As of today (6/27/24) Vera Miles is still here at 94. Always impressive in every role.

@molliwilson5639

Күн бұрын

Thank you, I did not know that

@augustbruce

Күн бұрын

@@molliwilson5639 Nice to hear. Thanks

@justinaprima9495

Сағат бұрын

She was my favorite when I was 10. I thought she was so beautiful. Mom bought me Vera Miles paper doll. She has beautiful dresses and minks!

...yay,no smut,no swearing, no tattoos, got to love that...

@MarshaDawn20

5 күн бұрын

Good observation! One of the main reasons I love watching classic films as opposed to newer ones...

@robertdesantis6205

5 күн бұрын

And Vera is dressed so stylishly.

@pisiata3651

5 күн бұрын

What is wrong with tattoes lol

@DGP653

5 күн бұрын

But murder is ok? Violence is worse than sex any day 😊

@bjackins1879

5 күн бұрын

@@pisiata3651 It's a generation thing. Nothing is wrong with them at all, it's just, having grown up not surrounded by them, it's ... different.

Van Johnson was great in a difficult lead role, with abundant support from a cast of real pros.

I love all the London views and locations! Of course that was 68 years ago and London has changed a lot. Priceless.

@cindymaceda2999

2 күн бұрын

@@artandminisbyvilma8116 when London was often foggy because homes were still allowed to have wood-burning fires.

2 күн бұрын

@@cindymaceda2999 Everyone be sure to wear your triple mask while you watch the film...

@judithhopes151

Күн бұрын

I cannot remember when I last saw a woman wearing a suit, trouser sits yes, but not skirt suits.

This is quite a wonderful who-dun-it. Acting is first rate from the wonderful Van Johnson as a blind man around whom the narrative revolves. He is ably supported by the lovely Vera Miles. This is a not-to-be-missed masterpiece from 20th Century Fox, circa mid-50's. I saw the film as a child and got the same thrill when I watched again a few months ago. Van was the master of all genres. Put him in a musical, comedy, drama or any other genre for that matter, and he delivered, never disappointing the audience.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

he's disappointed me.

Excellent film.Vera miles was stunning.Cecil Parker and Van Johnson brilliant.Thanks for posting.

@warrenwilson4818

5 күн бұрын

I'm a huge fan of Miss Miles. I don't think I'd be watching this movie again and again if it weren't for her. She is totally mesmerizing. I'm not sure why. I'm 80. It's June 24, 2024 and I'm in St. Joseph, MO, USA

@doodeen

4 күн бұрын

@@warrenwilson4818 Greetings from the UK.I'm 74 and originally from London.I remember the old London depicted in those scenes.I played among the bombed out ruins many times.I agree totally with you.Vera Miles was absolutely beauty.I fell in love with her years ago.!.You maybe 80 but you have a young heart.I wish you all the best.Cheers Jim

@stevef9530

4 күн бұрын

Wonderful Vera. She played Marty’s long suffering girl in the Searchers, and the scene where she gets a letter from him and has to read it aloud to her family, fizzing with rage, is one of the funniest and tenderest scenes ever.

I found your video by accident, but now I am glad I found it!

Excellent Movie and in widescreen Theatre. I have never seen this movie, what a Treat, a Golden treasure, Thank You !

What a lovely old movie I love it. The scenes of old London Town are magical. Thank you so much for sharing.

I rank this as one of the 5 of my favourite movies ever. I bought it in the versions available, in the last 20 years, VHS, DVD, DVD remastered and BD. And now I can even watch it on You Tube. I can't get enough of it. Exceptional cast, intriguing plot, the London atmosphere on a winter, foggy night. Thanks a lot for this improved vision version, too. To be kept, watched over and over. 👏👏👏

@gilba56

2 күн бұрын

You forgot the period, I think the end of fifty's or beginning of sixty's! Which is right? Release date may 18 1956 / the year when I was born!

@paolazuffinetti

2 күн бұрын

Yes, 1956.

@thraciangrapes

2 күн бұрын

Absolutely lovely 💯 percent

I've seen hundred's of movies and never this one! Thank you for posting! I notice this was made after Van Johnson had his accident...evident by the scar on his forehead. Looking forward to watching more from you! xx

Just viewed this film by accident last night. Excellent plot.

@atthebijou8209

Күн бұрын

maybe you'd like to explain it to the rest of us.

I really do LOVE the mystery of this movie, and it's getting very interesting now.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

what film are you watching?

This came out in 1956, the same year Hitchcock released 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day.

Theres nothing like a new find that turns out great 👍

Great movie, at times it reminded me of the movie "Rear Window"! :)

@bjackins1879

5 күн бұрын

Yes, the disabled hero.

Thank you for a great film. I had never heard of this before, and I love surprises! Especially fun ones. Cheers!

😊 This was a great movie and a great cast,. I really enjoyed it. Its 11:55 and I'm going to pop some popcorn & get a cold soft drink . And get ready for the next movie.❤❤❤❤

@karenhill3970

2 күн бұрын

Sounds great!!!! I love this movie...seen before!!!

Awesome! It was my first time watching. So freaking good! I pray younger generations will learn to appreciate this type of flick. The world was different but that's what I want the youngsters to appreciate. Thanks for the UpL!😊

Good flick, based upon a good novel. It puts you in mind of Hitchcock's Rear Window, doesn't it? And how refreshing it is to see people out and about without their eyes stuck to their smartphones! Those were the days!

Cant believe Ive never seen this one! Great upload. Thx!

Van Johnson was a very handsome Swede who must have been very beautiful in person. Tall with strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes, fair freckled skin and a beautiful profile.

Great plot.. very suspenseful..excellent cast.. love this. Thank You for the upload ❤

A period genre film that sets post-war London in an atmospheric way. Sunshine over the Thames and omnipresent haze. All in fairytale Deluxe Color,. I think, however, that Van Johnson is a great asset to the film because of his convincing way of portraying the blind playwright, where sounds play a vital role in his perception of the world.

Great classic Actors , actresses and plot....l,oved it

What a great classic movie, just don't make them like that anymore. Thanks for sharing ❤😊

Saw this years ago. Still very suspenseful! Thanks for showing. 🇦🇺

Excellent movie!!!!

Great movie I saw it years ago and it’s still worth a watch

Love the on location filming. Amusing as the apartment overlooks the Thames but also Portland Place and lower Regent Street 😂.

Looks like a few of us were watching this movie together, Suzanne, Linda. Fine films and fine people no doubt..

Great film ❤

Similar to "Rear Window". The actor even sounds like Jimmy Stewart.

4:00 That wall along that balcony is alarmingly low. 😮

I saw Van Johnson on the thumbnail. SOLD!

What a fantastic movie! Saved to rewatch. Thank you :)

@jerrymoore838

Күн бұрын

It really is excellent!

He played a convincing straight man.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

omg most subtle comment award. layered. but I wasn't convinced, and that's what spoiled the flick. imagine Cary Grant in that role and some woman not Vera Miles. omg. imagine Gloria Grahame! or some British chick.

*Wonderful, really enjoyed it, waited until after watching to read anything about it.* Great characters, etcetera.

Wow! Great movie. Just like the late A. H. himself.

DDF, appreciate this movie upload so much! i know i started watching it once, but idk what happened & only saw a part of it, which i think was the middle of the movie! Lol...😂😂 Thank you, especially for ad-free!!

He gets around pretty well for a blind man. 🙄

@pipfox7834

4 күн бұрын

Didn't you ever see A Patch of Blue? Blind people tend to develop their hearing to compensate for loss of sight. It becomes a sixth sense for them!

@Brembelia

4 күн бұрын

​@@pipfox7834 But that doesn't explain his not crashing into things without his cane in a state of panic and rushing around at top speed at the end. I guess they were banking on the viewer being laser focused on Evans whom I guessed was a female because of her diminuative stature and slender frame. I'm surprised she wasn't recognized by Hannon by her perfume. There is another movie, I think it's called "The House on 93rd Street" about Nazi spies and the male cell leader was actually a female who cross-dressed and presented herself as a man at times. This movie was what made me think Evans was actually a woman, but I have to confess, I didn't figure it out until almost the very end. Good movie inspite of all the ads.

@pipfox7834

3 күн бұрын

​@Brembelia a friend of mine who is legally blind could do what he did. Familiarity with arrangement of furniture helps her a lot...😊

Love Cecile Parker❤ I remember him from "Indiscreet" with Cary Grant and Ingreed Bergman. Thanks for the upload. Greetings from Paris.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

bonjour, Paris ! mais c'est Cecil, non pas Cecile.

This was made in 1956. Wait Until Dark was made in 1967, They would have made a fun double feature in the good old days of movie watching.

@maxinepeel7057

Күн бұрын

Wait Until Dark was a scary and very suspenseful film way better than this one. While this one is very good there were far more elements of intrigue with Audrey, Ephrem and the other actors. The ending was quite exciting. You would be made to scream at that one but not this one. Just saying.

I''ll never say no to any film with Van Johnson. He was a delight. My two fave Esther Williams films : Easy to love and The Duchess of Idaho both were with Van.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

unbelievable.

Wonderful movie ❤❤❤❤

Vera Miles was always superlative

I don’t have to see him to realize that Peter Lorre is in this movie. I’d recognize his voice anywhere. 😅😅

One of my favourite films, despite a curious idea of London's geography - the flat overlooks the River Thames but Baker Street (no doubt chosen for its famous association with Sherlock Holmes) is a few miles away! 😊

@zeljkameznaric6047

4 күн бұрын

It's a painting

@atthebijou8209

Күн бұрын

@@zeljkameznaric6047 actually, it's filmed on location.

Lovely film just how London should be now 😊

@paullewis2413

Күн бұрын

Yes and no. I would prefer London without mass tourism that’s for sure but movies don’t reflect real life. For all our current problems we wouldn’t want to go back to those time’s despite some changes for the worse.

A very interesting,suspenceful movie. Thank you,for showing it.

I’m 79 years old and not very steady on my feet so I have a fear of falling. His position when he was about to fall was a nightmare to me. 😮😮😮😮

Just a great movie...... it made my day.

@cindymaceda2999

4 күн бұрын

I was sick of the inane sophomoric plot of Bridgerton, so I quit watching it and happened upon this excellent film.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

@@cindymaceda2999 well, everything's relative.

@jerrymoore838

Күн бұрын

​@@cindymaceda2999 Season 1 was okay but just barely. I couldnt get past the 1st episode of season2. So soapy

Love this movie! Somewhat like "Rear Window," but still well done. Vera Miles was a beautiful lady. And I always loved Van Johnson!

@ArthurGroveman

3 сағат бұрын

Just two years after Rear Window came out. It's definitely a take-off on Rear Window.

@markrossow6303

48 минут бұрын

hmm​@@ArthurGroveman

Great thriller. Loved it.

Very suspenseful!

Great love it ,love mystery movie like this.thanks😊

Wonderful movie. Thank you for posting it.

Don't apologize, Bro. You were being shot at.

Still could make good movies in 1956....Henry Hathaway directed but it reminds me of a Hitchcock film so much that i half expected to see him making a trademark cameo walk on....😅 4 stars

@chirelle.alanalooney8609

3 күн бұрын

Where does Van Johnson's accent come from? I asked because I've Never heard anyone else pronounce words like he does, such as when he said the word "here", when he said it, the word ends in an "a" sound, like in "hea". Listen to it yourself, and let me know what you think. Thanks.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

@@chirelle.alanalooney8609 he was born in Rhode Island. think Boston. Eastern seaboard.

Great thanks!!!

Much as I love this film, I’m still totally puzzled by the plot: what was significant about the QE2 docking on the 10th? Why was the girl in the wheeled chair kidnapped? Who was she? Funny how the killer happened to be outside JM’s flat at the exact moment she walked to the phone box! What was the significance of the doll - there were no drugs or gems inside it and how was it picked up by the Nanny at the ENTRANCE to the park and only later found in the shrubbery? We need Poirot to figure this one out!!

@sohara....

5 күн бұрын

*I'm guessing there may be a scene cut out where the details about the toy are explained!*

@nanahopeDale

5 күн бұрын

Check title name on Wikipedia, they do plot summary that might fill in the gaps

@bjackins1879

5 күн бұрын

We can answer some of these. Spoiler alert!: Phil had overheard something about meeting Mary (which would put things in motion). He assumed Mary was a person. Then realized they might have been talking about the ship: the Queen Mary, and started wondering if that was the "Mary." It was. They checked the passenger list on the boat and talked to any "Lady" who was on board with children. The girl was kidnapped for ransom. We didn't meet her parents, but we heard the mother scream when she realized her daughter had been taken (we don't know how that happened). They would have been contacted when the girl was securely hidden in the bombed apartment building. The killer knew the ad had been in the paper, so he knew to watch for Janet leaving her place to make the call. He followed her until after she dialed the phone, then did away with her. The doll was in the wheelchair and fell out. We don't know why it was significant, but somehow it was a prop the kidnappers used; McDonald had purchased it in the store. Maybe it was a replica of the doll owned by the girl? Lots of twists and turns for sure. A few things left vague. Like we hope they nab the bar lady, she wasn't nice! And Phil and Jean didn't talk about the fact that he knew by the dead phone line (she didn't) that the killer was on the premises. He faked being unkind to her so she'd leave him and fast. For her safety. Whew. It was good. Fine work by all three leads!

@giselevandenplas7847

4 күн бұрын

Don't investigate too much.... let the charm of the movie operate.... don't try to break it down.

@cindymaceda2999

4 күн бұрын

The nanny bought the doll to endear herself to the kid, who dropped it accidentally at the doorway when they were leaving the apartment building.

great film, saw it when I was a kid

Good film. Thanks

Cecil walker illustrates real acting, if you listen only without viewing, you can hear the very many cadences and natural variations of stressors,

@atthebijou8209

Күн бұрын

Parker.

So good

Great movie! Loved it! John 3:16

What a great movie! Thank you

Thanks for not slapping an ego logo over this fine print, subbed.

Fabulous!

Ah, foggy old post-war London in 1956! A bygone age.

Love it seen so many times

Excellent movie.

Great movie, love it ! I ' ve seen it so many times !

He didn’t drink his drink!!!😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Ooh that was good! I love Van Van johnson!

OMGoodness ❤ I just adore that coat at 7:03❣

❤ it & I enjoyed it.😅

Good

There were 9 million Londoners then!

Some great lines in this movie.

@atthebijou8209

Күн бұрын

name one.

ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES...

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

wwwhhhyyy ?

1956

Rear Window + Shelock Holmes

Great classic movie with great cast. Thanks.❤

Its like a Hitchcock for me, I enjoy it.

@DavidRice111

4 күн бұрын

hitchcock was every bit the predator that harvey weinstein was but there was no "me too" while hitch was abusing actresses.

This movie has two of my favorite eye candy women, Patricia Laffer and Vera miles.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

my favorite is Estelle Winwood.

Not bad at all👍

Is that woman Una O'Connor, just like the high strung screeching woman in "The Invisible Man?"

@missmaggie2620

3 күн бұрын

No, the bartendress is Estelle Winwood. She lived to be 101. Born in Kent. She was on stage 1st in London, then on Broadway. When she was younger she expressed a distaste for films. Turned down roles in the 1920s, few in the 30s, no moves in the 40s, but leaned toward television in the 50s. Then she started picking up more movies in the 60s. Una O'Connor was the screamer in "The Invisible Man". She was born in Ireland and worked extensively in theatre before becoming a character actress in film & TV, her movie career was busy. If you want to see a great film with her playing the maid Janet McKenzie watch "Witness for the Prosecution" 1957. Including Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich (far from her regular glamorous self in this) & Tyrone Power. The movie won 5 Oscars. There are 2 big plot twists. Billy Wilder director (who won the Oscar}, wrote the nurse character exclusively for Elsa Lanchester (who won the Oscar) which Agatha Christie never wrote in the original play, there was NO nurse. If you have never seen it & you like this type of movie, you will thank me later. I have watched that movie over 30 times at least. PS Una was hysterically funny in the movie as Janet McKenzie.

@atthebijou8209

3 күн бұрын

Estelle Winwood, born in 1883, active through 1980 - who can top that? she seems so frail but she's steely. age 73, as the pub owner, in an auburn wig. a stage actress since age 5 in Londons West End, she made her Broadway debut in 1916, then did film (1933) and started a prolific career on TV (1946). you never don't notice her. she's always a treat.

@thraciangrapes

2 күн бұрын

​@@atthebijou8209 I agree, what a gem! She was also in Mad Woman of Chaillot with Katherine Hepburn, Richard Chamberlain, etc.

Goofs: Hannon hears a conversation between a man and a woman, and goes home to dictate it himself to his tape recorder. But every time he plays back the tape, it’s not him dictating the conversation, it’s the actual conversation.

@glenncox9128

3 күн бұрын

There’s so many glitches, goofs, and absurdities in this movie, that it’s simply an unintelligible hot mess.

@Claudg2008

3 күн бұрын

No, it's not. Van Johnson is making both voices.

@glenncox9128

3 күн бұрын

@@Claudg2008 It depends where you’re at in the film. There are definitely some segments where it’s clearly not Hannon, but the couple in the pub.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

nope. it's Van Johnson all the way.

@glenncox9128

2 күн бұрын

@@atthebijou8209 I don’t buy that Hannon was doing the woman’s voice.

great movie

Elokuva oli parempi kuin Takaikkuna. Kiitos. Piia.

@atthebijou8209

2 күн бұрын

no.

Golliwog, golliwog, golliwog. Don’t be afraid of history. Remember the very entertaining (and harmless) Black and White Minstrel Show on TV?

@russcooke5671

3 күн бұрын

And they were on the jam jars. ❤

~18 minute in, the black + gilt arm chair style is derived from the King Tut exhibit

Anything - and I mean ANYTHING - with Vera Miles in it is fine by me. She stole ‘Psycho’ from Janet Leigh.

Why are the opening scenes missing?

@atthebijou8209

Күн бұрын

they cut off a nice title sequence and the beginning of a long pan across the Thames and onto the balcony. but the dialogue's all there.

Can you please do 10 things I hate about you (1999)

Although men were often seen in films wearing overcoats with fur collars i never saw a man in real life wearing one, nor did i ever see a newspaper photo of any man wearing that type of coat . They must have been very expensive, on reflection i have seen old photos of edwardians wearing them, but never in the from the 1950,s onwards. 🎉

@atthebijou8209

Күн бұрын

the way he fiddles with it is unnerving. and he doesn't offer it to Vera, just tosses her a blanket.

@E-Kat

12 сағат бұрын

My grandfather had one and the collar was made from karakul.

UK, steering wheel on right. Why on left his car? Continuity error?

@xcel5203

4 күн бұрын

Imported car from the continent.

Aha ... (1:05) meter's not budging. (Not going to stop me watching the rest of the 1hr40min though).

Hitchcock was a fan of Vera Miles

@DavidRice111

4 күн бұрын

hitchcock was every bit the predator that harvey weinstein was but there was no "me too" while hitch was abusing actresses.