If someone asked me what film sent Megan running toward noir, I would name this film.I remember her watching it like it was yesterday.
Eerie, surprising, complex. I look for it on TCM sometimes and never see it. It's a B cast (Larraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchun) but it works.The movie was known for its extensive and skillful use of flashbacks.Have you seen it?
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This is one I admit I've not seen, 'though I've heard of it. Thanks for the reminder.
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Afraid not
This is perhaps one of the most difficult movies to see -- anywhere! It's never been released on VHS or DVD that I know of. I've been trying to see it for close to thirty years! I keep missing it at crime film festivals and Eddie Mueller's Noir City touring film festival that often shows up in Chicago in August. Never seen it on TV though I most definitely remember it was on AMC back in the Bob Dorian days. It ran during a celebration of underrated noir and crime movies and I remember him talking about the flashback structure. But I kept missing it and never managed to tape it.
If you ever see it on the schedule, let me know. Megan saw it on Bill Kennedy, a local movie show that showed a ton of movies like this on weekends. Never ran across it again.
"The Locket" is on the TCM schedule Sunday August 6, 6:00- 7:30 a.m. set your DVRs. Mark S.
Do you really consider Robert Mitchum a lesser actor?
Mitchum was I suppose just about to become an A star at that time (and just before his reefer conviction). But he was never a B actor in my view :)
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