Jan 16, 2022
On January 16, 1965, the anthology series The Outer Limits ended its first run after only two seasons. The final episode was entitled "The Probe".
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On January 16, 1965, the anthology series The Outer Limits ended its first run after only two seasons. The final episode was entitled "The Probe".
Your deadicated hosts put their heads together to watch DONOVAN'S BRAIN (1953) from director Felix Feist! This adaptation of Curt Siodmak's 1942 novel stars Lew Ayres, Nancy Davis, and Gene Evans.
We've faced similar premises before, but how does this straight adaptation fare against the horror films that came before?
Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 27:45; Discussion 44:46; Ranking 59:02
'Tomorrow is Another Day' – love on the run on Max
Steve Cochran and Ruth Roman are fugitives on the run in the low-key film noir Tomorrow is Another Day (1951). Cochran is Bill Clark, a 34-year-old man who leaves prison after serving more than half his life behind bars, and Ruth Roman is Cay, a hard-shell dame at a dime-a-dance joint mixed up with a corrupt cop. A bad bounce of fate sends both of them on road, two strangers tossed together on…
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Ruth Roman came to Warner Bros. at the wrong time. Had she arrived earlier she might have taken Bette Davis as a model and developed her own line of histrionic honesty. But though she was there in time to make BEYOND THE FOREST (1949) and figure in Davis’ most honest scene in the film, it was the end of the star’s reign. Her departure left Joan Crawford as the studio’s reigning dramatic diva, and Roman often seemed to be copying her worst affectations — the heavy-breathing silent close-ups that telegraph emotion rather than playing the moment. She was capable of much better, and with a few lapses she delivered it in Felix E. Feist’s TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY (1951, TCM). She’s a bitter dance-hall hostess (“I was going to be a dancer. Started on my toes, ended up on my heels.”) who resists but then finds herself charmed by ex-con Steve Cochran’s innocence (he killed his abusive father at 13 and spent the next eight years in prison). When they run afoul of her possessive cop boyfriend, Cochran gets knocked out, and Roman shoots the cop in self-defense. She takes off, letting Cochran think he did it, but then the story takes a turn. They end up on the lam together and start falling in love. The scenes in which their relationship grows have a beautiful sweetness about them. The actors work off each other simply, and Robert Burks’ exterior shots have a lyrical feel. TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY falls short of being a great film noir. Feist had to compromise on the ending after previews, though there’s no record of what the original ending was. Lurene Tuttle delivers a terrific performance as a migrant worker they meet on the road, and Lee Patrick has a nice bit as Roman’s nagging sister-in-law.
Lee J. Cobb is 'The Man Who Cheated Himself' – free on Kanopy
Lee J. Cobb is ‘The Man Who Cheated Himself’ – free on Kanopy
Lee J. Cobb takes the lead as Lt. Ed Cullen, a veteran Homicide Detective in a secret affair with socialite Lois Frazer (Jane Wyatt) while she’s in the midst of a divorce, in The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950). Things get complicated when she shoots her soon-to-be-ex-husband (in self-defense) and Ed looks over the incriminating evidence and decides that a cover-up is in her best interest. When…
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L'AMOUR EN CAVALE
L’AMOUR EN CAVALE
La quintessence de ce que Buñuel appelle “l’amour fou” a très souvent été associée aux couples fugitifs, pas seulement dans le film noir mais au cinéma en général. Les couples en cavale sont des parias et des hors-la-loi, traqués et condamnés d’avance, généralement morts ou agonisants à la fin du film. En tant que sous-type, le couple fugitif a une longue histoire, de Scarlet Days de Griffith…
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23 November 2019
Film: THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF (d. Felix Feist, 1950, USA) and ALIBI (d. Roland West, 1929, USA)
Forum: Gene Siskel Film Center Format: 35mm (MAN), DCP (ALIBI)
Observations: This is part of the annual UCLA preservation series that tours the USA. THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF is a skillfully done crime drama, starring Lee J. Cobb and (incredibly) Jane Wyatt as a hard-bitten couple trying to hide a murder from Cobb’s brother (John Dall); photography by Russell Harlan. ALIBI is a justly famous (and previously very hard to see) early talkie by West, one of his final films. The proceedings suggest nothing less than Von Sternberg in its elaborate sets, exotic cinematography, and baroque performances by the leads. One of the best films I’ve seen, old or new, all year! Both shows were screened in the little theater and were pretty well-attended.