NARROW MARGIN HAS A GREAT STAIRCASE

Maltese Falcon is highly rewatchable. Love that movie. I have a replica of the falcon.

Budd Boetticher directed one more noir besides Escape In The Fog and The Killer Is Loose: Behind Locked Doors (1948). It's the first American film about a journalist who lets himself willingly being locked up (in a mental institution or prison), in this film to solve a case. The same plot appears in Fritz Lang's Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt (1956) and Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963). But actually, Swedish director Hasse Ekman was the first one to use this idea in his film Meeting In The Night (1946).

Terrific program, per usual. I rather enjoy "Gloria" as a compelling New York film. Late 1970s and NYC staggering about...

Budd Boetticher is one of the finest directors of the classic era. While he is known quite well to film buffs, I still consider him underrated, so hearing the Film Noir Foundation wax enthusiastic about him and career is always great! Thanks for the upload!

If anybody remembers KTVU Channel 2 used to show a print of "In A Lonely Place" on the 1 O'Clock movie with the massage scene removed.

I just Pat Crowley in a 1959 episode of the western TV series “Wanted Dead Or Alive”starring Steve McQueen. She was 26 years old then and what an absolute knockout of a beauty was. She’s still a very attractive woman today but as a young woman she was possibly THE most beautiful lady I have ever laid eyes on!.

Peter Ford l know your daughter Ellie Ford ❤.

I huge THANK YOU for your praise of the Criterion Channel. I'm making big changes in my life and one of those is to be a subscriber. Totally loving it...

As always, I just love listening to the two of you. Thank you so much for the time and energy you commit to the joy and betterment of your listeners! Anne, I totally agree about The Maltese Falcon. There are a lot of runners-up, but none measures up to The Maltese Falcon. Also loved your observations about Patrick McGoohan. Curiously enough, I can't quite get excited about Arthur Kennedy. I recognize that he's a good actor, but... I'll keep trying. Wesley

Greetings from Pittsburgh Eddie and Ann! I enjoy the “Ask Eddie” videos tremendously and was excited to see you both back after a little break. I don’t comment on KZbin, but was moved to do so on this post because of Douglas, a fellow Pittsburgher. I agree, the Benedum Center would be the perfect venue for a Noir City event. Just to add to his thoughts about the Benedum, Dick Powell lived and worked in Pittsburgh from about 1929 until he went to Hollywood in 1932. He was a popular M.C. at the Enright Theater in East Liberty, and then at the Stanley Theater, which was meticulously restored and renamed the Benedum in 1985 or 1986. As an unabashed DP fan, I think it would be a fantastic tribute to him - to show “Pitfall”, “Murder, My Sweet” or my personal favorite, “Johnny O’Clock” at the venue where Powell was discovered. I’m a new fan of film noir because of DP, and have learned so much from you both. I’m hopeful that someday, Pittsburgh will be added to the list of cities that welcome film noir fans, Eddie, Ann and other film noir experts to the beautiful Benedum Center for the Performing Arts!

ialp is so good

Sgt. "Fatso" Judson, United States Army!

I'm a bit stupid. It took me a long time to understand what a character actor actually did. When these guys do their stuff, the main top line people , stroll through their role. Borgnine a man of such finnese, skill , an actor of excellence , a great of Hollywood.

And I think Alain Delon was the greatest, a poster of him is in my bedroom, He was a great actor, not just gorgeous.

Thank you for giving me 2 hours of pleasure, really enjoyed listening. BTW I also love 'In a lonely place" and I am going to Noir Festival in PA, looking forward to meeeting Eddie, not sure if Anne will be there

Honestly, what I find strange is that Eddie Muller doesn't consider "Clash by Night" to be noir. Ironically, his favourite film, "In a Lonely Place", is undoubtedly noir despite the fact that the protagonist didn't commit a crime and was never a murderer. Plus, Muller did show in Noir Alley a couple of months ago the film "Pickup", arguably a tainted noir melodrama yet the lesser version of "Clash by Night". And speaking of Odets, isn't he one of the screenwriters of "Sweet Smell of Success"? One of the greatest noirs of all time? I am sure that Muller wouldn't disagree with that statement. And yet I assure you that there's not a single dead corpse in the movie. My point is that crime movies are a dime a dozen yet that doesn't automatically make them "noir". Everyone would agree. The reverse is also true: no murder shouldn't disqualify a film as "noir".

On the contrary, I think Mary Astor is incredibly attractive.

You two are the BEST! I thoroughly enjoy your show!❤ Happy birthday month to Eddie🎉🎉

Eddie is so correct, Megalopolis is one man's vision, but in no way did it reflect any vision of mine. Like myself, most of us go to the movies to identify with themes or characters and this is where the movie fails. And my view about Copploa differs from many because I believe most of us would have wished that he would have succeded not failed. I went into the theater with an open mind hoping that I would enjoy the film.

If I remember correctly The Prisoner was shown on public TV (KQED) after being a summer replacement.

Van Heflin great in "They Came to Cordura" w/Gary Cooper

also Valli from "The Third Man" appeared in "Suspiria" old version

agree completely about Arthur Kennedy, in subtlety and craft he matched and outranked many of the major stars of the era. There is that amazing scene in "Nevada Smith" where he is being horsewhipped, man, you can feel that whip.

Van Heflin was great in Rod Serling's "Patterns"

I prefer Matt Damon's Ripley, I thought it was pretty layered and complex

I really enjoyed Megalopolis. The Substance has been one of my favorites of the year.

17:00 i,d like to add Un Flic to the Delon - Melville film list.

Great to see you both again! To add on to the analysis of Edmond O'Brien's long career, I always think it's interesting to try to connect actors through completely different eras. Think Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon, but with any actor in general from the Silent era to the modern era today. For example, Sylvia Sydney had a film career from the 1920's to the 1990's. She's the only actress who can say she was directed by Fritz Lang in Fury (1936) and You Only Live Once (1937) and by Tim Burton in Beetlejuice (1988) and Mars Attack (1996). Careers and stories like that are quite interesting, in my opinion.

Ask Eddie is one of my favorite series. Here’s to a million more episodes 🙏

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12 Angry Men shows that Crime Dramatic Literature is an under-utilized Art form could see White Jazz being a great play (would give my right arm to read James M.Cains Play version of The Postman Always Rings Twice never published)!!!

She had the sexiest overbite of any woman in history. Wow!

Loved him in Cimmaron Strip and movie Story Of Ruth

Handsome, intelligent, humanitarian -what more could my you ask for for a great actor

3rd season of Lost in Space was total crap. Irwin Allen was a hack !! He spent nothing on the show and nothing on the writing !!

Please come back to Oakland! I’ve been to many film festivals - yours was the very best.

I can watch a whole episode of Anne and Eddie talking sociopath/psychopath psychology of noir characters 🍿🍿🍿

Great episode!

Oh man, Eddie’s gotta see The Thing!

One thing I can say having worked with a couple of productions. Pleasant Behavior has gone out the window completely for many years, all they do is fight.

Colleen Gray's crush on Tyrone is truly evident in 'Nightmare Alley'. The acting between her and Power is outstanding & magical.

"Paths of Glory" - if Kubrick couldn't direct actors, then those actors were miraculous

moral of the Kubrick story: never get involved in a project with a mad scientist. Lang, Kubrick, etc. were essentially that.

Andre de Toth was another who could direct anything.

I love Gavin McLeod in "I Want To Live"

gothic noir - "Moss Rose" (1947)

try and get me known as The Sound of Fury in US

i thought waterfront was kind of anticommunist too. I mean look at Lee J. Cobb

Black Tuesday on KZbin now.🧨🦊