Enjoyable noir movie. Actually, a noir B-Movie. Professional actors doing a studio Saturday night theater movie. I search for them out to view the things I saw around me as a boy. The cars, the clothes my parents wore, the films I watched as a boy, not really understanding them at that time, and so enjoy the memories. Thks for posting this and the work to make it presentable in this venue.
I have much the same reasons you do for watching these movies. One thing I don't miss about the forties and fifties is the cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking everywhere! It's hard to enjoy a meal when somebody at the table next to you in a restaurant lights up a stinky old stogey!
Thank you for providing this interesting movie with credible performances and script quite involved. Decent displayed screen resolution appreciated also! This turned out to be very interesting indeed with supportive background music enhancing the whole!
Thank you for uploading this interesting little B-programmer from Universal. Lots to say about its producers and actors. Charles Barton's, director of one of Abbott & Costello's greatest box-office hit, A&C meet Frankenstein, guides his action and actors through smooth performances. Barton was also the House director of the notorious Amos & Andy show. Yet, Im pleased to see Afro American player Teresa Harris get On-screen credit and a role, that she plays with her customary dignity and elegance. One sees it was produced by Jack Bernard, who also produced - directed two Cult Film Noirs, Decoy (46) with his wife Jean Gillie and Blonde Ice (47) with Leslie Brooks. All of these films contain lethal femme fatales. As for Virginia Grey, she's petulant and elegant enough, but still comes across a "nice girl", her character's opportunism aside, she doesnt quite have that "Cobra charm" that keeps men guessing and enthralled. I think the title should refer more to Kent Taylor...an expert at playing "jilted" lovers and detective types.
Thanks for posting this movie. I liked it. Good acting, good pace, lots of suspense, great photography, beautiful clothing and people. You forget you are watching a black & white movie. I RoccoMend this movie.
As for the beautiful clothes you can thank the Universal top designer, the mysterious Vera West. She was especially noted for lounging clothes, negligees, teddies, peignors etc.
'Good acting, good pace, lots of suspense, great photography, beautiful clothing and people. You forget you are watching a black & white movie.' Delete 'forget you' and you're spot on.
I also had in mind non actors that lived at that time and dressed like that. They must have made the time and effort. Are we that pressed for time? Maybe less time on the phones might help.
@@melodiefrances3898 Pretty sure you missed her point. Class does take more time, just as chateaubriand, or rouladen; if we want the good of life, it's worth the effort?
Yes...prominent AA player Theresa Harris plays the role with her customary Class and Dignity and surprisingly gets On-Screen Credit too. I was surprised to see her in the cast !
They want to you pay to see things ad-free now. Once they get enough business that way, they'll jack up the price. Kind of the way cable and satellite did it.
It's true. but what are we to do? When these films were first being shown on television we had to sit through commercials. The only time there were no commercials was when these films were originally shown in the movie theatre upon their initial release or if you were able to purchase or rent these films in the video stores before we ourselves put the video stores out of business so we could sit home and stream.
Great Movie!!! Ending was grand though a little too abrupt. Would have liked to see a bit More appreciation for that Wonderful ending - and seeing Milburn Stone, too!!! 😊😊😊
I am an old movie aficionado n have been studying them since 1960 with my Mom, n I have never seen a device like the one they were lighting their cigars with in the opening scenes in the court room lobby. I would love to know what it was n am totally surprised I have never seen it before, n my family dealt in antiques since the 1930's!!! Somebody give us a clue plz!!!
I'm a WWII baby, and as a young boy in the late 1940s, I remember these lighters were on counters above the cigar counter (cigarettes were stacked to the rear of the counter, along a wall). Near an exit door was a glass enclosed cigar counter. There were dozens of cigar brands inside the glass counter for a buyer to view and choose from. There was the cash register; you chose your brand, paid for it. and BIT THE NUB OFF TO OPEN A HOLE IN THE BUTT. Hand rolled cigar brands came without a "draw hole" in the butt. You had to bite the nub off to draw smoke thru the cigar. These lighters had a pull handle that you pulled to strike the flint and light the wick. You lit the cigar and went on your way. A shame about tobacco. I loved the old cigar brands.
@@nomadpi1 Perhaps you can search for something like- mid century lighters or-unusual cigarette or cigar lighters? and look also under images of them which might get you to the right one more quickly.
@nomadpi1 Very interesting indeed. I was born in 1958 and so many things that I never thought twice about in the '60s seem quaint and a little bit odd such as the holders for Coke drinks which had a pointed paper cup that was inserted into the holder at soda fountains and lunch counters.
Interesting that the ending didn't include the Virginia Grey character. Guess we're supposed to assume she went on the way she began, always landing on her feet.
I've noticed in a few of these older black and white movies, that cars that pull up from the right, that the drivers always slide across the front seat to exit the from the passengers door, as in 38:55 . Could have something to do with the camera?
Camera placement? Maybe. However, you're too young to have parked thru the 1940s-1950s where opening a car door with traffic flowing past you, exiting into the street, in oncoming traffic, was a familiar thing too avoid as I grew up. That was why we exited on the right side of the car - CURB SIDE, instead of the left side, 5he driver's seat door, - traffic lane for cars parked along the street's traffic side.
Another possibility (and I could be wrong) but I think many or most of the vehicles had bench seats where there was no center console the way there are now and have been commonly found inncars since when?, maybe the 80's.? Anyway, because there was no console or transmission 'hump' in the middle, you could easily just slide across and yes, I agree with the person who also said that it was safer to exit on the passenger side.
What's worse than two men, a woman, and a gun? That's right, THREE men, a woman, and a gun. Very good movie, good cast - including two pretty faces. Thanks NH
I've always been a fan of Virginia Gray and felt she was underrated and should have been an "A" list actress. At no fault of hers, this movie was ridiculous. The right editor and screenplay "fixer" could have made this cloak and dagger juggling act a good movie. Bring in Michael Curtiz to direct and combine some of the male characters for Virginia Grays character to juggle and manipulate right in front of each other and you could have a great movie. Costumes and cars were excellent.
It makes sense at a cigar kiosk of the time. I do think I've seen some old pocket or table sized lighters that work the same way. But that big one is a surprise.
Excellent movie very enjoyable
Great cast.
Old movies are the best, the cars, clothes, clubs and fabulous dialog.
Rating. 10+
Enjoyable noir movie. Actually, a noir B-Movie. Professional actors doing a studio Saturday night theater movie. I search for them out to view the things I saw around me as a boy. The cars, the clothes my parents wore, the films I watched as a boy, not really understanding them at that time, and so enjoy the memories. Thks for posting this and the work to make it presentable in this venue.
I have much the same reasons you do for watching these movies. One thing I don't miss about the forties and fifties is the cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking everywhere! It's hard to enjoy a meal when somebody at the table next to you in a restaurant lights up a stinky old stogey!
Thank you for this great movie. I love the sharp dialogue 😀
Very entertaining watch. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for providing this interesting movie with credible performances and script quite involved. Decent displayed screen resolution appreciated also! This turned out to be very interesting indeed with supportive background music enhancing the whole!
Fantastic movie! Thank you for posting!
Thank you 😃Good movie , nice to see favorite players .🥰
Great old Movie!! Thank you!!😊
This movie is so good!
Thank you for uploading this interesting little B-programmer from Universal. Lots to say about its producers and actors. Charles Barton's, director of one of Abbott & Costello's greatest box-office hit, A&C meet Frankenstein, guides his action and actors through smooth performances. Barton was also the House director of the notorious Amos & Andy show. Yet, Im pleased to see Afro American player Teresa Harris get On-screen credit and a role, that she plays with her customary dignity and elegance.
One sees it was produced by Jack Bernard, who also produced - directed two Cult Film Noirs, Decoy (46) with his wife Jean Gillie and Blonde Ice (47) with Leslie Brooks. All of these films contain lethal femme fatales. As for Virginia Grey, she's petulant and elegant enough, but still comes across a "nice girl", her character's opportunism aside, she doesnt quite have that "Cobra charm" that keeps men guessing and enthralled. I think the title should refer more to Kent Taylor...an expert at playing "jilted" lovers and detective types.
Love your comment. ❤❤❤❤❤Camelia from Romania
@@liviuconstantinescu-ve5qu Well thank you very much. I also like to say something more substantial than, "it was great", or loved the clothes..
You're quite a fan. Just for you, makeup by Jack Pierce who did all those Universal monsters.
Thanks for posting this movie. I liked it. Good acting, good pace, lots of suspense, great photography, beautiful clothing and people. You forget you are watching a black & white movie. I RoccoMend this movie.
As for the beautiful clothes you can thank the Universal top designer, the mysterious Vera West. She was especially noted for lounging clothes, negligees, teddies, peignors etc.
Why 'forget B&W' ? I love the glow and 'imagination stimulation' of B&W over color any day!
'Good acting, good pace, lots of suspense, great photography, beautiful clothing and people. You forget you are watching a black & white movie.' Delete 'forget you' and you're spot on.
worth watching a few clever twists.
Never saw this one before, thanks for posting. Virginia Grey didn't have many leading roles, she was usually a support player.
Very good story and film: dialogues were good as well as actors and acting: though in b & w ,it was clear and audible. I likef it very much.
EXCELLENT!!!!! WELL WORTH WATCHING! LOVED THE ENDING!😊❤❤❤❤
Supportive background music and nice overall pacing throughout complemented this film well!
Love the way they dressed. Look at today 😮
Agreed! Elegance and class needs to make a comeback , and I am optimistic that it will!
It takes more time than most of us have.
Plus actors have tons of people dressing them.
I also had in mind non actors that lived at that time and dressed like that. They must have made the time and effort. Are we that pressed for time? Maybe less time on the phones might help.
@@lilythomas869 Well said, and I quite agree! We must take time for the things that matter most, and that should include dressing ourselves well.
@@melodiefrances3898 Pretty sure you missed her point. Class does take more time, just as chateaubriand, or rouladen; if we want the good of life, it's worth the effort?
❤Noir freak here. Love em all- this is one I haven’t seen yet though. Just started watching. 9:23
That turned out to be a better movie than the beginning lead me to believe...
"Paula darling, your headache is here."
Good writing, good acting. Loved it!
Fashions are fantastic and the cars also
Mustaches looked at least silly but usually worse on actors of the time, except for Clark Gable.
Great Film....... Greater Ending.............. Patrick ❤️❤️❤️❤️
It was interesting to see a young Milburn Stone who played "Doc" on Gunsmoke in his older years.
Suspense, twists I enjoyed it.
Surprisingly good- another gem
I like that the Black maid is portrayed as a Human Being...!
Yes...prominent AA player Theresa Harris plays the role with her customary Class and Dignity and surprisingly gets On-Screen Credit too. I was surprised to see her in the cast !
Theresa Harris…beautiful lady & excellent actress.
Not always the case in those days.
She was an attractive actress herself.
Any movie with Kent Taylor is a must-see.
@05:09 - "Forgive me, I forgot all about you" (even though you're sitting within 2' of me) "I'm just so full of myself, I can't see anyone else..." 🤣
05:09
Good one.
Good movie well worth watching 😊😊..
The trouble with watching films on TH-cam is they ruin the viewing with too many stupid adverts
They want to you pay to see things ad-free now. Once they get enough business that way, they'll jack up the price. Kind of the way cable and satellite did it.
You can pay for VPN or be Brave and look for a browser that comes w it for free
It's true. but what are we to do? When these films were first being shown on television we had to sit through commercials. The only time there were no commercials was when these films were originally shown in the movie theatre upon their initial release or if you were able to purchase or rent these films in the video stores before we ourselves put the video stores out of business so we could sit home and stream.
I don’t get any ads.
Nice 😊
Great old movie
Kent Tylor is perfectly cast as attorney.
Walter, it is always the butler. LOL
Great Movie!!!
Ending was grand though a little too abrupt.
Would have liked to see a bit More appreciation for that
Wonderful ending - and seeing Milburn Stone, too!!! 😊😊😊
Yes over too quick. I guess the dame is going to do alright even though she was the most cold-blooded.
A man saying remember who you belong to is pretty chilling! *edit- could be named "lecherous old men"
Virginia Grey ❤
excellent! now dont share any of the story.. this is one you have to just watch! 🤭🤫🥳
I am an old movie aficionado n have been studying them since 1960 with my Mom, n I have never seen a device like the one they were lighting their cigars with in the opening scenes in the court room lobby. I would love to know what it was n am totally surprised I have never seen it before, n my family dealt in antiques since the 1930's!!! Somebody give us a clue plz!!!
I saw one in Its a Wonderful Life, in Mr Gower’s Drug Store.
I'm a WWII baby, and as a young boy in the late 1940s, I remember these lighters were on counters above the cigar counter (cigarettes were stacked to the rear of the counter, along a wall). Near an exit door was a glass enclosed cigar counter. There were dozens of cigar brands inside the glass counter for a buyer to view and choose from. There was the cash register; you chose your brand, paid for it. and BIT THE NUB OFF TO OPEN A HOLE IN THE BUTT. Hand rolled cigar brands came without a "draw hole" in the butt. You had to bite the nub off to draw smoke thru the cigar. These lighters had a pull handle that you pulled to strike the flint and light the wick. You lit the cigar and went on your way. A shame about tobacco. I loved the old cigar brands.
@@nomadpi1 Perhaps you can search for something like- mid century lighters or-unusual cigarette or cigar lighters? and look also under images of them which might get you to the right one more quickly.
@nomadpi1 Very interesting indeed. I was born in 1958 and so many things that I never thought twice about in the '60s seem quaint and a little bit odd such as the holders for Coke drinks which had a pointed paper cup that was inserted into the holder at soda fountains and lunch counters.
Interesting that the ending didn't include the Virginia Grey character. Guess we're supposed to assume she went on the way she began, always landing on her feet.
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I've noticed in a few of these older black and white movies, that cars that pull up from the right, that the drivers always slide across the front seat to exit the from the passengers door, as in 38:55 . Could have something to do with the camera?
Camera placement? Maybe. However, you're too young to have parked thru the 1940s-1950s where opening a car door with traffic flowing past you, exiting into the street, in oncoming traffic, was a familiar thing too avoid as I grew up. That was why we exited on the right side of the car - CURB SIDE, instead of the left side, 5he driver's seat door, - traffic lane for cars parked along the street's traffic side.
So maybe Henry Ford messed up with putting the steering wheel on the left? Anyway, you answered the question, thanks.
Another possibility (and I could be wrong) but I think many or most of the vehicles had bench seats where there was no center console the way there are now and have been commonly found inncars since when?, maybe the 80's.? Anyway, because there was no console or transmission 'hump' in the middle, you could easily just slide across and yes, I agree with the person who also said that it was safer to exit on the passenger side.
Another puzzle is why they always turn on the headlights before starting the car. Why put a drain on the battery when starting the engine?
@@Docneg If you notice, most car headlights now are on when you start the car. They do that when you use the remote to unlock the car.
What was with that ending?
The bus was pulling up.
A bit of a synopsis- even one sentence, would'a earned you my 'like'.
A disappointing, contrived ending to a decent crime mystery.
Are they Stinger cocktails at 8.00mins
? I'm having problems of watching it go on my TV
Lol - proving that not all old movies are classics ;-)!
That said, young Milburn Stone is a treat for any Gun smoke fan.
53.00 -55.00 watch her hair style change
The gun shot low therefore it was fired by a short man or a woman. Paula is very tall like Bill so bad clue.
Yeah, she stood up right after he said that, and she was only a few inches shorter than him.😂
Good movie! The leading lady was all over the place!! Bipolar I think…hahahaha!!! Anyway, thanks so much. Very obscure.
Narcissist is the word.
Loved this movie with women wielding their interests like men always fo.
The female of the species is always more manipulative than the male. Or you could just say "sneakier."
What's worse than two men, a woman, and a gun? That's right, THREE men, a woman, and a gun. Very good movie, good cast - including two pretty faces. Thanks NH
a time when finger prints and DNA wasn't used
Certainly not DNA.
A brief synopsis would be appreciated.
This is a good movie this golden digger woman done use 2 men to get to the top I be glad when her cover is blown
Didnt see she was all that...her sister was hotter
Agreed.
#10 "Darlings" is my threshold..
Cannot stand that term after Noir research
Can you tell us little what this movie is about?
🫣🤫 thats a secret🤭
@ I’m not subscribing ☺️
Can’t aim blanks close or could harm the victim.
WAAAY too many commercials. Bye.
Commercials 👎
Ole warhorse Litel again in a suboptimal trash role😺
I never much liked him in the first place.
I've always been a fan of Virginia Gray and felt she was underrated and should have been an "A" list actress. At no fault of hers, this movie was ridiculous. The right editor and screenplay "fixer" could have made this cloak and dagger juggling act a good movie. Bring in Michael Curtiz to direct and combine some of the male characters for Virginia Grays character to juggle and manipulate right in front of each other and you could have a great movie. Costumes and cars were excellent.
Very poor acting.
Really? I enjoyed this movie.
I thought the acting was wonderful.
WTH? Is that thing they're lighting their Cigars with? Never seen that in any old movie before.
Me, either. Wondering if it's piped into gas lines or does it have its own fuel source.
It makes sense at a cigar kiosk of the time. I do think I've seen some old pocket or table sized lighters that work the same way. But that big one is a surprise.
I never have either.
@wendybutler1681
Thats what she said!! Lol!!
There was one in “It’s a Wonderful Life” at the drugstore
The classic evil narcissist manipulating and using everyone till the very end.