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Post by mr6667 on Dec 6, 2022 20:08:34 GMT
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Post by briannh2ok on Dec 7, 2022 5:19:43 GMT
I'm beginning to think I really missed out on not seeing "Decoy" this past weekend. The Jean Gillie character seems to have struck a nerve. I'll have to check if it's showing up on Demand now. Since we moved earlier this year, our new cable provider has only a fraction of the TCM movies available. Our old service would carry about 100 titles on average.
Well, we'll see. And if not, then I'll keep checking the schedules for the next time it's shown.
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 7, 2022 9:50:32 GMT
I'm beginning to think I really missed out on not seeing "Decoy" this past weekend. The Jean Gillie character seems to have struck a nerve. I'll have to check if it's showing up on Demand now. Since we moved earlier this year, our new cable provider has only a fraction of the TCM movies available. Our old service would carry about 100 titles on average.
Well, we'll see. And if not, then I'll keep checking the schedules for the next time it's shown. |
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Post by cmovieviewer on Dec 11, 2022 10:42:00 GMT
This week’s edition of Noir Alley was pretty extreme. In the introduction for Walk Softly, Stranger, Eddie gave away the plot for the first half of the movie and then in the wrap-up he completely trashed the ending of the film.
I had watched the movie prior to this evening so I didn’t mind, but I think anyone seeing it for the first time would be better served to watch Eddie’s comments after the movie, if possible.
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Post by Fading Fast on Dec 11, 2022 11:53:26 GMT
This week’s edition of Noir Alley was pretty extreme. In the introduction for Walk Softly, Stranger, Eddie gave away the plot for the first half of the movie and then in the wrap-up he completely trashed the ending of the film. I had watched the movie prior to this evening so I didn’t mind, but I think anyone seeing it for the first time would be better served to watch Eddie’s comments after the movie, if possible. |
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Post by Moe Howard on Dec 11, 2022 17:00:25 GMT
First time for me with WALK SOFTLY, STRANGER.
The constant impending doom for Cotton was thoroughly enjoyable.
Once again, I think Eddie was a little too harsh in his critique. Yes the ending is a bit far-fetched, still not completely unlikely.
*SPOILER ALERT*
Yes, surviving the crash has to be a fairly low order of probability, people have walked away from worse. And while I have no first hand experience, it seems reasonable that your aim could be affected by a car careening out of control. So Eddie's "3 to the back" may not be the death sentence it could have been under more stable circumstances. But Eddie is quite right, the most preposterous part is that Cotton is in jail at all. Yeah, yeah, Cotton is a bad guy so can't be seen getting away with it.
All that said, I was very disappointed in the end because I was SURE we'd see Cotton sitting his own wheel chair at the end. 
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Post by Hold the Mayo on Dec 26, 2022 21:53:43 GMT
Saw Mr. Soft Touch on YT a year or so ago. It did not improve on a second viewing. The romantic comedy part is nothing special and the noir part
is underwhelming. Put the two together and it's not very interesting, neither flesh nor fowl. Sometimes that works, sometimes not. Mr. Soft Touch
is in the latter category. The true mr. soft touch was the person who greenlit the whole project.
I liked Walk Softly, Stranger more. As a noir it's pretty routine, but I always enjoy the theme of the mysterious stranger who moves into a new town/city
and sets tongues waging and the locals wondering if he is up to, if anything. And Cotten was definitely up to something, even though it was in another
place. It is pretty unbelievable that Joe survived being shot three times, but it's only a movie. Same with the corny happy ending. All in all, not bad.
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Post by Hold the Mayo on Jan 9, 2023 21:55:39 GMT
Don't Bother to Knock (the Rock). I haven't seen this one in 10 or 15 years. Not bad. I enjoyed the setting of an upper class big city hotel and that whole
mid 20th century American semi-sophisticated environment with nightclub singers and the friendly bartender. And into it comes a green, mentally
challenged babysitter. What could go wrong in this place. Got to feel a bit sorry for Dicky Widmark. In his rye fueled imagination, he's hoping to play
a game of screw the babysitter, but instead finds a crying brat and a woman with a few emotional problems. Ouch. I didn't buy that the former bad
boyfriend of Anne Bancroft turns, after a few panicky hours with Marilyn, into a mensch, but it's only a movie. I got a kick out of Elisha Cook. Jr. telling
Marilyn that when he gets off from work he'll bring her a Coke. Whoopee, a whole bottle of Coke. That's what an uncle does. The rather claustrophobic
setting of the hotel also helps a bit. And I can't think that more than a few real life babysitters have thought of tying and gaging their charges up in
some situations. All in all, a pretty routine production with some interesting parts to it, but maybe not enough to make it very memorable.
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Post by Hold the Mayo on Jan 15, 2023 22:33:30 GMT
 Hey cuz, you got some of those funny cigarettes? These things are bad for your health. Bobby is a stubborn, independent man (who at 40 still lives with his parents) who transports moonshine for his pappy in his
souped up hot rod so he can keep the family in chitlins, greens, and Red Man. Now he is getting squeezed by two sides--the feds
out to bust the family's operation and the big city organized crime figures who want to take control of the local moonshine biz.
Mountain man Bob will have none of that stuff and he rebuffs both. In between runs, he spends time with his opposites attract
girlfriend (Keely Smith). Along for the run is Mitch's real life son Jim, who plays his kid brother in the movie. Jim wants to follow
in Bob's footprints as a shine runner, but Bob keeps discouraging him from this goal. Bob decides to make one last run and anyone
who does that usually ends up in a bad spot. Bob's tires are punctured by stop strips and he crashes into a small Duke substation,
which is surprisingly enough actually working. That's all she wrote. Some good car racing sequences and a fair amount of action
keeps Thunder Road entertaining, as does the theme of hard working, downhome small time criminals battling hard working city
slicker criminals and the love story of Mitchum and Smith is sweet without being too saccharine. Punctured tires will blow you
away. Burke's Law. {Mitchum didn't really have a big hit with his song The Ballad of Thunder Road. It never made it higher
than #62 on the Billboard Hot 100. But give Bob an A for effort.}
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Post by kims on Feb 26, 2023 16:32:51 GMT
Eddie just said no Noir Alley in March (for 31 days of Oscar) AND APRIL!!! for a month long tribute to Warners!!! Good grief, Warners made noir. I've considered asking on this board if anyone else noticed that TCM repeats films more often than in the past. Pondering, not trying to start a conspiracy theory, will TCM become like FXM playing the same roster of films over and over ad nauseum.
I'm upset that a celebration of Warners can't include Noir Alley. On the internet, what is the equivalent to storming the Bastille with torches and pitchforks?
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Post by BingFan on Feb 26, 2023 16:43:29 GMT
Eddie just said no Noir Alley in March (for 31 days of Oscar) AND APRIL!!! for a month long tribute to Warners!!! Good grief, Warners made noir. I've considered asking on this board if anyone else noticed that TCM repeats films more often than in the past. Pondering, not trying to start a conspiracy theory, will TCM become like FXM playing the same roster of films over and over ad nauseum. I'm upset that a celebration of Warners can't include Noir Alley. On the internet, what is the equivalent to storming the Bastille with torches and pitchforks? |
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Post by hoganman1 on Feb 27, 2023 23:32:35 GMT
I'm on the same page with you that two months is too long to preempt Noir Alley. I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for my Sunday noir fix.
What did ya'll think of HUNT THE MAN DOWN? I really liked it. Gig Young was great. It was really sad to learn how his life ended.
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Post by kims on Feb 28, 2023 1:28:54 GMT
I also enjoyed it. I read somewhere Gig committed suicide, but not that he killed his wife. I was shocked to hear that.
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Post by cmovieviewer on May 14, 2023 10:31:23 GMT
Some Noir Alley trivia:
In his wrap-up for Flamingo Road this evening/morning, Eddie mentioned that Zachary Scott has now appeared in 8 movies on Noir Alley. Here are the films with Zachary Scott that have been shown on Noir Alley, along with the first air date:
06-22-2019 Shadow on the Wall (1950)
11-30-2019 The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
05-09-2020 Mildred Pierce (1945)
09-12-2020 Danger Signal (1945)
07-03-2021 Guilty Bystander (1950)
11-19-2022 The Unfaithful (1947)
02-18-2023 Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
05-13-2023 Flamingo Road (1949)
Eddie said there are 2 more such films coming up this year. One is Flaxy Martin (1949), scheduled for June 17. I don't think the 2nd title has been revealed yet. The most likely candidates are:
Born to Be Bad (1950)
Whiplash (1948)
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Post by Fading Fast on May 14, 2023 12:35:06 GMT
Some Noir Alley trivia:
In his wrap-up for Flamingo Road this evening/morning, Eddie mentioned that Zachary Scott has now appeared in 8 movies on Noir Alley. Here are the films with Zachary Scott that have been shown on Noir Alley, along with the first air date:
06-22-2019 Shadow on the Wall (1950)
11-30-2019 The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
05-09-2020 Mildred Pierce (1945)
09-12-2020 Danger Signal (1945)
07-03-2021 Guilty Bystander (1950)
11-19-2022 The Unfaithful (1947)
02-18-2023 Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
05-13-2023 Flamingo Road (1949)
Eddie said there are 2 more such films coming up this year. One is Flaxy Martin (1949), scheduled for June 17. I don't think the 2nd title has been revealed yet. The most likely candidates are:
Born to Be Bad (1950)
Whiplash (1948)
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