Very good resolution and i liked the unusual music also- poss novelty is probable. Agree the comic photographer i wouldn't miss. It,s free and easy to watch, so thank you for providing this interesting film!
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
Scripts were better back then. However, what I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023. That's why I preparer films nowadays.
honestly it sounds like i'm at a horse show which i grew up going ot while watching it and listing to strange soundtrack they for some reason decided upon
At 5:37 the photographer looks at information board and mentions Sid Melton is wanted for murder. This is an inside joke. The photographer was played by comic Sid Melton.
Highlights of this film: 1. The all pervasive, tacky organ music! 2. The stream of comic photographer gags! 3. The 'accomplished' surrealistic artwork adorning the Bohemian artist studio!
Prints on the gun!!! The mayor was killed with a PHONE (something not likely to happen these days. It used to be a person could be killed with just a phone's receiver. Phones were very heavy). The choice of music for this film was very odd.
I saw a film-noir recently where a woman was under attack from someone in her house and tried to call for help but the intruder intercepted the effort so she clocked him with the phone and killed him. I don't recall if the DA reversed the charges ...
The original negative containing the theatrical release music has been lost. All that survives is the television negative, which has the so-called "music" most people object to. Film decomposes, so we made the movie available in the only format available to us. The only other option would have been to never show the movie again and just let it decompose.
When the guy falls through the window after being shot, you can still see him lying there just below the window frame. That's 55 minutes I'll never get back
The actual plot of the movie was good.. but the inane organ music and the ‘comical’ photographer (Sid Melton) made this film unwatchable. This must have had a very low budget such that they couldn’t use typical noir background music in the movie. The organ music reminded me of an early silent movie being shown in a theater.
it's a Robert Lippert film apparently it said it at the end and if what i hear is true that he was his brother in law and was forced to put him in films.
@@rolandofgilead43 I know that Sid Melton appeared in 3 or 4 Robert Lippert movies. However, I can't find evidence (Wikipedia) that he was ever married at all. Does anyone know if Robert Lippert was his brother-in-law?
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
Lot of hate here, but i think of it like a radio play that they were trying to figure out how to film. The organ music and the narration early are very much like something you'd hear on the NBC radio hour or whatever.
Sid Melton, the oddball photographer ("Danny Thomas Show", "Golden Girls"; "Lady Sings The Blues") -- he really made his presence known on film. Nice to see him here bringing out a bit of levity from the script. Also love that old-time radio organ soundtrack.
Very nice film. From today's perspective, the bumbling photographer adds nothing to this film - wish they has left it out. Perhaps audiences of the period liked this kind of cheesy humor, in the post-war period.
Post war? The Korean Police Action was in progress. The Republic of Viet Nam Police Action was being set up by the UN. Oh yes, cheesy humor is always popular to everybody.
Okay...@45:58 Lt. Grayson has a secretary named, "MISS GRAYSON"?? Wondering if the guy flubbed his line. So much about this movie makes little sense to me. Lol😂 Also, at @46:48, there is a sign pasted to a wooden door that says: "HOMICIDE DEPT."...but, @45:19, it's a glass door that says: "HOMICIDE OFFICE - LT. GRAYSON".
K, here is the story on the organ "music." The producer, Robert L. Lippert, paid for original music to accompany the movie in theatres. When television came along he didn't feel he should pay again; the composers disagreed. Instead of paying, Lippert commissioned organ "sounds," with no melody or anything that could be considered a song.
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
That photographer needs to get a different gig, because this one isn"t working for him, and he's beginning to get on my nerves with all of his incompetence.
Less than halfway thru and I'm identifying this as an earlier attempt at a SOAP OPERA. They all basically know each other, they only had one person to throw under the bus, the SO background music---GOAT! 🤣🤣😆😆
A quirky cheesefest I've watched I don't know how many times. Clearly from the school of if it takes more than one take, it is not worth it. Best is King getting shot and rolling to the side, but he's still in frame.
Oh no, Sid Melton alert.... Why is he always popping up in these old mysteries? The whole movie grinds to a halt every time he does the same old schtick, film after film. And also, what's with the funeral home music? Weird.
I love old monochrome films and am pretty tolerant about them but this was terrible. There is absolutely nothing much to it and they had to pad it up with that very very annoying photographer who cannot use a flash. Even with all that padding it comes up short. Then there is the terrible music like they would have in a cheap drive in B movie. Terrible film that could have been done so much better but then it has nothing to work with.
Great, the reform mayor doesn't approve the design because he doesn't like the artist dating his daughter. With that sound track, I kept expecting somebody to say Life Can Be Beautiful. You'd think that the guy who left the prints had 6 fingers would be a clue too.
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
@@rolandofgilead43 Uhhh, if you'e too stupid to understand that's not my problem, duhhhh. But I'll give you a hint, stars like Selina Gomez don't have to go to the bathroom unlike before.
The organ music seems better suited for a roller skating rink.
Or a horror movie.
Great little film Well worth an hour. Enjoy. September, 2023.
Thank you for sharing this great movie.💙🕊🌟
Very good resolution and i liked the unusual music also- poss novelty is probable. Agree the comic photographer i wouldn't miss. It,s free and easy to watch, so thank you for providing this interesting film!
My guess is that someone's aunt was an unemployed silent movie organist, and they got her a job on this film! Not a bad movie for such a low budget.
Nowadays someone with a computer can score a movie by using a copy of every instrumental sound there is.
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The music sounds more suitable for a B horror movie
Sounds kind of like a haunted roller rink.
@@richardchambers3533 Or a Roller Skating Rink.
Darling costumes on the ladies, a prescient plot and emotive organ music -- and a comic with a camera. Stellar!
How old are you?
The music is dreadful -- and unnecessary.
And that comic photographer adds ZERO to the film.
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
Emotive organ music? The only emotive it was giving me was the same feeling I get when I hear fingernails being dragged across a chalk board.
The photo reporter with the never ending camera issues routine reminded me of why vaudeville died.
2 American films copied that scenario.
Thanks for posting a great reminder of how far script-writing has come.
That's entirely subjective. Most of what comes out of Hollywood now is sheer trash & CGI.
@@kaydee4296 You have a point.
I was going to say - how far it's traveled in whatever direction? It's not always a positive traveling, as in forward. Ha.
@@patriciajrs46 Indeed. Maybe we just have greater dispersion/ variance now.
Scripts were better back then. However, what I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023. That's why I preparer films nowadays.
I love the organ playing. A very expressive instrument.🪗🪗
honestly it sounds like i'm at a horse show which i grew up going ot while watching it and listing to strange soundtrack they for some reason decided upon
I agree fitting for the film. Thank you
By having organ music in the background, I feel like I'm watching a vintage soap opera!
Tom Neal was unforgettable in Detour.
WOW, WHAT A GREAT PICTURE THIS WAS! I'M GOING
TO WATCH IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW.
Who's paying you🤣
Didn't you learn the first time?
"You're a brilliant idiot" i have to remember that one😊
At 5:37 the photographer looks at information board and mentions Sid Melton is wanted for murder. This is an inside joke. The photographer was played by comic Sid Melton.
this is a fun watch, i love the old time organ music too. 🎥😊
According to Wiki, Margia Dean is alive and is 101 years old.
😢Her remarkable mother still looks after her.
She died on June 23, 2023.
@@orbyfan Wow, that's sad. It had happened just after I had posted that comment. RIP Margia Dean
Which character did Margia play in this movie?
@@keithharvey7230
Jesus, how the hell old does that make her mother 123 yrs old?
Oh my God. That organ music.
You're not going to start singing an opera are you?
That camera man almost ruined the whole film for me!!!
What a different kind of movie with organ music reminiscent of the Silent movie years and the old Serials. I couldn't decide if I liked it or not...!!
Please tell me how gloves don't cover the palms of someone's hands...😅
Ask O.J.
Yep, was wondering how that line ever made it in too.
Some don't, it depends what the gloves are for..
Richard Travis later appeared in episodes of “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp”, which used also some soundtrack from this film.
David Couch. That's an interesting bit of trivia.
Highlights of this film: 1. The all pervasive, tacky organ music! 2. The stream of comic photographer gags! 3. The 'accomplished' surrealistic artwork adorning the Bohemian artist studio!
Prints on the gun!!! The mayor was killed with a PHONE (something not likely to happen these days. It used to be a person could be killed with just a phone's receiver. Phones were very heavy).
The choice of music for this film was very odd.
I saw a film-noir recently where a woman was under attack from someone in her house and tried to call for help but the intruder intercepted the effort so she clocked him with the phone and killed him. I don't recall if the DA reversed the charges ...
Doesn't get anymore B movie than this, I bet the music budget was $500.
That dye job dame's a fink I tells ya, a real fink!!!!
The original negative containing the theatrical release music has been lost. All that survives is the television negative, which has the so-called "music" most people object to. Film decomposes, so we made the movie available in the only format available to us. The only other option would have been to never show the movie again and just let it decompose.
As a professional silent film accompanist and organist, I take exception to the term "so-called music', but I realize it's not everyone's cup of tea.🤓
I think I finally figured out what really killed off silent movies...that damned horrible organ music!
When the guy falls through the window after being shot, you can still see him lying there just below the window frame. That's 55 minutes I'll never get back
so what? He was laying on the fire escape.
@anthony1947 There aren't any minutes you'll get back.
@@KarmicSalt So she screamed because he fell 1 foot.
The organ music is really over-the-top.
That's a polite way of saying that it SUCKS.
The actual plot of the movie was good.. but the inane organ music and the ‘comical’ photographer (Sid Melton) made this film unwatchable. This must have had a very low budget such that they couldn’t use typical noir background music in the movie. The organ music reminded me of an early silent movie being shown in a theater.
How come low budget showed Richie Rich Richmond father in law unrelenting killed?
What producer in his right mind ever thought attaching sid Melton to the project would add value to the content
He must know the producer. Blaaah.
Its was terrible the same joke over and over
He grew on me. Kept it from being too Dragnet-y.
it's a Robert Lippert film apparently it said it at the end and if what i hear is true that he was his brother in law and was forced to put him in films.
@@rolandofgilead43
I know that Sid Melton appeared in 3 or 4 Robert Lippert movies. However, I can't find evidence
(Wikipedia) that he was ever married at all. Does anyone know if Robert Lippert was his brother-in-law?
The police can legally lie to you, but it is a crime to lie to the police! 🤪
Yes very true...get a lawyer before saying anything!
They can't in Australia, they get sacked for that shit..
He goes through kelso apartment without gloves.
Now kelso could easily frame him
Quite a good film - trying to prove a man's innocence ... 💯
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
Lot of hate here, but i think of it like a radio play that they were trying to figure out how to film. The organ music and the narration early are very much like something you'd hear on the NBC radio hour or whatever.
Sid Melton, the oddball photographer ("Danny Thomas Show", "Golden Girls"; "Lady Sings The Blues") -- he really made his presence known on film. Nice to see him here bringing out a bit of levity from the script. Also love that old-time radio organ soundtrack.
Lady Sings the Blues is a great movie.
He was on Green Acres. Alf Monroe, I think.
@@TheSpiralnotebook That's right, Ralph's (Mary Grace Canfield) brother/partner. Thx. for reminding me.
"Friendly Freddie" from "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C."
Indeed yes. That funky old radio type organ music really makes it.
crime mystery comedy...😉 lots of comic relief to which the organ music added
Very nice film. From today's perspective, the bumbling photographer adds nothing to this film - wish they has left it out. Perhaps audiences of the period liked this kind of cheesy humor, in the post-war period.
but hes the samdwich delivery guy o dick van dyke show fer christ sakes a legend
And he did hook up later on with Captain Midnight ...
Post war? The Korean Police Action was in progress. The Republic of Viet Nam Police Action was being set up by the UN. Oh yes, cheesy humor is always popular to everybody.
The bumbling photographer gets old pretty quick. And the organ music is out of place in this movie. Better suited for a monster flick.
Fingerprint expert says, "I don't think anything." Hilarious!!!!!
nice film with a bit of comedy thrown in
Blooper...at 36:11, when they're going to pay Kelso a visit, the numbers on the building are reversed as in a mirror image. Enjoyed the film !
correct, just saw it.
Good flick, flash back to the ol roller skating rink.
56 minute lesson on how to not establish and maintain a chain of evidence.
Ha! You gave seen our current DOJ, right?
Second rate, Sid Melton was obnoxious.
He was never that good.
The beautiful Sheila Ryan, wife of Pat Buttram from 1952 until her untimely death in 1975 at age 54.
MIster Haney! Hey, Mr. Douglas, can I interest you in a bathtub? Eddie Arnold: "that's my bathtub. You stole it from me!"
That clown with the camera ruined this movie for me
No argument there! He is so annoying, get out of here!🙄
"Friendly Freddy" and idiotic organ score....geez
I don't know why, but listening to the soundtrack of this movie gives me the sudden urge to go rollerskating!
"Wanted for murder Sid Melton!" Now that is a funny line.
His irritating comic schtick here made me want to murder him!
I don't know where to begin here, so I won't🤐💩👎
I enjoy a kitschy movie once in awhile. Not bad and held my interest.
Was made even worse by deplorable backdrop music and the inept photographer character.
Okay...@45:58 Lt. Grayson has a secretary named, "MISS GRAYSON"?? Wondering if the guy flubbed his line. So much about this movie makes little sense to me. Lol😂 Also, at @46:48, there is a sign pasted to a wooden door that says: "HOMICIDE DEPT."...but, @45:19, it's a glass door that says: "HOMICIDE OFFICE - LT. GRAYSON".
The door is multi-tasking
The organ music makes it sound like a silent film.
K, here is the story on the organ "music." The producer, Robert L. Lippert, paid for original music to accompany the movie in theatres. When television came along he didn't feel he should pay again; the composers disagreed. Instead of paying, Lippert commissioned organ "sounds," with no melody or anything that could be considered a song.
@@kitparker9448 Interesting backstory.
“Carnival of Souls” vibes huh.
Music sounds like a soap opera.
It’s hilarious!
It ruining the movie
Not a bad movie but the music is absolutely awful. 😱
Sounds like a low-budget radio show from the 40’s
Damm, you beat me to it.
An intelligent mystery film. However, the clownish press photographer failed to be remotely amusing, and could easily have been dispensed with.
Have to agree with you on this clownish photographer being an annoying character in this movie. Just not a likeable comedy relief.
I wish someone could tell me what commercial that plodding sound was from that was being played in this movie.
That and the hokey organ and choral music in the background. Ughhh.
Because breaking and entering always makes for admissible evidence.
That actor portraying the photographer is often inserted in these noirs as a goofball comic relief…usually unsuccessfully.
That photographer guy is so annoying
Annoying? He isn't THAT good. Between him and the organ 'music', I'm leaving right now at the 13:08 mark.
Thank you for the great movie.
❤
Actor Sid Melton plodding along gets tiresome pretty quickly. Sooo move on along. Too much of the movie 🍿 is devoted to this. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🥴🥴🥴🥴😡😡😡
Thanks, this was really decent🎬
Big Blooper. The way he supposedly held the phone the prints should have been upside down ‼️ 😂😂
It's rare that I don’t finish a movie. This one was just too slow.
finger prints can lie when they are stolen by illegal copying
Nowadays, they'd be able to pick up traces of the copying, eg the sellotape
The strange organ music did not fit this movie and it drove me nuts. Weird.
The producers used it because it was public domain or they'd already paid for it for some other movie that didn't use it.
Nice ending!
Lyle Talbot - in 100% of all movies between 1950-1960
Soap operas used organ music at one time too.
Not too bad a movie - I enjoyed it late at night.
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
I can hardly sit through this film with that soap opera organ.
A Must Watch Film Actors Actresses and Story for young Adults in a Family full of Young and old parents
And he's done his medal s worth. Brilliant with or without Brilliantine. 📷 Man
That photographer needs to get a different gig, because this one isn"t working for him, and he's beginning to get on my nerves with all of his incompetence.
Very good.
Less than halfway thru and I'm identifying this as an earlier attempt at a SOAP OPERA.
They all basically know each other, they only had one person to throw under the bus, the SO background music---GOAT! 🤣🤣😆😆
With that choir as soundtrack, I expect to see kingfish stevens and Andy brown to show up
THEY would be an improvement.
@@leelarson107 So would Andy Devine
Early on Sid Melton 4rth wall joke...actually funny.
too bad we can't all make a career out of being an oaf.
That photographer from Green Acres was too irritating..Had to fast forward him‽
Love that icy shrill vibrato on the organ
Released February 23rd,1951
Sid Melton...Friendly Freddie in Gomer Pyle USMC.
Sid Melton could ruin any film.
His “comic relief” didn’t offer much relief in this film!🙄
I don't liked him or his acting a bit!
I thoroughly enjoyed this film, an old fashioned forensics movie 😊
A quirky cheesefest I've watched I don't know how many times. Clearly from the school of if it takes more than one take, it is not worth it. Best is King getting shot and rolling to the side, but he's still in frame.
Oh no, Sid Melton alert.... Why is he always popping up in these old mysteries? The whole movie grinds to a halt every time he does the same old schtick, film after film. And also, what's with the funeral home music? Weird.
The funeral home music? Well, the mayor and the Police Commissioner were dead.
I love old monochrome films and am pretty tolerant about them but this was terrible. There is absolutely nothing much to it and they had to pad it up with that very very annoying photographer who cannot use a flash. Even with all that padding it comes up short. Then there is the terrible music like they would have in a cheap drive in B movie. Terrible film that could have been done so much better but then it has nothing to work with.
Worst Photographer ever😆📸
35:09 You may remember YOU took his prints on that very spot and that fingerprint power could be yours.
Just a thought.
Music is horrible after awhile
Okay, I just started this. The Police Chief is the murderer.
dude wheres your spoiler alert ? rude my dude
@@michaelhoffman5486 Anyone could figure out that only a police official could place his own fingerprints on the card assigned to the suspect.
Wow! You're so astute. Whoops! Forgot to take my "stop smartassism" pill today.
thanks for the great flick
And obviously, they don't know a head wound bleeds PROFUSELY...
The role of the stupid photographer was totally unnecessary.
I agreed, he is so annoying.🙄
Great, the reform mayor doesn't approve the design because he doesn't like the artist dating his daughter.
With that sound track, I kept expecting somebody to say Life Can Be Beautiful.
You'd think that the guy who left the prints had 6 fingers would be a clue too.
Really Nice One.
I wonder if the organ was played by Joseph Kearns.
I love the ending scene ❤
Music doesn't fit this movie.
Mark Furman must've caught this movie on the late late late show as a pimply faced kid.
back in those days, people thought fingerprints were very interesting
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
@@chamboyette853 what the hell are you even talking about?
@@rolandofgilead43 Uhhh, if you'e too stupid to understand that's not my problem, duhhhh. But I'll give you a hint, stars like Selina Gomez don't have to go to the bathroom unlike before.