https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.00PNajyFCSwPqIBSCFj6zAAAAA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain We have the DVD set of the Hildegarde Withers movies. Oliver definitely better than the ones who followed. Actually, Murder on A Honeymoon is a favorite of ours - watch it often. Withers was on vacation and decided to ...

I watched MURDER ON A HONEYMOON (1935) , which featured EDNA MAE OLIVER in her final appearance as HILDEGARDE WITHERS- a NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL MARM who solves murders in her spare time with the help of a police detective played with visible reluctance by JAMES GLEASON. it's the third in a charming a...

... I don't believe it has or will be shown, but I've always liked Mitchum's It's A Wonderful Country . A western set in Mexico and US with comedic moments. TCM showed The Wonderful Country (1959) early in the morning on January 10 as a continuation of Robert Mitchum westerns that began the previou...

The Grass is Greener at 8 PM on Tuesday is a great little comedy with Robert Mitchum, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and Jean Simmons. Farewell My Lovely at 2 AM on Wed morning is the best version of the book that I have seen. Although it does deviate in a significant area. The music and cinematography re...

Though STAGE FRIGHT isn't one of my favorite Hitchcocks, I do like the flashback. I'm sorry I missed Eddie's comments . In general, I don't think of Hitchcock as being noir, though STRANGERS ON A TRAIN is an exception. You can find Eddie's intros and outros on YouTube within a day of the showing.

This week-end Noir Alley presents Woman in Hiding (1950) with Ida Lupino, Howard Duff and Stephen McNally. The lobby poster for it on Wikipedia has a statement that it is "Not Suitable for Children." ID's will be checked! :lol: On a sour note, it appears Noir Alley will be preempted in Feb...

For some, or maybe no, reason I liked Stage Fright this time around more than I thought I would and I've seen it three or four times over the years. It's still not top-drawer Hitchcock, but fairly decent. The unreliable flashback is a bit of a cheat, but I can live with it. I caught a noir on YT a ...

I prefer the Falcon movies over the Saint movies also. I feel there was a constraint in that the Saint was a literary character and so screenwriters had to work within the character's published canon. There was no such restriction in writing the Falcon. Many traits of the Falcon could change from m...

Jan 12 is a morning of Saint movies. My favorite is The Saint in Palm Springs . The ones with George Sanders are much better than the ones with Hugh Sinclair. On the other hand, I think the similar series of Falcon movies are better than the Saint ones and the ones with George Sanders' brother Tom C...

Cold Comfort Farm? You must have seen something nasty in the woodshed, Skimpole, because that's the right answer! The old lady is played by Sheila Burrell, whom I've seen on stage many times. She was Laurence Olivier's cousin. Great film, thoroughly enjoyable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYd9I5...

So Haas wagered $85,000 on Americans having a taste for sleaze? How could he miss. While it's the old wife trying to bump off hubby for the money and using her boy toy to do the dirty deed plot, what's different in this one is nobody is killed. The boyfriend chickens out and the wife packs her suit...

Watched Pickup and around about the middle it got boring, but then it picked back up. Probably not a movie I would watch again. Beverly Michaels did give a good performance as a trashy girl. Then there was Miss America 1952(?) I have One Girl's Confession on DVD, starring Cleo Moore with Hugo Haas a...

Jan 06 and Noir Alley returns with Pickup. This one is a Hugo Haas production in which he also stars. Not sure if I have seen it, but not a Hugo that I remember if I have. Be interesting to hear what Eddie has to say about it.

HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951) Great cast, usually ignored it, but caught all the parts I'd missed. Yes, absurdly impossible. Comic? VINCENT PRICE is kind-of PERFECTLY over-the-top. There are long stretches where we don't see ROBERT MITCHUM at all... and RAYMOND BURR at his most menacing. Hee hee hee! ht...

At 9:45 PM TCM shows The Big Steal (my favorite movie) followed by His Kind of Woman (another of my favorite movies). They follow Out of the Past and Steal pairs Mitchum with Jane Greer again. The two movies show how excellent an actress Greer was and how great she could have been if not for Howard ...