He runs non stop for 57 seconds...down a flight of stairs...crowded sidewalks...across busy streets filled with cars..O'Brien was a large man...captured the terror of the moment in his face as he left the doctor's office and in that madcap run!
That Captain at the desk at the very beginning is Roy Engle who later became President Grant in many of The Wild, Wild West TV episodes. The bartender is Frank Cady who later became a regular in the TV show Green Acres & Petticoat Junction. The jazz fan with the blonde woman is Hugh O'Brien (TV's Wyatt Earp, who also was the faro dealer who has a shootout with John Wayne at the end of "The Shootist"). Jazz band was quite hot and if they weren't really playing the tune they sure emulated it incredibly. Jerry Paris was one of the bellhops -- he was the producer & director of Happy Days, and was Dick Van Dyke's neighbor in his comedy show, and prior to that was Robert Stack's sidekick in The Untouchables. Pamela Britton (who plays Paula in this film) was famous for being the next door neighbor in My Favorite Martian. I love these old movies because many familiar faces pop up that show their careers were quite different from what they later became famous for.
Edmond o Brian was the Rodney Dangerfield of terrific actors. He got no respect. He played a character in the famous Western the wild bunch and against a list actors more than held his own. He has always been gorilla glue that holds the film together. Rip Edmond and thank you so much.
Running by O'Brien at 33 minutes is amazing...he goes full out for a half mile on busy city streets...most of the "extras" probably did not realize they were being filmed for a movie called DOA!
@@Retroscoop .....Why, all of a sudden, are these movies being called ''noir''? Never heard of this ''noir' term till recently! Sounds pretentious, to me!!
One of the best noirs of all times....Edmond O'Brien terrific and very efficient ! Flashbacks are extensively used in noirs...Also stark lighting technique and shadow play...solitude,depression,tense condition,cynicism,exclusion etc....
One of my favorite film noir movies. That goon named Chester just couldn't stop jamming guns in people's ribs or punching Bigelow in the stomach."Look at you, he can't take it, soft in the belly". Or when Chester was driving the car and he had this absolutely psychotic look in his eyes when he was telling Bigelow how he was going to shoot him. "That's how I want you to go Bigelow, nice and slow".
@Robert Gardea ....years ago, doctors did their blood themselves, tests in their offices . These days everything is delegated so that everyone can have a piece of the pie!
Filmed in San Francisco about 1950 before urban renewal struck the city. Many places are readily recognizable. The St. Francis Hotel; the Ferry Building. the Bay Bridge viewed from the Embarcadero. I noted one error. When he exits the St. Francis, he gets on the trolley and ends up uptown. Except when he gets on the Trolley going in that particular direction, the Trolley is actually headed toward Market Street. An interesting movie....
@@craigbrowning9448 I was born in Berkeley and spent the first 29 of my 81 years there. But when I went from San Francisco (aka "The City") to Berkeley I always drove Eastbound across the Bay Bridge. Just a hopefully polite correction!
I was 10 in 1950, and I remember that my parents and I always stopped at the St. Francis Hotel to get change for a few dollars, because the hotel always washed and polished all the coins they received before giving them out again in change. You don't get service like that in a hotel any more! (No, I don't believe they ironed and laminated their bills, so don't ask!)
I saw this many years ago & i happened upon it today,this movie is just as great as it was when i first saw it all those years ago withal those different & possible suspects popping out everywhere He turned! Movies were so much better back then except for the fact that there weren`t people of colour in leading roles.They truly had Him running in circles & I loved how Mr. Bigelow left that car when the "psychopath" was going to do him in (for sure & in the "belly" hehe) & the bus with the police right there,simply loved that,this "is" a good watch & gratitude for sharing "D.O.A. -Timeless Classic Movies!"
Yay! One of my personal top ten movies of all time! Who could ever forget those monumental words..,? ... Doctor: "But you don't seem to understand,Bigelow...you've been murdered!"...What a treasure! Thanks and one request,could you possible feature "The Petrified Forest" ( the original film starring an oh-so- young Bette Davis and Bogie)? Another timeless masterpiece! So glad I found your channel!
O'Brien played a cop who murdered a bagman early in the film....his portrayal of a cop sick of literally everyone and every thing is a classic acting job!
i finally got around to watching this just now. i loved it, yes the whistle was annoying as hell. it felt like a movie made in the 30's and its' not a crack either. a damn good movie that i watched cause of Beverly Garland she's miss foster in this and is credited under the name campbell and it was a damn good movie. thanks for uploading this for us to see and discover
The best psycho performance ever in a movie is in 'Maniac' 1934...where Don Maxwell gives his patient a shot of super adrenaline. Check it out. DOA is one of the greatest of the film noirs, however. Check out Bigelow when he's running through the streets, the passers by..that was all filmed without them knowing. Also, Chester was one of the best tough guts ever in a movie, no doubt.
Guessing there was some kind of homoerotic thing going on in Chester's mind. Maybe his sadism was a subconscious salve for his inner homoistic feelings.
in the deleted scenes the bartender in Banning is found to be an accomplice, but he learns the cops are onto him so he changes his name and moves to a small southern town named Hooterville. Awesome film here
THIS MOVIE IS JUST INCREDIBLE...IT IS TRULY A FILM-NOIR MASTER PIECE...THEY SAY LOS ANGELES IS THE CITY OF INSPIRATION FOR FILM-NOIR ...BUT DO NOT FORGET THE MYSTERIOUS FOG OF SAN FRANCISCO...THIS MOVIE CATCHES THE SPIRIT OF LATE 40'S EARLY 50'S SAN FRANCISCO THE JAZZ JUST ROCKS AND IT DID THEN...THE FILMORE DISTRICT HOSTED ALL THE GIANTS OF JAZZ!!! JUST LIKE THE MALTESE FALCON DOES WHICH IS ALSO SET IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!! SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES ARE THE CITIES OF INSIRATION FOR FILM-NOIR!!
Long Time / No See…. as one of my many FAV “Who Dunnits” in general, and definitely a solid dose of REAL American Film Noir in particular!! Fabulous Edmond O'Brien in his always-welcome roles of nervous stress laced thru a pinch of “ennui”. THX for the upload Timeless Classic!! But Geeeeeze, forever clinging ol Paula is one frickin Train Wreck 'chick' (EH), who’d last about 5 Minutes in MY presence!! Marriage? = NOT :-)
I can say a lot like: luv the film sound like a classic old record,/ the jazz band they do not play like th@ no more. the luv th@ Paula had for her man. I don't care wh@ they say this was a Oscar. picture, sound, script, a few caricatures, any way's one HELL of a thriller, most of all suspense.
Richard A.: "So Sheldon calls us to muster stations, shouting 'I mean now!'." Gibby C.: "Muster stations must have meant wherever we were, already, as we waited to drop the sails." Richard A.: "By now the guests were starting to panic." Todd N.: "Told we had to drop the sails while underway, Sheldon gives the command & we let ' em go." Richard A.: "It was the sound & the fury, whipping & rattling sails, & of course, probably wondering what they had gotten themselves into, the screams of some of the guests." Gibby C.: "The sails spilled over the decks & into the harbor, while the main came down over the cockpit, burying Sheldon who had to fight his way out from underneath it." Todd N.: "Abandoning the helm on his way to the bow shouting: 'Who's got the jib! Who's got the jib!" Richard A.: "The jib didn't come completely down, & was steering us as it billowed out of control toward disaster with a resulting lee helm, it's sheets whipping across the decks like a snake." Gibby C.: "The deck quaked beneath Sheldon as he ran to the forepeak. I've never seen a 250 pound man defend into a hole like a jack rabbit as fast as Sheldon did. And then he hops up like a jack rabbit just as fast from the forepeak with the anchor in his arm & it's chain coiled around his shoulder." Richard A.: "All eyes were on Sheldon, now." Gibby C.: "He gets down on his knees & cleats the anchor chain to the windlass, figure- eighting it, figure- eighting, figuer- eighting, figure- eighting, figure- eighting, then, off the wrong side of the boat...". Richard A.: "Meaning the chain was going to drag beneath the keel...". Gibby C.: "He throws the anchor: kurplunk, the anchor. Then KERPLUNK, Sheldon, the anchor chain tangled around his shoulder." Todd N.: "The boat suddenly spun around, her transom barely missing another boat in the boathouse." Richard A.: "That was Sheldon, reaching the bottom, becoming One with the anchor." Todd N.: "He disappeared over there, off the starboard bow. He then reappeared over there, about 30 feet behind the port quarters, with a sheepish look on his face." Richard A.: "Keel- hauled by the anchor chain." Gibby C.: "So we were stuck there...". Richard A.: "Here, wading in water over the floorboards, wondering how to get back to the slip without an engine." Gibby C.: "at anchor in the harbor, the sails still unfurled with the main fluttering in the wind, letting off the occasional WHOMP! Just flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, WHOMP! Flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, WHOMP! Flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, WHOMP!
"I'd like to report a murder." Bigelow exclaims, when actually there were TWO: his own and Halliday's. After all, he gunned down Halliday in cold blood. I'd love to see this play out in court - both being convicted of murder in absentia because they are both dead.
The opening music is DRAMATIC but it really "pumps up" at 1:25 where it is replete with outrageously high violins and rolling drums. Music makes Bigelow's death walk seem more fatalistic. The way O'Brien "pounds the pavement " is waaaay dramatic, in fact, the entire movie is dramatic with a capital 'D'. Don't get me wrong, I love this movie but I have always thought it is.... dramatic, lol. I read a book about film noir that stated O'Brien was the only actor whose hair could "act" in that his hair "moved" especially in scenes where his character had to exert himself. The musicians at "The Fisherman " club were playing so fast I could barely keep up with the music what with the absurdly fast drumming and bass playing. Those guys were "playing" !!! When I first watched this as a little girl the tube of illuminated poison scared the mess out of me and my sister! Doctor "...you've been murdered. " Fantastic line. O'Brien did some serious running when he "left the doctor's office" and we get some more of that dramatic music where after he catches his breath (after all that running) he "walks" to the club where he had been the night before. Hard to tell which is more powerful the opening scene or this scene. And Neville Brand is outstanding as the psychotic henchman who loves to "give it to you in the belly " "...and baby makes three." Brand was pretty good when young, his "Duke" helped make "Stalog 17" (sp) the classic it is because he gave Holden's character the blues. The scene where Holden's character is attacked by the other prisoners you know Duke hit Holden the hardest. Great movie!!!
A good, well-acted fast-paced movie. But I could have done without those silly sound effects every time Bigelow saw an attractive woman. And is it me, or were those doctors who told Bigelow that he was dying some pretty cold cookies?
It all adds up to lay a flavor of the 40's to the film..The juxtaposition of his thinking he has a "safe" little average life in contrast to the unbelievable chaos and insanity and fate and he is unwillingly and innocently thrust into.It serves to bring about a groundwork in his character where he changes from somewhat of a "wolf" into a man who realizes in Paula what is truly valuable since his minutes are numbered.
Maybe this dates me, but those are called "wolf whistles," but usually not done with a slide whistle, but the normal way. And of course in 1950 sexism was accepted. How far we have come.
I always liked this movie. “Paula” is Pamela Britton, who played the landlady on “My Favorite Martian”. The bartender also played Sam Drucker on “Green Acres”.
When O'Brien's character is catting around at the St. Francis, and that Piccolo Pete starts up -- at first I thought it was irritating; the more I view this movie, the more I think it's pretty damn funny
Oh Frank! Oh Paula! I love you Frank! I love YOU Paula! Oh darling darling, I love you so very very...very very much!! So original. What genius came up that? 🙄 Now can I have my two minutes back?? 🤨
He makes that guy wait a week to get his loan then he doesn't come back from San Francisco pick that part up fascinating there's a Phillips Street in Kokomo Indiana and a Reynolds Street Foster Street
I saw this, as a child, many years ago, in the early 60s, maybe about the time that Kennedy was elected. My parents weren't home, and I must have been driving my big brothers and sister's crazy. They all seemed so big, I couldn't fathom a time that they would all be gone. The party scene, reminds me of the parties our parents used to give. One time, a lawyer my father worked with, was pushed off our front porch, by his wife. It broke his collar bone. We were supposed to be sleeping, but what with the music, the laughing, talking, there was no way for a 4 year old to sleep. They all worked for FNMA, or Fanny May, as they called it. It was actually a federal agency, called Federal National Mortgage Association. I knew one thing, I never wanted my future husband to act the way these men behaved. My husband was always home, for supper. We gave quiet parties, with other families, the children in their pajamas. If there was drinking, I made sure clean sheets were on the beds, and the sofa bed was ready. All the children loved it.
You can knock me down spit in my face sully my name all over the place . do anything that you want to do but uh uh baby lay off of my shoes and dont you step on my blue suede shoes. Well u can do anything except step on my blue suede shoes. No wonder Chester was pissed off at bigelow.
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Watching a guy walk down miles of bureaucratic hallways was a pretty sad opening scene ;). lol
Sorry, it's not in 1950, but 1949.
One of the Best Noir. Superb Acting EDMOND O'BRIEN.
He runs non stop for 57 seconds...down a flight of stairs...crowded sidewalks...across busy streets filled with cars..O'Brien was a large man...captured the terror of the moment in his face as he left the doctor's office and in that madcap run!
That Captain at the desk at the very beginning is Roy Engle who later became President Grant in many of The Wild, Wild West TV episodes. The bartender is Frank Cady who later became a regular in the TV show Green Acres & Petticoat Junction. The jazz fan with the blonde woman is Hugh O'Brien (TV's Wyatt Earp, who also was the faro dealer who has a shootout with John Wayne at the end of "The Shootist"). Jazz band was quite hot and if they weren't really playing the tune they sure emulated it incredibly. Jerry Paris was one of the bellhops -- he was the producer & director of Happy Days, and was Dick Van Dyke's neighbor in his comedy show, and prior to that was Robert Stack's sidekick in The Untouchables. Pamela Britton (who plays Paula in this film) was famous for being the next door neighbor in My Favorite Martian. I love these old movies because many familiar faces pop up that show their careers were quite different from what they later became famous for.
Interesting info.
Eddy the bartender is Mr. Drucker in Green Acres.
Also Beverly Campbell (Garland) who played Steve Douglas'new wife on My Three Sons.
Cady is in "Asphalt Jungle." In an early scene, he has to identify Sterling Hayden in a police lineup, but backs down for obvious reasons.
@@scottgoodman4776 I noticed that, a much younger Sam Drucker.
This and his role in Another Part of the Forest are my 2 favorites of Mr. O'Brien's. Thanks for posting!
One of my all-time favorites! I have the dvd and thank you for uploading this for all to enjoy ❤️
THAT is the pinnacle of how you open and close a good movie.
D.O.A. Definitely one of the finest movies ever made!
watching this for a film noir class, thank you for making the film free and accessible!
Edmond o Brian was the Rodney Dangerfield of terrific actors. He got no respect. He played a character in the famous Western the wild bunch and against a list actors more than held his own. He has always been gorilla glue that holds the film together. Rip Edmond and thank you so much.
This is a great film. Edmond O'Brien is a favorite of mine and is superb in this.
Running by O'Brien at 33 minutes is amazing...he goes full out for a half mile on busy city streets...most of the "extras" probably did not realize they were being filmed for a movie called DOA!
Probably one of the greatest thrillers in history.
What a gem of a movie...thank you so much for the upload.
I'd give D.O.A. 5 stars. Top film noir.
Not every B & W crime movie is 'Noir", this one isn't.
Are you for Real?
@@Retroscoop .....Why, all of a sudden, are these movies being called ''noir''? Never heard of this ''noir' term till recently! Sounds pretentious, to me!!
One of the best noirs of all times....Edmond O'Brien terrific and very efficient ! Flashbacks are extensively used in noirs...Also stark lighting technique and shadow play...solitude,depression,tense condition,cynicism,exclusion etc....
One of my favorite film noir movies. That goon named Chester just couldn't stop jamming guns in people's ribs or punching Bigelow in the stomach."Look at you, he can't take it, soft in the belly".
Or when Chester was driving the car and he had this absolutely psychotic look in his eyes when he was telling Bigelow how he was going to shoot him. "That's how I want you to go Bigelow, nice and slow".
@Brian Salomon Neville Brand also starred with Lee Van Cleef in Kansas City Confidential
He reminded me of Richard Widmark in 'Kiss of Death'. Fact, he was one maniacal laugh away from Tommy Udo.
Violent, tense, and full of mystery!
I loved it!
All the women from this era are so wholesome...a pleasure to watch!
this guy uncovered more stuff in 2 days than the cops wouldve in 3months
Bigelow had a huge incentive----his death in so many hours.
Oh my goodness!!!
You said it, lol
Emphasis on "more. "
@Robert Gardea ....years ago, doctors did their blood themselves, tests in their offices .
These days everything is delegated so that everyone can have a piece of the pie!
104:40 is the single best psycho performance ever done. Usually, I prefer more subtlety but that is just perfect.
1:04:40
@Robert Gardea, There was a remake during the 80's!!
Filmed in San Francisco about 1950 before urban renewal struck the city. Many places are readily recognizable. The St. Francis Hotel; the Ferry Building. the Bay Bridge viewed from the Embarcadero. I noted one error. When he exits the St. Francis, he gets on the trolley and ends up uptown. Except when he gets on the Trolley going in that particular direction, the Trolley is actually headed toward Market Street. An interesting movie....
Like in The Graduate when Dustin Hoffman drives Westbound on the Bay Bridge to get to Berkeley.
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^^^@Steven Torrey .. Also the Bradbury Building in Down Town LA Refurbished, and used in the Movie Blade Runner quite a few year's later .. .
@@craigbrowning9448 I was born in Berkeley and spent the first 29 of my 81 years there. But when I went from San Francisco (aka "The City") to Berkeley I always drove Eastbound across the Bay Bridge. Just a hopefully polite correction!
I was 10 in 1950, and I remember that my parents and I always stopped at the St. Francis Hotel to get change for a few dollars, because the hotel always washed and polished all the coins they received before giving them out again in change. You don't get service like that in a hotel any more! (No, I don't believe they ironed and laminated their bills, so don't ask!)
A dame with a past and a hero with no future
I saw this many years ago & i happened upon it today,this movie is just as great as it was when i first saw it all those years ago withal those different & possible suspects popping out everywhere He turned! Movies were so much better back then except for the fact that there weren`t people of colour in leading roles.They truly had Him running in circles & I loved how Mr. Bigelow left that car when the "psychopath" was going to do him in (for sure & in the "belly" hehe) & the bus with the police right there,simply loved that,this "is" a good watch & gratitude for sharing "D.O.A. -Timeless Classic Movies!"
Yay! One of my personal top ten movies of all time! Who could ever forget those monumental words..,? ... Doctor: "But you don't seem to understand,Bigelow...you've been murdered!"...What a treasure! Thanks and one request,could you possible feature "The Petrified Forest" ( the original film starring an oh-so- young Bette Davis and Bogie)? Another timeless masterpiece! So glad I found your channel!
O'Brien played a cop who murdered a bagman early in the film....his portrayal of a cop sick of literally everyone and every thing is a classic acting job!
i have always considered this one of my very favorite films......near perfection......
And 1 of O'Brien's best performances.
That "I'm gonna give it to you nice and slow, Bigelow" routine has been parodied many times, even on The Flintstones.
But Fred got really humiliated by that stick up guy. Wilma complained to Betty about him not getting any more erocktions.
Great flick! Most Hollywood films are D.O.A.
Chaleco Salvavides Please rate this classic noir on IMDb here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0042369/combined
Definitely a "B" movie, but one of the great ones.
Oh man! That Chester character is something else. I want to punch my screen when he is a scene.
Nevel Brand plays this psycho brilliantly-----interesting in real life he was the third most decorated soldier of WW2 .
Paul Beard
Brand was AWESOME in this movie!!!
Thank you for your service, Mr Brand.
Third most decorated soldier WW2...impressive!!!
go ahead zee pee . Punch your own wretched mug.
What a band really can pound it out
There is a kafkaesque quality to this movie. Like Kafka's "The Trial".
Very good movie. Thank you for uploading.
Wonderful! Well done.
i finally got around to watching this just now. i loved it, yes the whistle was annoying as hell. it felt like a movie made in the 30's and its' not a crack either. a damn good movie that i watched cause of Beverly Garland she's miss foster in this and is credited under the name campbell and it was a damn good movie. thanks for uploading this for us to see and discover
I didn't even realize it was Beverly until I read the Wikipedia synopsis.
@@jeffeastwood15 I didn't realize it either. She looks very different here than in later years.
One of my all-time favorites!
The best psycho performance ever in a movie is in 'Maniac' 1934...where Don Maxwell gives his patient a shot of super adrenaline. Check it out. DOA is one of the greatest of the film noirs, however. Check out Bigelow when he's running through the streets, the passers by..that was all filmed without them knowing. Also, Chester was one of the best tough guts ever in a movie, no doubt.
1950...men lives at the edge...women held on for dear life!
Love the open, but I was waiting for him to walk into a phone booth and disappear.
Real SMART aleck eh ? The chief wants to see you immediately and under the cone of Silence
One of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Really campy, but fun.
Weird is Chesters obession with Bigelows belly
lol
Note the music that is played EVERYTIME Chester hits Bigelow in the belly... I feel queasy just watching.
Chester was great lol
Guessing there was some kind of homoerotic thing going on in Chester's mind. Maybe his sadism was a subconscious salve for his inner homoistic feelings.
in the deleted scenes the bartender in Banning is found to be an accomplice, but he learns the cops are onto him so he changes his name and moves to a small southern town named Hooterville. Awesome film here
Those scenes must have been deleted before the movie was released, because Wikipedia says the film is 84 minutes long, as it is here.
"You know ... you really frighten me." 🤣
THIS MOVIE IS JUST INCREDIBLE...IT IS TRULY A FILM-NOIR MASTER PIECE...THEY SAY LOS ANGELES IS THE CITY OF INSPIRATION FOR FILM-NOIR ...BUT DO NOT FORGET THE MYSTERIOUS FOG OF SAN FRANCISCO...THIS MOVIE CATCHES THE SPIRIT OF LATE 40'S EARLY 50'S SAN FRANCISCO THE JAZZ JUST ROCKS AND IT DID THEN...THE FILMORE DISTRICT HOSTED ALL THE GIANTS OF JAZZ!!! JUST LIKE THE MALTESE FALCON DOES WHICH IS ALSO SET IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!! SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES ARE THE CITIES OF INSIRATION FOR FILM-NOIR!!
This is actually a very good movie! Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
get out before I throw you out, you know you really frighten me, classic
Long Time / No See…. as one of my many FAV “Who Dunnits” in general, and definitely a solid dose of REAL American Film Noir in particular!! Fabulous Edmond O'Brien in his always-welcome roles of nervous stress laced thru a pinch of “ennui”. THX for the upload Timeless Classic!! But Geeeeeze, forever clinging ol Paula is one frickin Train Wreck 'chick' (EH), who’d last about 5 Minutes in MY presence!! Marriage? = NOT :-)
I can say a lot like: luv the film sound like a classic old record,/ the jazz band they do not play like th@ no more. the luv th@ Paula had for her man.
I don't care wh@ they say this was a Oscar.
picture, sound, script, a few caricatures, any way's one HELL of a thriller, most of all suspense.
Richard A.: "So Sheldon calls us to muster stations, shouting 'I mean now!'."
Gibby C.: "Muster stations must have meant wherever we were, already, as we waited to drop the sails."
Richard A.: "By now the guests were starting to panic."
Todd N.: "Told we had to drop the sails while underway, Sheldon gives the command & we let ' em go."
Richard A.: "It was the sound & the fury, whipping & rattling sails, & of course, probably wondering what they had gotten themselves into, the screams of some of the guests."
Gibby C.: "The sails spilled over the decks & into the harbor, while the main came down over the cockpit, burying Sheldon who had to fight his way out from underneath it."
Todd N.: "Abandoning the helm on his way to the bow shouting: 'Who's got the jib! Who's got the jib!"
Richard A.: "The jib didn't come completely down, & was steering us as it billowed out of control toward disaster with a resulting lee helm, it's sheets whipping across the decks like a snake."
Gibby C.: "The deck quaked beneath Sheldon as he ran to the forepeak. I've never seen a 250 pound man defend into a hole like a jack rabbit as fast as Sheldon did. And then he hops up like a jack rabbit just as fast from the forepeak with the anchor in his arm & it's chain coiled around his shoulder."
Richard A.: "All eyes were on Sheldon, now."
Gibby C.: "He gets down on his knees & cleats the anchor chain to the windlass, figure- eighting it, figure- eighting, figuer- eighting, figure- eighting, figure- eighting, then, off the wrong side of the boat...".
Richard A.: "Meaning the chain was going to drag beneath the keel...".
Gibby C.: "He throws the anchor: kurplunk, the anchor. Then KERPLUNK, Sheldon, the anchor chain tangled around his shoulder."
Todd N.: "The boat suddenly spun around, her transom barely missing another boat in the boathouse."
Richard A.: "That was Sheldon, reaching the bottom, becoming One with the anchor."
Todd N.: "He disappeared over there, off the starboard bow. He then reappeared over there, about 30 feet behind the port quarters, with a sheepish look on his face."
Richard A.: "Keel- hauled by the anchor chain."
Gibby C.: "So we were stuck there...".
Richard A.: "Here, wading in water over the floorboards, wondering how to get back to the slip without an engine."
Gibby C.: "at anchor in the harbor, the sails still unfurled with the main fluttering in the wind, letting off the occasional WHOMP! Just flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, WHOMP! Flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, WHOMP! Flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter, WHOMP!
you didn't have to keep reading the description, man...i mean, kudos for actually reading. people don't do it enough anymore.
I love the kiss in the bar, while sitting at table. Tender!
Damn good movie! Thanks TCM!
"I'd like to report a murder." Bigelow exclaims, when actually there were TWO: his own and Halliday's. After all, he gunned down Halliday in cold blood.
I'd love to see this play out in court - both being convicted of murder in absentia because they are both dead.
He's really kind of reporting three murders: Phillips' as well. So really when you think about it, the score's Halliday - 2, Bigelow - 1
Halliday was after him----Bigelow was defending himself, clearly .
Halliday was justly executed.
More accurately "posthumously," but "in absentia" will do!
Inside the restored Bradbury Building. Downtown Los Angeles California.
I’m obsessed with this movie!
Wow! Great movie!
I'M DYING!!! Better put on a suit and tie.
What better time? Then they can just bury you in the sane one.
@52:00 Phillip Pine as "Angelo", the apprentice ! Pine was in a Twilight Zone episode..a fine character actor....
Do you know who that very short guy who accompanies Chester he's uncredited?
Richard A.: "In a way Sheldon redeemed himself that night. A lesser captain would have crashed the boat."
Great movie. Don't waste time with the re-make.
Good one. Thanks!
Soon, I'll be home soon...in a box.
I have a feeling that S. Lumet, in The Pawnbroker, paid tribute to Maté's tracking shot of O' Brien running like mad in the streets of Frisco.
Very physical role for the 35 yr old O'Brien. Lots of running and jumping.
fast paced. Interesting.
Now this is film noir !great flick
The opening music is DRAMATIC but it really "pumps up" at 1:25 where it is replete with outrageously high violins and rolling drums.
Music makes Bigelow's death walk seem more fatalistic.
The way O'Brien "pounds the pavement " is waaaay dramatic, in fact, the entire movie is dramatic with a capital 'D'.
Don't get me wrong, I love this movie but I have always thought it is.... dramatic, lol.
I read a book about film noir that stated O'Brien was the only actor whose hair could "act" in that his hair "moved" especially in scenes where his character had to exert himself.
The musicians at "The Fisherman " club were playing so fast I could barely keep up with the music what with the absurdly fast drumming and bass playing. Those guys were "playing" !!!
When I first watched this as a little girl the tube of illuminated poison scared the mess out of me and my sister!
Doctor "...you've been murdered. " Fantastic line.
O'Brien did some serious running when he "left the doctor's office" and we get some more of that dramatic music where after he catches his breath (after all that running) he "walks" to the club where he had been the night before. Hard to tell which is more powerful the opening scene or this scene.
And Neville Brand is outstanding as the psychotic henchman who loves to "give it to you in the belly "
"...and baby makes three."
Brand was pretty good when young, his "Duke" helped make
"Stalog 17" (sp) the classic it is because he gave Holden's character the blues. The scene where Holden's character is attacked by the other prisoners you know Duke hit Holden the hardest.
Great movie!!!
Lobby of Bradbury building also seen in Blade Runner Inside the restored Bradbury Building. Downtown Los Angeles California.
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Marvelous Motion Picture!
What a great movie...
Pamela Britton and Beverly Campbell (Garland) were two of the rare women who got better looking as they got older. Like Doris Day.
I didn't even realize that was Beverly Garland. Had to search it to make sure. She looks much different here than in later years.
Really good movie but at least he stayed alive reveal the real killers
of course, the numerous remakes were pale by comparison, mostly because they deviated from the film noir concept.
A good, well-acted fast-paced movie. But I could have done without those silly sound effects every time Bigelow saw an attractive woman. And is it me, or were those doctors who told Bigelow that he was dying some pretty cold cookies?
The slide whistle sounds were *very* bizarre.
I'm just watching this now, and I hate that sound effect! I wish they hadn't done that!
It all adds up to lay a flavor of the 40's to the film..The juxtaposition of his thinking he has a "safe" little average life in contrast to the unbelievable chaos and insanity and fate and he is unwillingly and innocently thrust into.It serves to bring about a groundwork in his character where he changes from somewhat of a "wolf" into a man who realizes in Paula what is truly valuable since his minutes are numbered.
Yeah cold as am Eskimo Pie
Maybe this dates me, but those are called "wolf whistles," but usually not done with a slide whistle, but the normal way. And of course in 1950 sexism was accepted. How far we have come.
I always liked this movie. “Paula” is Pamela Britton, who played the landlady on “My Favorite Martian”. The bartender also played Sam Drucker on “Green Acres”.
Neville Brand classic line, soft in the belly, don’t like it in the belly do ya. His face as he’s driving looks like the joker with no makeup.
When O'Brien's character is catting around at the St. Francis, and that Piccolo Pete starts up -- at first I thought it was irritating; the more I view this movie, the more I think it's pretty damn funny
A very moveing action packed story well acted thank y9u ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love the cat calls whenever a woman walks by at the hotel lobby.
My favourite film noir.......❤❤❤
I had a toxic luminous bowel movement once. I pulled through but the toilet died
Oh Frank! Oh Paula! I love you Frank! I love YOU Paula! Oh darling darling, I love you so very very...very very much!! So original. What genius came up that? 🙄 Now can I have my two minutes back?? 🤨
He makes that guy wait a week to get his loan then he doesn't come back from San Francisco pick that part up fascinating there's a Phillips Street in Kokomo Indiana and a Reynolds Street Foster Street
Somehow it seems like everyone's on acid.
On the edge of your seat thriller! Thank you for Sharing I will be passing this one on...
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I saw this, as a child, many years ago, in the early 60s, maybe about the time that Kennedy was elected. My parents weren't home, and I must have been driving my big brothers and sister's crazy. They all seemed so big, I couldn't fathom a time that they would all be gone. The party scene, reminds me of the parties our parents used to give. One time, a lawyer my father worked with, was pushed off our front porch, by his wife. It broke his collar bone. We were supposed to be sleeping, but what with the music, the laughing, talking, there was no way for a 4 year old to sleep. They all worked for FNMA, or Fanny May, as they called it. It was actually a federal agency, called Federal National Mortgage Association. I knew one thing, I never wanted my future husband to act the way these men behaved. My husband was always home, for supper. We gave quiet parties, with other families, the children in their pajamas. If there was drinking, I made sure clean sheets were on the beds, and the sofa bed was ready. All the children loved it.
What a story !! TYTY from Canada
He doesn't take his 🍯 with him I would take her in my pocket beautiful gal but karma got him
Paula...a big help!
I just muted this video and watched it's intro with to the theme of Get Smart
Cone of Silence
Jive crazy don’t see many of those these days
Great movie from the past. BUTT maybe he should have been keeping his eye on the glASS of liquor.
Chester had some really nice shoes. If those are blue suede then that's one more reason for him to hate Bigelow.
You can knock me down spit in my face sully my name all over the place . do anything that you want to do but uh uh baby lay off of my shoes and dont you step on my blue suede shoes. Well u can do anything except step on my blue suede shoes. No wonder Chester was pissed off at bigelow.
Shootout in the LA drugstore at 1:08 is authentic!
It hurts my head just watching it
I love this film.💕
I love this movie.
Memories of SF and cable cars, 1968.
I wish this was uploaded in a higher resolution - a "B" movie for sure with some real corn, but one of the all time classic "noirs" without a doubt!
There's at least 1 other copy on YT that is a much better print.
THIS IS THE FIRST D.O.A. MOVIE.THERE ARE TWO MORE. ONE WITH TOM TRYONE AND ANOTHER WITH DENNIS QUAID.
The actor playing the heavy Chester was the pre-incarnation of Gary Busey!