Leave her to Heaven is a masterpiece so is Nightmare Alley. Great choices as always 👍👍

@theman2017inc

8 ай бұрын

Saw the 2021 remake with , have yet to see the original 1947 original with Tyrone Power.

Out of the Past is my highest recommendation and in fact should be at the top of Noir Lists

You have some really good choices! The Asphalt Jungle is an awesome movie. Aside from Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern, it gives Marilyn Monroe an early important role, and a pre-Singin in the Rain Jean Peters is also good. Leave Her to Heaven is a marvelous example of a Technicolor noir, and it stars "the queen of noir" Gene Tierney. I Wake Up Screaming is an underrated gem. Betty Grable was a musical comedy star, but she does very good with a straight role. This movie is often considered the one that laid the blueprint for noir cliches. I've long wished to own Nightmare Alley, especially the Criterion edition. I might try and grab it during the 50% off sale Barnes & Noble has going. For my last two cents, you can't go wrong with Bogie and Bacall or Hitchcock movies.

Stumbled across your channel since I love film noir. "Leave Her to Heaven" is a gem. I recently discovered it. Never heard of it. Gene Tierney as a narcissistic psychopath is brilliant. Although she was nominated for an Oscar, she lost to Joan Crawford for "Mildred Pierce." Tierney should have won. Even Martin Scorsese said it's one of his favorite films AND that Gene Tierney was underrated.

Oh, Daniel.. It's just great. Definitely your Videos are getting better week after week. We"cinephiles", after watching so many great films, have a lot of imagination to be shown off!! Keep on posting and showing it off🎯

If it's Noirvember, Lizabeth Scott must be lurking around every dark corner ... _Too Late for Tears_ shows off "The Threat" at her best! I've gotta say Dan Duryea shows up in a lot of great noirs! He's his own subgenre 🤣 p.s. love your intro in "beautiful black and white," Daniel!!

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Marcel!!

@robbush6822

8 ай бұрын

TOO LATE FOR TEARS is fantastic!

@thomaskummer9968

8 ай бұрын

I ❤ Dan Dureya! He's so underrated! Great actor in Noirs and Westerns (Winchester 73!)

The Big Combo (1955). Cornell Wilde. Strange noir, including bizarre turn with hit men (and homosexual lovers) Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman. Brian Donlevy. Available on KZread.

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

I need to see that one.

@darkdial

8 ай бұрын

​​@@cobwebschannel Also shot by John Alton! There was a blu from Olive if you can track it down but I recommend importing the Arrow which gets pretty cheap during their sales.

Good suggestions, but if you want some others I suggest DETOUR, D.O.A., THE KILLERS, OUT OF THE PAST, SUNSET BOULEVARD, THE SET UP, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, TOUCH OF EVIL, KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (another movie Tarantino ripped off), DOUBLE INDEMNITY, anything with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, and one of the best horror movies ever made, the terrifying CURSE OF THE DEMON. By the way, Hitchcock definitely created a couple B&W noir masterpieces, including STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (my favorite) and SHADOW OF A DOUBT. I'm with you on Dick Powell. I wish he'd done more noir films. Keep up the good work, sir.

@btetschner

8 ай бұрын

I think about Strangers On A Train often, that film is real genius!

@darkdial

8 ай бұрын

Other Dick Powell noir: Cry Danger, Johnny O'Clock, Cornered (follow-up with Dmytryk to Murder, My Sweet), and arguably both To the Ends of the Earth (a nearly forgotten semi-documentary crime film ala T-Men with some shocking moments) and Station West (the obviously hardboiled noir inspired RKO western with Jane Greer)

In addition to the ones you mentioned, other favorite noir titles on Criterion are: Detour, Double Indemnity, Gilda, In a Lonely Place, The Killers, Night and the City, Pickup on South Street, Sweet Smell of Success, and They Live by Night.

@robbush6822

8 ай бұрын

I have them all! All great recs!

All are great recommendations. However, as a film noir purist, I don't consider LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN as noir, due to it being in color. I consider it noir-adjacent. Fantastic film though. I want to watch it right now, but my copy is in storage. Also, though DIAL M FOR MURDER is an underrated Hitchcock classic (some have to be - he made so many great classics), it is not noir. It's a suspense thriller. As far as noir goes, probably Hitch's most noirish is another (in my mind) underrated film, I CONFESS. I think you reviewed that once and didn't like it as much as I do. For another POV noir, there is Robert Montgomery as - you guessed it - Phillip Marlowe in LADY IN THE LAKE. It came out the year before DARK PASSAGE, but isn't as good.

My Dad loved these films. He was older so he didn't use the Noir word, he'd call them detective films or something similar. I decided a few years ago to watch as many as I could, and I have had so much fun, watching and dissecting them. I have my Perry pen ready for your recommendations.

My favorites are among the ones you mentioned. Leave her to Heaven is really up there for me. Kiss me deadly grabed me from the start, and keeps one guessing (I love that ending. I'm pretty sure Spielberg picked up something from it). Dial M for Murder I love for its very theatrical (stage) feeling (3D is quite good also). My favorite so far, though, has to be Notorious. To me it is nearly Hitchcock's best.

What a great selection! I have Kiss Me Deadly and Alias Nick Beal on my watchlist for this month but I am so glad you are giving love to Dick Powell. The novel Murder, My Sweet is based on (Farewell, My Lovely) is even more bonkers insane and Powell perfectly captures that Marlowe smarmy behavior.

I’ve seen every film you recommended except Shakedown, but I blind bought it during the last Kino sale. I was saving it for November & glad to know you enjoyed it so much!

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

Awesome!

Some great picks and a really fun intro! I remember being blown away the first time I watched Nightmare Alley. I also like that Tyrone Power came back from WW2 wanting to make darker, more realistic movies and this was the first project he selected to star in. It was so far from his matinee idol roles he had done previously. Leave Her to Heaven is a classic and is one of many movies I watched because Martin Scorsese talked about it in his documentary, A Personal Journey Through American Cinema. I also really like Dick Powell in noirs. I watched Murder, My Sweet a lot when I was younger and he's in a sort of western noir called Station West, co-starring the lovely Jane Greer, that I used to enjoy but haven't seen in years.

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Hunter!

@robbush6822

8 ай бұрын

STATION WEST was on TCM about 2 weeks ago. I recorded it. Great flick.

haha...great noir voiceover intro. Loved it. Regarding Kiss Me Deadly, yes, a lot of those strange touches were added by the director and screenwriter. The books were written by Mickey SPillane and are way more straightforward, hard-bitten affairs, and SPillane (or maybe just Mike Hammer) kind of got a reputation as a misogynist and a kind of proponent of vigilantism, even for back then. I think the movie is a kind of commentary on taht, almost like the Starship troopers of noir in a way. I've definitely got to see Dark Passage and several of these other films; they sound great. One I wonder if you've watched is Night and the City, one of the few such films to be set in England, though it has some Americans in the cast, including Richard Widmarck, who plays a con man who wants to get into the wrestling business. It's based on a book (like many of them are) and I do think the book is better, or has more depth to it, but the movie is awesome, with great performances and atmosphere, and a really intense wrestling scene.

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! And yes, I LOVE Night and City! It’s so dark and fascinating. Love Richard Widmark.

@DamnableReverend

8 ай бұрын

I know you've mentioned before that you also enjoy reading, so I'd really like to recommend the book. Gerland kersh was an incredible writer. The book is a lot funnier but also quite a bit darker than the movie. Harry as played by Widmarck can't help but be a bit loveable, but the Harry of a book is a total and absolute scumbag. You still want to read about him though, and the other characters are really great. Plus, the writing gets pretty experimental at times -- there's a whole Interlude chapter that's basically about cat mating! haha @@cobwebschannel

I find it so fascinating how everyone dreads being murdered but we also enjoy watching movies where other people get murdered. We are such a weird species :). I recently got to watch my bluray copy of Dial M at a friend's house hooked up to the full 3D experience!...It was so awesome! Quick true story: My grandma once went on a date with Dick Powell in sometime in the '30's. Unfortunately, it didn't take

"Caged" from 1950 is excellent.

A+ video! Thank you for the awesome recommendations!

"The Crooked Way" with John Payne is a budget noir that, due to the noir lighting techniques and solid acting, comes across as a higher budget film. There are many character actors who will be familiar and they step up their game in this one. Having a solid story doesn't hurt either.

@darkdial

8 ай бұрын

Especially Percy Helton as a wheezing cat hoarder! Anything shot by noir master John Alton is must-see (his 3-D work in I, the Jury is breathtaking for those able). Also, The Crooked Way makes an interesting contrast to the similar but slightly more romantic Somewhere in the Night (which is also terrific).

@robbush6822

8 ай бұрын

@@darkdial I haven't watched my copy of I, THE JURY yet. I put it in storage almost as soon as I got it. Gotta fix that.

@darkdial

8 ай бұрын

@@robbush6822 Did same with my copy of The Long Wait. Getting that one out soon though; I recall it being solid with some great lurid bits

@robbush6822

8 ай бұрын

@@darkdial I need to get that.

All 100% solid recommendations...great job!

johnny O'Clock (1947). love this movie, it has some quality dialogue

Hello from Germany and thanks for this new Video 👍 A few months ago I saw S.Kubricks The Killing. A first time watch for me and it blew me off my feet so great expecially S.Haydens Performance is awesome. Also love J.HustonsAsphalt-Jungle again we have S.Hayden! I started my Noirvember with ,Kansas City Confidential' directed by Phil Karlson(1952), not bad it's got Lee van Cleef and Jack Elam but the actor John Payne has the leading role, and sorry he is boring! With an other man the film could have been much better! A noir you absolutly should watch is,Sorry, wrong number' from 1946 with the one and only Barbara Stanwyck as a very sick woman who is no more able to get out of her bad and Burt Lancaster as her husband who sends a killer to murder her. So exciting I bite my fingernails while watching the film 😮 Have you seen this film? Highly recommend 🙋‍♂️

This video was so much fun to watch. I love the intro.

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

Really appreciate that!

This is a great list of recommendations! Some absolute favorites for me here such as The Asphalt Jungle, Leave Her to Heaven or Dial M for Murder, although I hadn't think of it as noir. I totally agree on Ralph Meeker! Shakedown, Nightmare Alley and I Walk Alone are great too. I still have to watch Pitfall and I Wake Up Screaming, so those two I will try to watch this Noirvember. Always a thrill to watch videos devoted to noir, thank you for the effort and recommendations.

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Miriam! And I definitely wouldn't argue about Dial M being noir, I just wanted to recommend it, and I think it's a good movie for this time of year. haha

@MiriamVintageClassics

8 ай бұрын

@@cobwebschannel No need to, I completely agree!

Hi Daniel, Dick Powell was in another good noir called “Johnny O’Clock”. Some good public domain noirs are “Kansas City Confidential” and “D.O.A.”. Also they’re not quite noirs but the RKO Dick Tracy films are like a cross between noir and universal monsters, they’re fun.

@robbush6822

8 ай бұрын

I love those Dick Tracy flicks. They were like a gateway to noir for me - not noir, but seemingly trying to skirt that pulpy crime film line.

Detour is brilliant noir. Very low budget but the performance of Ann Savage is fantastic. She is the epitome of the female fatale.

Excellent video. Loved the intro. Thanks for the heads up on the B&N Criterion sale. Now I'm a couple hundred bucks lighter lol.

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

You’re welcome and I’m sorry! haha

Love the opening ❤️!

@cobwebschannel

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Dial M has one of my all time favorite movie villains! Tony is just so suave while being despicable!

@paulswords3705

8 ай бұрын

I'm not so sure that dial M for Murder is classified as noir. However it is a classic movie

One gotta love noir. I've seen your recommendations and i think it's a great list. And i recommend people to check the polar movies ( french Noir movies), so many brilliant movies.

Two of the greatest film noir that you didn’t mention was Robert Mitchum in Out of The Past and Alan Ladd & Lana Turner in This Gun Is For Hire about a cat loving hitman

Great recommendations . The only one I haven’t seen is Shakedown . I look forward to investigating that one . Thanks !

@cobwebschannel

6 ай бұрын

Nice, hope you enjoy it!

@johnw706

6 ай бұрын

@@cobwebschannel Thanks !

Great selections. Murder my Sweet was one of the first noirs that I really took to, great dialogue. If you’re interested i uploaded on my channel a bit before you some film noir selections and the only ones we both mentioned were Dark Passage and Leave Her to Heaven

Another Edward G. Robinson/Joan Bennett movie I'd recommend highly would be Scarlet Street from 1945. Fritz Lang directing. It's in the public domain so it's free oretty much anywhere to watch. Edward G. Robinson plays a bored, married, cowardly bank clerk who gets sucked in to an affair with Joan Bennett's character causing his life to spiral out of control. Can't recommend it enough.

The Narrow Margin

Out of the past, Laura, gun for hire, blue Dahlia, crossfire, maltise falcon, the racket, double indemnity, sorry wrong number, the killers,

Howard Duff was married to Ida Lupino.

Sorry but what is a POV style movie?

@cobwebschannel

3 ай бұрын

“Point of view”. It means the camera is shooting from a character’s perspective.