The organ music seems better suited for a roller skating rink.
@leelarson1073 ай бұрын
Or a horror movie.
@kayeninetwo3585 Жыл бұрын
My guess is that someone's aunt was an unemployed silent movie organist, and they got her a job on this film! Not a bad movie for such a low budget.
@389383 Жыл бұрын
Nowadays someone with a computer can score a movie by using a copy of every instrumental sound there is.
@nicolelabella7287 Жыл бұрын
@@389383 8
@richardchambers3533 Жыл бұрын
The music sounds more suitable for a B horror movie
@jon9536 Жыл бұрын
Sounds kind of like a haunted roller rink.
@im1who84u Жыл бұрын
@@richardchambers3533 Or a Roller Skating Rink.
@ronaldstrange8981 Жыл бұрын
Great little film Well worth an hour. Enjoy. September, 2023.
@earlwest3502 Жыл бұрын
Very good resolution and i liked the unusual music also- poss novelty is probable. Agree the comic photographer i wouldn't miss. It,s free and easy to watch, so thank you for providing this interesting film!
@ruthnaranjo3448 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this great movie.💙🕊🌟
@ncooty Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting a great reminder of how far script-writing has come.
@kaydee4296 Жыл бұрын
That's entirely subjective. Most of what comes out of Hollywood now is sheer trash & CGI.
@ncooty Жыл бұрын
@@kaydee4296 You have a point.
@patriciajrs46 Жыл бұрын
I was going to say - how far it's traveled in whatever direction? It's not always a positive traveling, as in forward. Ha.
@ncooty Жыл бұрын
@@patriciajrs46 Indeed. Maybe we just have greater dispersion/ variance now.
@chamboyette853 Жыл бұрын
Scripts were better back then. However, what I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023. That's why I preparer films nowadays.
@operadog2000 Жыл бұрын
According to Wiki, Margia Dean is alive and is 101 years old.
@keithharvey7230 Жыл бұрын
😢Her remarkable mother still looks after her.
@orbyfan Жыл бұрын
She died on June 23, 2023.
@operadog2000 Жыл бұрын
@@orbyfan Wow, that's sad. It had happened just after I had posted that comment. RIP Margia Dean
@chirelle.alanalooney8609 Жыл бұрын
Which character did Margia play in this movie?
@chirelle.alanalooney8609 Жыл бұрын
@@keithharvey7230 Jesus, how the hell old does that make her mother 123 yrs old?
@freemarketjoe986911 ай бұрын
The photo reporter with the never ending camera issues routine reminded me of why vaudeville died.
@nomadpi18 ай бұрын
2 American films copied that scenario.
@emilyannfrancesmay3919 Жыл бұрын
By having organ music in the background, I feel like I'm watching a vintage soap opera!
@ellecee453 Жыл бұрын
Darling costumes on the ladies, a prescient plot and emotive organ music -- and a comic with a camera. Stellar!
@kimcantswim174 Жыл бұрын
How old are you?
@jennyjerome5669 Жыл бұрын
The music is dreadful -- and unnecessary.
@peterparziale2404 Жыл бұрын
And that comic photographer adds ZERO to the film.
@chamboyette853 Жыл бұрын
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
@freemarketjoe986911 ай бұрын
Emotive organ music? The only emotive it was giving me was the same feeling I get when I hear fingernails being dragged across a chalk board.
@lawsonj39 Жыл бұрын
Tom Neal was unforgettable in Detour.
@harrietweber2520 Жыл бұрын
"You're a brilliant idiot" i have to remember that one😊
@anthony1947 Жыл бұрын
When the guy falls through the window after being shot, you can still see him lying there just below the window frame. That's 55 minutes I'll never get back
@KarmicSalt Жыл бұрын
so what? He was laying on the fire escape.
@crose7412 Жыл бұрын
@anthony1947 There aren't any minutes you'll get back.
@kevino484611 ай бұрын
@@KarmicSalt So she screamed because he fell 1 foot.
@kitparker9448 Жыл бұрын
The original negative containing the theatrical release music has been lost. All that survives is the television negative, which has the so-called "music" most people object to. Film decomposes, so we made the movie available in the only format available to us. The only other option would have been to never show the movie again and just let it decompose.
@russpeck1320 Жыл бұрын
As a professional silent film accompanist and organist, I take exception to the term "so-called music', but I realize it's not everyone's cup of tea.🤓
@davidcouch6514 Жыл бұрын
Richard Travis later appeared in episodes of “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp”, which used also some soundtrack from this film.
@shadowlouise Жыл бұрын
David Couch. That's an interesting bit of trivia.
@mysterywriter888 Жыл бұрын
That camera man almost ruined the whole film for me!!!
@mickeybitsko1676 Жыл бұрын
What producer in his right mind ever thought attaching sid Melton to the project would add value to the content
@leelarson107 Жыл бұрын
He must know the producer. Blaaah.
@rods6405 Жыл бұрын
Its was terrible the same joke over and over
@Iamkcs2c Жыл бұрын
He grew on me. Kept it from being too Dragnet-y.
@rolandofgilead43 Жыл бұрын
it's a Robert Lippert film apparently it said it at the end and if what i hear is true that he was his brother in law and was forced to put him in films.
@RoseyTucker Жыл бұрын
@@rolandofgilead43 I know that Sid Melton appeared in 3 or 4 Robert Lippert movies. However, I can't find evidence (Wikipedia) that he was ever married at all. Does anyone know if Robert Lippert was his brother-in-law?
@gwenniegirl5011 ай бұрын
At 5:37 the photographer looks at information board and mentions Sid Melton is wanted for murder. This is an inside joke. The photographer was played by comic Sid Melton.
@marbleman52 Жыл бұрын
What a different kind of movie with organ music reminiscent of the Silent movie years and the old Serials. I couldn't decide if I liked it or not...!!
@Billthebaker420 Жыл бұрын
The police can legally lie to you, but it is a crime to lie to the police! 🤪
@georgeszilva122311 ай бұрын
Yes very true...get a lawyer before saying anything!
@desertdaisymarie69515 ай бұрын
They can't in Australia, they get sacked for that shit..
@chirelle.alanalooney8609 Жыл бұрын
WOW, WHAT A GREAT PICTURE THIS WAS! I'M GOING TO WATCH IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW.
@kevino484611 ай бұрын
Who's paying you🤣
@leelarson1072 ай бұрын
Didn't you learn the first time?
@bas1010 Жыл бұрын
56 minute lesson on how to not establish and maintain a chain of evidence.
@kathyflorcruz552 Жыл бұрын
Ha! You gave seen our current DOJ, right?
@loralou-djflowerdove Жыл бұрын
Please tell me how gloves don't cover the palms of someone's hands...😅
@sirwilliams5513 Жыл бұрын
Ask O.J.
@secondstring8 ай бұрын
Yep, was wondering how that line ever made it in too.
@desertdaisymarie69515 ай бұрын
Some don't, it depends what the gloves are for..
@robynconway1286 Жыл бұрын
I love the organ playing. A very expressive instrument.🪗🪗
@rolandofgilead43 Жыл бұрын
honestly it sounds like i'm at a horse show which i grew up going ot while watching it and listing to strange soundtrack they for some reason decided upon
@earlwest3502 Жыл бұрын
I agree fitting for the film. Thank you
@gloriagalindo8386 Жыл бұрын
Oh my God. That organ music.
@nomadpi18 ай бұрын
You're not going to start singing an opera are you?
@Ourladyrules Жыл бұрын
this is a fun watch, i love the old time organ music too. 🎥😊
@immaterialimmaterial51957 ай бұрын
Highlights of this film: 1. The all pervasive, tacky organ music! 2. The stream of comic photographer gags! 3. The 'accomplished' surrealistic artwork adorning the Bohemian artist studio!
@daveallen63 Жыл бұрын
Doesn't get anymore B movie than this, I bet the music budget was $500.
@shadowlouise Жыл бұрын
Prints on the gun!!! The mayor was killed with a PHONE (something not likely to happen these days. It used to be a person could be killed with just a phone's receiver. Phones were very heavy). The choice of music for this film was very odd.
@batteredupАй бұрын
I saw a film-noir recently where a woman was under attack from someone in her house and tried to call for help but the intruder intercepted the effort so she clocked him with the phone and killed him. I don't recall if the DA reversed the charges ...
@jewels389511 ай бұрын
He goes through kelso apartment without gloves. Now kelso could easily frame him
@Iamkcs2c Жыл бұрын
Lot of hate here, but i think of it like a radio play that they were trying to figure out how to film. The organ music and the narration early are very much like something you'd hear on the NBC radio hour or whatever.
@joline2730 Жыл бұрын
Quite a good film - trying to prove a man's innocence ... 💯
@chamboyette853 Жыл бұрын
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
@RealBigBadJohn Жыл бұрын
The beautiful Sheila Ryan, wife of Pat Buttram from 1952 until her untimely death in 1975 at age 54.
@batteredupАй бұрын
MIster Haney! Hey, Mr. Douglas, can I interest you in a bathtub? Eddie Arnold: "that's my bathtub. You stole it from me!"
@MidnightSouthpaw188 Жыл бұрын
"Wanted for murder Sid Melton!" Now that is a funny line.
@389383 Жыл бұрын
His irritating comic schtick here made me want to murder him!
@somersetdc Жыл бұрын
The organ music is really over-the-top.
@leelarson1073 ай бұрын
That's a polite way of saying that it SUCKS.
@renitaphilley9346 Жыл бұрын
Fingerprint expert says, "I don't think anything." Hilarious!!!!!
@dohniaparfitt58635 ай бұрын
crime mystery comedy...😉 lots of comic relief to which the organ music added
@dond.200 Жыл бұрын
The actual plot of the movie was good.. but the inane organ music and the ‘comical’ photographer (Sid Melton) made this film unwatchable. This must have had a very low budget such that they couldn’t use typical noir background music in the movie. The organ music reminded me of an early silent movie being shown in a theater.
@virnamisra1657 Жыл бұрын
How come low budget showed Richie Rich Richmond father in law unrelenting killed?
@Catquick1957 Жыл бұрын
That dye job dame's a fink I tells ya, a real fink!!!!
@sec9500 Жыл бұрын
Blooper...at 36:11, when they're going to pay Kelso a visit, the numbers on the building are reversed as in a mirror image. Enjoyed the film !
@wrsmith7119 ай бұрын
correct, just saw it.
@gerritvandergraaf7480 Жыл бұрын
finger prints can lie when they are stolen by illegal copying
@sohara.... Жыл бұрын
Nowadays, they'd be able to pick up traces of the copying, eg the sellotape
@TheArby133 ай бұрын
That clown with the camera ruined this movie for me
@laradavenport903Ай бұрын
No argument there! He is so annoying, get out of here!🙄
@freemarketjoe986911 ай бұрын
I think I finally figured out what really killed off silent movies...that damned horrible organ music!
@kathylynch9732 Жыл бұрын
It's rare that I don’t finish a movie. This one was just too slow.
@petermac98911 ай бұрын
That photographer guy is so annoying
@leelarson1073 ай бұрын
Annoying? He isn't THAT good. Between him and the organ 'music', I'm leaving right now at the 13:08 mark.
@freemarketjoe986911 ай бұрын
I don't know why, but listening to the soundtrack of this movie gives me the sudden urge to go rollerskating!
@maxlebow7373 Жыл бұрын
Lyle Talbot - in 100% of all movies between 1950-1960
@swissotto1 Жыл бұрын
I enjoy a kitschy movie once in awhile. Not bad and held my interest.
@MrUdayNarainPandeySharadNPande8 ай бұрын
A Must Watch Film Actors Actresses and Story for young Adults in a Family full of Young and old parents
@chirelle.alanalooney8609 Жыл бұрын
That photographer needs to get a different gig, because this one isn"t working for him, and he's beginning to get on my nerves with all of his incompetence.
@janicemahan47726 ай бұрын
Soap operas used organ music at one time too.
@fwdixon04 Жыл бұрын
Music sounds like a soap opera.
@jimlaguardia8185 Жыл бұрын
It’s hilarious!
@ronaldcates5760 Жыл бұрын
It ruining the movie
@marganamaurer Жыл бұрын
Not a bad movie but the music is absolutely awful. 😱
@appletongallery Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a low-budget radio show from the 40’s
@auletjohnast03638 Жыл бұрын
Damm, you beat me to it.
@Shamimsie797 Жыл бұрын
nice film with a bit of comedy thrown in
@j.sumner6999 Жыл бұрын
Okay, I just started this. The Police Chief is the murderer.
@michaelhoffman5486 Жыл бұрын
dude wheres your spoiler alert ? rude my dude
@j.sumner6999 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelhoffman5486 Anyone could figure out that only a police official could place his own fingerprints on the card assigned to the suspect.
@nomadpi18 ай бұрын
Wow! You're so astute. Whoops! Forgot to take my "stop smartassism" pill today.
@lloydbotway5930 Жыл бұрын
The organ music makes it sound like a silent film.
@kitparker9448 Жыл бұрын
K, here is the story on the organ "music." The producer, Robert L. Lippert, paid for original music to accompany the movie in theatres. When television came along he didn't feel he should pay again; the composers disagreed. Instead of paying, Lippert commissioned organ "sounds," with no melody or anything that could be considered a song.
@-oiiio-399310 ай бұрын
@@kitparker9448 Interesting backstory.
@ChrisCarlin-is8wvАй бұрын
“Carnival of Souls” vibes huh.
@mariamarisi6154 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the great movie. ❤
@noddy8607 Жыл бұрын
Not too bad a movie - I enjoyed it late at night.
@chamboyette853 Жыл бұрын
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
@richardnogan4579 Жыл бұрын
Good flick, flash back to the ol roller skating rink.
@waldolydecker811811 ай бұрын
"Friendly Freddy" and idiotic organ score....geez
@donmoore7785 Жыл бұрын
Very nice film. From today's perspective, the bumbling photographer adds nothing to this film - wish they has left it out. Perhaps audiences of the period liked this kind of cheesy humor, in the post-war period.
@michaelhoffman5486 Жыл бұрын
but hes the samdwich delivery guy o dick van dyke show fer christ sakes a legend
@mikedoran9851 Жыл бұрын
And he did hook up later on with Captain Midnight ...
@nomadpi18 ай бұрын
Post war? The Korean Police Action was in progress. The Republic of Viet Nam Police Action was being set up by the UN. Oh yes, cheesy humor is always popular to everybody.
@estelleadamski308 Жыл бұрын
The bumbling photographer gets old pretty quick. And the organ music is out of place in this movie. Better suited for a monster flick.
@onemat2000 Жыл бұрын
I can hardly sit through this film with that soap opera organ.
@diannemiller1895 Жыл бұрын
Was made even worse by deplorable backdrop music and the inept photographer character.
@patrickryan1515 Жыл бұрын
Sid Melton, the oddball photographer ("Danny Thomas Show", "Golden Girls"; "Lady Sings The Blues") -- he really made his presence known on film. Nice to see him here bringing out a bit of levity from the script. Also love that old-time radio organ soundtrack.
Indeed yes. That funky old radio type organ music really makes it.
@baroqueman1 Жыл бұрын
An intelligent mystery film. However, the clownish press photographer failed to be remotely amusing, and could easily have been dispensed with.
@kingsize1182 Жыл бұрын
Have to agree with you on this clownish photographer being an annoying character in this movie. Just not a likeable comedy relief.
@winonamassingill7895 Жыл бұрын
I wish someone could tell me what commercial that plodding sound was from that was being played in this movie.
@rogerrobin277411 ай бұрын
That and the hokey organ and choral music in the background. Ughhh.
@rogerrobin277411 ай бұрын
Because breaking and entering always makes for admissible evidence.
@hertzair118611 ай бұрын
That actor portraying the photographer is often inserted in these noirs as a goofball comic relief…usually unsuccessfully.
@virnamisra1657 Жыл бұрын
And he's done his medal s worth. Brilliant with or without Brilliantine. 📷 Man
@kevino484611 ай бұрын
I don't know where to begin here, so I won't🤐💩👎
@johnrudy9404 Жыл бұрын
Early on Sid Melton 4rth wall joke...actually funny.
@billsmith9711 Жыл бұрын
too bad we can't all make a career out of being an oaf.
@mcdugalmcstiffy6889 Жыл бұрын
Second rate, Sid Melton was obnoxious.
@leelarson1073 ай бұрын
He was never that good.
@aryanscience Жыл бұрын
That photographer from Green Acres was too irritating..Had to fast forward him‽
@loralou-djflowerdove Жыл бұрын
Okay...@45:58 Lt. Grayson has a secretary named, "MISS GRAYSON"?? Wondering if the guy flubbed his line. So much about this movie makes little sense to me. Lol😂 Also, at @46:48, there is a sign pasted to a wooden door that says: "HOMICIDE DEPT."...but, @45:19, it's a glass door that says: "HOMICIDE OFFICE - LT. GRAYSON".
@kevino484611 ай бұрын
The door is multi-tasking
@im1who84u Жыл бұрын
35:09 You may remember YOU took his prints on that very spot and that fingerprint power could be yours. Just a thought.
@chavruta2000 Жыл бұрын
back in those days, people thought fingerprints were very interesting
@chamboyette853 Жыл бұрын
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
@rolandofgilead43 Жыл бұрын
@@chamboyette853 what the hell are you even talking about?
@chamboyette853 Жыл бұрын
@@rolandofgilead43 Uhhh, if you'e too stupid to understand that's not my problem, duhhhh. But I'll give you a hint, stars like Selina Gomez don't have to go to the bathroom unlike before.
@agnesgooch459 Жыл бұрын
Sid Melton...Friendly Freddie in Gomer Pyle USMC.
@cheryldevine42 Жыл бұрын
The strange organ music did not fit this movie and it drove me nuts. Weird.
@nomadpi18 ай бұрын
The producers used it because it was public domain or they'd already paid for it for some other movie that didn't use it.
@neilreynolds3858 Жыл бұрын
Great, the reform mayor doesn't approve the design because he doesn't like the artist dating his daughter. With that sound track, I kept expecting somebody to say Life Can Be Beautiful. You'd think that the guy who left the prints had 6 fingers would be a clue too.
@brendakrieger7000 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, this was really decent🎬
@mickeybitsko1676 Жыл бұрын
With that choir as soundtrack, I expect to see kingfish stevens and Andy brown to show up
@leelarson107 Жыл бұрын
THEY would be an improvement.
@kevino484611 ай бұрын
@@leelarson107 So would Andy Devine
@laurakibben41476 ай бұрын
And obviously, they don't know a head wound bleeds PROFUSELY...
@laurakibben41476 ай бұрын
Less than halfway thru and I'm identifying this as an earlier attempt at a SOAP OPERA. They all basically know each other, they only had one person to throw under the bus, the SO background music---GOAT! 🤣🤣😆😆
@rubiconklbrutorowman7577 Жыл бұрын
Nice ending!
@elliottschertzer876 Жыл бұрын
Released February 23rd,1951
@desertdaisymarie69515 ай бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed this film, an old fashioned forensics movie 😊
@sudha4128 Жыл бұрын
The role of the stupid photographer was totally unnecessary.
@laradavenport903Ай бұрын
I agreed, he is so annoying.🙄
@buffalopatriot Жыл бұрын
Curious - is Producer Sigmund Neufeld really Director Sam Newfield?
@RobertRoll Жыл бұрын
Sam the director was producer Sigmund’s kid brother. Sam directed so many of his brother’s productions he eventually started alternating different names in the credits. Check IMDB for his long list of assignments, then look up “Peter Stewart” and “Sherman Scott”- all the same prolific Gower Gulch director, who helmed nearly 300 films across his 30-year career. Job security was never a problem for Sam “My Brother’s the Producer” Newfield!
@Rich-xg2cg Жыл бұрын
Shlock
@tpe54 Жыл бұрын
way too many ads😒 good bye Ozzie Nelson's neighbor is a detective
@Getouttahere78 Жыл бұрын
Big Blooper. The way he supposedly held the phone the prints should have been upside down ‼️ 😂😂
@gj8683 Жыл бұрын
Love that icy shrill vibrato on the organ
@brendakrieger7000 Жыл бұрын
Worst Photographer ever😆📸
@kidmack3556 Жыл бұрын
Mark Furman must've caught this movie on the late late late show as a pimply faced kid.
@johnrogan9420 Жыл бұрын
Sort of a superman and Lois lane plot .
@kevino484611 ай бұрын
And acting.
@RealBigBadJohn Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the organ was played by Joseph Kearns.
@myrnagroger132 Жыл бұрын
Very good.
@jeanesingsjazz Жыл бұрын
there was obviously no room in the budget for a music score. That organist makes this movie seem like a 1940s soap opera soundtrack.
@nickpemberton543 Жыл бұрын
Oh no, Sid Melton alert.... Why is he always popping up in these old mysteries? The whole movie grinds to a halt every time he does the same old schtick, film after film. And also, what's with the funeral home music? Weird.
@nomadpi18 ай бұрын
The funeral home music? Well, the mayor and the Police Commissioner were dead.
@snackcakeman Жыл бұрын
Far fetched. I like how the bad guy got shot: the turned perfectly so he could fall out the window
@kevino484611 ай бұрын
A window that he was planning to step out of just moments before, as if there were a ledge or fire escape. This movie has more holes in it than Bonnie and Clyde at the end.
@Alan-yn9fk6 ай бұрын
And he had to duck down to fall out of it.
@Divchyk8 ай бұрын
All dialogs are quite emotionless to the point of farce. Based on this movie humanity back then was so naive...
@stevehartman1730 Жыл бұрын
Organ makes me feel like roller skating
@robertpinto6515 Жыл бұрын
Sid Melton could ruin any film.
@maryowen17224 ай бұрын
His “comic relief” didn’t offer much relief in this film!🙄