Thank you for making the sound as loud as the ads they insert. Seriously, I like to use old flicks to fall asleep and when I get a random ad for garbage I have no interest in drives me nuts.
Good 'ol Herbert Lom. Everything he is involved in, you know is going to be interesting. From "The Pink Panther", film series as the Chief, to my favorite version of "The Phantom Of The Opera" (1962). Never heard/seen, of this up-tempo drama, and caught my attention from the start😁!!!
Interesting seeing Ben Lyon ( the circus owner) pop up in this English movie. He was a big star in America in the late 20's and early 30's, co- starring with Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck and Gloria Swanson among others. I always liked his easy going style of acting. He had a long career and passed away in 1979.
Excellent casting; genius choice of Czech Herbert Lom as Stephen Torg, new to England and just 5 yrs into his 65-yr career. Great circus feel; minimal reliance on stock footage.
Excellent actor 👍!!! He's never disappointing in any movie, he's in!! Try watching the 1962 Hammer version of "The Phantom Of The Opera". Tastefully different 🤔.
Herbert Lom is probably best known to most audiences from the Pink Panther films, but he did quite a few dramas (WAR AND PEACE, YOUNG MR. PITT) and horror films (AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA). His most unusual role, however, was onstage - portraying the King of Siam in the original London West End production of THE KING AND I (yes, he could also sing, or at least sing as well as Yul Brynner!).
wow! he must have been an incredible king. I always thought there really was no one like Yul Brynner, but I would have loved to see him!! thanks for letting us know :)
a good one. Herbert Lom is incredible and the crux of the whole plot, yet he gets 4th billing in small letters. at least he was at the top of that list! in the meantime, everyone of our age group knows who he is. an amazing presence on the screen and the cinematography used with him was just perfect as to how they wanted to present him. Al the actors were so good, especially the owner of the show - a hard part because he was an anchor for the rest of the action. thanks for this one :) 🤸🏽🤹🏻♀🌹
Wow! Hammer superstar Terence Fisher as editor, Otto “Peeping Tom” Heller lensing it and David Farrar of “Black Narcissus” and “Small Back Room” in the cast? Fantastic!
When I read the title of this movie I thought it was about a Dark Tower but I was wrong but I should have never read the title because I was wrong so that taught me a lesson.. Its about a circus that use to be back in the old days and for sure there is plenty of drama thriller and a crime and it's about love Thanks for the upload T.C.M. Ed
12-15-16 You know I've seen I think almost every ( Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Movie ) (BUT - THIS - ONE ) was exceptionally good -- nothing can ever replace these ma masterpieces !!! (( - REALLY THANK YOU - )) ( I thank the person or organization that put this movie Up for everyone to enjoy)
Great movie 🍿 wonderful music & superb actors 🐿🌻 Such fun when “she did him a favour in marrying him” 🌝 and nobody looks anemic 🌜🥐🧀🥨🍒🌛Just love it 😊 Thank you for sharing 🌷
Considering I've read the original play by Woollcott and Kaufman, I can't see at all how this film is based on it -- there's absolutely nothing to compare it to. Character names, locations, plot points, everything is different. You'd be just as accurate by saying it's based on "TheTempest" by Shakespeare.
Herbert Lom should have been hypnotising Panthers not lions. Haha. I often wonder how he got cast as Inspector Dreyfuss. He was funny in those movies tho. Thought he was sinisterly good in this but I also enjoyed him in The Lady Killers (1955) alongside Peter Sellers. Coincidence however at 43:04 woman says to Torg (Herbert Lom), "As a lady killer you'd be a scream". In 1955 he was.
Owner: " where do you come from?" Torg: " Nowhere. " Owner: " What have you been doing"? Torg: " Nothing ". Owner: Reaches for the desk phone. " Security!! "
The Dark Tower, released 18 October 1943 (UK), Ben Lyon as Phil Danton; Anne Crawford as Mary; David Farrar as Tom Danton; Herbert Lom as Stephen Torg; Frederick as Willie Wainwright; William Hartnell (as Bill Hartnell) as Jim Towers; Josephine Wilson as Dora Shogun; Elsie Wagstaff (as Elsie Wagstaffe) as Eve Wainwright; J.H. Roberts as Dr. Wilson; Aubrey Mallalieu, Doctor; Patricia Laffan, Nurse; Peter Noble, Circus Worker; Jack Sharp; Jack Sharp, Circus Worker; Cecil Ayres Trio, Skaters; Victor Wood, Journalist.
Herbert Lom played a really bad character really well, Torg, his character was a megalomaniac who wanted to be worshiped as a god. The other, characters were all decent, caring people and heroic when they had to be, this is a good movie.
Yakk. It may be well to remember, a pound is not a dollar. A pound was (is) a paper currency reputed to represent the value of a pound of sterling silver. At the close of the war the exchange rate to the dollar varied at around four to one, that would have made the car cost about $160.00 at the time. Allowing for inflation, and remembering the price of things has not risen, rather, the value of currency has fallen, the adjusted price of the car would today be roughly $2,000.00 today. A reasonable purchase. I wish I could find one of those at that price now. Sadly vintage autos are even more rare in Britain than they are in the U.S. Cheers.
It was 40 Pounds, not Dollars; it was 1942 when being filmed, when a new car in the U.S. was $800; the Pound then was worth much less than the Dollar; the car was used and was likely 1/2 the cost of a new one; that car was not that fancy then --- only 2 seats, no trunk, unusable in bad weather, not fast & powerful like you're assuming.
I was trying to figure out why I didn't like this film, and I think it is because I don't like the circus. It was very popular in the 40s and 50s, but not anymore. Clowns creep me out, and I can't help feeling sorry for the animals. Torg was a little over the top for me. And again, just too much smoking. Notice Torg was chain smoking throughout the movie? Really disgusting. I understand film noir has this behavior, but this flick is just too much for me.
Circuses have been along for millenia. Ever hear of the Circus Maximus? Generationally, small circus troops traveled throughout the country - every country. Before the advent of movies and TV they were a major focus of entertainment and produced great talents with abilities that went from generation to generation in families. You would really enjoy reading the history of circuses. I'm sure. In the meantime, everybody say RIP to Barnum and Bailey. The music and lights are gone.
The film isn't about the circus but about the travails of the Ms Mary s cold moon night Affair becoming holy smoke. .... It's about losses in business being mishandled or a dextrous wily gulp letting in risk and going on speedily till the next blow strikes. It's about understanding of Tom the thinker and how to make your match work. .... It's .............
![Doomed To Die (1940) [Crime] [Drama] [Mystery]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Wez8SM6WB7c/mqdefault.jpg)
![Doomed To Die (1940) [Crime] [Drama] [Mystery]](/img/tr.png)
Thank you for making the sound as loud as the ads they insert. Seriously, I like to use old flicks to fall asleep and when I get a random ad for garbage I have no interest in drives me nuts.
Other than The Pink Panther movies, Ive never seen a younger Herbert Lom, such hypnotic eyes
Good 'ol Herbert Lom. Everything he is involved in, you know is going to be interesting. From "The Pink Panther", film series as the Chief, to my favorite version of "The Phantom Of The Opera" (1962).
Never heard/seen, of this up-tempo drama, and caught my attention from the start😁!!!
It interesting that the woman is the catcher on the trapeze…intriguing little twist in a very unusual film.
Interesting seeing Ben Lyon ( the circus owner) pop up in this English movie. He was a big star in America in the late 20's and early 30's, co- starring with Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck and Gloria Swanson among others. I always liked his easy going style of acting. He had a long career and passed away in 1979.
Excellent casting; genius choice of Czech Herbert Lom as Stephen Torg, new to England and just 5 yrs into his 65-yr career. Great circus feel; minimal reliance on stock footage.
Excellent actor 👍!!! He's never disappointing in any movie, he's in!! Try watching the 1962 Hammer version of "The Phantom Of The Opera". Tastefully different 🤔.
Herbert Lom is probably best known to most audiences from the Pink Panther films, but he did quite a few dramas (WAR AND PEACE, YOUNG MR. PITT) and horror films (AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA). His most unusual role, however, was onstage - portraying the King of Siam in the original London West End production of THE KING AND I (yes, he could also sing, or at least sing as well as Yul Brynner!).
wow! he must have been an incredible king. I always thought there really was no one like Yul Brynner, but I would have loved to see him!! thanks for letting us know :)
Lom also costarred with Richard Widmark in the noir film 'Night and the City'. Great film!!
@@shoshiwas Yes, great film!
Lom was great in Night And The City…excellent actor.
a good one. Herbert Lom is incredible and the crux of the whole plot, yet he gets 4th billing in small letters. at least he was at the top of that list! in the meantime, everyone of our age group knows who he is. an amazing presence on the screen and the cinematography used with him was just perfect as to how they wanted to present him. Al the actors were so good, especially the owner of the show - a hard part because he was an anchor for the rest of the action. thanks for this one :) 🤸🏽🤹🏻♀🌹
My oh my how Herbert Lom has changed over the years. My favorite Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the Servate'
Thank you for showing these wonderful old movies.🙂
Another great movie and quality upload from TCM! Thanks for posting.
Love how you give the story completely away, even before I got to watch it! Way to go!! Consider toning down the movies outcome!!!
I simply Love these old Black & White mystery thriller movies
These old films are terrific . They're just what the doctor ordered to take my mind off of having the few :)
:)
Thanks for sharing it with the rest of us.
Wow! Hammer superstar Terence Fisher as editor, Otto “Peeping Tom” Heller lensing it and David Farrar of “Black Narcissus” and “Small Back Room” in the cast? Fantastic!
Great old classic ! Thank you ! November 6,2019 .❤️🙏🏽🇨🇦
When I read the title of this movie I thought it was about a Dark Tower but I was wrong but I should have never read the title because I was wrong so that taught me a lesson..
Its about a circus that use to be back in the old days and for sure there is plenty of drama thriller and a crime and it's about love
Thanks for the upload T.C.M.
Ed
I thought by the title it would be different as well. Steven King version of Dark Tower?
Loved this film! TY for sharing it.
12-15-16 You know I've seen I think almost every ( Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Movie )
(BUT - THIS - ONE ) was exceptionally good -- nothing can ever replace these ma
masterpieces !!! (( - REALLY THANK YOU - ))
( I thank the person or organization that put this movie Up for everyone to enjoy)
lol u get around dont cha
Torg reminds me of a young Peter Lorre, and Yul Brenner, with hair, who actually by the way got his start in a circus!
Thank you for this brilliant movie. You made my day.
Really enjoyed this video and perfect timing. Thanks!
You're welcome! Thanks for your comment.
Really great.Lom is very convincing as usual.Long ways from Pink Panther ,ya know !?
Great movie 🍿 wonderful music & superb actors 🐿🌻 Such fun when “she did him a favour in marrying him” 🌝 and nobody looks anemic 🌜🥐🧀🥨🍒🌛Just love it 😊 Thank you for sharing 🌷
Considering I've read the original play by Woollcott and Kaufman, I can't see at all how this film is based on it -- there's absolutely nothing to compare it to. Character names, locations, plot points, everything is different. You'd be just as accurate by saying it's based on "TheTempest" by Shakespeare.
good to see you back!
Herbert Lom should have been hypnotising Panthers not lions. Haha. I often wonder how he got cast as Inspector Dreyfuss. He was funny in those movies tho. Thought he was sinisterly good in this but I also enjoyed him in The Lady Killers (1955) alongside Peter Sellers. Coincidence however at 43:04 woman says to Torg (Herbert Lom), "As a lady killer you'd be a scream". In 1955 he was.
Hey "Timeless"~ TMI in your synopsis!
@1:12, the ringmaster sorely misuses the word, "inimical".
Owner: " where do you come
from?"
Torg: " Nowhere. "
Owner: " What have you been
doing"?
Torg: " Nothing ".
Owner: Reaches for the desk
phone. " Security!! "
The Dark Tower, released 18 October 1943 (UK), Ben Lyon as Phil Danton; Anne Crawford as Mary; David Farrar as Tom Danton; Herbert Lom as Stephen Torg; Frederick as Willie Wainwright; William Hartnell (as Bill Hartnell) as Jim Towers; Josephine Wilson as Dora Shogun; Elsie Wagstaff (as Elsie Wagstaffe) as Eve Wainwright; J.H. Roberts as Dr. Wilson; Aubrey Mallalieu, Doctor; Patricia Laffan, Nurse; Peter Noble, Circus Worker; Jack Sharp; Jack Sharp, Circus Worker; Cecil Ayres Trio, Skaters; Victor Wood, Journalist.
Sunday morning, coffee, and these great movies! Thank you so much. 12-29-2019 😁
Watching right now in 2020
Why was it called "Dark Tower?"
Great movie, thanks.
wonderful movie. the colonels wife and her deadpan was hilarious.
Terence Fisher. Wonder if that's the same Terence Fisher that made some Hammer Horrors. Nice. :D
Yep - that's him.
Wow, including Anne Crawford which died so young in the 50th of leukemia aged 35.
You're right. Sad story. I knew her from the movie "Knights of the Round Table" from 1953.
Is Ann Crawford, Joan' s Sis?
@@EA-mh4gd Just seen your question. No. Joan Crawford was born Lucille LeSueur in 1904 & changed her name. I think Joan suited her tho.
Mary dropped the chair, and Dora got the "chair".
“That lion! He broke loose!”
Herbert Lom played a really bad character really well, Torg, his character was a megalomaniac who wanted to be worshiped as a god. The other, characters were all decent, caring people and heroic when they had to be, this is a good movie.
Chief Inspector Dreyfuss, Thanks for the upload
This can't possibly be the right title for this film. 😂
good story and excellent melodrama acting. TORG looks like a young Charles Boyer 10:30 PM March 21,2020
11/19/16: Getting ready to WATCH now.
jada you have one beautiful and trustworthy face
Looking at old movies, are best because they don't make movies like they used to. Black whites are my favorite movies🤗
Awesome!
David Farrar....Mr. Dean ❤️
I really liked this movie
The C 🐈❤️ A 🐈❤️ T. & The Moonstruck Scenic Delights
what is up with the Warner Brothers logo at the start? what era is that world map supposed to be from?
I was thinking the same thing. I have seen a *lot* of WB films from that era but never saw that logo before.
I think it is because during the war WB had a British studio. This is a British film released there.
Loom reminds me of Yul Brynner
He was a fine, versatile actor. I wish he'd been given more lead roles. - David Farrar...I wish he'd stayed longer in films.
I felt sorry for Torg.
52:33 "Hypnotize that one!"
Don't overdo the intro...you gave the whole movie away....less is more!!
I think the circus performers were all guilty. really creepy lot
The Gunslinger walks trough the Dessert, and the Man in Black followed him
It would get very messy, walking through dessert!
Does anyone know at what point Alexander Woollcott has his cameo?
My guess is that he was the doctor.
@@gailjarvis2592 According to the Wikipedia article:
"J.H. Roberts as Dr. Wilson
Aubrey Mallalieu as Doctor"
They do not list him in the cast.
Difficult for m m m Mary when Tom s not around and there's moonlight and a solo moonstruck
TOO MANY ADS!!!!!!!!
He bought a fancy convertible auto for 40$!
Yakk. It may be well to remember, a pound is not a dollar. A pound was (is) a paper currency reputed to represent the value of a pound of sterling silver. At the close of the war the exchange rate to the dollar varied at around four to one, that would have made the car cost about $160.00 at the time. Allowing for inflation, and remembering the price of things has not risen, rather, the value of currency has fallen, the adjusted price of the car would today be roughly $2,000.00 today. A reasonable purchase. I wish I could find one of those at that price now. Sadly vintage autos are even more rare in Britain than they are in the U.S. Cheers.
It was 40 Pounds, not Dollars; it was 1942 when being filmed, when a new car in the U.S. was $800; the Pound then was worth much less than the Dollar; the car was used and was likely 1/2 the cost of a new one; that car was not that fancy then --- only 2 seats, no trunk, unusable in bad weather, not fast & powerful like you're assuming.
I BOUGHT A A BEAUTIFULLY RUNNING1948 BUICK ROADMASTER WITH A STRAIGHT EIGHT IN 1971 FOR $50.00
A movie called The Dark Tower with a clown in it? Stephen King anyone?
Maybe Stevie saw this as a kid.
More Commercials than Movie.
Not a bad Movie though.
Terrible way they take this plot...
So many better angles too use.
40 minutes and no fucking crime? Bye
Ever been on a strange DATE like Mary 🌕🐦☁️☁️ n ❤️ Mr
Very watchable, Anne Crawford is delicious.
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I was trying to figure out why I didn't like this film, and I think it is because I don't like the circus. It was very popular in the 40s and 50s, but not anymore. Clowns creep me out, and I can't help feeling sorry for the animals. Torg was a little over the top for me. And again, just too much smoking. Notice Torg was chain smoking throughout the movie? Really disgusting. I understand film noir has this behavior, but this flick is just too much for me.
Circuses have been along for millenia. Ever hear of the Circus Maximus? Generationally, small circus troops traveled throughout the country - every country. Before the advent of movies and TV they were a major focus of entertainment and produced great talents with abilities that went from generation to generation in families. You would really enjoy reading the history of circuses. I'm sure. In the meantime, everybody say RIP to Barnum and Bailey. The music and lights are gone.
The film isn't about the circus but about the travails of the Ms Mary s cold moon night Affair becoming holy smoke. .... It's about losses in business being mishandled or a dextrous wily gulp letting in risk and going on speedily till the next blow strikes. It's about understanding of Tom the thinker and how to make your match work. .... It's .............
Lion Tamers Booo