I can’t get enough of these films. In those days no violence, no sex, no swearing was allowed, so they had to rely on a good script and good actors. Now actors get paid millions for acting terribly, and people worship them as if they’re Gods. Thank you for letting me go into my own world and enjoy these films.
I'm with you. B/W movies are the best. This has several of my favorite actors: John Archer (White Heat), Walter Long (a frequent laurel and Hardy villain) and Gale Storm (a likely name) who I watched on TV while growing up. I can't get enough of the older stuff. While growing up I watched the "Bill Kennedy Show Time" who played vintage movies in the Detroit/Windsor area. It's in my blood. I can't resist. five years either side of 1935 is what I like. Nerts is a word I use often.
I'm as nostalgic as the next person, but this was hardly great. It's fair to keep that adjective for any number of truly excellent films of that era: other ones are required here. ✨️
Gale storm did Play My Little Margie in the 1950s and I just love that show. It came TV on Saturday nights. My mama would put me to bed and our crime played in just you finally let me get up and finish watching My Little Margie. Sweet memories from Birmingham Alabama
Random trivia: John Archer's original last name was Bowman, and he made a career out of playing straight arrows. Elmer Clifton, the director, shot the first L. Ron Hubbard story to be turned into a film, The Secret of Treasure Island.
Enjoyable rainy afternoon movie, although I did kind of fall asleep fifteen minutes towards the end. Still, it's kind of nice when an old movie relaxes you to that point. The ending felt rushed SPOILER hard to fathom why girl reporter was joking with district attorney soon (?) after her father was shot. Perhaps we're to think more time has gone by. There isn't a lot of exposition in this type of low budget story. Thanks for uploading, I have a soft spot for 40s films & this was fun.
Yep, the ending was just a little shortened. Uh oh daddy's dead time to move on with my romance 🥲 While I have been enjoying late 30's, 40's and 50's films (running low of any I have not seen), they have these fast cut off endings whereas they could have knocked off some of the benign filler instead. Oh well, what's done is done 😋
@@atlasshrugged7475 Also, why would Peterson shoot a gun with a whole roomful of people outside the door? Never would get away with that. But in true Hollywood fashion, the cops showed up in the nick of time. And it must have been a thing back then to have the D.A. or his assistant on scene as well. Have seen that in other noir films.
City of Missing Girls, released 27 March 1941. H. B. Warner as Police Capt. "Mac" McVeigh; Astrid Allwyn as Nora Page; John Archer as Assistant D.A. James J. Horton; Sarah Padden as Mrs. Randolph; Philip Van Zandt as King Peterson; George Rosener as Police Officer 'Copper' Dugan; Kathryn Crawford as Helen Whitney; Patricia Knox as Kate Nelson; Walter Long as Police Officer Larkin; Gale Storm as Mary Phillips; Boyd Irwin as Joseph 'Joe' Thompson; Danny Webb as William 'Bill' Short, Photographer; Lassie Lou Ahern, Nightclub Performer; Jack Chefe, Apartment House Manager; Donald Curtis; Donald Curtis, Reporter; Dorothy Granger, Showgirl; Lloyd Ingraham as District Attorney Fowler; Ralph Peters, Reporter; Herb Vigran as Danny Mason.
Sometimes the good old days had their issues too. This story reminds me of what we'd call today, sexploitation or even a mild form of sex trafficking. Today it is in our awareness but it has always existed huh. so thankful that goodness won out!
Enjoyed this film I can watch them for hours if I can unfortunately, I have to get to work, take care of my puppies, the list goes n goes thanks for posting this film!!!!😮😮😅😅😊😊
Sooo great .... awesome acting ... Mr Warner so wonderful..all great . have seen before ..thanks again ..back when movies were fantastic.Gale Storm real young 🇺🇸💛
50 years old for a first date? Glad I never grew up in your town. I grew up in Chicago and had my first date when I was 10! We took the bus to Chinatown. Man you were slow, dude. I'm 73.
@@hannahcruz1440 .. The person you refer to was German Actor whom like many got out of Nazi Germany and also just like many Despised Adolf Hitler, he went to Hollywood and playing Nazi Villains in War Movies, Actually I'd never heard of this guy, that being said Goggle Rock's Ha!!! :P] .v ..
Gale Storm is the only one I recognize. The Asst DA is like a low budget Dick Powell and the newspaper woman is like a budget Rosalind Russell. I wonder how these actors survived. Other low budget movies, radio?
People used to take care of the old adults, who cared for them, earlier in life. People actually dressed, kept in shape, naturally, a "lady" meant a woman, who behaved like one. Same with a gentleman, meaning a man who acted like one.
The girl Mary is Gail Storm. I wonder if that is the same Gail Storm from the TV series, The Gail Storm Show. Loved the Saddle Oxfords she was wearing when she was being questioned in the Assistant DA's office. Not a bad movie.
Gale was 18 years old when she made this movie. She had not developed her wonderful throaty voice yet! I grew up watching her in several shows; along with I MARRIED JOAN, THE JIM BAKKUS SHOW, and a few others they can’t play as there was no recording of them! Such a shame!
Officer Larkin Walter Long always the tough guy in many laurel n Hardy films he was really good I know he would of scared the crap out of me he had such a mean natural look
Why wait so long to divulge the license plate number written on the back of the photo? I don't mean to spoil this - it is just a minor point and won't ruin it for anyone. But after watching, let me know what you think. Thanks. I'm a bored artist in a dry spell getting lost in social media.
At 17:30, Horton is offered a bribe, which he turns down. At 19:31, he discloses that it was a $10,000 bill! These bills were last printed on Dec 27, 1945 and were officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, but pretty much disappeared well before then. As of May 30, 2009, only 336 $10,000 bills were known to exist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency
The Treasury used to issue bills with very large denominations. The largest was the $100,000 bill, which had Woodrow Wilson's picture on it. These bills were used primarily to transfer money among banks and became obsolete when wire transfers became possible, whereupon every denomination larger than $100 was retired.
The actor that played Det. McVeigh was outstanding in the part. At 23:37 that reporters car looks awfully like a Volkswagen. I didn't know Hitler was selling them in the U.S. just before we got into the war.
there were a lot of coup convertibles back the but if you watch closely especially at the last part of that scene you see the camera back off of the car and you can see a more complete picture of the car and the lines are different than a V W but the main thing is the size is wrong V W's were smaller overall and that's a pretty big car besides GERMANY didn't start importing V W's into AMERICA til after the war
All these Old Black and White Flicks have Great Story Lines and not much Sex or Violence and was made with little Money Compared to the Big Blockbusters today where they Pay the Artists the Big Bucks. The Average Black and White was made for Less than $20,000.00
Yes the man in the beginning was in 'It's a Wonderful Life' he played Mr Gower. If it wasn't for George Bailey's quick thinking. (Mr Gower you put poison in those capsules). Mr Gower who have poisoned his child patient by mistake! What a fantastic film. My favourite
I thought that at first, and there is a strong resemblance, but on closer inspection the eyebrows are different. Hedy's are more arched, even in her early photos. And by the way, what a beautiful woman Hedy was!!
I think it's amazing that they had currency like that . My Dad sent me back to get a $10 out of his wallet for ice cream and I brought him a $1,000 bill he said ''son we could buy the whole truck with that
Looked her up -"The Black Dahlia" could have done without that. A horror story perpetrated by ta sick, perverse evil. I guess whoever did it is in hell. Don't need more leashed anger in these days and times 😡 .
CDU9176 Haha! She probably knew too much and was blabbing like the other girl they killed. I get the feeling some of the movie ended up on the cutting room floor, or edited for time.
My take on the story is that "out of state jobs" or whatever was a euphemism for prostitution to pass censors. If pre-code and with a bit more of a budget, the mobsters would have had guns, there would be more booze, and there would be less dancing around the subject. I looked up the writers and they seem like an odd couple. Oliver Drake, from Idaho, looks to have spent most of his career writing Western style movies. George Rosener (Dugan in the film), from Brooklyn, played a lot of uncredited acting roles and not a lot of writing.
@@NuncNuncNuncNunc; Hollywood had to dance around the subject because too many in Hollywood were involved in SEX TRAFFICKING and even CHILD trafficking, rape, torture, Luciferian sacrificing, etc. Saturday July 6. 2019, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was once again arrested. He faces life in prison.
Hmmm, I suspect the comments will be better written than the dialogue in this fine feature...not my cup of tea (strong or otherwise). Thank you though 🍕 🍕 🍕
I can’t get enough of these films. In those days no violence, no sex, no swearing was allowed, so they had to rely on a good script and good actors.
Now actors get paid millions for acting terribly, and people worship them as if they’re Gods.
Thank you for letting me go into my own world and enjoy these films.
My sentiments exactly
I'm with you. B/W movies are the best. This has several of my favorite actors: John Archer (White Heat), Walter Long (a frequent laurel and Hardy villain) and Gale Storm (a likely name) who I watched on TV while growing up. I can't get enough of the older stuff. While growing up I watched the "Bill Kennedy Show Time" who played vintage movies in the Detroit/Windsor area. It's in my blood. I can't resist. five years either side of 1935 is what I like. Nerts is a word I use often.
I may have a new addiction - these old movies!
Had it for decades.
There is no cure - just go with it.
My dirty little secret too!
WELCOME TO OUR WORLD RAHKINRAH !!!
Enjoyed this film as I do most old films. Thank you for sharing it.
When actors could act and make great movies without the tech they are using today.Just great skill 🎥🎥
I'm as nostalgic as the next person, but this was hardly great. It's fair to keep that adjective for any number of truly excellent films of that era: other ones are required here. ✨️
Gale storm did Play My Little Margie in the 1950s and I just love that show. It came TV on Saturday nights. My mama would put me to bed and our crime played in just you finally let me get up and finish watching My Little Margie. Sweet memories from Birmingham Alabama
What a world.
I, too, watched My Little Margie as a kid in Birmingham.
All my best wishes to you.
She was also in the Christmas movie "It Happened on Fifth Avenue" ... one of my favorites!
Random trivia: John Archer's original last name was Bowman, and he made a career out of playing straight arrows. Elmer Clifton, the director, shot the first L. Ron Hubbard story to be turned into a film, The Secret of Treasure Island.
Enjoyable rainy afternoon movie, although I did kind of fall asleep fifteen minutes towards the end. Still, it's kind of nice when an old movie relaxes you to that point. The ending felt rushed SPOILER hard to fathom why girl reporter was joking with district attorney soon (?) after her father was shot. Perhaps we're to think more time has gone by. There isn't a lot of exposition in this type of low budget story.
Thanks for uploading, I have a soft spot for 40s films & this was fun.
CDU9176 perfect sleepy time medicine!
Yep, the ending was just a little shortened. Uh oh daddy's dead time to move on with my romance 🥲 While I have been enjoying late 30's, 40's and 50's films (running low of any I have not seen), they have these fast cut off endings whereas they could have knocked off some of the benign filler instead. Oh well, what's done is done 😋
@@atlasshrugged7475 Also, why would Peterson shoot a gun with a whole roomful of people outside the door? Never would get away with that. But in true Hollywood fashion, the cops showed up in the nick of time. And it must have been a thing back then to have the D.A. or his assistant on scene as well. Have seen that in other noir films.
City of Missing Girls, released 27 March 1941. H. B. Warner as Police Capt. "Mac" McVeigh; Astrid Allwyn as Nora Page; John Archer as Assistant D.A. James J. Horton; Sarah Padden as Mrs. Randolph; Philip Van Zandt as King Peterson; George Rosener as Police Officer 'Copper' Dugan; Kathryn Crawford as Helen Whitney; Patricia Knox as Kate Nelson; Walter Long as Police Officer Larkin; Gale Storm as Mary Phillips; Boyd Irwin as Joseph 'Joe' Thompson; Danny Webb as William 'Bill' Short, Photographer; Lassie Lou Ahern, Nightclub Performer; Jack Chefe, Apartment House Manager; Donald Curtis; Donald Curtis, Reporter; Dorothy Granger, Showgirl; Lloyd Ingraham as District Attorney Fowler; Ralph Peters, Reporter; Herb Vigran as Danny Mason.
HOW COOL 1940'S MOVIES ARE
Sometimes the good old days had their issues too. This story reminds me of what we'd call today, sexploitation or even a mild form of sex trafficking. Today it is in our awareness but it has always existed huh. so thankful that goodness won out!
"so thankful that goodness won out!"
Surely you refer to the world-of-make-believe!
You never had history lessons?
Sadly goodness has not won out, not at all, it seems to be an eternal struggle of "good against evil".
Love the door knocker BRILLIANT thank you
Really was pretty well worth watching!
Loved it!! 🥰 ❣️
Enjoyed this film I can watch them for hours if I can unfortunately, I have to get to work, take care of my puppies, the list goes n goes thanks for posting this film!!!!😮😮😅😅😊😊
AGAIN a great flick PizzaFlix!!! I dig your black & whites!!!!
^^^@ Robin Richter .. I Dig them tew Chur! :P] .v ..
Sooo great .... awesome acting ... Mr Warner so wonderful..all great . have seen before ..thanks again ..back when movies were fantastic.Gale Storm real young 🇺🇸💛
A lot of twists, guy gets girl and the bad guy gets the chair... All is right....
Patricia Knox was such a pretty woman. Not much about her history. Love these movies. No swearing unnecessary sexual content and still a good story.
Did anyone find that the reporter's father and the police detective looked very similar? I had them confused at the beginning.
"The story's alright, but don't you think she's a little bit dumb?" Haha. Sounds like my aunt. Her sardonic wit, that is.
Excellent!
Wait, why is she not more upset that her dad got shot?
Well, she was a tad ambitious. Pops was just in the way😉
H.B.Warner,Its a wonderful life!
The pharmacist
I was one year old when this movie was made
'City Of Missing Girls'...must be the town I grew up in...I couldn't get my first date until I was 50 years old...gee, I hope it wasn't just me...
50 years old for a first date? Glad I never grew up in your town. I grew up in Chicago and had my first date when I was 10! We took the bus to Chinatown. Man you were slow, dude. I'm 73.
@northofhome28 .. Then you can be my woman, Lol:P] .v ..
@@catholiccrusader5328 .. I'm 61 and had more than my share of women Ha!!! :P] .v ..
^^^@Jerry DeThomas .. No way Dude' Wtf??? Ha!!! :P] .v ..
This is funny. Mind if I borrow your dialogue?
Those were the days!! Thank you, Pizza!
H.B.Warner in the same year as "It's a Wonderful Life"...
Mr Gower
Wow, did not realized... thank you
This was a few years before It's a wonderful life.
Can't help it, but every time they say Mason I think of Perry.
Only an Old School Person Know's that Name, Ha!!! :P] .v ..
LINDA BROWN; I wonder if his father is/was a Freemason. That kind of influence would surely get Mason into Hollywood.
Abraham Mclean okie dokie. Here's a challenge for you. who was Martin kosleck?
@@hannahcruz1440 .. The person you refer to was German Actor whom like many got out of Nazi Germany and also just like many Despised Adolf Hitler, he went to Hollywood and playing Nazi Villains in War Movies, Actually I'd never heard of this guy, that being said Goggle Rock's Ha!!! :P] .v ..
Rite on Della
That was great--TY
Gale Storm is the only one I recognize. The Asst DA is like a low budget Dick Powell and the newspaper woman is like a budget Rosalind Russell. I wonder how these actors survived. Other low budget movies, radio?
Peterson would definitely be a low budget William Powell.
Another one of your best !
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX
Thanks! 👍
Awesome!!!
People used to take care of the old adults, who cared for them, earlier in life. People actually dressed, kept in shape, naturally, a "lady" meant a woman, who behaved like one. Same with a gentleman, meaning a man who acted like one.
Gail Storm played "My Little Margie" back in the 50's
Fo Sho with Charlie Ruggles as her Dad
Don Duke
Charlie Ruggles played her Dad on It Happened On 5TH Avenue!
Charles O’Farrell played her Dad on Margie!
Thanks!!!
Victoria Simon
Oh Susannah was later and better! Gale got to sing her recordings and Hits!
Thanks!!!
The girl Mary is Gail Storm. I wonder if that is the same Gail Storm from the TV series, The Gail Storm Show. Loved the Saddle Oxfords she was wearing when she was being questioned in the Assistant DA's office. Not a bad movie.
You are absolutely right, that's a young Gail Storm...My Little Margie series.
The very same Gail Storm or "Gale"
john buchinsky i thought i was the only one who noticed that.
Gale was 18 years old when she made this movie. She had not developed her wonderful throaty voice yet! I grew up watching her in several shows; along with I MARRIED JOAN, THE JIM BAKKUS SHOW, and a few others they can’t play as there was no recording of them! Such a shame!
Robin Holbrook-- Those shows are uploaded on TH-cam.
A nice little movie
Absolutely awesome old movie 🍿😌
That female reporter is so annoying!!!! He should've locked her out of his office!
That...was just plain great ;)
A good movie
NICE! The drunk druggist in "ITSAWONDERFUL LIFE!
More importantly, he was Jesus in DeMille's King of Kings.
Mr Gower was his name
@@eddieb7054
Wait mr. Gower was jesus
Officer Larkin Walter Long always the tough guy in many laurel n Hardy films he was really good I know he would of scared the crap out of me he had such a mean natural look
1:09:35 " I warned you to lay off" hahahaha had to play this bit back at slow mo, He wasn't having any of it - lol
Those crazy dance moves.LOL!
Loved it.
very good film
So good.
"Your only grand-daughter's probably dead like the others, now give me a nice big smile." WHAT???????????????
LOL!
5:40 my dad puts about that much sugar in his coffee!
Peterson has a remarkable resemblance to a character in the Mighty Mouse cartoons wow it’s so exact it’s really crazy wow
He reminds me of Jon Lovitz😄
In the old movies be they didn't show murders. If one was shown it was all in shadows.
There never is any blood, either..on dead bodies! Nothing to offend people's sensibilities.
The conspiracy of desensitizing thee populus through social engineering.
@H No ABSOLUTELY!
Decent language, No cheaptactics compare to the present day such a GLORYPAST,
Why wait so long to divulge the license plate number written on the back of the photo? I don't mean to spoil this - it is just a minor point and won't ruin it for anyone. But after watching, let me know what you think. Thanks. I'm a bored artist in a dry spell getting lost in social media.
I'm a bored writer. What kind of art?
@@mauricestanley6859 .. I'm just bored in general, Ha!!! :P] .v ..
Pick up your art
@@splash5150izy if you're bored it means you're boring. Fact.
@@tmo.48 Opinion, yours.
At 17:30, Horton is offered a bribe, which he turns down. At 19:31, he discloses that it was a $10,000 bill!
These bills were last printed on Dec 27, 1945 and were officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, but pretty much disappeared well before then. As of May 30, 2009, only 336 $10,000 bills were known to exist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency
^^^Paul R .. Interesting, my Country came into Decimal Currency on the 10th of July 1967 Chur! :D] .v . ..
The Treasury used to issue bills with very large denominations. The largest was the $100,000 bill, which had Woodrow Wilson's picture on it. These bills were used primarily to transfer money among banks and became obsolete when wire transfers became possible, whereupon every denomination larger than $100 was retired.
@@johnnelson9504 If inflation keeps going up, they may have to bring back the $1000 bill😉
What a great name.for a movie...!
The actor that played Det. McVeigh was outstanding in the part. At 23:37 that reporters car looks awfully like a Volkswagen. I didn't know Hitler was selling them in the U.S. just before we got into the war.
there were a lot of coup convertibles back the but if you watch closely especially at the last part of that scene you see the camera back off of the car and you can see a more complete picture of the car and the lines are different than a V W but the main thing is the size is wrong V W's were smaller overall and that's a pretty big car besides GERMANY didn't start importing V W's into AMERICA til after the war
I agree about Det. McVeigh's great acting, he really stood out!
He played that pretend eccentric thing flawlessly.
Good story
The Assistant DA is really slow on the uptake
But quick with a fist.
Good movie
All these Old Black and White Flicks have Great Story Lines and not much Sex or Violence and was made with little Money Compared to the Big Blockbusters today where they Pay the Artists the Big Bucks. The Average Black and White was made for Less than $20,000.00
@Adrian At And T Those were good times Fo Sho Bro
Arthur Alexander was the assistant director??
Arthur???
The same guy who was a singer??
Even though he was a bad guy, if he had been my dad, I would have been upset! Good movie though! Thanks! 🌈🌈🌈
I really enjoy these movies PizzaFlix. Thanks
Excuse me please, but I believe "It's A Wonderful Life" came out in 1946!!
Yes the man in the beginning was in 'It's a Wonderful Life' he played Mr Gower. If it wasn't for George Bailey's quick thinking. (Mr Gower you put poison in those capsules). Mr Gower who have poisoned his child patient by mistake!
What a fantastic film. My favourite
not bad at all, good job Pizza
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.
i love old movie mysteries
Pretty decent film with the pizza sauce being just a bit above average...
The "spunky girl reporter", always threading the needle between charmingly clever/capable and blisteringly obnoxious.
Kind of a pre-Shelley Winters obnoxious.
I believe the photograph of Thalia Arnold is actually one of Hedy Lamar. (Or her dopelganger!)
I thought that at first, and there is a strong resemblance, but on closer inspection the eyebrows are different. Hedy's are more arched, even in her early photos. And by the way, what a beautiful woman Hedy was!!
Absolutely 😊
Love movies from the 30's to 50's, but this one is weak!
that's not Hedy Lamarr in a photo being torn up and destroyed, is it?
Thanks Pizzaflix*
Omg is that a really young Dick Powell? ❤ You see nobody makes it big overnite. Gotta 'pay yur dues'😊
oops... it was at 19:25 that he mentions the $10,000 bill.
I think it's amazing that they had currency like that . My Dad sent me back to get a $10 out of his wallet for ice cream and I brought him a $1,000 bill he said ''son we could buy the whole truck with that
@@roycraig3236 My Dad never had to worry about mixing up the $1000s with the tens.
John Archer, the D.A., was Anne Archer's father.
Still good the 2nd time around.
He's mixed up in that tacket somewhere if he's willing to pay $10,000!! You betcha!!!
somehow I imagine this is what Elizabeth Short experienced.....
Looked her up -"The Black Dahlia" could have done without that. A horror story perpetrated by ta sick, perverse evil. I guess whoever did it is in hell. Don't need more leashed anger in these days and times 😡 .
Must be set in Hollywood
I do like the story, an entertainment like Bollywood movies but one thing the gangster in this was no sharp shooter though a merciless killer.
Go back and find here Jeremy Brett in The good Soldier/ or Good Soldier :
Mary looks like a very young Gale Storm (?)
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The reporter lady is just terrible.
The actor that played The Thin Man.
cheesy music track but cute
What a wretched film- Grade Z.
And the organ music at the end was the cherry on the top of the Z
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So....why was Thalia murdered?
Janet Como : Guess we're meant to use our imaginations to supply missing details. 😏
CDU9176 Haha! She probably knew too much and was blabbing like the other girl they killed. I get the feeling some of the movie ended up on the cutting room floor, or edited for time.
My take on the story is that "out of state jobs" or whatever was a euphemism for prostitution to pass censors. If pre-code and with a bit more of a budget, the mobsters would have had guns, there would be more booze, and there would be less dancing around the subject.
I looked up the writers and they seem like an odd couple. Oliver Drake, from Idaho, looks to have spent most of his career writing Western style movies. George Rosener (Dugan in the film), from Brooklyn, played a lot of uncredited acting roles and not a lot of writing.
@@NuncNuncNuncNunc; Hollywood had to dance around the subject because too many in Hollywood were involved in SEX TRAFFICKING and even CHILD trafficking, rape, torture, Luciferian sacrificing, etc.
Saturday July 6. 2019, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was once again arrested. He faces life in prison.
@@barbarabowman3328 He now faces life no more.
PizzaFLIX TO THE RESCUE.
The bad guys make the good ones little mouses...
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Now that's what you call a slap-out 1:09:37
What’s up
Boring...
geesg - this sounds like Epstein again.
Ok 🤗
Hmmm, I suspect the comments will be better written than the dialogue in this fine feature...not my cup of tea (strong or otherwise). Thank you though 🍕 🍕 🍕