Noir Alley

[Andree]

I thought you were talking about the Chinese Balloon. And Buddy, I don't watch movies like The Thing so I wouldn't know anything about that. Bon Appetit Oh, maybe it was the reporter who said that.

The original The Thing is considered a sci-fi classic and righfully so, but to each their own. If you don't like
The Thing you'd hate Alien.

Watch the fries!

[Andree]

Yep Vautrin..ahem..I mean Andree, I agree.

In fact, as I watched the final scene unfold the other night, I began thinking this scene especially had the look and feel of a Hitchcock directed film.

(...the camera movement and the lighting in particular)

I didn't think of Hitch at the time. The whole movie has a very atmospheric look to it. Off the top of my head it's a bit like
the frenetic ending to Strangers on a Train where the carousel crashes all over the place (and before that there's
the scrawny little guy who takes five minutes to go maybe fifteen feet to try to turn it off). Oops, I totally forgot about
the fire at the end of Rebecca when Danny goes up in flames. How unfortunate.

[laffite]

I thought you were talking about the Chinese Balloon. And Buddy, I don't watch movies like The Thing so I wouldn't know anything about that. Bon Appetit Oh, maybe it was the reporter who said that.

The original The Thing is considered a sci-fi classic and righfully so, but to each their own. If you don't like
The Thing you'd hate Alien.

Watch the fries!

Alien is my favorite Science Fiction movie.

[Andree]

Alien is my favorite Science Fiction movie.

Okay. When you said you didn't watch movies like The Thing I took that to mean you didn't like sci-fi/alien movies in general.
And Alien is a lot more graphic than The Thing. During one of those free cable channel weekends I watched the four Alien
movies. The first two are very good, the second two not quite up to snuff, but still entertaining.

[jamesjazzguitar]

"As for Scarlet Street: I have yet to find out how that got passed the Code censors. It is one of the key mysteries of the studio \ production-code era." Jazzy James

I thought we had that all figured out. Criss is insane. He has voices in his head. He is paying for the crime.

According the Production Code, one isn't paying for their crime unless they are punished by the legal system. The Code wasn't a vague standard but a fairly massive set of specific rules.

[laffite]

"As for Scarlet Street: I have yet to find out how that got passed the Code censors. It is one of the key mysteries of the studio \ production-code era." Jazzy James

I thought we had that all figured out. Criss is insane. He has voices in his head. He is paying for the crime.

According the Production Code, one isn't paying for their crime unless they are punished by the legal system. The Code wasn't a vague standard but a fairly massive set of specific rules.

Then Lang convinced them or paid them off.

Or his murdering was an unintended consequence. After all he is not really a criminal. And he could paint all those pretty pictures. Maybe the Panel of the Code actually felt sorry for him.

But year, it's a crux.

[jamesjazzguitar]

"As for Scarlet Street: I have yet to find out how that got passed the Code censors. It is one of the key mysteries of the studio \ production-code era." Jazzy James

I thought we had that all figured out. Criss is insane. He has voices in his head. He is paying for the crime.

According the Production Code, one isn't paying for their crime unless they are punished by the legal system. The Code wasn't a vague standard but a fairly massive set of specific rules.

Then Lang convinced them or paid them off.

Or his murdering was an unintended consequence. After all he is not really a criminal. And he could paint all those pretty pictures. Maybe the Panel of the Code actually felt sorry for him.

But year, it's a crux.

Well E.G. Robinson got away with something similar in The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse. Eddie G. is a doctor that gives criminal Bogie poison. Maybe the censors had a soft spot for Eddie G!

The doctor is ultimately caught by his friend, Inspector Lane, and placed on trial. He insists that he did everything for purely scientific reasons and claims that his book is a "sane book" and that it is "impossible for an insane man to write a sane book". His determination to show that he is sane, and therefore willing to face the death penalty, convinces the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity.

[laffite]

According the Production Code, one isn't paying for their crime unless they are punished by the legal system. The Code wasn't a vague standard but a fairly massive set of specific rules.

Then Lang convinced them or paid them off.

Or his murdering was an unintended consequence. After all he is not really a criminal. And he could paint all those pretty pictures. Maybe the Panel of the Code actually felt sorry for him.

But year, it's a crux.

Well E.G. Robinson got away with something similar in The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse. Eddie G. is a doctor that gives criminal Bogie poison. Maybe the censors had a soft spot for Eddie G!

The doctor is ultimately caught by his friend, Inspector Lane, and placed on trial. He insists that he did everything for purely scientific reasons and claims that his book is a "sane book" and that it is "impossible for an insane man to write a sane book". His determination to show that he is sane, and therefore willing to face the death penalty, convinces the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity.

L.O.L.

[Hibi]

Looking forward to this week's offering, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. I've never seen it and have been wanting to for so many years! I believe it's a TCM premiere.

[laffite]

Looking forward to this week's offering, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. I've never seen it and have been wanting to for so many years! I believe it's a TCM premiere.

Ooh boy, the vampires will love this one.

[Bronxgirl48]

Good points, Bronxgirl and jamesjazzguitar. I relish this film for several reasons, and find the music so much a part of the intrigue. Making the setting London during Guy Fawkes Day was also a little stroke of genius. It seems with Sanders present, there is always a sinister disdain for the simple, unabashed, passions of an artist or actor set to come to blows with his characters.

Thanks, Sue Sue, although I do think jamesjazzguitar makes the better ones.

Oh my gosh. Bernard Herrmann's score almost makes the film! The Guy Fawkes scenes leave memorable impressions, that's for sure. I was sort of spooked by the MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS Halloween bonfire so you can imagine how terrified I was by HANGOVER SQUARE, lol. (I'm such a weenie)

[ziggy6708a]

[Andree]

Wow. Is this what they call auto-erotic whatsis? Got to say, it feels pretty good.


Kiss the bland off my hand. Sort of a mixed bag. Man on the run story turns into kind of a sappy love story and then into a doomed
lovers one. I never liked the old I punched a guy and he hit his noggin on a hard object and that killed him. It was an accident,
nothing more. Whatever. It gets the plot going. Burt just happens to crawl through Joan Fontaine's window and not Marie Dressler's.
Thank goodness Robert Newton is along to add a spark to this thing, playing a creepy third-rate Harry Lime. The close ups of Newton
while he is trying to put the make on Joan are really frightening. Luckily there is a pair of scissors nearby. Bye bye, Bobby. When I
see someone in a truck near the end of a crime picture I figure someone might just be killed in a crash, but not here. Burt and Joan,
what a sweet kid, decide to fess up and turn themselves in. Not sure that is a wise move, at least legally. Newton was the only one
who was after Burt for the accidental killing and he's gone. And he was the type of crook who probably had a lot of enemies who
would make better suspects than Burt. So after serving their likely brief prison terms they can get together again. Fairly entertaining,
though the movie doesn't live up to that wonderful title. This flick was a surprise hit at the box office and a sequel was planned, to be
titled Lick the Vomit Off My Wingtips, but for various reasons it never happened.

[Dargo]

I loved reading both of the previously posted reviews up there of "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands" by kingrat and Vautrin..ahem..I mean Andree.

You guys pretty much covered every feeling and thought I had after watching Muller's latest Noir Alley offering.

(...and so I'll just add here that the more I watch of Robert Newton's various film performances, the more I think no one was ever more entertaining at playing these kinds of disreputable sort of characters as he was)