Clifton Webb, what a subtle, sly , delicious actor of great skill and sophistication. His character here is very much like his Waldo Leidecker in Laura.
I keep reading that Clifton Webb played quite a few very likable characters. Yet, so far, the only ones I've seen him in, he's been these really intensely-self-centered arrogant BASTARDS. This film felt like a thematic follow-up to "LAURA", if Leidecker had actually conned the woman he was OBSESSED with (that's not "love") into marrying him. I still remember the first time I saw "LAURA", thinking, Webb would have made a perfect "Dr. Smith" on "LOST IN SPACE". More intelligent, malevolent and dangerous than Jonathan Harris!
Lucille Ball was very beautiful and very talented. Wow! I haven't seen William Bendix in such a long time. That is one reason I like to watch old films. You see actors at every stage of their lives.
Boy did Ms Ball look great: lovely complexion, great hair and wonderful profile. Her talent was legendary, on top of it all. I Love Lucy was a favorite of millions, including me. RIP
I read somewhere that Lucille Ball began her acting career as a blond. I couldn't tell for sure from a black and white film if she is blond or red haired in this film. I think blond!
Excellent movies, perfect crime noir! Stardust eyes, Ms. Balls eyes were so beautiful over coffee hearing the story) two bottle mix with one hand, the need for new nylons well made clothes and a nickel roll for brace knuckles! Good guys and “RATS” , how can you not love these great movies! Thank you for sharing!
When a film opens with "Street Scenes " you know you are in for a film noir treat. Fast talking, shady characters spewing double entendre. Shadowy streets where everything happens at night. Oh, and a skirt with long gams who can't say No. Thank you!
"Street Scene'' was composed by Alfred Newman for a 1931 Samuel Goldwyn film of the same name. When Darryl F. Zanuck hired Newman to run the 20th Century-Fox Music Department in 1940, he told Newman to use the ''Street Scene'' theme for New York-themed Fox films. Newman is not the credited composer for this film, but he probably told his brother, Emil (the film's conductor) to use the theme.
We love Lucy, you love Lucy...I LOVE Lucy! The first time I watched Lucille Ball playing a serious dramatic roll; I was in complete and total shock - amazed by her staggering range and versatility. She can nail a dramatic role as well as comedy.
Hi I ❤ Lucy too ,check out the movie she was in where she played a gangster girlfriend big cabaret singer ,I shouldn't tell you anymore ,I forgot the title . Excellent tear jerker.
Guy at the bar that the detective talks to is MR REED HADLEY who had HIS OWN TV SERIES in the mid 1950s: RACKET SQUAD!!!! He was also the reporter sailing with the U S MARINES on to GUADALCANAL in the 1943 film: GUADALCANAL DIARY also featuring WILLIAM BENDIX and LLOYD NOLAN/ANTHONY QUINN/PRESTON FOSTER/RICHARD CONTE****
Lucille Ball is my favorite actress of all time. Loved her in her 3 Lucy shows and in at least 10 of her movies - b/w and color. #1 Lured; #2 Dance, Girl Dance, #3 The Dark Corner b/w. #2 Lucy did all her own singing. While people mention Stage Door - her part is very small; also in "The Big Street" with Henry Fonda, well played, but an unusual part for her. Co-starred with Bob Hope 4x; with Henry Fonda 2x; and with William Holden, and other greats as well. Even before she hit comedic gold with "I Love Lucy" her comedic talents came thru: Du Barry Was a Lady; Easy to Wed; and in the Hope pictures and in Dance Girl Dance. She could sing and dance but that's another story. Thank you Lucy for the many hours of laughter you gave to me, and need I say, to the world as well.
She was a gift to the Movie Industry,yet Hollywood did not give her the praise admiration Lucille Ball deserved. Desi Arnaz,the husband she so adored,should have never divorced the woman who helped him into the movie industry. Remembering how talented she was. She will never be forgotten
@@dgm2485 You are referring to Long Long Trailer. Please see above the movies Lucille Ball was in. Also, she and Desi starred in Forever Darling which was not as well received as The Long Long Trailer - however I liked it.
A great film noir and to see Lucille Ball is a real treat. She had such wonderful comic timing even in a film noir. She was definitely underrated by Hollywood.
Excellent movie!! Lucille Ball is in top form, (always, in my opinion) Mr Bendix was perfect as the vindictive henchman and Mr Webb well he is so convincing as a snobbish conniving gallery owner! Just watch this movie👍👍👍!!
@@lindaibarra5614 The PHILO VANCE character was way better than Nick Charles. I'm hoping somebody actually goes and does proper RESTORATIONS on those first 3 Paramount films, all 3 of them the currently-available prints are in dreadful shape (especially the 3rd one), and they deserve better treatment.
@@henrykujawa4427 well I've only seen the old movies with the actors and actresses in the thin man with his co star Myrna loy. I've heard of Philo Vance but never seen those films
Comedy is great, but This film shows us the Lucille Ball worth remembering. Lucy broke a lot of New ground within the constraints of a 'prudish' film & television industry. She deserves our recognition and our respect for the subtle ways she utilized humor to bring the industry closer to the real world. May we Never forget the heroism of All the 'Iconic Greats' like Ms. Lucille Ball !!! Much gratitude to 'Silver Screen Classics' & 'You Tube' for sharing this 76 year old classic And LUCY at her best !!!
AND Mission: Impossible! Her only mistake was listening to her 2nd husband and selling Desilu to Paramount. They had no interest or respect for Desilu's TV series.
@@henrykujawa4427 Actually I heard her 2nd husband gave her bad advice in some areas, but I heard from her daughter that her mother never wanted to be a head of a studio, and waited till it was worthwhile to sell it. After all, Lucy was in The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, both as main actress and producer and Head of Desilu too. She said to her friend Carol Burnett when the Cuban was with me all I had to do was just be the "Lucy"character and intimated that the work was tripled and she was tired doing so much.
I too "loved Lucy". Talent and beauty and brains....she started the first female film studio! My memories of her in I Love Lucy and the spin-off..."The Lucy Show" will always be there...... wonderful to see her in this serious role as Well! Rest in peace from a beloved fan...
Dang, another heretofore unknown movie featuring Lucille Ball that rocked. Maybe it's that I only know her from Lucy and seeing her outside that character is so refreshing but dang she had stage presence. Bonus points for seeing Clifton Webb as a villain ala his role in "Laura". Don't forget Bendix either....his role as "Gus" in LIfeboat has stuck with me. Good Movie all the way.
I found it funny the similar parts Clifton Webb played in this and Laura considering he was gay. It was like the characters simply admired beauty and may have been slightly ambiguous in action. Art imitating life? I've read Webb lived at home with his mother's ghost! Loved his disdainful characters.
This is a very fine Film Noir, it's very high on my personal list. All the actors are cast to perfection, except for one. Towards the end of the film the woman who turns on the lights in the gallery. (she does a good job so I have no criticism of her), but how I would have loved to see Hillary Brooke play that part. If you know Hillary Brooke's work you'll know what I mean. (perhaps she wasn't under contract to this studio, I don't know). Although I think this film is splendid, there is one that I like even more.'Laura' also with Clifton Webb. If you haven't seen 'Laura', and can tale a look, see what you think?....and yes, Lucille Ball is wonderful in this. Frankly, I love Film Noir as a genre.
You have to love these old films from the 1930s to 1950s, I enjoy the clothes, the cars, the music, the street scenes. I prefer watching these old films to today's Hollywood output to be honest.
This is a great movie.I'm have always been a Lucy fan and this is a good part for her .She was so talented in any part she ever played. It came so natural to her.
Great 40s movie. Don't know why. Lucy didn't do more drama she's great at it such a versatile actress...too bad the really great actors are gone...and really beautiful ones..
@@tomripsin730 Also Marc Daniels, her first director on I Love Lucy, said she was the best actor he had ever directed which included Paul Newman, Olivier and the like. When Orson Welles appeared on I Love Lucy and was assiduously watching Lucille Ball for a while, when asked what are you looking at? He said the best actress ever.
Tom Ripsin: Maybe you are right - Welles said about Lucille is best actress in America. Considering Marc Daniels and Orson Welles so taken by Lucille abilities (Welles knew her in the 1940's) Also, listening to her writers Madelyn Pugh and Robert Carroll and two other Bob writers on the ILL show, all said when she did her first reading she wasn't so good, but as the days went by she got better and better till the point that nobody could do it better. Also, can you ice skate? No, but give me two weeks (by gosh she did it); also, can you play the sax? no really played a bit in high school, give me some time, as time went she was told Stop, you're getting too good and you sup to be terrible in the skit. Same thing about throwing pizza in the air, she would always says give me two weeks. Very funny. Love the abilities, the determination and whatever it is - it's WOW!
THOSE WERE THE DAYS. LIFE WAS SIMPLER, FAMILIES WERE CLOSELY KNIT, CRIME RATE WAS LOW AND MORALITY WAS PRETTY HIGH. DAMM IT I WISH WE WERE BACK TO THAT LIFE STYLE.
Millions of lives had been wrecked by the war, don't forget, and some 70 million lives had been lost. It was hardly a time to be "blissful" (Wordsworth)
World War II JUST ENDED a year before this movie was released. HARDLY a time when 'life was simpler". People always say this and it is really idiotic. Yes, the world was filled with morals when the Nazi prison camps were brought to public attention when the elite knew of them for YEARS!!!! So much for "simpler, and a high moral time". People were starving throughout Europe. People murdered and killed and cities and countries destroyed. Wow. Wake up.
I felt Lucille was still beautiful in I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show. One of my favorite scenes is when Lucy does a Gracie Allen type banter with George Burns, then they did a song and dance skit together. Lucy was 55 and George was 70 - great, enjoyable and Lucy looked beautiful. Also, in the Lucy Show which involved Dean Martin, again great acting, fun, the two stars were phenomenal together and she looked beautiful. Lucy said that was her favorite show of the series - Dean was a pleasure to work etc etc.
Also two of her movies that got panned - one with Desi (Forever Darling) and the other Mame - while they were not her best, I still liked them and have seen them more than once. The only movie that I felt was terrible, Critics Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball - now that was awful. (both stars agreed)
@@LJ-ht4zs Critics choice wasn't that bad. My Lucy & Desi fav is the Long Long Trailer. I have a house around the corner that looks exactly like the house in the scene where he takes out her relatives porch. I smile everyday when I see it
I saw Lucille Ball on The Lucy Show with George Burns - they did a Burns & Allen skit together which was great, then did a song and dance number. Lucy looked beautiful (age 55) and George was a spry 70. When they show her modeling pictures in NYC she was breath taking - as beautiful as any of the top glamour women of Hollywood.
Great mystery. It kept me guessing how he was going to get out of that jam. Loved the gallery. I noticed a Vermeer, Girl with the Pearl Earring when he entered. I notice the strangest things when I watch a movie. 😂
Both in this and other noir films, (Lured) she still had comic timing. (DuBarry Was a Lady, Easy to Wed). I have read that the cinema folks did not realize her star potential esp in the comedic areas. I do doubt it - have always seen her in many films, always had it, then and later. I think that it why she landed the radio show, "My Favorite Husband", which led to I Love Lucy.
This is a very good film. Very dramatic about the cinematography and great characters. Henry Hathaway was a great director. Thanks so much for uploading it. 🙏
It's interesting that Henry Hathaway was "known" for Western movies. But he directed many types of films. The director has much more to do with the "quality" of a film than anyone else involved.
What a cliff hanger! So many plot twists. In spite of reading a post first saying Bendix would get pushed out of a window, it was unexpected and I gasped. What a beautifully timed scene. GREAT FILM. THANK YOU!
The script is sharp and witty. The revelation however is Lucille Ball, not playing the zany wife in the TV series, I love Lucy. Real mean would melt in her presence. Her potential wit is in the timing of her delivery. Excellent film noir.
Enjoyed this very much. Memories flood back of the 1960s where everything stopped in the UK on a Sunday afternoon to watch The Lucille Ball Show and I Love Lucy. Great to see her in a straight(ish) role. I'm surprised there was no credit for the opening and closing title music which is from Alfred Newman's 'Street Scene'. The music score is credited to Cyril Mockridge but the listing of Alfred's younger brother Emil as music director is surely key.
The constant clanging you hear is the 3rd Avenue Railway streetcars in Manhattan the 3rd Ave. El runs overhead from Battery Park to the northern most part of the Bronx. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC.
it's interesting to note that this film has no musical score per se; all of the music that's heard is diegetic, i.e., it occurs in the environment of the narrative, coming from sources such as radios, phonographs, dance orchestras, street organs, etc. studio composer cyril mockridge receives screen credit for the music, so he probably made the selection of music for scenes where it would be required, and may have been consulted about sound design for the use of traffic sounds, auto horns, subway bells, etc., that feature so prominently here. the music that underscores the main and closing titles is film composer alfred newman's famous "street scene" theme, first used in the 1931 film of that name (produced by samuel goldwyn). it was used in several films over the years, perhaps most notably as an overture of sorts to the 1953 comedy "how to marry a millionaire."
The bells you heard were streetcars gongs, not subway trains. The streetcars were the 3rd Ave. Railway and the train over the street was the 3rd Ave. El that went from Battery Park to the Bronx via 3rd Ave. I am a New Yorker.
the music playing during the scene between jardine and cathcart's wife is the popular harry warren-mack gordon ballad "the more i see you," introduced the year before in the fox musical "diamond horseshoe," starring betty grable and dick haymes.
They really knocked it out of the park with this one and Lucy totally stole my heart. But the atmosphere, the cinematography, directing, script, makes this one of my favorite noirs. I like Mark Steven’s too, though I read some negative comments on his performance. I have to strongly disagree. Oh yeah, William Bendix….great job playing the creep.
Another home run!! Lucille Ball was great, and she was one great Secretary. Actually, she was the main reason he survived! The only thing I missed was, why did the evil art dealer hate Gault, and wanted to pin the murder on him in particular! How did the the art dealer know him!
The art dealer wanted Jardine dead, cause he was having an affair with his wife. He knew, or found out that Jardine had a negative relationship with Gault; Jardine had framed Gault in the past, and would be a likely candidate to kill him. Wanted Jardine dead and wanted Gault framed for it.
Not one commenter mentioned that our hero detective MARK STEVENS was in a KOJAK episode about 30 YEARS LATER around 1976* Thats the episode where he tells KOJAK to use that BALD HEAD FOR SOMETHING WORTHWHILE while KOJAK finds a stash of narcotics in STEVENS apartment and STEVENS has CAPTAIN McNEILS WIFE kidnapped to trade for the narcotics before the trial!!
From 1957 til 1961 we had delivery of fresh milk once a week from the milk truck. Sometimes the market 1 block away had no more milk. It came in glass bottles with cardboard caps. The market had 2 cash registers with a rolling mat to move the products. This was in Woodside, Queens, NYC during the Mad Men era.
LOVE THESE MOVIES BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE PEOPLE DRESS, LIKE THE FURNITURE AND THE CARS, REGULAR TELEPHONES AND NO INTERNET.
It’s because of internet I’m able to view these films
I mainly agree Jose but there is no need to SHOUT.
@@abdulseaforth6930 ….that’s true
the irony is lost on you
Absolutly right hermano. Look how aglee things are today..see woke people...
I grew up watching these old movies with a elderly neighbor.
She was my babysitter.
I really like the old b/w movies.
Clifton Webb, what a subtle, sly , delicious actor of great skill and sophistication. His character here is very much like his Waldo Leidecker in Laura.
I keep reading that Clifton Webb played quite a few very likable characters. Yet, so far, the only ones I've seen him in, he's been these really intensely-self-centered arrogant BASTARDS. This film felt like a thematic follow-up to "LAURA", if Leidecker had actually conned the woman he was OBSESSED with (that's not "love") into marrying him. I still remember the first time I saw "LAURA", thinking, Webb would have made a perfect "Dr. Smith" on "LOST IN SPACE". More intelligent, malevolent and dangerous than Jonathan Harris!
Lucille Ball was very beautiful and very talented. Wow! I haven't seen William Bendix in such a long time. That is one reason I like to watch old films. You see actors at every stage of their lives.
Boy did Ms Ball look great: lovely complexion, great hair and wonderful profile. Her talent was legendary, on top of it all. I Love Lucy was a favorite of millions, including me. RIP
I read somewhere that Lucille Ball began her acting career as a blond. I couldn't tell for sure from a black and white film if she is blond or red haired in this film. I think blond!
Love I love Lucy
Long live Desilu Productions.
And she gave us Star Trek
@@mikedaniels3009 And Mission Impossible
If y'all like this movie with the great Lucille Ball, you'll love Lured with George Sanders and fascinating appearance of Boris Karloff.
Lured is my favorite Lucille Ball movie
I agree - "Lured" my favorite film Lucille Ball ever stared in - great story and great cast.
Check out the Hitchcock-type series
Karloff hosted, Thriller.
Excellent movies, perfect crime noir!
Stardust eyes, Ms. Balls eyes were so beautiful over coffee hearing the story) two bottle mix with one hand, the need for new nylons well made clothes and a nickel roll for brace knuckles! Good guys and “RATS” ,
how can you not love these great movies!
Thank you for sharing!
When a film opens with "Street Scenes " you know you are in for a film noir treat. Fast talking, shady characters spewing double entendre. Shadowy streets where everything happens at night. Oh, and a skirt with long gams who can't say No. Thank you!
"Street Scene'' was composed by Alfred Newman for a 1931 Samuel Goldwyn film of the same name. When Darryl F. Zanuck hired Newman to run the 20th Century-Fox Music Department in 1940, he told Newman to use the ''Street Scene'' theme for New York-themed Fox films. Newman is not the credited composer for this film, but he probably told his brother, Emil (the film's conductor) to use the theme.
The iconic Lucille Ball she was definitely a beautiful woman back in her day tremendous talent also rest in peace Ms Ball...
Clifton Webb is always a treat, class act and great dresser.
A great cooincidence.....two great fifties sitcom stars only a few years later....Ball in I Love Lucy and William Bendix in The Life of Riley!
Lucille Ball was such an amazing actress
One of the greatest lines in film noir history: "there's a pepper-pot under the hat, buster. Let's take a walk."
We love Lucy, you love Lucy...I LOVE Lucy! The first time I watched Lucille Ball playing a serious dramatic roll; I was in complete and total shock - amazed by her staggering range and versatility. She can nail a dramatic role as well as comedy.
Me too! I ❤ Lucy
Fun to see her in an early role- so wholesome
She was a babe in a Three Stooges Short.
I think Leslie Nielson started in dramatic roles and ended as a comic genius too.
@@mochiebellina8190 and an Imp in a very very early film called Zigfried Follies. Im not sure how to spell it)
Hi I ❤ Lucy too ,check out the movie she was in where she played a gangster girlfriend big cabaret singer ,I shouldn't tell you anymore ,I forgot the title . Excellent tear jerker.
" How I detest the dawn; the grass always looks like it's been left out all night." What a line....I'll have to remember that one...!!
Guy at the bar that the detective talks to is MR REED HADLEY who had HIS OWN TV SERIES in the mid 1950s: RACKET SQUAD!!!! He was also the reporter sailing with the U S MARINES on to GUADALCANAL in the 1943 film: GUADALCANAL DIARY also featuring WILLIAM BENDIX and LLOYD NOLAN/ANTHONY QUINN/PRESTON FOSTER/RICHARD CONTE****
Well finally, after accidentally watching a couple of depressing movies 🍿, I watched this uplifting one ☝️ that has left me with a happy 😊 heart ❤️
Lucille Ball is my favorite actress of all time. Loved her in her 3 Lucy shows and in at least 10 of her movies - b/w and color. #1 Lured; #2 Dance, Girl Dance, #3 The Dark Corner b/w. #2 Lucy did all her own singing. While people mention Stage Door - her part is very small; also in "The Big Street" with Henry Fonda, well played, but an unusual part for her. Co-starred with Bob Hope 4x; with Henry Fonda 2x; and with William Holden, and other greats as well. Even before she hit comedic gold with "I Love Lucy" her comedic talents came thru: Du Barry Was a Lady; Easy to Wed; and in the Hope pictures and in Dance Girl Dance. She could sing and dance but that's another story. Thank you Lucy for the many hours of laughter you gave to me, and need I say, to the world as well.
She was a gift to the
Movie Industry,yet
Hollywood did not
give her the praise
admiration Lucille
Ball deserved.
Desi Arnaz,the husband she so
adored,should have
never divorced the
woman who helped
him into the movie
industry.
Remembering how
talented she was. She
will never be forgotten
One of my favs is the Long Long Trailer...
@@dgm2485 You are referring to Long Long Trailer. Please see above the movies Lucille Ball was in. Also, she and Desi starred in Forever Darling which was not as well received as The Long Long Trailer - however I liked it.
Lucille ball is soooo beautiful❤
The Music, and the choice of music in this movie, is absolutely dreamy and beautiful, and I love it !🥰😁
The movie is great too !🥰😁
I've watched this movie a few times over the years and it's still fantastic. Lucille Ball is icing on the proverbial cake.
Still fantastic😂.
Good movie! They don’t make them like that anymore. Ms Ball is wonderful !
The problem today is
People want instant entertainment
They don't want to think
To used to having mysteries
Solved in 60 minutes
Great to see and hear Eddie Heywood and his orchestra. His piano playing was superb and who can forget Canadian Sunset back in the day.
Two bottles , one handed pour..... my new hero.
Love finding these hidden gems.
A great film noir and to see Lucille Ball is a real treat. She had such wonderful comic timing even in a film noir. She was definitely underrated by Hollywood.
Don't think Lucille Ball was underrated ...very loved & popular
Well her and Desi, started Desilu
Studios..which had lots of shows
It's weird, similar to Leslie Nielsen🤣
Even Ted Knight did Noir. Before Mary Tyler Moore
60 million people watched I love Lucy 💖
If underrated, certainly not under paid.
"I spell my name: Danger". This really is a great film yet forgotten.
Excellent movie!! Lucille Ball is in top form, (always, in my opinion) Mr Bendix was perfect as the vindictive henchman and Mr Webb well he is so convincing as a snobbish conniving gallery owner! Just watch this movie👍👍👍!!
Lucille Ball mentions William Powell, popular at the time for his Philo Vance detective movies, nice pop culture reference.
Yeah, i did catch her reference to the thin man;
@@lindaibarra5614 The PHILO VANCE character was way better than Nick Charles. I'm hoping somebody actually goes and does proper RESTORATIONS on those first 3 Paramount films, all 3 of them the currently-available prints are in dreadful shape (especially the 3rd one), and they deserve better treatment.
@@henrykujawa4427 well I've only seen the old movies with the actors and actresses in the thin man with his co star Myrna loy.
I've heard of Philo Vance but never seen those films
Great film. Thank you. It wonderful to find a movie that you never heard of that is well made and is this good.
Lucy sure had fabulous eyes.
Lucille Ball, as we've never seen her before. Drama does work well for her. I'm impressed ❤.
I never saw this movie, and it is awesome! Thank you for posting. Clifton Webb was perfect in this role.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful film noir. The sets and photography were excellent and all the actors, superb. 👍👍
Comedy is great, but This film shows us the Lucille Ball worth remembering. Lucy broke a lot of New ground within the constraints of a 'prudish' film & television industry. She deserves our recognition and our respect for the subtle ways she utilized humor to bring the industry closer to the real world. May we Never forget the heroism of All the 'Iconic Greats' like Ms. Lucille Ball !!! Much gratitude to 'Silver Screen Classics' & 'You Tube' for sharing this 76 year old classic And LUCY at her best !!!
Lucille Ball, brains, , beauty, and besides our beloved I Love Lucy, the reason we had Star Trek!
AND Mission: Impossible! Her only mistake was listening to her 2nd husband and selling Desilu to Paramount. They had no interest or respect for Desilu's TV series.
@@henrykujawa4427 Actually I heard her 2nd husband gave her bad advice in some areas, but I heard from her daughter that her mother never wanted to be a head of a studio, and waited till it was worthwhile to sell it. After all, Lucy was in The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, both as main actress and producer and Head of Desilu too. She said to her friend Carol Burnett when the Cuban was with me all I had to do was just be the "Lucy"character and intimated that the work was tripled and she was tired doing so much.
Soundtrack and acting pretty good. " Do you want me to call the quiz kids ? " Full of one liners !
I too "loved Lucy". Talent and beauty and brains....she started the first female film studio! My memories of her in I Love Lucy and the spin-off..."The Lucy Show" will always be there...... wonderful to see her in this serious role as Well! Rest in peace from a beloved fan...
I really liked her in 10 different movies 1/2 in b&w and 1/2 in color.
Dang, another heretofore unknown movie featuring Lucille Ball that rocked. Maybe it's that I only know her from Lucy and seeing her outside that character is so refreshing but dang she had stage presence. Bonus points for seeing Clifton Webb as a villain ala his role in "Laura". Don't forget Bendix either....his role as "Gus" in LIfeboat has stuck with me. Good Movie all the way.
I found it funny the similar parts Clifton Webb played in this and Laura considering he was gay. It was like the characters simply admired beauty and may have been slightly ambiguous in action. Art imitating life? I've read Webb lived at home with his mother's ghost! Loved his disdainful characters.
All the actors and especially Lucy have done a beautiful job with this film . I love it . May they all RIP . 💐🌹🌼🌺🌻🌷🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
This is my second time seeing this film and it never gets old. Lucy is such a treat.
Terrific film noir murder mystery. One of the best movies on You Tube.
Yes she was great.
Great movie!
My favorite Redhead of all time! ❤❤❤l legend!
Funny, Mark Stevens will appear in a movie with William Powell. ' Dancing in the Dark' 1949.
This is a very fine Film Noir, it's very high on my personal list. All the actors are cast to perfection, except for one. Towards the end of the film the woman who turns on the lights in the gallery. (she does a good job so I have no criticism of her), but how I would have loved to see Hillary Brooke play that part. If you know Hillary Brooke's work you'll know what I mean. (perhaps she wasn't under contract to this studio, I don't know). Although I think this film is splendid, there is one that I like even more.'Laura' also with Clifton Webb. If you haven't seen 'Laura', and can tale a look, see what you think?....and yes, Lucille Ball is wonderful in this. Frankly, I love Film Noir as a genre.
You have to love these old films from the 1930s to 1950s, I enjoy the clothes, the cars, the music, the street scenes. I prefer watching these old films to today's Hollywood output to be honest.
THANK YOU for making it loud enough.
Excellent all around : the acting, the plot, the atmosphere. I'm not usually a fan of fim noir but this is really very good and I enjoyed it.
To be a film fan and not like noir is like being a rock fan and not liking the Stones.
This is a terrific film, and I love the music in it too. Many thanks indeed, SSC.
This is a great movie.I'm have always been a Lucy fan and this is a good part for her .She was so talented in any part she ever played. It came so natural to her.
i agree
She was a comedic genius
Great 40s movie. Don't know why. Lucy didn't do more drama she's great at it such a versatile actress...too bad the really great actors are gone...and really beautiful ones..
A second viewing for me. Don't hesitate - should be 500 comments. This is one of the genre's best!
I've never seen Lucy in anything that wasn't a comedy, but she was really good here. I'm going to have to check out some of her other earlier work.
Orson Welles once called her the best actress in America.
@@tomripsin730 Also Marc Daniels, her first director on I Love Lucy, said she was the best actor he had ever directed which included Paul Newman, Olivier and the like. When Orson Welles appeared on I Love Lucy and was assiduously watching Lucille Ball for a while, when asked what are you looking at? He said the best actress ever.
Tom Ripsin: Maybe you are right - Welles said about Lucille is best actress in America.
Considering Marc Daniels and Orson Welles so taken by Lucille abilities (Welles knew her in the 1940's) Also, listening to her writers Madelyn Pugh and Robert Carroll and two other Bob writers on the ILL show, all said when she did her first reading she wasn't so good, but as the days went by she got better and better till the point that nobody could do it better. Also, can you ice skate? No, but give me two weeks (by gosh she did it); also, can you play the sax? no really played a bit in high school, give me some time, as time went she was told Stop, you're getting too good and you sup to be terrible in the skit. Same thing about throwing pizza in the air, she would always says give me two weeks. Very funny. Love the abilities, the determination and whatever it is - it's WOW!
@@tomripsin730Quite a compliment coming from Mr.Welles.
@@LJ-ht4zsYes,she has the ability to do what she sets her mind to do at those petiods of time in her career.
I was thoroughly entertained by all aspects of this movie. Thanks!
A very goood movie. Love the dialogue and of course I love Lucy.
Nice to see Lucille Ball in a totally different role. She did a great job.
Great film - from beginning to end.
Such a good movie. Lucy wonderful of course but great performance again from Clifton Webb. Also great scream from Ellen Corby aka Grandma Walton.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS. LIFE WAS SIMPLER, FAMILIES WERE CLOSELY KNIT, CRIME RATE WAS LOW AND MORALITY WAS PRETTY HIGH. DAMM IT I WISH WE WERE BACK TO THAT LIFE STYLE.
Millions of lives had been wrecked by the war, don't forget, and some 70 million lives had been lost. It was hardly a time to be "blissful" (Wordsworth)
This movie is literally about wide-spread crime.
World War II JUST ENDED a year before this movie was released. HARDLY a time when 'life was simpler". People always say this and it is really idiotic. Yes, the world was filled with morals when the Nazi prison camps were brought to public attention when the elite knew of them for YEARS!!!! So much for "simpler, and a high moral time". People were starving throughout Europe. People murdered and killed and cities and countries destroyed. Wow. Wake up.
I grew up I love Lucy show! She was a self-made celebrated strong woman!
the lady: ''this is a Donatello'' the guy: ''ok, i take it wrap it up'' ...like it was a bag of potatos LOL
I enjoyed this Movie. It is nice to see Lucy in these old
Movies that she is in. She was really good in this Film.
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It's novel to see Lucy getting someone else besides herself out of trouble when they have "some splain'in to do"....Great ending.
Funny
Good mystery and a nice change of pace for Lucy.She was so well known as being a clown some people forget what a beautiful girl she was in her youth
i agree this movie was really good.
I felt Lucille was still beautiful in I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show. One of my favorite scenes is when Lucy does a Gracie Allen type banter with George Burns, then they did a song and dance skit together. Lucy was 55 and George was 70 - great, enjoyable and Lucy looked beautiful. Also, in the Lucy Show which involved Dean Martin, again great acting, fun, the two stars were phenomenal together and she looked beautiful. Lucy said that was her favorite show of the series - Dean was a pleasure to work etc etc.
Also two of her movies that got panned - one with Desi (Forever Darling) and the other Mame - while they were not her best, I still liked them and have seen them more than once. The only movie that I felt was terrible, Critics Choice, starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball - now that was awful. (both stars agreed)
@@LJ-ht4zs Critics choice wasn't that bad. My Lucy & Desi fav is the Long Long Trailer. I have a house around the corner that looks exactly like the house in the scene where he takes out her relatives porch. I smile everyday when I see it
I saw Lucille Ball on The Lucy Show with George Burns - they did a Burns & Allen skit together which was great, then did a song and dance number. Lucy looked beautiful (age 55) and George was a spry 70. When they show her modeling pictures in NYC she was breath taking - as beautiful as any of the top glamour women of Hollywood.
Great mystery. It kept me guessing how he was going to get out of that jam. Loved the gallery. I noticed a Vermeer, Girl with the Pearl Earring when he entered. I notice the strangest things when I watch a movie. 😂
I noticed the same painting. Think there was a movie about the painting.
Lucille ball has always had thick curly hair,with so much bouncy body. A very good actress in everything she does!!!!!!
Both in this and other noir films, (Lured) she still had comic timing. (DuBarry Was a Lady, Easy to Wed). I have read that the cinema folks did not realize her star potential esp in the comedic areas. I do doubt it - have always seen her in many films, always had it, then and later. I think that it why she landed the radio show, "My Favorite Husband", which led to I Love Lucy.
This is a very good film. Very dramatic about the cinematography and great characters. Henry Hathaway was a great director. Thanks so much for uploading it. 🙏
It's interesting that Henry Hathaway was "known" for Western movies. But he directed many types of films. The director has much more to do with the "quality" of a film than anyone else involved.
They forgot to mention the main character, Mark Stevens. He did a great job.
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Thank you so much dear sir/madam. You've truly made my evening great.
That is when writing was good and acting was even better . Thanks for sharing a wonderful movie 🎬
What a cliff hanger! So many plot twists. In spite of reading a post first saying Bendix would get pushed out of a window, it was unexpected and I gasped. What a beautifully timed scene. GREAT FILM. THANK YOU!
I hadn't read that... but, the instant the guy said "Meet me on the 31st floor", I just KNEW what was gonna happen.
@@henrykujawa4427 I didn't expect it - surprise - thinking that Webb was a small thin man and Bendix the opposite. Brilliant how the scene unfolded.
The script is sharp and witty. The revelation however is Lucille Ball, not playing the zany wife in the TV series, I love Lucy. Real mean would melt in her presence. Her potential wit is in the timing of her delivery. Excellent film noir.
Quality performances from all.
"This is a pretty dirty town, so cleaners spring up like mushrooms." Too funny!
Great movie! Thank you.
Wow! Thanks for the good movie, keep’em coming, please.
I love love a millions times love Lucy!!! TikTok got me here..😂
Enjoyed this very much. Memories flood back of the 1960s where everything stopped in the UK on a Sunday afternoon to watch The Lucille Ball Show and I Love Lucy. Great to see her in a straight(ish) role. I'm surprised there was no credit for the opening and closing title music which is from Alfred Newman's 'Street Scene'. The music score is credited to Cyril Mockridge but the listing of Alfred's younger brother Emil as music director is surely key.
20th Century Fox owned the rights to "Street Scene" and used it as title music for a number of New York and New York-ish movies -- often Noirs.
Lucy was so special 💗
The constant clanging you hear is the 3rd Avenue Railway streetcars in Manhattan the 3rd Ave. El runs overhead from Battery Park to the northern most part of the Bronx. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC.
Damn that was a film!
BOY, MILK FROM THOSE GLASS BOTTLES, DELICIOUS!!! I USED TO DRINK IT AS A KID BEFORE GOING TO SCHOOL.
Lucy was so beautiful as well as ultra talented..
Great movie have this on dvd in my collection a real classic
Wow! Excellent movie! Thanks
Excellent movie. Thanks for making it available.
it's interesting to note that this film has no musical score per se; all of the music that's heard is diegetic, i.e., it occurs in the environment of the narrative, coming from sources such as radios, phonographs, dance orchestras, street organs, etc. studio composer cyril mockridge receives screen credit for the music, so he probably made the selection of music for scenes where it would be required, and may have been consulted about sound design for the use of traffic sounds, auto horns, subway bells, etc., that feature so prominently here. the music that underscores the main and closing titles is film composer alfred newman's famous "street scene" theme, first used in the 1931 film of that name (produced by samuel goldwyn). it was used in several films over the years, perhaps most notably as an overture of sorts to the 1953 comedy "how to marry a millionaire."
Canamus. Thank you for the information. Very enlightening.
The bells you heard were streetcars gongs, not subway trains. The streetcars were the 3rd Ave. Railway and the train over the street was the 3rd Ave. El that went from Battery Park to the Bronx via 3rd Ave. I am a New Yorker.
That was great...thanks
Thats really interesting.
Ain't wikipedia great?
I Love the Eisenhower jackets that Howard Hughes used too wear they were very popular back in the 1940's
the music playing during the scene between jardine and cathcart's wife is the popular harry warren-mack gordon ballad "the more i see you," introduced the year before in the fox musical "diamond horseshoe," starring betty grable and dick haymes.
William Bendix was a great actor in my opinion I enjoyed a lot of his movies but he never got much credit for his work
What's not to like! I fell in love with the theme song, the characters, and the storyline. Lucy can do drama well.
Lucy WAS Beautiful , talented , and funny . Great Actress with Beautiful Hair .
Love this film!
Great picture
They really knocked it out of the park with this one and Lucy totally stole my heart. But the atmosphere, the cinematography, directing, script, makes this one of my favorite noirs. I like Mark Steven’s too, though I read some negative comments on his performance. I have to strongly disagree. Oh yeah, William Bendix….great job playing the creep.
Lucy was great in these noir films.
Another home run!! Lucille Ball was great, and she was one great Secretary. Actually, she was the main reason he survived! The only thing I missed was, why did the evil art dealer hate Gault, and wanted to pin the murder on him in particular! How did the the art dealer know him!
The art dealer wanted Jardine dead, cause he was having an affair with his wife. He knew, or found out that Jardine had a negative relationship with Gault; Jardine had framed Gault in the past, and would be a likely candidate to kill him. Wanted Jardine dead and wanted Gault framed for it.
If you like her as a great secretary watch her in Miss Grant Takes Richmond.
My third, or fourth viewing, and it's still riveting.
Not one commenter mentioned that our hero detective MARK STEVENS was in a KOJAK episode about 30 YEARS LATER around 1976* Thats the episode where he tells KOJAK to use that BALD HEAD FOR SOMETHING WORTHWHILE while KOJAK finds a stash of narcotics in STEVENS apartment and STEVENS has CAPTAIN McNEILS WIFE kidnapped to trade for the narcotics before the trial!!
From 1957 til 1961 we had delivery of fresh milk once a week from the milk truck. Sometimes the market 1 block away had no more milk. It came in glass bottles with cardboard caps. The market had 2 cash registers with a rolling mat to move the products. This was in Woodside, Queens, NYC during the Mad Men era.
Clifton Webb being his usual pompous ass self.A good movie.