The Film Noir File is FNB’s guide to classic film noir, neo-noir and pre-noir on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). The times are Eastern Standard and (Pacific Standard). All films without a new review have been covered previously in Film Noir Blonde and can be searched in the FNB archives (at right).
Pick of the Week: Summer of Darkness Film Noir Friday
The Czar of Noir Eddie Muller guides us through another great dark day of classic film noir.
Friday, June 19
6 a.m. (3 a.m.): “Cornered” (Edward Dmytryk, 1946).
7:45 a.m. (4:45 a.m.): “Crack-Up” (Irving Reis, 1946). Crooks in the art world face fearless critic. With Pat O’Brien and Claire Trevor.
9:30 a.m. (6:30 a.m.): “Gilda” (Charles Vidor, 1946).
11:30 a.m. (8:30 a.m.): “The Big Sleep” (Howard Hawks, 1946).
“The Killers” catapulted Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster to A-list status.
1:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m.): “The Killers” (1946, Robert Siodmak).
3:15 p.m. (12:30 p.m.): “Nobody Lives Forever” (Jean Negulesco, 1946). But we wish John Garfield had had a few more decades. Here, he puts the con on Geraldine Fitzgerald, and then falls for her.
6 p.m. (2 p.m.): “Nocturne” (Edwin L. Marin). Mediocre noir from George Raft, the actor who turned down the leads in “The Maltese Falcon” and “High Sierra.”
6:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m.): “Crossfire” (Edward Dmytryk, 1947).
8 p.m. (5 p.m.): “Hollow Triumph” (“The Scar”) (Steve Sekely, 1948). Paul Henreid plays a bad guy playing a classy shrink. With Joan Bennett.
9:45 p.m. (6:45 p.m.): “Mystery Street” (John Sturges, 1950).
11:30 p.m. (8: 30 p.m.): “Border Incident” (Anthony Mann, 1949).
1:15 a.m. (10:15 a.m.): “The People Against O’Hara” (John Sturges, 1951). Spencer Tracy and his Milwaukee boyhood pal and Hollywood Irish lunch buddy Pat O’Brien pull some courtroom shenanigans.
9:15 a.m. (12:15 a.m.): “Get Carter” (Mike Hodges, 1971).
Saturday, June 20
2:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m.): “All the King’s Men” (Robert Rossen, 1949).
11:30 p.m. (:30 p.m.): “99 River Street” (Phil Karlson, 1953). Good tough B, with John Payne as a framed cabbie.
1 a.m. (10 p.m.): “The Face Behind the Mask” (Robert Florey, 1941). Peter Lorre as a fire-scarred crime genius.
3:45 a.m. (12:45 am.): “Mean Streets” (Martin Scorsese, 1973).
Nebraska native Montgomery Clift stars as a priest in “I Confess.”
Monday, June 22
10 a.m. (7 a.m.): “To Have and Have Not” (Howard Hawks, 1944).
Tuesday, June 23
10:45 a.m. (7:45 a.m.): “A Place in the Sun” (George Stevens, 1951).
3 p.m. (12 p.m.): “I Confess” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953).
9:45 p.m. (6:45 p.m.): “The Last of Sheila” (Herbert Ross, 1973). James Mason, James Coburn, Dyan Cannon and murder on a yacht. Plays like an attempted cross of Patricia Highsmith and Agatha Christie.
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