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Post by london777 on Aug 8, 2019 21:03:00 GMT
... my Brit Noir thread is still stuck in Development Hell. get that brit noir thread going!  Believe me, I feel guilty about it. But there is so much going on my life at present (a lot of it bad), and the temperature here on Devil's Island has been pushing 100 F for many weeks, that I find it easier to watch great movies, and read some thoughtful reviews here by others, than write amateurishly about them myself. But I did post the shell for the topic here: Brit Noir threadand others are welcome to chip in until the temperature drops here, and I get my health, finances and "love-life" (I use the word ironically) sorted out a bit.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Aug 9, 2019 3:19:33 GMT
anyone seen the HUGO HAAS - CLEO MOORE films? i got a blu ray print of BAIT. MOORE looked great in ON DANGEROUS GROUND.
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 9, 2019 11:30:00 GMT
anyone seen the HUGO HAAS - CLEO MOORE films? i got a blu ray print of BAIT. MOORE looked great in ON DANGEROUS GROUND. , directed by Hugo Haas. A busty blonde (Cleo Moore) is fed up with waitressing, being pawed by the customers and harassed by the nasty owner, a man who cheated her father. She steals a big roll of cash from him, confesses when the police arrive, but doesn't give up the money. In prison she works hard and seems patient. When she gets out: who can she trust? Is the money cursed? There are good ideas here, some twists and heavy irony, but it's not very involving.  
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Aug 9, 2019 15:58:45 GMT
get that brit noir thread going! Believe me, I feel guilty about it. But there is so much going on my life at present (a lot of it bad), and the temperature here on Devil's Island has been pushing 100 F for many weeks, that I find it easier to watch great movies, and read some thoughtful reviews here by others, than write amateurishly about them myself. But I did post the shell for the topic here: Brit Noir threadand others are welcome to chip in until the temperature drops here, and I get my health, finances and "love-life" (I use the word ironically) sorted out a bit. Keep changing those underpants 
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Post by cynthiagreen on Aug 9, 2019 17:24:29 GMT
anyone seen the HUGO HAAS - CLEO MOORE films? i got a blu ray print of BAIT. MOORE looked great in ON DANGEROUS GROUND. I have seen em all except THY NEIGHBOURS WIFE which I'm advised is "lost" and they are all worth a look - probably the most interesting is HOLD BACK TOMORROW with Cleo as suicidal hooker comforting condemned man John Agar. The best Cleo though is a non Haas OVER EXPOSED, where she is an ambitious club photographer.... it is an absolute joy and on one of the BAD GIRLS OF NOIR compilations
 
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 10, 2019 1:13:52 GMT
Angel Face (1953)--maybe not that obscure, since so many others have mentioned it, but it doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves. Robert Mitchum stars; that alone is a recommendation.
Strangers in the Night (1944)--in no way related to the lovely Sinatra song, this was a B-movie that runs less than an hour, so it also doesn't get much attention. Directed by Anthony Mann, it stars William Terry as a Marine returning to the US after serving on Guadalcanal in WWII. He wants to visit a woman he's never met but with whom he's fallen in love through reading the many romantic letters she's sent him during his tour of duty. He arrives at her home,
occupied by her creepy elderly mother, who tells him her daughter is away but will be returning home soon. As days go by and the daughter never materializes, the Marine gets more and more suspicious about Mom and her sinister doings.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Aug 17, 2019 5:21:20 GMT
get that brit noir thread going! Believe me, I feel guilty about it. But there is so much going on my life at present (a lot of it bad), and the temperature here on Devil's Island has been pushing 100 F for many weeks, that I find it easier to watch great movies, and read some thoughtful reviews here by others, than write amateurishly about them myself. But I did post the shell for the topic here: Brit Noir threadand others are welcome to chip in until the temperature drops here, and I get my health, finances and "love-life" (I use the word ironically) sorted out a bit. cool. hope things chill out for ya!
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Oct 6, 2019 4:19:49 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 6, 2019 7:20:13 GMT
I love Hugo Haas' PICKUP.
Another one:
THE 3RD VOICE- Edmund O'Brien is hired to impersonate a rich business man who his ex-mistress wants to bump off and replace so she can continue to run the company with the imposter. Although the ending is a little contrived (no photographs in his training?) it nevertheless is a suspenseful concept that keeps you fully engaged.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Oct 7, 2019 7:07:46 GMT
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