I Killed That Man (1941) RICHARD CORTEZ ♣ JOAN WOODBURY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Joan Woodbury, George Breakston
Director: Phil Rosen
On the eve of his execution, a condemned man decides to tell the authorities who hired him to commit the murder but is killed by a poison dart before he can divulge the name!
What an excellent movie! I just loved it and Ricardo Cortez is always good in anything. This movie was really different, and the twist at the end was great! I Loved it.
Thank You PizzaFlix for another one of your excellent choice in movies to show for us!!
I agree about Ricardo Cortez. He was also in 'Murder Over New York' (a Charlie Chan movie) in 1940, and came across as a very sophisticated socialite. *Not bad for a nice little Jewish boy (Jacob Kranz) from Noo Yawk, eh?
Nice to find another Ricardo Cortez fan!!! 😍😍😍😍
@@leelarson107 Born 1899
@@keithharvey6354 You, or him?
At 23:41. . . This is great !!! It makes me glad to have reached the grand old age of 71. I had just woken up from a horrible nightmare, and saw this movie available, and the name of Joan Woodbury. This sure takes my mind off the nightmare. Thanks, Pizza Flix - my source for good old movies.- you guys make the world a better place.
These B grade movies are still better than anything on TV now. I enjoyed this one. 👍🏻
A great, fast moving "B" movie. Well worth watching. All the performances were very good but I particularly enjoyed the chap on the switchboard. Joan Woodbury was, as usual first rate. Give it a whirl and enjoy.
Iris Adrian played the blonde. She was in 160 movies. She married 4 times and had no children. She died as a result of injuries sustained from the Northridge 1994 earthquake. She worked with the Marx brothers and Abbott and Costello
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Thank you for this terrific movie. Love the oldies.
I love these B movies they’re fantastic the better than any of today’s movies
This was such a fun movie. It kept me company while cooking. Thanks for the upload.
Me too! My favorite kind of Friday night! Cooking with one of these old B&Ws to keep me company. Cheers from Mpls
What were you cooking?
“I’m always calm...especially when I’m excited” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You know something: it's true to some extent about me as well. A STRANGE calm comes over me when I am in mortal danger or extremely difficult situations. I suppose it is the brain's / mind's defense system.
Fast moving,fast talking movie very enjoyable. Ricardo Cortez is also very good as Sam Spade in the first film version of The Maltese Falcon well worth checking out. Thanks for posting.
Iris Adrian's career lasted 40 yrs. She was a delight almost always playing a tough, brassy blonde. Also John Hamilton (Perry White) playing a character addressed as Chief.
Thanx PizzaFlix loved to see George Raft one of my favorite tough guys. I loved him dancing the Bolero. That's a classic; if you get a chance to see it do so; it is very entertaining; he's quite a hoofer.
Excellent movie! I've never heard of this one. Thank you, Pizza Fix. I love your channel!
Paul Stewart is another tough guy; he is probably one of the all time character actors in about 99% of gangster movies. He played westerns as well.
Citizen Kane.
The villain in this movie was also the villain in a movie titled THE LAST ALARM. He did both personas very well. The blond girlfriend (Iris Adrain) of the convict is a typecast "floozie." She and two of the reporters show up in these mystery movies frequently. I expected "Perry White" to exclaim "Great Caesar's ghost" at any moment.This movie was well done by the actors and the writers. the plot was nearly shrouded. Monogram Pictures showed they had class as much as the larger companies, Being a WWII baby, I watch these movies to see the clothing, cars, sets, etc of the things i saw as a child. Thanks for the entertainment. Oh, I miss this "shown" America.
Just love your channel, Pizza Flix. Keeps me up at night(in a good way)😆😆😆
"1313" isn't that on Mockingbird Lane, nice to see "Perry White" on the screen, really good movie with a nice sense of humor, thanks for the upload
"This fine victorian mansion will make a great home for any family! Just a little fixing up, and an exterminator for the dungeon (er, cellar!), and ...
Love the old flicks. So much fun.
I've never seen a movie where Ricardo Cortez wasn't the bad guy. A refreshing change.
Charlie Chan in Murder Over New York! Cortez not a bad guy!! :-)
Permit me to recommend the 1931 pre-code Maltese Falcon where Ricardo played Sam Spade.
@@moosinekim You're right on with the mention of that 1940 film. I've watched it so often that it's become one of my favorite Charlie Chan movies.
Rather clever placement of the murder weapons!
I Killed That Man, released 28 November 1941 (USA). Ricardo Cortez as Roger Phillips; Joan Woodbury as Geri Reynolds; Pat Gleason as Bates; George Pembroke as Lowell King; Iris Adrian as Verne Drake; Herbert Rawlinson, Prison Warden; Ralf Harolde as Nick Ross; Jack Mulhall as Collins; Vince Barnett, Drunk; Gavin Gordon as J. Reed; John Hamilton, District Attorney; Harry Holman as Lanning; George P. Breakston, Tommy; Lynton Brent, Policeman; Don Brodie, Reporter; Willy Castello as Thomas Gordon; Arthur Gardner, Reporter; Billy Nelson as Warden's Clerk; Cyril Ring, Reporter; Fred Santley, Newspaper Office Worker; Lee Shumway, The Bartender.
Joanne Woodbury was the great-niece of the founder of Woodbury Soap.
Her mother was the third queen of the Rose Parade.
She had 3 children by er first husband.
She and her second husband, actor Ray Mitchell co-founded the Valley Players Guild Theatre in Palm Springs, California. She opened a dance school in 1944. Jennifer Jones became a student.
Quote: A cameraman once told me I had the longest face in the picture business.
09:00 : BIG error / mistake. The window behind is open.
The murderer of the convict could easily toss away / (could HAVE easily tossed away) the 'weapon' out, and it will NOT be found on him.
48:52. "...and I'm a firm believer in the laws of equality as far as women are concerned. If they want to vote, they've got to pay." Someone give that man a cigar!
The star Ricardo Cortez was born in New York (1900 - 1977) of Austrian Jewish parents and his birth name was Jacob Krantz which he later changed to Jack Crane to try and obscure his Jewish heritage - there was significant anti-Jewish sentiment in the USA in at least the first half of of the 20th century. Later, he changed his name to Richardo Cortez to try and capitalise on the huge popularity during the 1920s of the so-called "Latin lover" actors such as Rudolf Valentinoi and Ramon Novarro. He appeared in more than 100 films appearing with major female stars including Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
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Thank you for all that interesting information on Ricardo Cortez! I never knew that.
Russell Grenning...
Do you have any interesting information on Ramona Novarro as well?
Russell Grenning...
Joan Crawford always creeped me out. She was always so tough & kind of masculine if you know what I mean.
@@chirellealanalooney7895 I do agree - her eyebrows and voice certainly conveyed that image!
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Another good movie, really appreciate it Pizza Fix x
Great movie, thank you.👍👍👍❤️
Directed by Phil Rosen, as was the original 1933 story, “The Devil's Mate.”
Interesting film. Enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
The actress who portrayed Nick Ross's girl was very good in the role. I always enjoy seeing Ricardo Cortez.
Ricardo Cortez is always great. Anyone see him in an earlier version of The Maltese Falcon?? (With Dwight Frye as Wilma)
Great movie! Thank you for uploading.
That was fun , thanks! It was easy to pick the bad guy, but still enjoyable anyway.
Have to admit~ I only ever liked Ricardo Cortez as a shady night club owner. He excelled in that role.
Love the old time actors!
Excellent ☺
In 1900, horse racing was the third largest industry in California.
Very fun movie with snappy dialogue and NO idiot comic relief characters (why do so many movies have those?). Ricardo Cortez is always fun to watch and Joan Woodbury is gorgeous! Also, nice to see a smart, bookish character who isn't an annoying, pedantic, socially clueless nerd. One quibble, though. Curare does not kill in seconds like it does in the movie. It paralyzes muscles so the victim suffocates when the diaphragm that pushes air in and out of the lungs stops working, and it generally takes at least half an hour to do so.
If you can get over the horrible cinematography, you might enjoy the story. It's a unique, murder mystery.
Really good--ty
Good one
And it features George Breakston 🍕🍕🍕
The blonde that wanted the 5K and got poisoned was Arnold Ziffels mother from Green Acres fame.
All we have to do is find out who "I" is and that's our man!
John Hamilton (Perry White) as the DA.
This is a good Who done it !😱 🤷🏾♀️ good movie 👏🏾🎥🎬 🙋🏽
This was early for Glen Glenn audio, producing sound for more than 20,000 movies and TV shows, including "I Love Lucy." Largest in the world, they passed the baton just short of 50 yrs, in 1986 to Todd-AO.
$2,500 in 1941 would roughly equal $50,000 in 2023.
Interesting legal.question if you murder a man headed for the chair will you be charged with murder
Ricardo Cortez ended up at Monogram? Sad!
What was wrong with Monogram Studios? Just not a big name studio huh.
I always liked Ricardo Cortez , alot of people probably don't know he was,( Do I dare say it) Jewish, as people get so crazy about that word. His name was Krantz, but they changed his name to Cortez, to make the public believe that He was spanish, and to capiltilize on what was , popular in that era.(Latin lover) He is buried at Woodlawn cemetery in the Bronx. He was a good actor. and a very handsome guy. There's alot of Jewish people who are so talented, the Gershwins , George & Ira who were such talented musicians , and so many more, and most people, back then, in America, didn't have a problem with that.At least not the intelligent ones didn't, if at all. Probably way over half of the music, and movies we listen & watch are done by Jewish people.
@12:33- Wish I knew THAT kind of detail about a woman's legs!
'I never knew you were an art critic'
'Just breaking them in for a friend'
Were those nudes?
;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
They used to be called "French postcards" (historical trivia turns up some ASTONISHING things!)
@@bradmiller2329 Look up a very young Barbara Stanwyck (Ruby Stevens).... She posed for several of the so-called "art" post cards.
She is very beautiful...
Perry White!!!
Locked room murder & interesting.
32:24 LOL, I first thought this was a 1940s telemarketer.
Its,so sad why people commit mistakes,itsa fact that crime never pays.
He was going to name the other man...so what? If he is dead he can't testify and hearsay is not admissible and this is not a dying declaration because at that moment he would have been in relatively good health.
Wrong, it would be admissible as a dying declaration, or possibly as an excited utterance. Also, even if it were not admissible, the fact he stated the person responsible for the murder would certainly have been a great aid to the police in putting pieces together now that a suspect is limited to one accomplice! . Indeed, on a lot less , they did in fact get the person responsible for ordering the hit. Case closed.
A sly, almost to the "T" inferior rendition of "His Girl Friday". Which was made the year before. But honestly, I enjoyed it, being a fan of "B" films, whatever the genre! Peace and all stay well
Just totally forget about the angle of the dart in the guy's neck, and who were the people on that side..Just strip search them like you learned somewhere, and then , in the end, beat the living daylights out of all the bad guys in a quick punch out. Take 'em away..Book 'em Dano!
Washington and Lincoln.
Win7ston Poole. .
Good one 😉
GREAT CAESERS GHOST !!
It's always the butler..
Whatever happened to ol' Ricardo Cortez anyhoo?
Probabably a nice .
It's stupid to make such a big production out of an execution, just go in his cell take him out and fry him and tell the world after. They didn't make such a big deal when they killed the victim or victims. They don't deserve any special treatment or life just death like their victims got. What is life, 20 years but their victims are dead for eternity not 20 years. Ask anybody, 20 years in jail, where you can read write think and breath or dead where you can't even twitch a bug away from your nose. What is good for the goose is good for gander.
Not worth watching again, but how did Verne Drake get shot with dart driving?
She wasn’t shot , the poison was on a dart tip that had been wedged into the horn - press in the centre of the steering wheel
Keith Pimblett thx
Perry WHite from SUperman
A few plot holes, but a pretty good movie nonetheless.
I had her coat in 1980!
EH??
@Double bad luck CODE 1313 agree anyone?
They need to kiss each other on the lips.
Cute!
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I Killed That Man, released 28 November 1941 (USA). Ricardo Cortez as Roger Phillips; Joan Woodbury as Geri Reynolds; Pat Gleason as Bates; George Pembroke as Lowell King; Iris Adrian as Verne Drake; Herbert Rawlinson, Prison Warden; Ralf Harolde as Nick Ross; Jack Mulhall as Collins; Vince Barnett, Drunk; Gavin Gordon as J. Reed, John Hamilton, District Attorney; Harry Holman as Lanning; George P. Breakston as Tommy; Lynton Brent, Policeman; Don Brodie, Reporter; Willy Castello as Thomas Gordon; Arthur Gardner, Reporter; Billy Nelson, Warden's Clerk; Cyril Ring, Reporter; Fred Santley, Newspaper Office Worker; Lee Shumway, Bartender.