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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 3, 2019 16:36:15 GMT
i wonder about the psyche of people who wrote this movie. do they have such a terrible view of humanity? this is a terribly depressing police procedural and thriller. DANA ANDREWS acted in some awesome depressing movies like LAURA, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES and this one. i dont know what to say about this film. it is beautiful to look at. i liked the lift that takes you to the villains loft. the villain is not really the villain. the main cop who cannot control his temper is the real villain. but he gets away with murder in the end. OTTO PERMINGER is a great director. even the title sequences are creative. GENE TIERNEY is so damn beautiful. KARL MALDEN plays an important role but he disappears after a while. this is a real classic. great successful countries like america produces such depressing movies that inspire depressing movies in third world countries. culture is transferred from the happy rich to the wannabe poor. the parts where the cop indulges in misdirection to mislead his colleagues is the best part of the movie.
(8/10)
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 3, 2019 17:13:23 GMT
i wonder about the psyche of people who wrote this movie. do they have such a terrible view of humanity? this is a terribly depressing police procedural and thriller. DANA ANDREWS acted in some awesome depressing movies like LAURA, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES and this one. i dont know what to say about this film. it is beautiful to look at. i liked the lift that takes you to the villains loft. the villain is not really the villain. the main cop who cannot control his temper is the real villain. but he gets away with murder in the end. OTTO PERMINGER is a great director. even the title sequences are creative. GENE TIERNEY is so damn beautiful. KARL MALDEN plays an important role but he disappears after a while. this is a real classic. great successful countries like america produces such depressing movies that inspire depressing movies in third world countries. culture is transferred from the happy rich to the wannabe poor. the parts where the cop indulges in misdirection to mislead his colleagues is the best part of the movie.
(8/10)
One of the basic definitions of the film noir genre/style is that it pictures the bad side of humanity. Here is what I said in a review for the weekly thread. Superior noir with Dana Andrews as Det. Mark Dixon, a cop with anger issues and violence directed toward anyone he deems a “punk” or a “hood.” Chief among his targets is mob boss Tommy Scalise (Gary Merrill), a smooth and confident gangster who can never be caught with blood on his hands. Tracking down a clue that might implicate Scalise, Dixon slugs a guy who falls down dead. Immediately, all Dixon can think about is hiding the body. (Why he doesn’t just admit what happened – after all cops get away with killing people every day – is explained later in the film.) Pretending to be investigating his victim’s disappearance, he meets the guy’s ex-wife, Morgan (played by Gene Tierney) and becomes attracted to her. When an innocent man is accused of the crime Dixon committed, he has to think fast. Suspenseful and engaging. You come to care what happens to Mark and Morgan. Bert Freed plays Dixon’s partner, Tom Tully is Morgan’s father, Karl Malden as the precinct lieutenant, and Robert F. Simon as the chief inspector are all excellent in their roles. Top notch.
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Post by hi224 on Mar 3, 2019 19:10:53 GMT
Shows how underrated Andrews was.
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 3, 2019 20:02:46 GMT
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 3, 2019 21:37:59 GMT
Where does the sidewalk end? Stock answer for noir lovers is quite simply - In the gutter of course! Lets have no more talk of Laura, eh? American city film noir directed by Otto Preminger with the screenplay written by Ben Hecht. The adaptation is from the novel Night Cry written by William L. Stuart and Joseph LaShelle provides the cinematography for the New York City shoot. It stars Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully & Karl Malden, with support coming from Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens & Neville Brand. Tough New York cop Mark Dixon (Andrews) is constantly in trouble with his superiors for his heavy-handed treatment of suspects. When disaster strikes during an altercation with Ken Paine (Stevens), Dixon chooses an unethical route and attempts to frame a gangster nemesis called Tommy Scalise (Merill). However, things don't go according to plan and not only does Dixon find himself falling in love with Paine's wife, Morgan Taylor-Paine (Tierney), but also that he is now mired in a quagmire investigation which sees Morgan's father, Jiggs (Tully), accused of the crime he himself is responsible for. Where The Sidewalk Ends was the final film noir piece that Preminger made for 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Then a director for hire, the film sees Preminger re-teamed with Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Joseph LaShelle, Ben Hecht and art director Lyle Wheeler, all of whom produced the excellent Laura in 1944. Whilst linking the two films together is understandable given the makers and the genre involved, the two are very different movies. Which to my mind makes a mockery of some critics looking unfavourably on "Sidewalk" because of the regard Laura is held. "Sidewalk" is more grittier, more violent and certainly darker (this is one troubled chip on the shoulder copper), in short this is big city noir and some way away from the socialite leanings of the more glossy Laura. There's a lot of quality involved here. Preminger astutely paces the story and manages to make Dixon sympathetic, thus fully doing justice to Hecht's tough and tight script that unravels in a world of cop shops, cafés, street side apartments and underworld hang-outs. All of which is given the perfect low-key (almost seedy) photographic treatment by the always visually appealing LaShelle. The cast, too, are doing great work. Tierney is a beguiling beauty throughout, something that works off of Andrews' more chiselled featured and emotionally conflicted portrayal rather well. It's arguably one of Andrews' best & most convincing performances, Dixon carries around with him much pain and bitterness due to his father having been a criminal. In a perverse bit of writing, Dixon essentially finds himself investigating himself, throw in a burgeoning romance with sharp kickers attached, and, shades of patricide, then it's a character in need of depth. Andrews steps up to the plate and layers it to perfection to give noir one of its finest policeman protagonists. The rest are effective, particularly Malden, Merrill and Brand, the latter of which is the tough guy actor who isn't William Bendix! If we have to pick flies? Then the ending carriers some Hollywoodisation baggage, and there's some implausibilities within the story. But really neither of those things stop the film from being the riveting genre offering that it is. So get out on that sidewalk with Dixon and see just what awaits us and him after Preminger has taken us for a murky stroll. 8/10
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 3, 2019 21:46:49 GMT
i wonder about the psyche of people who wrote this movie. do they have such a terrible view of humanity? this is a terribly depressing police procedural and thriller. DANA ANDREWS acted in some awesome depressing movies like LAURA, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES and this one. i dont know what to say about this film. it is beautiful to look at.
GENE TIERNEY is so damn beautiful.
(8/10)
I hope you get to see more film noir in its purest form because your opening statement is brilliant - in context to how you came to rate this at a justifiable 8/10 (film noir may just be your thing pimpin me old mucker). Gene Tierney is sexual chocolate, a truly gorgeous lady and a framed still of her hangs in my hallway next to Lauren Bacall in my noir darling dames section.
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 4, 2019 4:11:21 GMT
This was my Christmas present to myself a few months ago. Liked them all but Where the Sidewalk Ends was the highlight. Great noir!
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Post by Aj_June on Mar 4, 2019 4:19:56 GMT
I envy you, Pimpin. You are watching great films almost every other day. I remember I was going through a noir fever a decade ago and watched many noirs then and this was among them. I definitely liked it and much like you, I found it very depressing. But it was still a great piece of cinema.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Mar 5, 2019 7:41:18 GMT
i wonder about the psyche of people who wrote this movie. do they have such a terrible view of humanity? this is a terribly depressing police procedural and thriller. DANA ANDREWS acted in some awesome depressing movies like LAURA, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES and this one. i dont know what to say about this film. it is beautiful to look at. i liked the lift that takes you to the villains loft. the villain is not really the villain. the main cop who cannot control his temper is the real villain. but he gets away with murder in the end. OTTO PERMINGER is a great director. even the title sequences are creative. GENE TIERNEY is so damn beautiful. KARL MALDEN plays an important role but he disappears after a while. this is a real classic. great successful countries like america produces such depressing movies that inspire depressing movies in third world countries. culture is transferred from the happy rich to the wannabe poor. the parts where the cop indulges in misdirection to mislead his colleagues is the best part of the movie.
(8/10)
It's a terrific film, now go and check out THE DARK CORNER (1946) pimpin.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 14, 2019 23:53:29 GMT
i thought it was kinda...funny.
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