other dancers there are no bumps and grinds and again, they didn't rely on skin to captive the audience! I truly believe that if singers of today sang w/just a microphone tied to a couple of speakers, people would be SHOCKED at their inability to SING! Actors like Bogart and Carney, Birgman (sp?) and others played such a wide variety of parts and in every role the audience really believed that they were that person! From thug to priest and everything in between! Carney could also DANCE! When someone was shot or stabbed, even when the body was drug into another room, there was never a puddle or trail of blood. NEVER! Because the movie relied on the PLOT, the 'who done it' NOT Boland guts OR special effects David I could go on and on but I'm sure that you know what I am trying to get across. I just get fired up when someone posts what you did. I would give anything to hear Beyonce or Spears sing w/o a sound board!!! But of course neither would EVER DO THAT!! I'd also like to see ANY of today's actors and actresses do a true remake of...... Say the African Queen. Anyway David, NO INSULT INTENDED!!! Stay safe!
This movie is about an unemployed middle aged man who lives with his elderly parents. His mother gives him money which he spends on drinking and gambling nightly till dawn. This man is the HERO of the movie! The VILLAIN of this movie owns a popular night club and employes many people.
You are so right. I adore Ava, but if it wasn't for looking at her ( I am a straight woman, but appreciate beauty) , I whould have dismiss this film of losers. Dialogue is childish as well.
poor george raft,he turned down DEAD END 1937,because he said the character he was to play was too unsympathetic,he turned down THE MALTESE FALCON 1941,because he didnt want to work for a first time director john huston ,he turned down HIGH SIERRA 1941,because he didnt want to die at the end.and CASABLANCA 1943,giving the parts all to HUMPHRY BOGART,making him the biggest star in the movies.just think if raft would have accepted all these parts.he didnt make that many hits like bogie.bogart was at this time one of the top ten boxoffice stars.AVA GARDNER IS SOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!
George Raft died within a day of Mae West. Mae & George were good friends. George lived with Mae when he became very ill, he recovered. The irony, they were laying side by side in the morgue
Good thing that he did or these movies wouldn’t be the classics that they are. Raft was an actor that wanted to be a gangster and Benjamin Siegel was a gangster that wanted to be an actor.
if I were to rank the films of her's that I have enjoyed the most it goes 1 The Killers 2 Barefoot Countessa 3 One Touch of Venus 4 Eastside WestSide 5 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 6 The Sun also rises 7 Seven Days in May 8 Magambo 9 The Snows of Mt.Kilimanjaro 10 Showboat 11Whistle Stop 12 The Bribe
...yeah Ava Gardner comes across as younger, here in this film...she looks younger, face fuller, hair thicker and the way she uses her voice...I am gladdened to see Ava Gardner in this film with George Raft...wow!!!
KMSL-in the first scene, when asked what brought her back to her small hometown, Ava replies, "Money," meanwhile, she's wearing a mink coat that in 1946 could have paid her rent for YEARS in most places. It's like she's thinking, "I may starve to death, homeless and broke, BUT I shall die in my 'fabulous' mink coat!" Great sauce @PizzaFlix
fine cast here...with the beautiful Ava in her prime...and she was a pretty good actress...though always insecure as many were...but...she is one of those people who i am sure should never have been in the movies.....she hated!..making movies and became an alcoholic......she lived fast...but was most at ease....in her london apt....with just her dog and her secretary....
Mary is the girl desparate men dash themsleves to pieces against. The relationship will be brief but tempetuious and will leave in your heart an awful ache that will be there until your dying day. Fran is the girl you marry. She will love you, take care of you and raise the children you created together. Fran is loyal and loving and if you treat her well she will be there with you forever. But because of the ache all this will be never enough.
How long had the wheel been invented before we thought to apply it to the bottom of a suitcase. I ponder our historical application of "things". Love your channel.
Old Hollywood didn't want people to play different characters. They wanted actors to have a recognizable image and just changed the character name(sometimes). And movie goers wanted to see the star, not the character. We have actors like that today, mostly in the action movie genre. Raft played the aloof 'wooden' guy well. SPOILER: did a double take when Victor says he lost his nerve now that's a change of character!
Firstly PF , thanks as always. The film itself seemed an earlier style than 1946, I thought it was a late thirties movie until checking the release date. Maybe the print quality didn't help. Suppose that would have made Ava only about 18. George Raft .....Not great and way too old to be playing the rebel without a clue, not very likeable either in this to get the happy ending.Ava was class in her first real leading role, showing us why she became Hollywood royalty. Track down her autobiography, it's honest, modest and very funny.
because he was in the Mob, and a friend of Mob and political heavyweights. (as if there's a difference). Sadly, he ended his life as a hotel desk clerk.
Ava was a goddess and a damn good actress. No offense, but I never realized what a boring actor George Raft was however. It wasn't surprising that Cagney and Bogart eventually eclipsed him.
Yeah--George Raft was a boring actor to me--but I actually like cornball lines as part of the film noir experience--always cool cars and cool hats -we count on those--toss in Ava Gardner and it was worth the watch
Raft was a film star before Cagney and Bogart. He may not have been as good an actor, but he had that rare quality that you couldn't find on a supermarket shelf, viz, screen presence. The camera loved him, as did most women. His earlier roles were built around that, and the fact that he was a fine dancer helped. Raft appeared in films opposite both Cagney and Bogart, and did more than hold his own. I love the three of them in equal measures.
14:30- Jorja Curtwright {"Fran"} later became Mrs. Sidney Sheldon [the screenwriter/producer/director, famous for creating- and writing- "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW" and "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" (she appeared in one episode as a fraudulent fortune teller)]. They were married for 34 years, before her untimely death. As he told it in "The Other Side of Me", *"In 1985, my lovely Jorja died of a heart attack. It was un unbelievable loss, and there was an emptiness in my heart that I felt would never be filled."*
Tom Conway resembles his brother, George Sanders. My father knew J. Pat O'Malley. the character actor, who told him that Sanders only acted to finance his real passion, the study of chemistry.
Raft btw....was not thought very highly by anyone as an actor....he never read a script and the roles he turned down were unreal....why he got the star treatment is a guess...though some claim it was his mob connections....unlike Sinatra..Raft..really was a small step away from being a mob guy
Mack Gray who got bottom billing was reportedly lover with George Raft. Lucille Ball used to pal around with Mack. She had several photos of she and Mack in her house. She told me herself about he and Raft.
OK, this is my 1st time posting before I've watched the entire film. But the fact that old, 44/45 year old George Raft and drop-dead gorgeous 23/24 year old Ava Gardner are supposed to be in a romantic relationship is beyond ridiculous! Talk about Beauty and the Beast! Even the real life romance of old Humphrey Bogart and young Lauren Bacall is more believable. At least Bogie had a bit of charm and humor to him. Rant over. Lol!
After living for years in Chicago, Mary (Ava Gardner) travels back to the tiny hamlet where she grew up. There she reconnects with her old flame, the hapless Kenny (George Raft), and discovers that, in the years since they last met, he has developed a crippling gambling addiction. When debonair hotelier Lew (Tom Conway) takes an interest in Mary, she welcomes the successful man's advances -- only to find herself trapped between two jealous suitors who would kill for her.
Whew what a whirlwind with change-ups. No gore or swearing but an excellent mobster movie all the way. Couldn’t predict hardly anything. Excellent Saturday night flick.
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Thanks for sharing! Reminds me of watching old movies all night at my friend's house when his parents were away. We both worked the fields for our parents. His family had the TV set so on a Saturday night we'd watch old movies till dusk I was 14 my friend was 15, his dad owned 160 acres that he farmed. Too bad we didn't have a couple of girlfriend's, but I'm afraid we wouldn't have watched too much TV if we had girls there! 😄
Ava Gardner and George Raft were fantastic, magnetic and amazing.Thank you for sharing this classic oldie. The old films are simply the best !
RIP George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen and thanks for the memories
Ed
Excellent superbly crafted story. Great small town atmosphere, one of Raft's best performances and Ava! 10
Ava Gardner was so beautiful and George Raft was so handsome. They just had to be together, but they certainly went through a lot to get there! Awesome story and top notch acting! Thanks!🌈🌈🌈
I love Ava Gardner's eyes.
She was a GREAT actress. She made a script become LIFE.
Yes she was and Hollywood beautiful. Poor choice in men though! Mickey Rooney for god's sake!
only watched this movie t see Ava Gardner! She was magical.
Great choice to play the impeccable Mary Veech!
BTW, she killed it in "On The Beach" as well.
These black and white movies are way , way before my time, but George Raft is one of my favorite actors , next to James Cagney. RIP to both of these legends.
Nothing is like the old movies, and I don’t mind that they’re before my time, I wish more people on my generation gave old films a chance, they’re amazing. And Clark Gable and Frank Sinatra are my faves ❤️
George Raft had very distinctive eyes...
You've got great taste in actors 👍
Haha. Cagney really creeped me out 😱
They’re long, long, long before my time also, but they’re pretty much all I watch. After 1960 movies really started going downhill.
The lighting and sound in black and white is fascinating
I love black and whites. ESP on cold quiet weekends.....with someone close.....ur pet and of course snacks! Oh I love it!
Ava Gardner was such a beauty - tall, slim and gorgeous.
So many really good movies were made in the 40s.
May I ask your age?
Definitely
just wake up out of coma?..lol...the greatest period in the history of Hollywood was the late 30s into the early 50's......and if you want to break it down even more...39-48...were when the majority of the greatest movies ever...were made!
@@mauritiusdunfagel9473 not age..intelligence
and 30s
Ava Gardner was so pretty. This is a wonderful movie! Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed it immensely.
I never heard of this movie until today. I love Ava Gardner.
oh the lovely Ava Gardner and the dashing George Raft
Ava Gardner looking quite beautiful. Thanks for the flick.
My all time favorite actress, Ava Lavinia Gardner 😊
Really enjoyed this film! What an era for good film making.
About once a year I watch this movie. Fortunately with a fading memory it is like watching for the first time.
George Raft and Ava Gardner!
I think se watch so many móviles, and al the books and información we hace aquierd oye brain computer Is slow, but safe yo get the información at the end...with latiendo and a feo tricks...;)
You have plenty of company including me.
It got better as it went along. Glad I stuck with it.
Love these classic movies! So good to see Ava Gardner. George Raft is one of my favorite actors. Wonderful movie 🎥! I love this channel!
Now THAT'S a Film Noir climax. Ugh....so well done.
What a good movie! Ava Gardner was such beautiful woman 💕
What A Cast!!! What a Story! OMG Ava Gardner looked so Young! I have time check because I would almost bet she was 15 3/4th! I am not good at age guesses so if I am very off it has nothing but her age at the time of the movie! Also an extra lesson about Miss Gardner's Career!!! George Raft was still Perfection in a twist of many films in career,but I wonder how many fans of other movie channels know that? Gorge Raft had a great Character Actor thing going,not sure how many films but it is great finding another! Thank you for movie PizzaFix
She would have been 23 at the time of filming, it was her first lead role.
Another great one! Thanks!
Thanks, Pizza Flix. I love this book. Now I can see the movie adaptation as well. Much appreciated.
my Ava was sultry....just a wonderful actress
You always find and share the best films with the absolute best versions and perfect casting ! Thank you for sharing your talents w us! U are so appreciated and I hope u know that!
Beautiful voice.
Whose voice? Not Ava's!
@@nat4581 She has a soft seductive voice.
George raft!!!! Great movie once again phenomenal thank you so much for these movies
:) I love this film! Your uploads are always the best noirs! Thank you so very much for continuing to make my weekend binge watching on your channel a real pleasure! ✌🏼
VERY IMPLAUSIBLE CHARACTERS, PLOT AND STORY ! ANYTHING MAY BE POSSIBLE BUT THIS MOVIE REALLY STRETCHES IT !
There is no such thing as a terrible George Raft film... They are ALL a must watch. Even the ones I put off watching, still managed to wow me.
George Raft was a class A actor in his early days in Hollywood. He turned down many major movies that he regretted in later years all those movies went to Humphrey Bogart that made him a big star.
Dislike him in this role, the only one I've seen him in. Hate this Kenny Beech loser.
@@omi_god There was no suggestion that Bogart didn't desrve his status. Raft turned down roles, which Bogart accepted. The rest is history. In " They drive by night ", Raft had star billing, with Bogart playing a minor role.
"Reminds me of Prohibition": best line in the film.
I wasn't named after Ava Gardener, but sometimes I like to pretend that I was lol. What a legend.
I know that it's a movie, but I hope your choices of men are better than hers...Ava
Ronald Griffin trust meeee, same
Me too, but Nigel kinda suits me.
That's really cute what you said...Ms Ava Williams
😄, my favorite actress during the 50's, a little later in history, was Grace Kelley!
what a cast---and Victor Mclaglen too
THESE OLD CLASSICS ARE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR 👍🏽
the old actresses and singers were fantastic, WITHOUT a soundboard OR showing a LOT of skin! today's singers are damn near nude and lip sync their way through. sad that real talent is gone!
Tom R Yes you're so right look how the world has changed and sorry to say it's much uglier then back in those days...I love watching these old movies good clean decent people with standards. Ava was stunning and the actresses of that day truly had talent and didn't have the props today's actors has.You were right...
Tom R AMEN.
@@davidhull1481 so why do you watch the old movies?!? or do you just scroll around to check out the posts about an old movie. So you'll have something to boo boo about?!!?
@@davidhull1481 David. I love the old movies for a few reasons. They don't rely on showing as much skin as possible, to distract the audience from the lack of talent. When especially the women sing, there is no lip syncing or kick ass sound board. That could make a pig squealing sound like a great opera singer and when they dance, with or w/o other dancers there are no bumps and grinds and again, they didn't rely on skin to captive the audience! I truly believe that if singers of today sang w/just a microphone tied to a couple of speakers, people would be SHOCKED at their inability to SING!
Actors like Bogart and Carney, Birgman (sp?) and others played such a wide variety of parts and in every role the audience really believed that they were that person! From thug to priest and everything in between! Carney could also DANCE!
When someone was shot or stabbed, even when the body was drug into another room, there was never a puddle or trail of blood. NEVER! Because the movie relied on the PLOT, the 'who done it' NOT Boland guts OR special effects
David I could go on and on but I'm sure that you know what I am trying to get across. I just get fired up when someone posts what you did.
I would give anything to hear Beyonce or Spears sing w/o a sound board!!! But of course neither would EVER DO THAT!! I'd also like to see ANY of today's actors and actresses do a true remake of...... Say the African Queen.
Anyway David, NO INSULT INTENDED!!! Stay safe!
Hey guys one of the classic. Great stuff. HEY
I enjoyed this film. Thanks for Uploading
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Any movie from the 40’s that starts with a train 🥰
This movie is about an unemployed middle aged man who lives with his elderly parents. His mother gives him money which he spends on drinking and gambling nightly till dawn. This man is the HERO of the movie! The VILLAIN of this movie owns a popular night club and employes many people.
They are all narcissists !
You are so right. I adore Ava, but if it wasn't for looking at her ( I am a straight woman, but appreciate beauty) , I whould have dismiss this film of losers. Dialogue is childish as well.
1940s ideology of glamourizing poverty and alcoholism?
its not unknown in Europe to live with your parents until you marry. diff times too. he lived with his mom in Nocturne too.
@@iggybarrato9009 And smoking. Don't leave that out. Big tobacco and big alcohol had CLOUT.
Love George Raft!
poor george raft,he turned down DEAD END 1937,because he said the character he was to play was too unsympathetic,he turned down THE MALTESE FALCON 1941,because he didnt want to work for a first time director john huston ,he turned down HIGH SIERRA 1941,because he didnt want to die at the end.and CASABLANCA 1943,giving the parts all to HUMPHRY BOGART,making him the biggest star in the movies.just think if raft would have accepted all these parts.he didnt make that many hits like bogie.bogart was at this time one of the top ten boxoffice stars.AVA GARDNER IS SOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!
Bogie could act..Raft not so much!
Excellent movie , thank you so much.
thx for posting !! top notch greats in this one !
Ava G: Goddess.
I love this motion picture!
Many thx! 2 greats - Raft and Gardner . Gone with the wind - and what are we left with today- garbage nicoise.
George Raft died within a day of Mae West. Mae & George were good friends. George lived with Mae when he became very ill, he recovered. The irony, they were laying side by side in the morgue
The laughing clown is a trick which has been often used in different films noir !
Good thing that he did or these movies wouldn’t be the classics that they are. Raft was an actor that wanted to be a gangster and Benjamin Siegel was a gangster that wanted to be an actor.
Lol‼😂
my mother dance with george raft wgen sh was a young girl at the rainbow ball roon
you are so smart
@@cameliachihaia6502 I know and you’re not the first person to say it either.
Enjoyed this movie, thank you. Ava Gardner beautiful.
if I were to rank the films of her's that I have enjoyed the most it goes
1 The Killers
2 Barefoot Countessa
3 One Touch of Venus
4 Eastside WestSide
5 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
6 The Sun also rises
7 Seven Days in May
8 Magambo
9 The Snows of Mt.Kilimanjaro
10 Showboat
11Whistle Stop
12 The Bribe
@California Dreamin I give my love of old films to TCM's Noir Alley.
...yeah Ava Gardner comes across as younger, here in this film...she looks younger, face fuller, hair thicker and the way she uses her voice...I am gladdened to see Ava Gardner in this film with George Raft...wow!!!
You haven't seen Night of the Iguana, 63 with Richard Burton, her best performance, powerful movie
@@wilsonstone935 Oh No I have I forgot to list it. lol That film is between Barefoot Contessa and One Touch of Venus
@@wilsonstone935 My sentiments exactly Wilson!
KMSL-in the first scene, when asked what brought her back to her small hometown, Ava replies, "Money," meanwhile, she's wearing a mink coat that in 1946 could have paid her rent for YEARS in most places. It's like she's thinking, "I may starve to death, homeless and broke, BUT I shall die in my 'fabulous' mink coat!" Great sauce @PizzaFlix
My mom won a mink coat, worn by Barbara Stanwyck, in 1946 and sold it to help pay down a mortgage.
fine cast here...with the beautiful Ava in her prime...and she was a pretty good actress...though always insecure as many were...but...she is one of those people who i am sure should never have been in the movies.....she hated!..making movies and became an alcoholic......she lived fast...but was most at ease....in her london apt....with just her dog and her secretary....
Thanks Pizza!!!! Good flic!!
Brutal. But watched til the end.
Mary is the girl desparate men dash themsleves to pieces against. The relationship will be brief but tempetuious and will leave in your heart an awful ache that will be there until your dying day. Fran is the girl you marry. She will love you, take care of you and raise the children you created together. Fran is loyal and loving and if you treat her well she will be there with you forever. But because of the ache all this will be never enough.
Mary seems to be quite a sensible girl compared with the loser she came back to take a look at.
@@Earnshawfully facts
How long had the wheel been invented before we thought to apply it to the bottom of a suitcase. I ponder our historical application of "things". Love your channel.
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Longer than the disco ball I've seen in one of these older flicks and well before disco took over its use as "their" ball.😂
The Derby hat was made for guys like Victor McLaglen and James Gleason!
When she was at her most beautiful, IMO.❤
Ava is one classy dame! I am enamored of her innocent unpretentious charm!
This film led to Ava's breakout role to stardom in "The Killers".
Nice ending regardless. Ava was sure a looker in those days.
As beautiful as she was in this black and white movie, she was really gorgeous in Technicolor.
Howard Hughes was super hot for her 😂
Old Hollywood didn't want people to play different characters. They wanted actors to have a recognizable image and just changed the character name(sometimes). And movie goers wanted to see the star, not the character. We have actors like that today, mostly in the action movie genre. Raft played the aloof 'wooden' guy well. SPOILER: did a double take when Victor says he lost his nerve now that's a change of character!
Firstly PF , thanks as always. The film itself seemed an earlier style than 1946, I thought it was a late thirties movie until checking the release date. Maybe the print quality didn't help. Suppose that would have made Ava only about 18. George Raft .....Not great and way too old to be playing the rebel without a clue, not very likeable either in this to get the happy ending.Ava was class in her first real leading role, showing us why she became Hollywood royalty. Track down her autobiography, it's honest, modest and very funny.
I love you PizzaFlix!!
Big Victor played Maureen O'Hara's brother in The Quiet Man despite there being a 40 year age gap.
I cannot understand why two women should love a no-good barfly like Kenny rather than the dapper Lou.
@Anthony Hough Exactly, if emotions were logical you could compute love. (Un)fortunately they defy any logic.
because he was in the Mob, and a friend of Mob and political heavyweights. (as if there's a difference). Sadly, he ended his life as a hotel desk clerk.
That's why women are so hard to fathom.
@A Tangerine - in real life, he was a gangster no one dared to cross. That's how he made it in Hollywood.
@A Tangerine I
That explains it! Why I thought he reminded me of George Saunders
EXCELENTE.
Ava was a goddess and a damn good actress. No offense, but I never realized what a boring actor George Raft was however. It wasn't surprising that Cagney and Bogart eventually eclipsed him.
Yeah--George Raft was a boring actor to me--but I actually like cornball lines as part of the film noir experience--always cool cars and cool hats -we count on those--toss in Ava Gardner and it was worth the watch
He was stiff and wooden wasn't he. But he was in good movies.
you watch him though.
@@michaelwilliams1747 Loved him as "Spats" Columbo in "Some Like it Hot".
Raft was a film star before Cagney and Bogart. He may not have been as good an actor, but he had that rare quality that you couldn't find on a supermarket shelf, viz, screen presence. The camera loved him, as did most women. His earlier roles were built around that, and the fact that he was a fine dancer helped.
Raft appeared in films opposite both Cagney and Bogart, and did more than hold his own.
I love the three of them in equal measures.
If you get into an argument you want Florence Bates on your side!
14:30- Jorja Curtwright {"Fran"} later became Mrs. Sidney Sheldon [the screenwriter/producer/director, famous for creating- and writing- "THE PATTY DUKE SHOW" and "I DREAM OF JEANNIE" (she appeared in one episode as a fraudulent fortune teller)]. They were married for 34 years, before her untimely death. As he told it in "The Other Side of Me", *"In 1985, my lovely Jorja died of a heart attack. It was un unbelievable loss, and there was an emptiness in my heart that I felt would never be filled."*
2 min in .. he looks .. looks away .. looks back ..SHES GONE … how often that happen in peoples lifes
Good movie
Tom Conway resembles his brother, George Sanders. My father knew J. Pat O'Malley. the character actor, who told him that Sanders only acted to finance his real passion, the study of chemistry.
And George Sanders killed himself because he was bored. If that was me I’d have died a long time ago.
www this Is a good movie, thanks for sharing...: ) *
Raft btw....was not thought very highly by anyone as an actor....he never read a script and the roles he turned down were unreal....why he got the star treatment is a guess...though some claim it was his mob connections....unlike Sinatra..Raft..really was a small step away from being a mob guy
OMG whatta beautiful darling Ava was 💋💜 no wonder SINATRA was head over 👠👠heels for her , she had it all going on
RIP 🌹🙏🌹🕊️ Sinatra & Ava
Sure would have liked to have been Howard Hughes, but only for the time he was with Ava. She's my favorite actress of this period.
LedHed Steven 🎸 🎹 🎸
Mack Gray who got bottom billing was reportedly lover with George Raft. Lucille Ball used to pal around with Mack. She had several photos of she and Mack in her house. She told me herself about he and Raft.
First time seeing Ava Gardner. What a great film beautiful actress. Nice story. Was that Mike mazurki has the bartender? Thank you for the film
Ava!
Hey it turned out to be a really good movie! "Nothing like a noir movie folks".
Ava Gardner was a knock out. I like Raft, but it felt like the role should have been given to a younger man.
A really young Ava Gardner. 24. died 1990,
And George Raft 45, who died 1980 at 79, living on Soc Sec & a modest pension.
You know if it is bad at least the parts where Florence Bates shows up, i's going to be good. And of course Ave Gardner is easy on the eyes.
Florence Bates,Rebecca!
Love 40s fashion with shoulder pads for women.
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OK, this is my 1st time posting before I've watched the entire film. But the fact that old, 44/45 year old George Raft and drop-dead gorgeous 23/24 year old Ava Gardner are supposed to be in a romantic relationship is beyond ridiculous! Talk about Beauty and the Beast! Even the real life romance of old Humphrey Bogart and young Lauren Bacall is more believable. At least Bogie had a bit of charm and humor to him. Rant over. Lol!
In that time it was still good to dress and behave well
Men are such heels in these movies.
After living for years in Chicago, Mary (Ava Gardner) travels back to the tiny hamlet where she grew up. There she reconnects with her old flame, the hapless Kenny (George Raft), and discovers that, in the years since they last met, he has developed a crippling gambling addiction. When debonair hotelier Lew (Tom Conway) takes an interest in Mary, she welcomes the successful man's advances -- only to find herself trapped between two jealous suitors who would kill for her.
Not a bad George Raft flick, especially since it's an obscure flick from the immediate post war period. 👌☺️
If a woman like Ava said she loves me, I would reply I'm broke. Lol
not bad. Ava Gardner was as physically beautiful as a woman could be.
RITA RITA
Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth. Nothing compares to those beautiful ladies. Nothing.
Molly is the ol battleaxe Mrs, Van Hopper from 'Rebecca...this is the only other film i've ever seen her in.
Whew what a whirlwind with change-ups. No gore or swearing but an excellent mobster movie all the way. Couldn’t predict hardly anything. Excellent Saturday night flick.
Post "Shakedown" with Howard Duff if you can ! I have been looking for that film for a LONG time & can't seem to find it. Thx.