Julian Shellhammer
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Last week sometime it was Fast and Furious (1939) with Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern as Joel and Garda Sloane, book dealers with time and money, who get involved with murder here and there. This time, it's at a beauty pageant. Interestingly, it was directed by Busby Berkeley. The Sloanes were in three of these breezy rom com murder mysteries, starting with Fast Company, then Fast and Loose, then Fast and Furious. Each time the couple were played by different actors.
In a complete change of pace, on Saturday night it was The Third Man (1949) directed by Carol Reed, with Joseph Cotton, Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. The Missus had never seen it, and since I had watched it I-don't-know-how-many times, she got the film nerd commentary. Topically dark, visually dark, even the day time shots seem bleached out.
NB: I would bet good money that the conversation between Cotton and Welles at the amusement park, with its overlapping dialogue, was Welles hi-jacking a few minutes of filming. Real good stuff, but not the feel good movie of 1949.
In a complete change of pace, on Saturday night it was The Third Man (1949) directed by Carol Reed, with Joseph Cotton, Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. The Missus had never seen it, and since I had watched it I-don't-know-how-many times, she got the film nerd commentary. Topically dark, visually dark, even the day time shots seem bleached out.
NB: I would bet good money that the conversation between Cotton and Welles at the amusement park, with its overlapping dialogue, was Welles hi-jacking a few minutes of filming. Real good stuff, but not the feel good movie of 1949.