I do believe I saw it once before a long time ago and I had quite forgotten the plot. I guess you could say it was forgettable or else I have a rotten memory.
What an unusual and brilliant movie. All films are like a waking dream, but this is something else again. The use of battle fatigue as a plot device to facilitate such a narrative conceit as this is utterly audacious, and the director pulls it all off with dazzling aplomb. Amazing, strange, wonderful, complex - this is one of a kind. I'm surprised the idea hasn't been pinched a dozen times. Made only one year after WWII. Incredible.
Everything was finer, the woman's face, hair, clothes, her figure, her demeanor, the men were manly. Nobody was perfect but people were more respectable.
you're absolutely right.. they were the dumbest people .. they couldn't even wear colored clothes or building.. everythig was black and white. also they could've just checked the CC tv cameras.
People spoke real English back then. They pronounced their sybilants and rounded their vowels and worked to improve their vocabularies. We've lost a lot.
I'm more impressed with the background scenes, the 'items', the old cars, buildings, it's like observing the past, even the art on the walls, and the fixtures, I like seeing what has changed and what hasn't in how people decorate things back then to now.
I agree. You may like Reel Streets, it's a database of old film locations, then and now, many of the old English b & w film locations have sadly been demolished.
Loved comment below "... but people were more respectable." as Peter Lorre habitually spits after most of his lines, that he happens to spit out. Love these old movies, thanks!
Michele Morgan is regarded as one of France's greatest actresses of the 20th century. Her movies in Hollywood were only for a few years from 1940 (when she fled to the U.S. when France fell) to just after WWII, after which she returned to France to resume her career there.
I could feel this film. It was brilliant even for the second time. A million dollars is nothing compared with that sort of love between two decent and deserving souls. They will be together forever. Thanks sal.
Excellent film noir. Kept me on the edge of my seat. Great dialogue - crisp and to the point. Roman is the epitome of villains. So charming yet so evil.
Good movie! The french actress Michele Morgan is a drop dead beauty!! And a fine actress, surely she makes the lists of most beautiful and talented classical actresses?!
In today's movie, the dog attack would be in full colour with gratuitous blood and guts. This old black and white version showed enough and yielded the same effect.
In my view it is more horrifying - at least that’s what my imagination tells me. We may be shown much more graphic images today but nothing beats stimulating the human response to the unknown - but that take a bit of hard work and, well, imagination. Poetry as opposed to prose. What is happening today is a consequence of the dumbing down of just about everything in Western culture in order to reach the broadest audience possible. It is, at the end of the day, all about money - how to get yours into the pockets of others as quickly and efficiently as possible.
@Southeastern777 Ditto on that!!! I am so tired of having to be subjected to the graphic details. I am not a prude or over the top conservative, but I feel like they must know the TV program or movie is so bad that they have to give me something to make up for it.
ROY PEASLEE probably not.! Courtship is the time during which the predator hides his claws and true intentions to despitefully use others for their own perverted purposes are disguised. (Leading to lessons learn) Invaluable!
Robert Cummings was taught to fly by his godfather, Orville Wright, and received literally the first flight instructor's certificate issued: certificate number 1.
That is a cool piece of trivia! Did he fly in WW 2? So many actors of his era did. I think he was great. My fav. Is Saboteur. I felt that the part was made for him. I thought he was outstanding!☆☆☆☆ Norma Jean Morrissey
Wow! I remember it too! I was born in Manhattan in 1953 and grew up watching Ozzy & Harriet, Leave it too Beaver, Father knows Best, Dennis the Menace, The Ida Lapino show, Hazel, The Ann Southern show, The Loretta Young show,....and yes, I do remember the show with the flying car.
@@mauricepowers8079 The 1961 sci fi comedy film The Absent Minded Professor featured a jalopy car which flew, powered by irradiated "flubber," flying rubber.
Thanks for uploading. No spoilers but be ready for a 360 turn in the third act. The casting was brilliant , with the four leads all perfect in their roles. Michelle Moran looks so much like Cybil Sheperd in the mirror scene at about 1.20.00. Ignore the plot holes and enjoy a very well acted and ambitious noir from a smaller studio.
Ha ha, IKR, and and he also left the empty drawers open, as well as the wastebasket off the floor, just to make sure whoever entered the room didn't miss any of the clues.
Peter Lorre combined the sinister and the languid in one character, in a quite unique style, always worth watching. I good movie with not a moment wasted.
agree and disagree . disagree with not a wasted moment . this movie had too many wasted moments . could have had a longer and much better ending for one
I have never seen/read so many comments about one movie, ever!!I Had never even heard of this movie until a month ago. I am truly amazed at the many opinions/observations made. I am going to watch this film again to see what I missed the 1st time! My opinion? "Saboteur" showcases Bob Cummings' talents better than the "Chase"!! (Peter Lorre notwithstanding!) Watch them both again. See what you think!☆☆ Norma Jean Morrissey
The very 1st time you see Peter Lorre you realize one thing. That man will never play a "normal" character! If you think about it though, that didn't stop him from being quite successful in films☆☆NJM
Stellar performance by Robert Cummings and Michele Morgan and of course Peter Lorre. 32:05 to 35:25 minutes into the movie was perfection. Thanks for the upload.
Peter Lorre steals every scene he's in, as usual. Steve Cochran plays a great creep, and Robert Cummings is his usual wonderful self! The music was great, perfect for this very suspenseful film.
Robert was a health but who was turned into a drug addict by I F K dr. Feelgood. R.C. Was a good actor and I feel sad when I realize he thought he was getting vitamin shots.
Wikipedia: "The Chase is a 1946 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley. The screenplay by Philip Yordan is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1944 novel The Black Path of Fear. It stars Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott, a veteran who suffers from hallucinations. When he returns a lost wallet to violent mobster Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), Eddie offers to hire him as a chauffeur. Chuck becomes mixed up in a plot to help Eddie's wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) run off to Havana to escape her cruel husband."
Cornell Woolrich was a prolific writer of both novels and short stories. His principal genres were Pulp and Detective Fiction and was rated highly by critics, being classed in the company of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner. His 1944 short story IT HAD TO BE MURDER (written under the pseudonym of William Irish) was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW. He died at 64. Another notable figure had a supporting role in this film, Don Wilson, Jack Benny's foil and announcer on the Jack Benny Show. I recognised the name and face but had to do some serious digging to discover what his claim to fame was. Although he didn't have the figure for it, he was a champion amateur golfer. In 1982 he died of a stroke at age 81. This Film Noir is a touch above the average, with Michele Morgan outstanding in the femme fatale role. Robert Cummings has moments of inspiration. His opening scene at the diner window, hungry and penniless, could easily have been overacted but was accomplished with an uncharacteristic subtlety. The role and the dialog provided for him in DIAL M FOR MURDER gave him little room to show how competent an actor he could be. The big lady who sold the knife impressed in a small role, but once again it was underacting that did it. The drama was unsustainable in parts and those were where it depended on Cochrane and Lorre. I would, if possible, have cast Sidney Greenstreet as Roman and had Lorre's part re-written because he responds very well to well-written roles. Steve might have responded equally well to a role better written but his limited range of talent does not fit him for this role as it was. The camera work is justifiably a very good representation of how lighting can add to and support moments of high tension.
Really great movie. I’m a big noire fan and I had never seen this one. This has to be the first movie made about PTSD. Peter Lorie is so great in everything he did. Thank you very much for the movie.
@@leecoffman2594 Really? Tell that to the autistic young man I met who spends the day walking around repeating all the tv ads he's ever heard word for word. Don't think you could fake that very easily.
That second time with the back-seat driving was ridiculous! And Peter Lorre trying to look scared - looked like he was experiencing the revenge of his lunchtime burrito, lol! Great movie though, lots of twisties 💖 🇨🇦
One of my all time noir favorites, it's such a serpentine story full of memorable characters. The scene where Edward Roman taunts & smacks his manicurist always makes me shiver. Peter Lorre's eye through the keyhole was a stunning "entrance." So much to love about this quirky movie.
A really strange story but a great movie. Characters are so weird you feel you must watch to the end to see what happens next! Is this where they 1st used the expression, "back seat driver"? NJM
@@kiwitrainguy properly adjusted and new shoes definitely stop that quickly I own several vintage Cadillac and Pontiac cars they will stop on a dime I am licensed ASE mechanic and work on all my cars many factors in keeping brakes Safe and stopping true .
Love these old films with a twist, so much better than todays crap with al it's so called 'technical wizardry', pure bullshit. Excellent film quality too, thanks a lot.
Bob Cummings' godfather was Orville Wright, old family friend, who taught Bob how to fly. His father was a surgeon and his mother was an ordained minister of The Science of the Mind. (IMDB)
@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 I would say so. Cummings himself was a 'health fanatic' and gulped down 120+ pills a day. He later died of Parkinson's anyway. His marital life wasn't so hot, either; just ask the women he divorced.
*Actor Steve Cochran, who played the lead bad guy, "Mr. Roman", also appeared in the 1959 Twilight Zone episode, "What You Need", which was one of the better TZ episodes. Robert "Bob" Cummings also starred in another Twilight Zone episode.*
COCHRANE WAS AN ACTOR WITH DORIS DAY - WHEN HE WAS IN THE KLU KLUX KLAN - BUT HIS WIFE WAS DD SISTER - WOMEN SEEMED TO COP A LOT OF VIOLENT EMOTION FROM THEIR MEN, ANY ME; EXCEPT MAYBE WENDELL COREY - SEE THE BIG KNIFE AND WHEN HE PLAYED A DETECTIVE IN ???? OH, REAR WINDOW, I THINK...
@@paulthomson8824 Good grief. You really had me confused--I didn't know Doris Day had a sister, KKK, etc. Turns out SC and DD were in a movie together in which he portrayed a KKK member. As I recall SC was a bit of a loose cannon in his personal life. Seems his tough guy roles (if not necessarily his down right villainous ones) began to bleed over into his real life. He did have that animal magnetism, tho.
@@richardw3470 SO, YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR MOVIES....THIS WAS A FRIGHTENING MOVIE...NO MATTER HOW DD PERSUADED HER SISTER TO LEAVE...REALLY BAD ...SEEMS LIKE SOCIAL SITUATIONS NEVER REALLY CHANGE....THANKS FOR CLARIFYING THIS MOVIE. PT
@A. S. Yes, the episode was called "King Nine Will Not Return". Great solo performance by Cummings. He ran the gamut of emotions all by himself in the desert.
I love Robert Cummings♡♡ He was so good and good looking! My favorite movie is Saboteur. What a great story! I even remember his tv show where he played a photographer. I love all the old movies! I would rather watch him or Joseph Cotton than most of actors today!☆☆☆☆+When he was young he wanted to take up flying. His godfather taught him how!! Let's see, the name?¿ Wright, Orville Wright☆ Norma Jean Morrissey
One thing I learned about noir that was really interesting was that all the light and shadow was simply turning necessity into art. They were broke and had to make do with the lighting and sets they had.
Though I've probably seen him in a few things here and there, I'm not very familiar with Steve Cochran, but he sure plays a convincing sociopath as gangster Eddie Roman in this movie. He's truly frightening! Michèle Morgan is quite tragic as his abused wife. Solid performances for a second feature film.
yes he stood out for me as well! very modern acting style , quite ahead of his time and scary as you say. I liked it when Lorre asked him what to do and he just said 'turn the record over!'
@@MrTimdriver Indeed, I've never seen characters like Peter Lorre's and that other actor. They're very unnerving, they're mysterious or enigmatic and calculating. I can't put the words together right. I just totally love this production. ♥️✍📝🇺🇲💎🎥🎥
So Scotty, suffering from PTSD, dreamed that Lorna was murdered by her husband's goons in Havana. Scotty is knocked out. When he wakes up the trip to Havana hasn't happened yet, but that evening it does, and the cab driver he dreamed of takes he and Lorna to the night club he dreamed of. And that's the end.
In Miami, war veteran Chuck Scott, who has been struggling in post-war civilian life, finds a wallet belonging to Eddie Roman. Beyond taking a few dollars to buy a meal about which he is up front, he makes the trek to the upscale address listed on the identification to return the wallet and the money. On the surface, this act turns out better than he could have imagined as Eddie offers him a job as a chauffeur, with even the way he accepts the job putting him in Eddie's good books. What Chuck may have suspected but quickly learns is that Eddie, hiding behind the front of being a legitimate businessman, is a violent gangster who demands total loyalty and has bizarre means to show his control, with his second in command, Gino, doing much of his work as the heavy. What Chuck also learns is that Eddie's unhappy wife, Lorna Roman, had no idea of Eddie's life when they married and as such now wants out of the marriage taking with her materially what she brought in, namely nothing. Eddie will not and cannot allow Lorna to leave in she now knowing too much. She turns to Chuck to help her escape. In their time together, Chuck and Lorna fall in love. By the time that Chuck realizes that Eddie and Gino are after them, the nature of the pursuit changes with Chuck, partly out of the stress, not knowing what is real and what is all in his mind.
Given this 'clocks' in at around 90 min, might there have been some scenes omitted here? to account for the 'what the Dickens' factor? Anyway, enjoyed the film, the acting, the Noir side of things, too. Just never saw Robert Cummings in a role quite like this before. Had played a comedic fashion photographer, c.1950s, also in B&W, in a TV series called 'Love That Bob' (or something like that, I think). Now, that Peter Lorre character, there's a straight man for you. Loved him in 'Casablanca,' before playing in those later horror films of the 60s. What an actor. Thanks for posting this!
Peter Lorre teamed up with Sydney Greenstreet in a number of noir films...that also starred Bogart...Maltese Falcon, etc. Good stuff from late 30's on.
Very well made movie with serious unsuspected twists. Fun watch, time well spent. Kind of movie you're not ready to end, it leaves you wanting to experience 'the rest of the story'. Not in an unsatisfied way, it's just that the story gets you involved.
The music was done so well in the film noir flicks....such great attention to even the slightest emotions and wonderful choices of instrumentation and orchestration to bring such character to each scene . Listen to those strings, oboes, bassoons, French horns, percussion and more laced with dramatic melodies and significant harmonies....and never getting in the way.
The film had a lot of interesting moments. In the last few minutes most folks knew what was going to happen when the villains tried to out race the train.
I would have left the Cuba brochure in the garbage, then taken a cab to the train station to New York, then gotten on a train to San Francisco. While the goons are scouring Havana, we would be eating crab in Fisherman's Wharf...
Like the expression you coined, "Noir Land" a very descriptive name. The movies make you feel like you are in a land long ago and far away!! Norma Jean Morrissey
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Saw this movie twice before and watching again. These old movies are so much better than the ones Hollywood churns out now.
I do believe I saw it once before a long time ago and I had quite forgotten the plot. I guess you could say it was forgettable or else I have a rotten memory.
They were stereotyped and crude compared to the best of todays movies.
So glad these movies are still being watched.
Even if it's a great movie I have to confess when I see "gowns by" it's a cherry on the icing.
Oh, the romance of black/white movies. I adore them! Pure class. Thanks. 😍
What an unusual and brilliant movie. All films are like a waking dream, but this is something else again. The use of battle fatigue as a plot device to facilitate such a narrative conceit as this is utterly audacious, and the director pulls it all off with dazzling aplomb. Amazing, strange, wonderful, complex - this is one of a kind. I'm surprised the idea hasn't been pinched a dozen times. Made only one year after WWII. Incredible.
Checkout the movie, "The Locket".
Shell Shock
You are very generous in your comment.
There is an elegance to these films that is missing today
thanks for the cool movie. Just what I needed tonight. Helped me relax,
Another marvelous film. Peter Lorre was superb as always. Keep these oldies coming! I've been watching these films every day,,,,,
When a movie would entertain you and take you away from the cares of life for a few moments .the golden age of movies and america
Michele Morgan was, I believe, living in the long-gone and beautiful home at 10050 Cielo Drive when making this movie.
Everything was finer, the woman's face, hair, clothes, her figure, her demeanor, the men were manly. Nobody was perfect but people were more respectable.
Even bad people went to church on sunday.
Yeah, that barber at the beginning. Beautiful woman
you're absolutely right.. they were the dumbest people .. they couldn't even wear colored clothes or building.. everythig was black and white.
also they could've just checked the CC tv cameras.
Nonsense
Goes to show you can’t judge a book by its cover.
I love how they are written. People communicate in full sentences with excellent vocabularies. Maybe not like real life, but it is still nice to hear.
Real life is boring. In a movie I don't want to be reminded.
After fleeing Germany Peter Lorre learned to speak English with his roommate in L.A. - Billy Wilder by listening to Baseball radio broadcasts.
Great actor! Lorre.
People spoke real English back then. They pronounced their sybilants and rounded their vowels and worked to improve their vocabularies. We've lost a lot.
It was like real life. People were far more articulate back then. It's true. Look at any interview from the period.
I'm more impressed with the background scenes, the 'items', the old cars, buildings, it's like observing the past, even the art on the walls, and the fixtures, I like seeing what has changed and what hasn't in how people decorate things back then to now.
I feel like I have gone back in time when I watch these movies! They are great! Norma Jean
I agree. You may like Reel Streets, it's a database of old film locations, then and now, many of the old English b & w film locations have sadly been demolished.
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I hate to tell you this, but that "old car, buildings" and so on were considered present day back in 1946
I'm the same way and sometimes I say, I didn't know they had those back then, sometimes you think something is kind of new and it's not
I thoroughly enjoyed the oddness of that film. The gag with Roman controlling the car from the back seat was hilarious.
Ah I love a nice noir thriller . Old movies make me feel so good
Loved comment below "... but people were more respectable." as Peter Lorre habitually spits after most of his lines, that he happens to spit out. Love these old movies, thanks!
Michele Morgan is regarded as one of France's greatest actresses of the 20th century. Her movies in Hollywood were only for a few years from 1940 (when she fled to the U.S. when France fell) to just after WWII, after which she returned to France to resume her career there.
She lived a long life. Passed away at 96yrs old.
Amazing photography/camera work. When you consider the cumbersome equipment etc they did a fantastic job. Great film!
Yes sir, there has been a cancellation, it's a single cabin .... with a piano
What sort of circles do you mix in? Isn’t that the norm? 🙂😄🙃
No @@rivermoon6190
Loved every minute of this lovely classic old movie.
I could feel this film. It was brilliant even for the second time. A million dollars is nothing compared with that sort of love between two decent and deserving souls. They will be together forever. Thanks sal.
Excellent film noir. Kept me on the edge of my seat. Great dialogue - crisp and to the point. Roman is the epitome of villains. So charming yet so evil.
When Peter Lorre shows up in the first 5 minutes you know it's going to be good!
So true
@@Nixfix76 Always.
My sister and Peter's daughter were close friends. Cathy was always so proud of her dad. She shared his stature. No doubt she was his daughter.
Agreed. :)
@@DaveLennonCopeland thank you Dave,. And yes, she looked exactly like her dad.
Good movie! The french actress Michele Morgan is a drop dead beauty!! And a fine actress, surely she makes the lists of most beautiful and talented classical actresses?!
These old movies beat these new ones everytime. What a twist at the end!.......but is it?
12:25 that 331 Cadillac engine getting some flight at 108 mph not even stressing 😊
In today's movie, the dog attack would be in full colour with gratuitous blood and guts. This old black and white version showed enough and yielded the same effect.
Notice how the spilled brandy “suggested” bloodshed?
Cummings closing the window and pulling the shade meant they were about to get busy?
"Get busy," LOL@@GoodnightIrieMon
In my view it is more horrifying - at least that’s what my imagination tells me. We may be shown much more graphic images today but nothing beats stimulating the human response to the unknown - but that take a bit of hard work and, well, imagination. Poetry as opposed to prose. What is happening today is a consequence of the dumbing down of just about everything in Western culture in order to reach the broadest audience possible. It is, at the end of the day, all about money - how to get yours into the pockets of others as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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@Southeastern777 Ditto on that!!! I am so tired of having to be subjected to the graphic details. I am not a prude or over the top conservative, but I feel like they must know the TV program or movie is so bad that they have to give me something to make up for it.
Suspenseful movie Lorna (Michèle Morgan), reminds me of Cybil Sheppard -
Peter Lorre was great as always.
What a strange little film. It felt like the end was rushed.
I love that the lady decides to go for broke.
She has decided to throw off oppression and live as she pleases, no matter what !
Not a bad idea.
Did she not know what she was in for when she teamed up with the gangster?
ROY PEASLEE probably not.!
Courtship is the time during which the predator hides his claws and true intentions to despitefully use others for their own perverted purposes are disguised. (Leading to lessons learn) Invaluable!
Or, perhaps even more often, HER claws...
Peter Lorre was a GREAT, yet hugely underrated actor.
Underrated? By whom? Brecht maintained that he'd have been the greatest Hamlet of the 20th century.
Robert Cummings was taught to fly by his godfather, Orville Wright, and received literally the first flight instructor's certificate issued: certificate number 1.
That is a cool piece of trivia! Did he fly in WW 2? So many actors of his era did. I think he was great. My fav. Is Saboteur. I felt that the part was made for him. I thought he was outstanding!☆☆☆☆ Norma Jean Morrissey
He had his own SIT-COM 1955-1959 and had the 1st Flying Car which he flew on the show...I remember watching as a kid and thinking how wild that was.
Wow cool info
Wow!
I remember it too!
I was born in Manhattan in 1953 and grew up watching Ozzy & Harriet, Leave it too Beaver, Father knows Best,
Dennis the Menace, The Ida Lapino show, Hazel, The Ann Southern show, The Loretta Young show,....and yes, I do
remember the show with the flying car.
@@mauricepowers8079 The 1961 sci fi comedy film The Absent Minded Professor featured a jalopy car which flew, powered by irradiated "flubber," flying rubber.
Oh wow, this is such a great movie! The ending, superb.
Robert Cummings was always great in every performance. Miss this kind of acting.
I agree. Always reminded me of a funny Robert Culp.
@@Nixfix76
I also noticed Culp's and Cummings' facial resemblance.
Love That Bob
@@steved2667 Damn you. I wanted to write that.
I remember him having a comedy in the '60's co-starring Julie Newmar.
That early scene with the man in the wine cellar is scary.
Some diabolical people here.
Thanks!
Improbable.
Plenty of glass to shove in the dog's eyes, nose, mouth, and throat.
Thanks for uploading. No spoilers but be ready for a 360 turn in the third act. The casting was brilliant , with the four leads all perfect in their roles. Michelle Moran looks so much like Cybil Sheperd in the mirror scene at about 1.20.00. Ignore the plot holes and enjoy a very well acted and ambitious noir from a smaller studio.
She sure resembles Cybil.
When will movie characters learn that wastebaskets are not magic disappearing machines?
Ha ha, IKR, and and he also left the empty drawers open, as well as the wastebasket off the floor, just to make sure whoever entered the room didn't miss any of the clues.
Great film score by icon Michel Michelet.
I love these old classics. Yes I agree, instead of the blood and guts stuff they let your mind fill in the blanks ....as in the dog attack scene.
The broken brandy bottle was a typical metaphor.
The dangers of backseat driving and Peter Lorre, the best wingman in b&w cinema.
A beautifully crafted crime thriller.
what a FANTASTIC movie!!! and i love Bob Cummings!! thanks for posting.
"Silly law-abiding jerk!" Priceless.
@John Burket Now now John ... We musn't question Big Brother and the Globalists ... they know what they're doing .... Too bad most of us don't ....
Peter Lorre combined the sinister and the languid in one character, in a quite unique style, always worth watching. I good movie with not a moment wasted.
agree and disagree . disagree with not a wasted moment . this movie had too many wasted moments . could have had a longer and much better ending for one
I have never seen/read so many comments about one movie, ever!!I Had never even heard of this movie until a month ago. I am truly amazed at the many opinions/observations made. I am going to watch this film again to see what I missed the 1st time! My opinion? "Saboteur" showcases Bob Cummings' talents better than the "Chase"!! (Peter Lorre notwithstanding!) Watch them both again. See what you think!☆☆ Norma Jean Morrissey
The very 1st time you see Peter Lorre you realize one thing. That man will never play a "normal" character! If you think about it though, that didn't stop him from being quite successful in films☆☆NJM
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See Peter Lorre in an episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'. 🧐
Very well stated. “ ...the sinister and the languid in one character,”. He was one of my Mother’s favorites for the reason you articulated.
Stellar performance by Robert Cummings and Michele Morgan and of course Peter Lorre. 32:05 to 35:25 minutes into the movie was perfection. Thanks for the upload.
I liked the ending, in which Lorre showed himself becoming more and more frazzled as Roman pushed the accelerator harder and harder.
Peter Lorre steals every scene he's in, as usual. Steve Cochran plays a great creep, and Robert Cummings is his usual wonderful self! The music was great, perfect for this very suspenseful film.
Robert was a health but who was turned into a drug addict by I F K dr. Feelgood. R.C. Was a good actor and I feel sad when I realize he thought he was getting vitamin shots.
( should read I F K )
John F. kinnedy
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So many famous people were victims of that quack. Even, Hitler has his own doctor that did the same thing.
I don't care what they say, Robert Cummings was underrated as an actor.
Yes, a very naturalistic style, his characters always believeably real. And here in 1946 he was young and handsome.
Alfred Hitchcock seemed to like him. 🤔😁
Very true 👍. He was one great actor. Personally I considered him A list
Wikipedia: "The Chase is a 1946 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley. The screenplay by Philip Yordan is based on Cornell Woolrich's 1944 novel The Black Path of Fear. It stars Robert Cummings as Chuck Scott, a veteran who suffers from hallucinations. When he returns a lost wallet to violent mobster Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), Eddie offers to hire him as a chauffeur. Chuck becomes mixed up in a plot to help Eddie's wife Lorna (Michèle Morgan) run off to Havana to escape her cruel husband."
Cornell Woolrich was a prolific writer of both novels and short stories. His principal genres were Pulp and Detective Fiction and was rated highly by critics, being classed in the company of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner. His 1944 short story IT HAD TO BE MURDER (written under the pseudonym of William Irish) was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW. He died at 64.
Another notable figure had a supporting role in this film, Don Wilson, Jack Benny's foil and announcer on the Jack Benny Show. I recognised the name and face but had to do some serious digging to discover what his claim to fame was. Although he didn't have the figure for it, he was a champion amateur golfer. In 1982 he died of a stroke at age 81.
This Film Noir is a touch above the average, with Michele Morgan outstanding in the femme fatale role. Robert Cummings has moments of inspiration. His opening scene at the diner window, hungry and penniless, could easily have been overacted but was accomplished with an uncharacteristic subtlety. The role and the dialog provided for him in DIAL M FOR MURDER gave him little room to show how competent an actor he could be. The big lady who sold the knife impressed in a small role, but once again it was underacting that did it.
The drama was unsustainable in parts and those were where it depended on Cochrane and Lorre. I would, if possible, have cast Sidney Greenstreet as Roman and had Lorre's part re-written because he responds very well to well-written roles. Steve might have responded equally well to a role better written but his limited range of talent does not fit him for this role as it was.
The camera work is justifiably a very good representation of how lighting can add to and support moments of high tension.
good post jimmy stevens
Well, I don't know why this movie works, but it does. The ending is so well written that you forgive the contrivance.
Really great movie. I’m a big noire fan and I had never seen this one. This has to be the first movie made about PTSD. Peter Lorie is so great in everything he did. Thank you very much for the movie.
+Mindy The classic "The Best Years of Our Lives" touched upon PTSD as well, circa 1946.
The Road Back
PTSD and AUTISM are proven to be phony conditions.
@@leecoffman2594 Really? Tell that to the autistic young man I met who spends the day walking around repeating all the tv ads he's ever heard word for word. Don't think you could fake that very easily.
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Wow, the doubled structure of this plot line is fascinating--reminiscent of French New Novels.
That second time with the back-seat driving was ridiculous! And Peter Lorre trying to look scared - looked like he was experiencing the revenge of his lunchtime burrito, lol! Great movie though, lots of twisties 💖 🇨🇦
One of my all time noir favorites, it's such a serpentine story full of memorable characters. The scene where Edward Roman taunts & smacks his manicurist always makes me shiver. Peter Lorre's eye through the keyhole was a stunning "entrance." So much to love about this quirky movie.
Are you talking about "The Chase"? How did I miss Peter Lorre? Norma Jean Morrissey
That was cruel, but acceptable back then.
A really strange story but a great movie. Characters are so weird you feel you must watch to the end to see what happens next! Is this where they 1st used the expression, "back seat driver"? NJM
@@emilymalden3310 In thug circles.
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Excellent story! Wow! Michelle was a doll! I loved the miniature scene too. Thank you for this!
13:08 good advertising for bendix brakes ..lol
There's no way that car could've stopped that quickly from that speed.
@@kiwitrainguy properly adjusted and new shoes definitely stop that quickly
I own several vintage Cadillac and Pontiac cars they will stop on a dime
I am licensed ASE mechanic and work on all my cars many factors in keeping brakes
Safe and stopping true .
Love these old films with a twist, so much better than todays crap with al it's so called 'technical wizardry', pure bullshit. Excellent film quality too, thanks a lot.
Oh you should watch Nora Prentiss with the gorgeous Ann Sheridan!
@@luvsgreta8487 What movie?
American Born Patriot. Nora Prentiss. I think you can google “Nora Prentiss ok.ru “ and it may come up
@@Khultan I do believe the name of the movie is Nora Prentiss made in 1947.
@@patpeters6331 Oh? Thank you.
Good movie. I was very young but, remember when Lorre died. Excellent actor. The car stop was definitely hollywood!
Sallis always spoils us with good movies ty
I like the way the gangster is such a sadistic control freak he has his own gas peddle in the back.Steve Cochran was well cast.
Yes, so controlling he kept her confined. Then he wonders why she would run to a loving man
yes I have never seen the gas pedals in the back seat, That sure gave Eddie the big pay back wow, what a collison, never go vs a LOCOmotive lol
Bob Cummings' godfather was Orville Wright, old family friend, who taught Bob how to fly. His father was a surgeon and his mother was an ordained minister of The Science of the Mind. (IMDB)
Cumming's was 1 of 3 owners of the first working flying car. My old neighbor in Ft. Worth, Roy Hyde had the 2nd,, not sure who had the 3rd.
so his mother was a nut case?
@@PetroicaRodinogaster264 I would say so. Cummings himself was a 'health fanatic' and gulped down 120+ pills a day. He later died of Parkinson's anyway. His marital life wasn't so hot, either; just ask the women he divorced.
So what is the point
Excellent movie very well directed and acted. Thanks for sharing it with us all.
Thank you for sharing another great classic,,,,,, I love the 40s....... I live in a black and white world
John Lagas me too! So much nicer & innocent. 🌺
you have good taste
Count me in!
@ John Lagas... well mine's filled with all shades of gray
John Lagas Me too!👍🏻
*Actor Steve Cochran, who played the lead bad guy, "Mr. Roman", also appeared in the 1959 Twilight Zone episode, "What You Need", which was one of the better TZ episodes. Robert "Bob" Cummings also starred in another Twilight Zone episode.*
COCHRANE WAS AN ACTOR WITH DORIS DAY - WHEN HE WAS IN THE KLU KLUX KLAN - BUT HIS WIFE WAS DD SISTER - WOMEN SEEMED TO COP A LOT OF VIOLENT EMOTION FROM THEIR MEN, ANY ME; EXCEPT MAYBE WENDELL COREY - SEE THE BIG KNIFE AND WHEN HE PLAYED A DETECTIVE IN ???? OH, REAR WINDOW, I THINK...
@@paulthomson8824 Good grief. You really had me confused--I didn't know Doris Day had a sister, KKK, etc. Turns out SC and DD were in a movie together in which he portrayed a KKK member. As I recall SC was a bit of a loose cannon in his personal life. Seems his tough guy roles (if not necessarily his down right villainous ones) began to bleed over into his real life. He did have that animal magnetism, tho.
@@richardw3470 SO, YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR MOVIES....THIS WAS A FRIGHTENING MOVIE...NO MATTER HOW DD PERSUADED HER SISTER TO LEAVE...REALLY BAD ...SEEMS LIKE SOCIAL SITUATIONS NEVER REALLY CHANGE....THANKS FOR CLARIFYING THIS MOVIE. PT
@A. S. Yes, the episode was called "King Nine Will Not Return". Great solo performance by Cummings. He ran the gamut of emotions all by himself in the desert.
I like its simplicity. I donot see much twistings here, neither psycologicalities...but I like kinda thriling mood in it. I love old movies.
Good movie.
And the moral of the story? You live by the sword and you die by the sword. Thanks for the upload. Love the old classics. 🙂👍
These were very classy movies..
I love Robert Cummings♡♡ He was so good and good looking! My favorite movie is Saboteur.
What a great story! I even remember his tv show where he played a photographer. I love all the old movies! I would rather watch him or Joseph Cotton than most of actors today!☆☆☆☆+When he was young he wanted to take up flying. His godfather taught him how!! Let's see, the name?¿ Wright, Orville Wright☆ Norma Jean Morrissey
i also---jimmy stevens--
I remember watching him in an old t.v. series "Love That Bob".
I agree. Robert was one great Actor. Great program he had.
One thing I learned about noir that was really interesting was that all the light and shadow was simply turning necessity into art. They were broke and had to make do with the lighting and sets they had.
Love these old movies, talk about back seat drivers!!🤣🤣
5:56 "I'm sorry Mr Roman but you moved"
"But you didnt..quick enough" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who ever heard of running away from someone but leaves an address behind so you can be followed? Wow! Smart man!
That was in his anxiety dream.
Though I've probably seen him in a few things here and there, I'm not very familiar with Steve Cochran, but he sure plays a convincing sociopath as gangster Eddie Roman in this movie. He's truly frightening! Michèle Morgan is quite tragic as his abused wife. Solid performances for a second feature film.
Cochran usually played 'heavies'. He was opposite James Cagney in 'White Heat', which is well worth watching if you haven't already seen it.
+moggs - Thanks! Seen White Heat a few times. Always worth another viewing.
yes he stood out for me as well! very modern acting style , quite ahead of his time and scary as you say. I liked it when Lorre asked him what to do and he just said 'turn the record over!'
He was in 'White Heat', and had a good role in 'The Best Years of Our Lives'. (In both films he played opposite Virginia Mayo.
The Nebenzal's also produced Fritz Lang's classic "M" in Germany which starred Peter Lorre and made him an international star.
"M" is one of the greatest movies of all time and Peter Lorre is phenomenal in it. In my top ten. See it if you haven't yet.
@@peternolan4107 it's a perfect movie. I don't speak German....but I could understand what everyone was saying. ..
the lady writing in cursive around #1:08, they don't even teach this art in schools now
I was in accounting for years. They wanted me to print everything right out of college. Now, I can hardly write my name in cursive anymore.
So true. And a beautiful hand it was. Great penmanship. My high school students can't even write their names in cursive, to save their lives, lol.
I'm back to watch it again! So good 👍 Thanks
another great noir.... and they had a piano in the cabin... wow thats first class plus!
after reading about his personal life -
i realized why Steve Cochran was so convincing as a psychopath.
he wasn't acting.
LOL. Yes a real womanizer and some criminal history. He was really good in "White Heat" and Highway 301!
He was sinister in the movie, and sounds like a jerk in real life.
@@pennwilltravel And in Samuel Goldwyn's 'The Best Years of Our Lives'.
Tonight on Final Jeopardy: How many good movies were even better because Peter Lorre was in it?
Answer: All of them.
An excellent film. I've never seen this before and really great!
I've been watching these early Hollywood movies and they are so riveting and entertaining. 👍🇺🇸
@Bruce strkland You have habitual word usage issues, my friend.
Great sets too.
@@MrTimdriver It's seems like a comedy at the beginning with the main character but wow, it's such a deception
American Born Patriot. Beautifully made film, wonderful character acting. Peter Lorre is the best henchman ever, and the “ moll “ absolutely awesome.
@@MrTimdriver Indeed, I've never seen characters like Peter Lorre's and that other actor. They're very unnerving, they're mysterious or enigmatic and calculating. I can't put the words together right. I just totally love this production. ♥️✍📝🇺🇲💎🎥🎥
So Scotty, suffering from PTSD, dreamed that Lorna was murdered by her husband's goons in Havana. Scotty is knocked out. When he wakes up the trip to Havana hasn't happened yet, but that evening it does, and the cab driver he dreamed of takes he and Lorna to the night club he dreamed of. And that's the end.
Yes. So was the set-up he dreamed already set-up for real?
In Miami, war veteran Chuck Scott, who has been struggling in post-war civilian life, finds a wallet belonging to Eddie Roman. Beyond taking a few dollars to buy a meal about which he is up front, he makes the trek to the upscale address listed on the identification to return the wallet and the money. On the surface, this act turns out better than he could have imagined as Eddie offers him a job as a chauffeur, with even the way he accepts the job putting him in Eddie's good books. What Chuck may have suspected but quickly learns is that Eddie, hiding behind the front of being a legitimate businessman, is a violent gangster who demands total loyalty and has bizarre means to show his control, with his second in command, Gino, doing much of his work as the heavy. What Chuck also learns is that Eddie's unhappy wife, Lorna Roman, had no idea of Eddie's life when they married and as such now wants out of the marriage taking with her materially what she brought in, namely nothing. Eddie will not and cannot allow Lorna to leave in she now knowing too much. She turns to Chuck to help her escape. In their time together, Chuck and Lorna fall in love. By the time that Chuck realizes that Eddie and Gino are after them, the nature of the pursuit changes with Chuck, partly out of the stress, not knowing what is real and what is all in his mind.
I'm shocked with this movie wow what a movie and suspenseful. thank you
Thanks for sharing this..It's amazing how great the picture and sound is...Considering how old this film is its in better shape then many new films..
Given this 'clocks' in at around 90 min, might there have been some scenes omitted here? to account for the 'what the Dickens' factor? Anyway, enjoyed the film, the acting, the Noir side of things, too. Just never saw Robert Cummings in a role quite like this before. Had played a comedic fashion photographer, c.1950s, also in B&W, in a TV series called 'Love That Bob' (or something like that, I think). Now, that Peter Lorre character, there's a straight man for you. Loved him in 'Casablanca,' before playing in those later horror films of the 60s. What an actor. Thanks for posting this!
Watch Bob Cummings in early Hitchcock flick
SABOTAGE
Also "The Black Book' on u tube, French Revolution with Richard Basehart
I've seen the full movie and there were definitely cuts made to this video.
Peter Lorre teamed up with Sydney Greenstreet in a number of noir films...that also starred Bogart...Maltese Falcon, etc. Good stuff from late 30's on.
@@vickikay54 . Did the cuts radically change the meaning/s? That's very distressing to hear...
If he was going at 110! he could not have stopped in such a short distance. The old brake systems were very primative at the time.
It was dark, you didn't see the drogue chute and anchor that popped out just in time?
It's just a movie, pal. Don't expect everything to be exact.
One dashboard said top speed of 100, next dashboard says 110???
Thanks been enjoying all the movies you have uploaded it's been great, love this nothing like an old mystery!
Hollywood can't make this good of a movie today!
Fascinating movie, I think. Very modern.
Wow, now that was a good suspenseful movie full of twists.
this is a good you tube palce to find old moives like thiese
Very well made movie with serious unsuspected twists. Fun watch, time well spent. Kind of movie you're not ready to end, it leaves you wanting to experience 'the rest of the story'. Not in an unsatisfied way, it's just that the story gets you involved.
The music was done so well in the film noir flicks....such great attention to even the slightest emotions and wonderful choices of instrumentation and orchestration to bring such character to each scene . Listen to those strings, oboes, bassoons, French horns, percussion and more laced with dramatic melodies and significant harmonies....and never getting in the way.
AT 52:25, when Cummings is hiding behind a door after escaping, a sign on the door says in Spanish, "quarantine virus"
it's Cuarentena Viruela = Quarantine Smallpox.
Small pox
Spanish flu, maybe ?
@cat magic You're welcome!
Thank you
The film had a lot of interesting moments. In the last few minutes most folks knew what was going to happen when the villains tried to out race the train.
you didnt watch the very end that isnt what happens
I would have left the Cuba brochure in the garbage, then taken a cab to the train station to New York, then gotten on a train to San Francisco. While the goons are scouring Havana, we would be eating crab in Fisherman's Wharf...
You could've done it the other way around! xD What if he'd got connections in Francisco? Well, I wouldn't know anyways....
@Mdmchannel
A dereliction of doody 💩
The Plan !
I'd have stayed in New York, gotten a two room walk-up in the lower Bronx, taken a job with public works and lived happily ever after.
A really excellent psychological thriller, you are in for a treat!
Thank you for posting this under seen film noir.
This was another "goodie" and fine quality all around. Enjoyed it and thanks for sharing it with the rest of us in "Noir" Land~!!
Like the expression you coined, "Noir Land" a very descriptive name. The movies make you feel like you are in a land long ago and far away!! Norma Jean Morrissey
A buck fifty for breakfast? It was 1946 when a dollar went a long way!
Cummins must have had steak and eggs!
LoloLomo he did.
A buck fifty is a lot when you're only making 25 cents an hour.
And a 35 cents Havana cigar
Might not have eaten in a while and needed cigarettes too.
Yeah! Back then they didn't worry about cholesterol! But have you noticed how many cigarettes they smoked? Norma Jean who quit smoking 30 years ago!!
I WAS VERY CONFUSED.