The great Joan Bennett is magnificent as always, fab black and white film. Stories from this era really are excellent. Great cast, watched it twice already, just as good as the first time.Thank you for sharing.
Omgosh!! What a great movie! What a 💔 ! Thank you for posting! We all who love film noir, surely appreciate you & others who are doing such a fabulous job getting these wonderful movies to us! God bless you for giving us options! Again, wow, what a great movie!
paul probably liked it so much because he knew it would be a career boost for him to do it OR perhaps extend his range as a actor not to mention credit to him as a producer
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I was born in 1937 and I remember in the forties seeing signs in gas stations for seventeen cents a gallon for gas and as for hats. Men and women dressed up with hats and gloves into the fifties for sure
Life must have been alot better in the 40s and 50s. People were so innocent it seems. Or maybe just naive IDK. I can't imagine .17 cents for a gallon of gas. Did everybody smoke back then? Its pretty rare to see someone that was born in the 30s using a computer. Stay safe Dian you rock...
Love the dramatics of the old film noir movies. So much more in depth than modern TV. In fact, I haven't really watched TV in at least 10 years. It's all on the internet. Incidentally, it's still possible to loose yourself in our society. There have even been books written about how to do it. So if life gets too difficult where you are just remember that you can start a new life whenever you want to in a new town. There's plenty of towns in America where you can get lost. If you're in the dope racket and want out, just split and start all over again. You can do it if you really want to.
real legit story telling. i actually seen this, i just realized and am enjoying it all over again. i am so impressed with this fascinating stuff. these guys blow minds!!
A women carried matches even I’d she didn’t smoke! When asked for a light , she would hold lit match with thumb and index fingers leaving other fingers slightly extended. He would would steady his smoke to be lit by touching 3 of his fingers to hers. Get it? ELECTRICITY!
You ought to try "Scarlet Street" and "Woman in the Window". She stars in both these classics with Edward G. Robinson and Dan Dureya. Absolutely first class and they're on TH-cam.
Great Noir, even if filled with plot holes; Still made for an enjoyable movie, acted well with all the great noir tropes. He certainly embraced the ciggies once he got started.Thanks PF.
Henreid was from a rich Austrian Jewish banking family and heg left Europe via England ahead of Hitler: he was lucky enough to get some romantic leads when at Warner Bros. but he wasn't needed as such after the war and he tried to shoehorn his aristocratic presence into cheap 'noir-era' thrillers like this one: he had plenty of work but it was a slide to the bottom.
Second noir plot involving mistaken identity. Causes me to wonder what the obsession was with body doubles in the 40s. Maybe Freud could tell us. On another note, love Joan Bennett.
I guess Paul Henreid and his brother were brought up in different countries. One has a strong Austrian accent, the other an American accent...or am I missing something?
@@PizzaFLIX Love the music, especially the Samson and Delilah motif (from Saint-Saens' opera) that is played whenever Bennett is around (or being referenced).
I think Ms. Bennett's talent was not fully shown in this particular film. Being one of the shinning stars in Hollywood at that time, she could easily bring much more depth and psychological dimension to her character. But her blue eyes, one could get lost on them!! Otherwise, a great film to watch. Thank you PizzaFlix
@41:00 wow! Instruments laid out perfectly on clean white linen, starts cutting into his face. Between smokes. With burning ciggy also laid out neatly with the instruments!
Paul Henreid is an American heavy, too include gangster language. Not quite sure if he fits. What does fit is the character played by Joan Bennet. The music is good too. The story is clever. Ultimately however, just terrific film noir! It's just so hard to see Henreid in anything other than Casablanca!
Not sure how he thought he would get away with it. He didn't even know where he lived or his wife's name LOL. Terrible story line but a great watch. Thanks Pizzafix, you have a brilliant channel.
I enjoyed seeing this movie again. Bennett could be hilarious with some of her dialogue. Henreid was a real chain cancer stick smoker. I checked to see what he died from and it wasn't lung cancer and surprised it wasn't. It was a stroke along with pneumonia. I think both were related to all the puffs he took in movies.
Have seen this at least four times and never thought about that huuuuge logic gap there. If they would have found him as "Bartok", why shouldn't they just have thought of that "Bartok" as a cover identity? It makes not too much sense actually.
@@allenschmitz9644 You mised the point of the film - that most people are so self-obsessed that they don't notice others (except for the cleaning lady on her knees).
To derredmax: yes gas was really 17 cents a gallon and as far as smoking, it is true. At least, for me. That most of the adults I saw smoked because it was considered sophisticated
Good film, but I always find this (double replacement) premise far fetched, particularly when the main character has an accent... Oh well, just a movie. I like the street scenes, the signs, the clothes, those hats.
Excellent film beat crap out of today's overrated actors n films they have very little talent today their stuck up stuck on themselves jerks there r no Bogeys no Hepburn's no coopers or Stewart's I could go on tommy Lee Jones can act tho
Preposterous yet engaging movie. Trials of assuming an identity is not a fresh idea; Bette Davis tried in the 1946 "A Stolen Life." Great noir achieved by Alton, ASC, who won an Academy Award for "An American in Paris." Also composer Charles Previn, cousin of Andre. First time I have seen a film need two Westmores, but the scars and stars looked great. The Hollywood make-up dynasty begun by George in 1917 who trained his six sons, thus lasting over 100 yrs, four generations, at least 11 frequently honored male make-up artists. Michael continues today, known for Star Trek and the reality program "Faces Off."
@@perpieta I'm in my 70's, seen tons of old movies. I love them, but never have I seen this much chain-smoking by one person captured on film. Thanks for posting the movie and for your opinion - I value both.
@@cherylmiller7929 Thanks! But I'm afraid I can't accept the thanks for posting the movie, cheryl miller -- that should go to the wonderful PizzaFlix. I agree PF deserves thanks for posting this movie (and many others!). Besides being entertaining, these old movies are such a great glimpse into the social mores and manners of the past.
@cheryl miller Btw, have you seen Hell's Island starring John Payne? That 1955 movie opens with the main character, who's been injured, being operated on -- and he asks for, and gets, a cigarette! Has to be seen to be believed ;)
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They did have finger printing technology back in 1947. In fact in the 1850s, fingerprinting was used by 1892... The Wikipedia article offers an excellent synopsis of the history and science....
What an AWFUL movie. An absurd and extremely far-fetched storyline with an idiotic, wretched and one-dimensional main character. Even his foreign accent couldn’t save him. And Joan Bennett! Her jaded character’s naïveté and implausible behavior was not believable. There was so much wrong with this movie. I can’t get over the positive comments.
@@jimreid6370 After Muller is traced to his new work place, he is chased.But next day,as if nothing happened, he is at the town Zoo,wandering around town having coffee. Normal response: flee town. Yet Script never at an idea how to bring Bennetts character into frame since Muller hardly could flee with a woman he never knew.
@Teresa S You clearly don't know the definition of one-dimensional! He successfully worked stamping papers and doing deliveries, as a mechanic and as a psychoanalyst. He was also a thief, a gang boss and a surgeon. A one-dimensional character would only've been able to do one of those things. Joan Bennett's charcter was the opposite of naive; she was cynical, world-weary and resigned to life being terrible.
How totally brain-dead of the writers. If the photo was reversed -- just as the criminal's image was in his own mirror -- the scar would end up on the correct side! But it didn't. Let's hear it for laughably shoddy logic.
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WOW! This was a great movie. Have never heard of this one, thank you for the post
Thanks for watching! May the Sauce be with you.
The great Joan Bennett is magnificent as always, fab black and white film. Stories from this era really are excellent. Great cast, watched it twice already, just as good as the first time.Thank you for sharing.
Omgosh!! What a great movie! What a 💔 !
Thank you for posting! We all who love film noir, surely appreciate you & others who are doing such a fabulous job getting these wonderful movies to us! God bless you for giving us options!
Again, wow, what a great movie!
Man, the script is just gorgeous. I love the conversational sparring. The framing shots are also gorgeous.
Love these old movies, anything with Joan Bennett is great.
She's gorgeous. Beautiful eyes.
anything with her is awesome.
So pleased that Paul Henreid liked the script so much that he put the money for it to be made. Thank you for posting.
paul probably liked it so much because he knew it would be a career boost for him to do it OR perhaps extend his range as a actor not to mention credit to him as a producer
Outrageously unbelievable plot but great acting & Joan Bennett was marvelous. I stuck with it till the end. Thanks...
Hi Pizza! Thank for all of the wonderful movies and shows you download for us. Especially with all the corona virus self, isolation news, these are very comforting, thank you.
I was born in 1937 and I remember in the forties seeing signs in gas stations for seventeen cents a gallon for gas and as for hats. Men and women dressed up with hats and gloves into the fifties for sure
God Bless you Dian
I was 2 in 1963. And I had a pair of gloves in the 1963 photo.
Life must have been alot better in the 40s and 50s. People were so innocent it seems. Or maybe just naive IDK. I can't imagine .17 cents for a gallon of gas. Did everybody smoke back then? Its pretty rare to see someone that was born in the 30s using a computer. Stay safe Dian you rock...
I am glad that you are nice.
@@DerredmaxTRIAX no one was innocent. The media projected the innocence to fool everyone. There was so much evil in Hollywood it's not even funny.
Love the dramatics of the old film noir movies. So much more in depth than modern TV. In fact, I haven't really watched TV in at least 10 years. It's all on the internet. Incidentally, it's still possible to loose yourself in our society. There have even been books written about how to do it. So if life gets too difficult where you are just remember that you can start a new life whenever you want to in a new town. There's plenty of towns in America where you can get lost. If you're in the dope racket and want out, just split and start all over again. You can do it if you really want to.
What about going to heaven or going to hell?
"You can run but you can't hide" (Joe Louis).
My second time seeing this in the last 8 months or so. Great flick; superb acting from the lead actor, and actress.
Such a GREAT Film Noir!
One of my favorites!
Thank you for sharing ❤️
real legit story telling. i actually seen this, i just realized and am enjoying it all over again. i am so impressed with this fascinating stuff. these guys blow minds!!
The slowest moving gas pump I’ve ever seen one dollars worth aren’t you going to check the oil
Terrific flick! With a few from Casablanca! Paul Henreid looks pretty good in a trench coat too!
Thank you, PizzaFlicks for your many videos.
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Clover garage, if your car isn't fixed, go to the 4 leaf.clover next door.
The brilliance of Joan Bennett at 19:00. "Goodbye!!" (2 seconds later) "What do you mean upsets a fellow?"
Very watchable movie you couldn't sleep through the out bursts of way too loud music!
Double Wow! Never heard of it, absolutely chilling!
Interesting film. Well photographed and interesting locations.
OK sweetheart...got a light ? Love these old B&W's !
A women carried matches even I’d she didn’t smoke! When asked for a light , she would hold lit match with thumb and index fingers leaving other fingers slightly extended. He would would steady his smoke to be lit by touching 3 of his fingers to hers. Get it? ELECTRICITY!
Fantastic movie! I love Joan Bennett in Dark Shadows, but have never seen her in anything else - til now. Enjoyed a pizza with my movie ;-)
You ought to try "Scarlet Street" and "Woman in the Window". She stars in both these classics with Edward G. Robinson and Dan Dureya. Absolutely first class and they're on TH-cam.
Really good film. 👍. Thank you!
great film! many thanks! keep up the good job :) my favorite channel :)
Some great stars here
Thanks once again 😊
Great Noir, even if filled with plot holes; Still made for an enjoyable movie, acted well with all the great noir tropes. He certainly embraced the ciggies once he got started.Thanks PF.
I saw this movie on Cuban TV in the late sixties. The scene with him giving himself a scar has stayed with me.
It did my head in. A photo would be a reverse image..in a mirror, reverse again..was he doing his on the correct side? Aaaarhgg!!
This movie is listed in IMDB as Hollow Triumph if you’re interested.
"Hollow Triumph" seemed to have some different scenes.
Wow, didn't see the ending coming. Reminds me of Antonioni's The Passenger, which was made much later (1975).
Great movie. A FIVE Pepperoni PizzaFLIX
Wow this was great! I’d never heard of this movie.
Joan Bennett - va va va voom!
Paul Henreid was so handsome. I love him!
Henreid was from a rich Austrian Jewish banking family and heg left Europe via England ahead of Hitler: he was lucky enough to get some romantic leads when at Warner Bros. but he wasn't needed as such after the war and he tried to shoehorn his aristocratic presence into cheap 'noir-era' thrillers like this one: he had plenty of work but it was a slide to the bottom.
Second noir plot involving mistaken identity. Causes me to wonder what the obsession was with body doubles in the 40s. Maybe Freud could tell us. On another note, love Joan Bennett.
Any body notice that one of the two bad guys who followed him in the beginning was Jack Webb? The one that said nothing.
The fat One who looked like a gangster?
I guess Paul Henreid and his brother were brought up in different countries. One has a strong Austrian accent, the other an American accent...or am I missing something?
Thanks for the upload. Music is too loud compared to the talking though.
your concern is beyond our control. Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you.
@@PizzaFLIX Love the music, especially the Samson and Delilah motif (from Saint-Saens' opera) that is played whenever Bennett is around (or being referenced).
I think Ms. Bennett's talent was not fully shown in this particular film. Being one of the shinning stars in Hollywood at that time, she could easily bring much more depth and psychological dimension to her character. But her blue eyes, one could get lost on them!! Otherwise, a great film to watch. Thank you PizzaFlix
She excelled at played the everyday working girl, the shop girl, etc., who often didn't get a break in life.
The observant dentist usually plays the part of a swede w thick accent had me fooled good actor
@41:00 wow! Instruments laid out perfectly on clean white linen, starts cutting into his face. Between smokes. With burning ciggy also laid out neatly with the instruments!
A great psychological thriller....
The guy really loves his Marlboros his lungs must be very unhappy ☹️ 😢😢😢
There's always a Johnny in her life.
This is listed on IMDb as "Hollow Triumph"
Furthers my theory that there is always a Johnny in old timey films.
Johnny or Joe.
That was a really good movie 💙
Paul Henreid is an American heavy, too include gangster language. Not quite sure if he fits. What does fit is the character played by Joan Bennet. The music is good too. The story is clever. Ultimately however, just terrific film noir! It's just so hard to see Henreid in anything other than Casablanca!
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Not sure how he thought he would get away with it. He didn't even know where he lived or his wife's name LOL. Terrible story line but a great watch. Thanks Pizzafix, you have a brilliant channel.
Not his wife. She was called Miss Taylor.
@@imalt8271 Virginia Taylor!
A very good movie. The 'Doc' sure could smoke 'em. His breath must have smelt like an ashtray, lol.
Great movie. Ironic ending. Sympathetic villain. This is 3 dimensional writing.
I enjoyed seeing this movie again. Bennett could be hilarious with some of her dialogue. Henreid was a real chain cancer stick smoker. I checked to see what he died from and it wasn't lung cancer and surprised it wasn't. It was a stroke along with pneumonia. I think both were related to all the puffs he took in movies.
Have seen this at least four times and never thought about that huuuuge logic gap there. If they would have found him as "Bartok", why shouldn't they just have thought of that "Bartok" as a cover identity? It makes not too much sense actually.
VERY nice movie💗but sad
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Class A!!!!
What is he living on? the money he stole?
He took a job at the garage.
Interesting but unlikely he could pass as the doctor, especially w/Joan Bennet's character. Enjoyed the ending (poetic justice). 4/2018
yea, that leaping scar thing would make her think she had too much to dream last nite, or was it the coffee?
@@allenschmitz9644 You mised the point of the film - that most people are so self-obsessed that they don't notice others (except for the cleaning lady on her knees).
@@crose7412 Wow I think your right. There had to be a reason for the cleaning lady scene.
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Great film👍😈
To derredmax: yes gas was really 17 cents a gallon and as far as smoking, it is true. At least,
for me. That most of the adults I saw smoked because it was considered sophisticated
very interesting movie.
Slightly preposterous but no less enjoyable for it. Thanks for posting. Joan Bennett was a dish.
Someone is. Always called Johnny.....
Yeah. It either one of these two names. Frankie or Johnny.
@@chirellealanalooney7895 or Joe
Joan.
Very good
I hate to say it but absolutely zero chemistry between Paul and Joan.
Good film, but I always find this (double replacement) premise far fetched, particularly when the main character has an accent... Oh well, just a movie. I like the street scenes, the signs, the clothes, those hats.
Paul Henreid is always Casablanca
Right O. Love that guy.
A good 🎥 😊👋
Joan Bennett was of Jamaican heritage.
Excellent film beat crap out of today's overrated actors n films they have very little talent today their stuck up stuck on themselves jerks there r no Bogeys no Hepburn's no coopers or Stewart's I could go on tommy Lee Jones can act tho
I was born in 1946
OMG that Mr. Thompson looked just like Pee Wee Herman!! OMG I am seriously shocked!!
lol I came here to make the same comment
joe friday was once a mobster glad he say the light
Muito bom 😃
Cant hear it
That guy is a real jerk
To which guy do you refer? Oh, I see. It's THAT guy.
A waste of precious time. The only thing worthwhile about it was watching Joan Bennet.
Good noir
I know we aren't suppose to notice but both with the same accent always bothers me
Funny Daniel Fuchs.
Oscar the scar.
bad audio levels
Star Trek theme
Had he not been shot, he would certainly have died from lung cancer after so much smoking !!
Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z . . . . !!!
29:44 . Cut and paste it for red pill content
Preposterous yet engaging movie. Trials of assuming an identity is not a fresh idea; Bette Davis tried in the 1946 "A Stolen Life." Great noir achieved by Alton, ASC, who won an Academy Award for "An American in Paris." Also composer Charles Previn, cousin of Andre. First time I have seen a film need two Westmores, but the scars and stars looked great. The Hollywood make-up dynasty begun by George in 1917 who trained his six sons, thus lasting over 100 yrs, four generations, at least 11 frequently honored male make-up artists. Michael continues today, known for Star Trek and the reality program "Faces Off."
Good movie but what a chain smoker!
Cigarettes back then were like phones today--people were tethered to them.
@@perpieta I'm in my 70's, seen tons of old movies. I love them, but never have I seen this much chain-smoking by one person captured on film. Thanks for posting the movie and for your opinion - I value both.
@@cherylmiller7929 Thanks! But I'm afraid I can't accept the thanks for posting the movie, cheryl miller -- that should go to the wonderful PizzaFlix. I agree PF deserves thanks for posting this movie (and many others!). Besides being entertaining, these old movies are such a great glimpse into the social mores and manners of the past.
@cheryl miller Btw, have you seen Hell's Island starring John Payne? That 1955 movie opens with the main character, who's been injured, being operated on -- and he asks for, and gets, a cigarette! Has to be seen to be believed ;)
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must of been a hat fetish in the 40s... prefer minis of the 60s GREAT MOVIE
@alan wilson so we're mini,s (if could get away with wearing em ! ) Bird brain.
They didn't have finger prints back in 1947 so doubt lurked around every corner!!....
They did have finger printing technology back in 1947. In fact in the 1850s, fingerprinting was used by 1892... The Wikipedia article offers an excellent synopsis of the history and science....
Ha ha ha ha ha..you got it, steve.
This movie is so dumb, it's great!
Pizza Flix always keep me watching ! Paul Henreid took command of a scene and entertaining, as was Joan with those great looks.
I was thinking the same.🤣
What an AWFUL movie. An absurd and extremely far-fetched storyline with an idiotic, wretched and one-dimensional main character. Even his foreign accent couldn’t save him. And Joan Bennett! Her jaded character’s naïveté and implausible behavior was not believable. There was so much wrong with this movie. I can’t get over the positive comments.
See it again you missed the point of it.😊
@@jimreid6370 After Muller is traced to his new work place, he is chased.But next day,as if nothing happened, he is at the town Zoo,wandering around town having coffee. Normal response: flee town. Yet Script never at an idea how to bring Bennetts character into frame since Muller hardly could flee with a woman he never knew.
@Teresa S You clearly don't know the definition of one-dimensional! He successfully worked stamping papers and doing deliveries, as a mechanic and as a psychoanalyst. He was also a thief, a gang boss and a surgeon. A one-dimensional character would only've been able to do one of those things. Joan Bennett's charcter was the opposite of naive; she was cynical, world-weary and resigned to life being terrible.
@Teresa S: Perhaps you should not watch B/W movies ever again. You clearly have trouble transporting your boring life into NOIR classics.
tHIS MOVIE SUCKS.
Hablo serio jovencito
@@Papa-o33963 - ???
How totally brain-dead of the writers. If the photo was reversed -- just as the criminal's image was in his own mirror -- the scar would end up on the correct side! But it didn't. Let's hear it for laughably shoddy logic.