This is one of the highlights of KZread, posting never seen/forgotten films like this one.

@tomdooley4226

Ай бұрын

Not KZread, Broken Trout! 😮

I love these old mystery type movies. Thank you for caring about these old films and sharing them with old souls like me!

There is another absolutely excellent movie with a "blindness" theme, Eyes In The Night, 1942, with Edward Arnold and Donna Reed

Old movies are great - even though you know the good guy is going to win, you still feel the tension when the bad guys are around.

I'll always have to wonder why none of the eight witnesses got billing in this movie. They might all have been just 8 extras. But they all played their parts so very well. (And this film could just could not have made without them.)

Peggy Ann Garner (1932 - 1984) was a brilliant child star, winning the Oscar for the best juvenile actor in 1945 largely for two movies made that year - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Junior Miss. This Oscar, abolished after the 1960 Awards, had gone previously to Shirley Temple in 1934 and Judy Garland in 1939. However she failed dismally trying to movie to adult roles and her career was already fading when this B grade potboiler was made in 1954. Later she had some success on stage and radio although she had to work as a real estate agent to supplement her meagre income. Happily, her final movie A Wedding in 1978 was given an excellent critical reception.

@BrokenTrout

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment Russell Grenning. Good info.

@russellgrenning1317

4 жыл бұрын

@@BrokenTrout Peggy had a sad end to a career that began so full of promise.

@marbleman52

4 жыл бұрын

@@russellgrenning1317 Hollywood is known for using actors and actresses to make them lots of money and then discarding them like old clothes.

@sheristewart3940

Жыл бұрын

I recall she had a big role in a picture with Gene Tierney and Ginger Rogers, but I don't recall the title.

@russellgrenning1317

Жыл бұрын

You are thinking of Black Widow made in 1954 in which she played a manipulative and cunning social climber albeit appearing sweet and innocent and ending up as the murder victim. The director of that successful film, Nunnally Johnson (1897 - 1977) said that he had accepted Garner in the role (which was supposed to herald a comeback for the former child star -but didn't) but that it did so to his ultimate regret, saying, "She was a tiresome little girl - a tiresome woman."

British born and a scion of an upper class family, Dennis Price (1915 - 1973) After a successful stage career which included appearing with Noel Coward in two of his famous plays, Price made his first movie in 1944, A Canterbury Tale. He had various supporting roles during the 1940s and gradually became recognised. His first starring role was in The Bad Lord Byron in 1949 but it was a dismal flop but he saved his career in the same year by appearing in the popular Kind Hearts and Coronets. As the 1950s progressed he had many supporting roles including some in A grade pictures. He was the first actor to play an overtly gay character in Crime On Our Hands (1954) and played a gay character in Victim (starring Dirk Bogarde) in 1961. In the BBC TV series The World of Wooster (1965 - 1967) he brilliantly played Jeeves to Ian Carmichael's Bertie. In 1967 he was declared bankrupt caused by his gambling addiction. alcoholism and extravagent lifestyle. In his final years he continued to work often on B grade horror films. Although married from 1939 to 1950, Price was bisexual. This 1954 movie is a good solid watchable movie.

GOOD AND ENTERTAINING MOVIE, good story, actors, and everything, thank you.

14:36: Only one member of this film's cast is still alive: Christian Dorn, who played the role of Carl, the library assistant to Peggy Anne Garner. He had only 13 credits overall, and Eight Witnesses was his debut. His final appearance was in 2007 in a German TV movie, Das Letzte Stuck Himmel (The First Piece of Heaven). On the first day of December, he will be 95.

Here we go again. Thanks trout, great film.

The witnesses provided accurate details concerning the events that occurred in the room also about the impostor who committed the murder. The scent of cigar smoke on coat, no, slow or fast reading, sound of searching through papers on the desk and where he was seated. Also the accurate detail concerning the man (father/scientist) exactheavy footsteps entering the room twice and where he sat.

I wonder how did they do this type of story writing at that time? What a Brilliant way to write such a story with Eight Blind people today Hollywood never going to write, produce even direct films like this ❤

Great movie. I hope you can find more anti-communist movies from the 1940's and 1950's. There is a growing audience for them.

@nedludd7622

2 жыл бұрын

An audience which you just made up. If you like trash, you can always look up the propaganda films made by Harding College in Arkansas in the 50's.

Seen it on TCM long time ago and loved it then,very well done movie,full of suspense.

Good film.

Love the plot with the blind witnesses. Impressed what they could pick up just be sound. An excellent movie from the cold war era. Thanks much for sharing.

Not many folks left who remember using non-electric, ink spool typewriters for writing collage papers. Waiting in line to get into a phone booth to make a call. The youth of today are living in the future.

@nedludd7622

2 жыл бұрын

The hunt-and-peck typewriter user was better than expected. He typed at of about one stroke for a whole word. In the scene he maybe made a dozen strokes but on reading back there was a whole paragraph.

@randyhutton9371

9 ай бұрын

The magic of Hollywood. That's a magic typewriter, to go with the magic guns that never need reloading.

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The dialog is naive and even simplistic but the plot is good. Apparently this was produced in Germany and the style looks it. One explanation I read for the dialog was that it was done so it could be easily dubbed into German.

Neat little thriller thanks for posting.

Never heard of this film. I'll check it out. Thanks for posting.

@BrokenTrout

5 жыл бұрын

My pleasure Kevin, thank you for watching it.

It’s watchable and the old boy is good - especially when he runs up the stairs like a 20yr old 😆 I’d never have rated Price as an actor if this was the only performance I’d seen; uncomfortably wooden. However, I still enjoyed the movie. Thanks

@DmPmRr1959

2 жыл бұрын

Dennis Price was the same in most of his performances. Old school British actor.

One of the producers was a cousin to Bob Balaban, came from a “show biz” family.

Just love the movie's you share thanks so much keep them coming

@BrokenTrout

6 жыл бұрын

I will Candace, thank you.

Films classic very very good 👍👌❤

Definitely a "B" movie but still watchable. The music sounds like it came right out of a 40's 'serial' movie. Right after the old man was murdered, the blind people were each asked what they remember and they all had different memories. I think it would have been neat if this had been explored more and they helped solve the murder. Oh well....

@BrokenTrout

4 жыл бұрын

A big budget treatment of this would have been well worth the effort imho.

@marbleman52

4 жыл бұрын

@@BrokenTrout Yes, definitely..!!

@DmPmRr1959

2 жыл бұрын

There are many "B" movies that are watchable. A "B" movie didn't mean inferior.

The protagonist, Alan, is not much of a ladies man, here. . .and I just had to laugh when the 2 bad spies tied up the protagonist's girlfriend/daughter of the professor when they knew the good guys were coming up the stairs.

Loved it thanks!

Sorry... audio is just too muddy to follow story. Thanks anyway.

Hello everyone. Elaine Parker's biography of Dennis Price will be published in April 2018 by Fonthill Media. "The Price of Fame" will retail at £20.00 from all bookshops and on Amazon.

Weird little film, I wonder who it was aimed at? Brits? Germans? Ammies? Little bit LeCarré, little bit Bond.

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Wonderful film - shame the audio is poor.

@BrokenTrout

5 жыл бұрын

Hi sorry about that Vera. But the print is the best I could get a hold of.

"How did it go?" "Nothing." Seen worse.

Color Compulsory

Excellent!

Rate 5.9 Noir

Hey! Border guards! Got any spares?

What’s going on down there

The days of the guttural German accent! ... 36:40 Vee vont that envelope. She's got it!

Good noir.

Every movie...shot of brandy...hurry. But she didnt even let out a blood curdling chick scream...I mean dame. Sorry.

Radio garden

Annoying music.Who do we sack?

@MrBlazeright

6 ай бұрын

Oddly enough, the composer of the soundtrack was uncredited. But, although the music might've left something to be desired, it was definitely appropriate.

17/10/17 hmmm

@jameslangan7357

2 жыл бұрын

You chewed through your restraints to get out of the bed just to say that?

Just terrible.

Not that good.

Pretty awful. There are many much better.

crap!

Yiddisb. Yiddish BWA