Eddie Muller's intro to "Born to Kill" (1947) on TCM Noir Alley

On July 30, 2017, TCM showed "Born to Kill" (1947) as its selection for its weekly "Noir Alley" show (Sunday mornings, 10 a.m.) Here is the intro by host Eddie Muller, aka The Czar of Noir.

[@yummyyum36719]

Claire Trevor is amazing in this. What a performance.

[@cwgochris71]

Verrry nice intro. Good job, Eddie!

[@Lolabelle59]

Great movie....great host!!

[@jaykauffman4775]

Tierney was hysterical as Elaines father in Seinfeld

[@greg33770]

just watched it last nite on movies cabletv channel. Great movie !

[@derekseven1647]

"He is not acting" Yes, you got that right, Laurence was the real deal.

[@colleenking7539]

Loved Esther Howards performance....honest and real and when she looked at Claire Trevor to call her a cold- hearted bitch essentially, wow it was riveting.. my favorite personality in the movie...

[@sergusbower1270]

Love this movie

[@mitch89014]

On my top ten of noir’s, Excellent, RKO, “House Of Noir”

[@MsBenlane]

letter in classic images describes meeting him at a fan convention where he was hostile to the dude and when he handed the $20 for the autograph pic to the assistent tierney grabbed the $20 saying it's mine give it to me and stuffed it in his pocket. this was in his old age!

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Noir rules

[@salemfathi2532]

Great movie, Claire Trevor is amazing

[@apachelogiano612]

The absence of a femme fatale does not prevent a film from being Film Noir. At the same time, the presence of a femme fatale does not turn a film into a Film Noir. The femme fatale is a cliché like the corruptible detective. It may or may not be in a Film Noir, being clearly one of the most recurring features. But it is not necessary. THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950), THE KILLING (1956), KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) and even LAURA (1944) and many other films are 100% Film Noir and have nothing that resembles a femme fatale.

[@Lolabelle59]

Eddie Mueller refers to Claire Trevor's character as a Femme Fatale, and I concur. The films you list, though, are absent one, and still hold water within the genre, as you attest.

[@Carly8Corday]

LAURA. That's the one that defines why I can't stand Dana Andrews. (Looong complaint that would make if I launched into it.) Would have been a good escapist movie with all the spices in the right amount, if not for that character and who played it. The other unbearable is Dick Powell. Each of these guys is probably among the nicest people who ever lived, it is highly possible because just look at Dan Duryea, a paragon of a man, in all aspects of his life. What Dick Powell and Dana Andrews do wrong is be so unhandsome it's insulting. Neither of them has that gift for "acting handsome" that even Charles Laughton handled easily in THE SUSPECT. Their roles are overblown, irresistible-man who knows it, often rude jerks, utterly unlovable, fascist cops who push citizens around and enter homes without knocking, as Dana Andrews was in LAURA. Played by ugly male mugs, and always opposite women so beautiful the world doesn't even have such beauties anymore. This my seething, carried away opinion is neither here nor there. Thank you! :o)

[@MsBenlane]

i love the scene where elisha cook tries to tell tierney you can't go around killing people etc. reply why not?

[@michaelcollins237]

Laurence Tierney carried this film

[@michaelcollins237]

I do not like the slanderous character accusations by Eddie against Mr Tierney

[@jackgrattan1447]

Not one likable character in the entire film. Nasty.