Linda Darnell was a very great actress in her own right. She seems to have gotten pigeon-holed into playing rough, “bad” women with a downtown mouth. That was a shame, because she could have played anything other than that. George Sanders? I could listen (and watch) him reading a phone book! Great little gem of a film! TYSM for posting this for free! God bless you. ♥️🕊✝️🙏👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙋♀️💕💜🕎🌹
One heck of a movie! The plot is 1940's pop psychology, but who cares? Laird Cregar dominates every frame he's in, John Brahm never did better, and...Bernard Herrman! It's incredible!
I saw this movie 30years ago, & have been looking for it ever since. The mini biography at the end was a great surprise. Thank you so much for sharing. Love your channel. 🤗🥰👍
Linda Darnell began her illustrious career sometime in the late 30's. She had no plans of ever becoming an actress, but her mother, who failed in the profession, was hell bent on her daughter becoming an actress and lived her dream vicariously through young Linda. Even as a teenager, she was a strikingly good looking girl with a Latin flavor because of her dark hair. 20th Century Fox and Daryl Zanuck kept their eyes riveted on her. It wasn't long before she began starring in pictures with heart-throb Tyrone Power in such films as Brigham Young, Day-time wife and Mark of Zorro. The public were crazy about Linda and couldn't have enough of her. She continued with steady work in Chad Hanna, Blood & Sand [this film won wide critical acclaim plus was a box-office success too]. In Summer Storm she played her first femme-fatale role, an angel with a devil's soul. Zanuck tried hard to get her in his clutches, but in vain. Linda was more interested in a blooming career than a blossoming romance. Linda's best work, in my estimation, came with these three films: A letter to 3 wives, Hangover Square, and Fallen Angel. The roles she essayed in these three films resonate even to this day. Two weeks ago, I revisited A letter to three wives and I was once again wonder-struck with the ease with which she essayed such complex roles with layers. Her ace-in-the-hole was how closely her movie persona and her real-life were in sync. She wouldn't bed any man for even the best role, even if he was the head of a major studio. The lady has principles.
I love 💕 the music 🎶. It’s right up my alley. Although I love most all kinds of music 🎶 except hard rock and rapper, if that could be called music. I was in the parking lot at Walmart one night and a teenager pulled up beside me and he had his window down and his stereo was on full blast and he was listening to a rapper and that was the nastiest thing that I’ve ever heard. 😱😱😱😳😳😳
@winonamassingill7895...I agree wholeheartedly about rap. Is isn't music. I don't know what term should be used for it, but it sure isn't music in any sense of the word. I am 72 and I grew up with real musicians playing real instruments and actually singing and harmonizing to a tune. And we wonder why society has become so angry and violent...!!
I really fell in Love with this Actor....His talent ....so horrible the sad ending and so young! I would've been a Great Fan of his because he was a Brilliant Actor!👏✌
For many years, all I possessed about this movie was a theatre-flyer or herald. It was sometime in the 80's that I managed to get my hands on a good copy of this movie through DVD. Laird Cregar, who played a classical musician, suffers from lapses in memory and couldn't recall what he did earlier, good or bad. The past just draws a blank. He does take a fancy to a showgirl, played to the hilt by the lovely, Linda Darnell. He is more than generous to her and gives her all that she needs, but she deceives him. Not able to bear this set-back , he finishes her off and dumps her body among the Guy Fox pyrotechnics . Performance-wise, Laird Cregar is excellent, literally living the role of the musician; Linda Darnell too is excellent in another role that cemented her image as a femme-fatale. Another great performance from the wonderful Ms. Darnell was "Fallen Angel" in which she grabbed eye-balls opposite Dana Andrews and Alice Faye.
He had a stroke which left him with an inability to live the life he wished, it was apparently devastating for him, he could no longer play the piano......
Linda Darnell was a fine and consummate actor. Just see where Jeanne Crain and Debra Paget ended by playing only wall-flower roles or window-dressing, as it was popularly known. Southern
@@patrickryan1515 He was diagnosed with Dementia and had suffered a stroke as well. It was said that he put down five bottles of a barbiturate and suffered cardiac arrest (no kidding!).
Interesting movie. It's somewhat ironic that all three lead actors died from other than natural causes. In the chaos during the fire scene at around 1:15:30, the microphone boom, and the technician's arm holding it, can be briefly, but clearly seen. It shows up in another shot too.
The thuggi cult was a Hindu sect that worshipped the goddess cali. They showed their devotion by robbing and strangling travelers. Our English word thug is derived from their name. I'm almost certain the rebellious force of Indians in "gunga din" are thuggi
@@garryferrington811 "Way too much"... hahaha, which movies? The majority today is secular garbage or has straight-out attacks on religion. If one movie a year is "too much" for you, then you're not tolerant of others.
You are struggling to realise all great literature is somewhat religious. Good and evil do not exist without God.... they just become human value systems, which leads to totalitarian regimes.... Nazis , Stalinist Russia or Moa's cultural revolution..... God bless🙏
tu es en train de regarder un bon film crac!on te fout une pub sur les articulations .Les imbéciles qui vendent leur poudre de perlimpinpin s'imaginent-ils faire du fric ainsi ?RAS LE BOL !
Good story. Excellent acting by Laird Cregar. Others acted well too.👌
These brilliant films are timeless classics. Thanks so much for sharing them with us all.
Linda Darnell was a very great actress in her own right. She seems to have gotten pigeon-holed into playing rough, “bad” women with a downtown mouth. That was a shame, because she could have played anything other than that.
George Sanders? I could listen (and watch) him reading a phone book!
Great little gem of a film! TYSM for posting this for free! God bless you. ♥️🕊✝️🙏👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙋♀️💕💜🕎🌹
One heck of a movie! The plot is 1940's pop psychology, but who cares? Laird Cregar dominates every frame he's in, John Brahm never did better, and...Bernard Herrman! It's incredible!
I saw this movie 30years ago, & have been looking for it ever since. The mini biography at the end was a great surprise. Thank you so much for sharing. Love your channel. 🤗🥰👍
I agree. The biop that came on after the film was very good and interesting.
Enjoyed the movie 👍🏻✔️
Linda Darnell began her illustrious career sometime in the late 30's. She had no plans of ever becoming an actress, but her mother, who failed in the profession, was hell bent on her daughter becoming an actress and lived her dream vicariously through young Linda. Even as a teenager, she was a strikingly good looking girl with a Latin flavor because of her dark hair. 20th Century Fox and Daryl Zanuck kept their eyes riveted on her. It wasn't long before she began starring in pictures with heart-throb Tyrone Power in such films as Brigham Young, Day-time wife and Mark of Zorro. The public were crazy about Linda and couldn't have enough of her. She continued with steady work in Chad Hanna, Blood & Sand [this film won wide critical acclaim plus was a box-office success too]. In Summer Storm she played her first femme-fatale role, an angel with a devil's soul. Zanuck tried hard to get her in his clutches, but in vain. Linda was more interested in a blooming career than a blossoming romance. Linda's best work, in my estimation, came with these three films: A letter to 3 wives, Hangover Square, and Fallen Angel. The roles she essayed in these three films resonate even to this day. Two weeks ago, I revisited A letter to three wives and I was once again wonder-struck with the ease with which she essayed such complex roles with layers. Her ace-in-the-hole was how closely her movie persona and her real-life were in sync. She wouldn't bed any man for even the best role, even if he was the head of a major studio. The lady has principles.
Married and divorced three times. Alcoholic most of her adult life.
I love 💕 the music 🎶. It’s right up my alley. Although I love most all kinds of music 🎶 except hard rock and rapper, if that could be called music. I was in the parking lot at Walmart one night and a teenager pulled up beside me and he had his window down and his stereo was on full blast and he was listening to a rapper and that was the nastiest thing that I’ve ever heard. 😱😱😱😳😳😳
@winonamassingill7895...I agree wholeheartedly about rap. Is isn't music. I don't know what term should be used for it, but it sure isn't music in any sense of the word. I am 72 and I grew up with real musicians playing real instruments and actually singing and harmonizing to a tune.
And we wonder why society has become so angry and violent...!!
They are angered by what they see in the mirror each morning.
Wow, what a sad story of Laird Cregar😿
Glad to have found this. Many thanks, Groovy Movies.
Thanks, too, for the biography of Cregar.
I really fell in Love with this Actor....His talent ....so horrible the sad ending and so young! I would've been a Great Fan of his because he was a Brilliant Actor!👏✌
Laird and Linda both died untimely. A great loss to the film industry
She died from burns from a house fire she was in 1965. When I saw the part of her body being put on top of the bonfire, I cringed 😔
@@katsspace4688 Nice observation.Thanks.
George Sanders also died somewhat 'untimely', as he committed suicide. Various reports say it was either ant poison or sleeping pills.
Well I enjoyed that great film Great actors thank you
Awwww, I didn't know George killed himself. So terribly sad. Just love his style and voice. Loved him Portrait Of Dorian Grey. ❤😢
For many years, all I possessed about this movie was a theatre-flyer or herald. It was sometime in the 80's that I managed to get my hands on a good copy of this movie through DVD. Laird Cregar, who played a classical musician, suffers from lapses in memory and couldn't recall what he did earlier, good or bad. The past just draws a blank. He does take a fancy to a showgirl, played to the hilt by the lovely, Linda Darnell. He is more than generous to her and gives her all that she needs, but she deceives him. Not able to bear this set-back , he finishes her off and dumps her body among the Guy Fox pyrotechnics . Performance-wise, Laird Cregar is excellent, literally living the role of the musician; Linda Darnell too is excellent in another role that cemented her image as a femme-fatale. Another great performance from the wonderful Ms. Darnell was "Fallen Angel" in which she grabbed eye-balls opposite Dana Andrews and Alice Faye.
*Guy Fawkes*
Great score.
Even if you covered him in garbage, George Sanders would still have style!
Now you’re talking.
Really good! Held my attention all throughout!
Incredible!
Wow. For so many reasons ... ty! 💙💖
Thanks for the cool noirror!
A very good movie even despite the ending.
Very good actors very good movie .❤❤
quite atmospheric and mood drenched. Good direction by John Brahm. Well worth seeing!
Wonderfully dusty!!love these movies 🎬 🎞
Great movie great acting 💯👏👏👏👍🌟🌟❤
Great film. Heartbreaking ending.
brilliant
Also, a shout out for George Sanders who took his own life when he was 65 and left a suicide note stating that he was bored!
How sad. 😢😢😢😢😢
He was about to die anyhow.
He was very ill and in constant pain.
He had a stroke which left him with an inability to live the life he wished, it was apparently devastating for him, he could no longer play the piano......
George Sanders is one of my most favorite actors. It was very sad that his last year's were very sad. Thank you for posting this !!! 📽️📽️📽️
Awesome movie
Linda Darnell was a fine and consummate actor. Just see where Jeanne Crain and Debra Paget ended by playing only wall-flower roles or window-dressing, as it was popularly known. Southern
Such a sad ending to a great actor died to young just to get slim😢😢😢😢😢
Probably taking amphetamines. They started as a diet drug. Killed Oliver Hardy, too.
@@garryferrington811Not nearly as lethal as cocaine/ crack.
Ironic, but I had a friend at school called Laird Craig - both, perhaps, unusual names
Politicians hate Guy Fawkes night.
It might give people ideas.😮
wow what a user. so far the only horror ive seen is the way she's behaving.
Excellent. Nero plays whilst Rome burns.
TH-cam has some of John Brahm's greatest movies.
Very good film enjoyed this. Thuggie cord eh? Gives me some food for thought, know some people İ could use it on!!
Agree, a thrilling film, nice story line.
Good job you're no enemy of mine 🙏😁
Nice 🎉
Twenty seven years later George Sanders killed himself. He left a note saying that he was bored. 😢😢😢😢😢
He was also terminally ill (I do believe).
@@patrickryan1515 He was diagnosed with Dementia and had suffered a stroke as well. It was said that he put down five bottles of a barbiturate and suffered cardiac arrest (no kidding!).
Wow 😳
Released February 7th,1945
Exactly six months before Enola Gay madre a trip to Japan
I like the part when the spaceship came down and took the girl away.
Interesting movie. It's somewhat ironic that all three lead actors died from other than natural causes. In the chaos during the fire scene at around 1:15:30, the microphone boom, and the technician's arm holding it, can be briefly, but clearly seen. It shows up in another shot too.
Linda Darnell was severely burned in a house fire and later died.
Is the music by same guy as 'Taxi Driver'?
Yup. The great Bernard Herrmann!
The noise thing is a little silly. Otherwise good plot.
Isn't this supposed to be in Color? Natalie Kalmus is credited as a Technicolor Director (she also co-developed the process).
Older Horror movies are typically black and white
Oh lady you better watch out. You’re cruising for a bruising. 😢😢😢😅😅😅
Thuggy cord. Never heard that one.
The thuggi cult was a Hindu sect that worshipped the goddess cali. They showed their devotion by robbing and strangling travelers. Our English word thug is derived from their name. I'm almost certain the rebellious force of Indians in "gunga din" are thuggi
@@ludditeneaderthal The bad guys in Temple of Doom were trying to bring back the cult.
a good movie very well acted. But the "symphony" at the end is terrible, switched the sound off.
It was a concerto, and the music is great.
I’m surprised that they’re were women there and they seemed to be enjoying the show also. 😮😮😮😮
Color
No, black and white.
I don’t think that movies should be a reason for people to get on their soapbox’s about their religion.
There's way too much of it.
@@garryferrington811 "Way too much"... hahaha, which movies?
The majority today is secular garbage or has straight-out attacks on religion. If one movie a year is "too much" for you, then you're not tolerant of others.
You are struggling to realise all great literature is somewhat religious. Good and evil do not exist without God.... they just become human value systems, which leads to totalitarian regimes.... Nazis , Stalinist Russia or Moa's cultural revolution..... God bless🙏
@@yogoombah2356👍exactly, probably the greatest writer of/on the human condition Fyodor Dostoevsky in my opinion proves the necessity of God......🙏
Movies are made for whomever makes them, pays for them, or watches them. Your opinion fits you, not everyone else.
tu es en train de regarder un bon film crac!on te fout une pub sur les articulations .Les imbéciles qui vendent leur poudre de perlimpinpin s'imaginent-ils faire du fric ainsi ?RAS LE BOL !