Impact (1949) BRIAN DONLEVY

[@VitruviusXXV]

If you like film noir this is a must see. Brilliantly scripted and solid performances.

[@autumnt.allgood8895]

YES INDEED. DOESN'T MISS A BEAT. I ENJOYED IT. GREAT MOVIE.

[@janbasterfield8200]

Great movie 👍 and so happy I've come across your movies thankyou 😊

[@howardkerr8174]

I don't think that I have seen anything that Brian Donlevy has done that I didn't like. Always gives a great performance. Not sure if this quite qualifies as Film Noir, it isn't dark enough.

[@edbecka233]

@@howardkerr8174 Even Eddie Muller says this one is debatable. I give it a yes - femme fatale, botched murder, revenge, plot twists...

[@antonrowell6627]

I enjoyed the fact that the wife's lover dies for his murder attempt in a fiery crash! Excellent film.

[@SuperZytoon]

This movie is fantastic! One of the best I’ve seen from any era. Excellent acting and writing. The copy is clear and sharp. Thank you so much for sharing this gem. One of the bright spots during this time of isolation.

[@lth7023]

An Excellent Movie! Thanx "Pizza" for Posting it!! Just the Right Mix of Mystery & Treachery with a Sassy Old Police Detective who's like a Bloodhound after the Truth! I Love this Movie!

[@atreb56]

This is my favorite film noir. Brillant script.

[@raysmith7543]

I've always been a huge fan of Brian Donlevey. He's been one of my favorite actors for decades. Awesome movie Pizza Flix!! You people are great!

[@raymondsmith4806]

Hello Ray, What a great name you have. lol

[@acehandler1530]

What a brilliant gem of a movie - I was elated continuously throughout the movie, all the plot twists, great writing and acting. Excellent interaction between all the characters - Brian Donlevy is a Real Star! Thanks so much for posting this treasure!

[@robbybonfire9944]

I especially like the powerful, wonderful chemistry between Brian and Ella. This film was well cast.

[@janbasterfield8200]

I love this style of movie, there is so much class in the old movies and I feel so lucky to have an appreciation for the movies before the 60's and I have been watching them since I was a kid in the 60's and I can thank my mother for sharing her love for them with me 💜

[@lth7023]

That's the Truth!! I loved this Movie!

[@johnnyray88]

Thanks for sharing this movie for everyone to see. I remember this movie when it first came out to theaters in 1949. Thanks again for all the great movies of yesteryear that you show it's a pleasure to see them again.

[@CissyBrazil]

Beautiful roadster. They sure knew how to make them AND movies, too!

[@helenadair32]

I love Donlevy's eyes very piercing, and the audio is fine for me .

[@debradorfman7940]

I had never seen this movie before. It's great, I loved it. It captured the homey feel of small-town America. Even though I grew up in the big city of NY, this atmosphere is what I missed. The story of deceit and attempted murder all contributed to a great yarn. Thank you!

[@lth7023]

A First for Me too! I'm a Huge Fan of Film Noir, too but hadn't seen this one! Great Movie!!

[@RanBlakePiano]

I’m sure you ve seen shadow of Doubt but check Shadow on the Wall,Moss Rose

[@edwardherbert1779]

Seeing Charles Coburn in the Film my first thought was he was going to do some Drama, but in His Own Fashion there is always some Comic Relief. The Movie is very good, and has become a real favorite. Was surprised to see Philip Ahn, I thought He was a younger Man in 1949.

[@dwsherm1]

Excellent movie and nice ending. Brian Donlevy was superb, I'm not familiar with him and don't know why he wasn't a bigger star. Thanks for the upload.

[@lolee1234]

Thank you for sharing this vivid example of poetic justice. It's consistent and never gets old!

[@pescaslove495]

I like Brian Donlevy movies, thank you.

[@blueduck9409]

I saw a Bekins truck in the movie. I had no idea the company was that old. What a fantastic movie.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Hey BD, I worked for Bekins as a mover in my teens. Now that was hard work.🍕

[@psalms1163]

Why they dont make movies like this today.. modern generations have lost the true path.

[@Jungleland33]

Wow, what an absolute gem.

[@judymgorski3753]

I watch this film every now and then. Positively love this well made, performed, movie... Several times a month...👏🌈🦋

[@martentrudeau6948]

The movie writer's had great stories and characters, the best actors, it was filmed in simple black and white film with dramatic lighting and all of this made for good entertainment that is still good today.

[@jonhohensee3258]

writers 🙄

[@josephinepeery6938]

I have seen this before, maybe more than a couple of times but can't help it. Great script 👏

[@cchild9110]

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!!!❤❤❤ Thank you for posting this. The best cast, EVER!

[@MrGoodbook]

Wow! Powerful movie. They certainly don't make them like this anymore.

[@xmillion1704]

Certainly not, and though I enjoyed it so very much, in many numerous ways, it does not come close to matching some of the excellent films being made today. I'm not sure that they make anything the same as then, except for babies, but even some of those are . . .

[@peterpyke1213]

another wicked woman and wife....good film thank you

[@naomiperlman8995]

So EXCITING! The WAY that .. the CASE WAS WON ... so INCREDIBLE!! THIS MOVIE is a Brilliant one; and is a 'REAL WINNER' !! CNCP

[@funkycandycool]

So glad to fave found this. I saw it on tv this morning but had to miss the ending. Absolutely excellent film noir.

[@schizoozy]

Great to see Anna May Wong.

[@thomasrichard890]

Great movie......a reminder of traditional values.....the good ones...

[@markstarrett2740]

Excellent movie..definitely rewatching this one

[@Diana-fg6us]

I have watched many of Noir movies but this one is the best!

[@michaeldanello3966]

For us old-timers who thought the Defense Attorney, Eldredge, looked familiar: it was Art Baker who was the longtime host on You Asked for It in the 1950s. And Mr Darcy, who was at the start and very end of the film and dated back to vaudeville comedy duo as Kolb and Dill and silent films almost from their start, was Claernce Kolb who played Mr Honeywell in another early tv series My Little Margie

[@ExposingBethel]

This is one of the last movies my great grandpa worked on before he passed. Found it listed on his IMDB page.

[@PizzaFLIX]

cool!

[@ExposingBethel]

@@PizzaFLIX he is listed on impact,the great mcginty,tower of London,you and me,riding high,man handled,cover up,the remarkable Andrew,the way to love, and the Big Broadcast of 1936.

[@johngoodman616]

Brian Donleavy was always a good solid actor. His movies were a Always believable

[@johnrogan9420]

Impact...what a masterpiece!

[@sherouet]

I must say it was a great film thank you 😊 zillions times

[@i.z4711]

This is a great movie....intrigue all the way.

[@freemarketjoe9869]

Best movie i’ve Seen in a long time. Love seeing the world of 1949. So beautiful. Thanks for the great upload.

[@Khamomil]

Enjoyed it a lot. Many arresting plot turns -----had to exercise self-censorship in ordre not to spoil the ending . Two beautiful women make this film a very pleasurable way to spend time.

[@haraldkoukkuluoma7823]

actors in the old movies spoke so clearly and much slower than they do in todays movies , l have such a problem understanding them these days they speak really terrible, mumbling and talking so quickly they don't seem to stop to breath.

[@lt7378]

Besides speaking terribly, today’s actors are cussing non stop too.

[@Songwriter376]

Dont forget the new thing....whispering so low instead of speaking normally you cant hear what they are saying

[@lth7023]

Plus it was a bit of a Cliff Hanger Movie that you HAD to watch all the Way to the End! Guess what?? No "Sexy" Scenes like there are Today either!! I bet NOBODY Walked out of the theater in disgust bc of the "Raunchy" Scenes, either!! These ppl took Pride in their work! Most movies of this era were based on books, too!

[@blueduck9409]

Music was the same way.

[@jeanetteoglesby629]

Almost didn't watch this movie, so glad l did! Excellent 💖💖💖

[@LauraChristinaWarren]

Have always loved this one! Thanks for the great copy!

[@sheristewart3940]

I've watched this at least three times and it's still a nail biter.

[@realist2785]

I absolutely enjoyed this movie more like this please

[@xmillion1704]

Enjoyed seeing Larkspur CA, standing in for Idaho. That Fire Dept building still houses the town's Fire Dept to this very day. Just 4-5 exits up 101 and 1-2 miles off the freeway, from the former Rexall Drugs meeting place in Sausalito, as depicted in the movie.

[@cchild9110]

YES INDEED! I knew that was the Rexall drug store in Sausalito. When I heard Larkspur, I knew that was California as well. THANK YOU!❤❤❤

[@NoahSpurrier]

Very good movie. It’s more romance than a crime drama.

[@Wanamaker1946]

This was so good. And yes, I remember women like Ma. She was the real Star of this movie in her darning Sox’s scene. She knew the truth. Loved it, so well written a yarn was this. justwalkaway 2020

[@melvina628]

This movie's so tragic! You'll love it!

[@MOGGS1942]

Brian Donlevy was a compelling actor, one of my favourites. This is an excellent noir, but his luck in stumbling across a beautiful, cack handed, hammer wielding, female mechanic, some 20 years his junior, and being able to repair any car you could mention, stretched my credulity to it's limits. 😁😁😁 Enjoyable.

[@sheristewart3940]

Love IS ageless! Walter Williams was a nice gentleman and any lady would be lucky to have him.

[@sheristewart3940]

@@jjoohhnnx gosh, don't you pay attention! The garage belonged to her husband that was killed in Okinawa during World War II. She said she had hired managers to run it while her husband was away at war, then when he was killed, she took over managing the gas station herself. Furthermore, their were no mechanics around, so she was stuck with that side of the business, too, which was not going very well.

[@bulgermomentos91]

read the book,it makes sense. more character background

[@theohioshirey]

Critics panned it but I HIGHLY RECOMMEND, B++💖 suspense/noir & this has several plot twists seamlessly tied together, suspense until the end. 👏👍

[@pattythacker5916]

Thank You for sharing!!!!

[@spamskanal]

How i love that fire brigade scene! Very similar i n my village. It was just that we did not have a fire truck. Just one of the firemen was always so proud to bring his water filled manure tank to the scene :))))

[@debwell7248]

Great Movie! Thanks for sharing!

[@dougplemons3640]

I love the "sunken livingroom."

[@howardkerr8174]

One of those few movies where you wish you were living this in real life.

[@pattythacker5916]

Very, Very Good Movie!! Enjoyed it to the end😁 More movies like this please!!

[@1StiTurbo]

Great movie...seen it couple years ago..

[@GeorgeStar]

Excellent movie. One of my favorite noirs.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching! May the Sauce be with you.

[@SarahHannah7]

George Stone .....Mine, too! :-)

[@katiezee2]

trivia : the town of Larkspur Idaho was actually filmed in Larkspur Calif, SF Bay Area. The same firehouse is still there

[@robertmarks5438]

Great movie, lot’s of twist!

[@MA_808]

watch everything with Brian Donlevy is always a good choice imho

[@jeffbarnes1033]

This film having the censors approval really takes the worry out of watching right from the start!

[@stephenarling1667]

Americans were fretful. Stalin had The Bomb. That minor worry aside, 1949 was a very good year.

[@fritula6200]

What a great movie; and a clever script.

[@simonright1507]

Fantastic stuff ,love old movies 🙂👍🏽,.

[@Lar308]

I just love happy endings!

[@stevenunua2118]

THAT was a good movie.

[@ltd4991]

Back in the day, they portrayed Christianity in a positive light like this movie does. Todays movies have an agenda to destroy the family and society in general. I'm so sad they don't make good movies like this anymore that promote doing good. Instead, the opposite is in movies of today.

[@talkissues]

Good movie on several levels.

[@huskyjerk]

So I can watch it upstairs?

[@agaltoto.4577]

Hey dear... 6yrs later

[@cweissable]

What a surprisingly good movie. I enjoyed it very much.

[@nemo-nb3gh]

Impact when two lives come together , sometimes for good and sometimes for evil . And usually neither . just getting along , or hanging out , or chatting over a coffee or beer .

[@2degucitas]

Sounds like a good plan. No drama, just contented peace.

[@jacquelinejanz8466]

No drama, two like minded people moving forward, as intended. ♥️♥️

[@roseblahnik3706]

👏👏👏👏👏 excellent movie !!! WELL worth the watch !!!

[@chrisgale5634]

What a well crafted movie!

[@kathyh4804]

Great movie! Thank you!

[@sandraoss326]

volume too low ty for sharing this movie one of the great movies

[@bruceghent8776]

Lovely girl playing the owner of the gas station. Donlevy is first rate as is Coburn.

[@DustyFae]

GREAT MOVIE

[@candicechristian7344]

Loved this thank you 😍😍😍

[@jtl2112]

A very nice movie indeed

[@saltydawg7078]

Excellent movie...

[@radiofiendify]

This is an entertaining film (and head and shoulders above most modern Hollywood films made today) but I think that it is more of a melodrama than a noir.

[@Robin-eu8ve]

Love,love,love this movie. A time when men were men and women were ladies.

[@randyacuna3248]

@49jubilee also talking with respect to each other, you can make your point without the bad words.

[@Nulife23]

Wonderful movie!

[@Wintermute909]

Awesome movie! Thanks!

[@marbleblue5127]

40:34 The way his face emotes his realization that he'd been conned reminds me of Brian Cranston as Walter White and how that character's thought process when he was scheming would show in his expressions, the shifty/drifty eye thing especially. Love seeing performance influences show up in film history!

[@NoahSpurrier]

Nice street scenes of San Francisco.

[@elainebrown3739]

Loved this movie!!!

[@francisferretti148]

What a great flick!!!

[@richyearle007]

Damn that was good..They sure don't make them like this anymore.

[@dominicpiscopo7915]

I really like this film this is my fourth time watching it

[@boostedbilly7308]

Great movie buddy thank you PizzaFlix

[@dorisbrinkerhoff8124]

she is the killer oh well thats 3 big sins

[@autumnleaves2766]

Enjoyable film, although the plot stretches one's credulity at times. Loved Charles Colburn as the softly-spoken Irish detective who quickly senses that Irene is a bad one. Lovely street scenes from late 1940s San Francisco. Charming interlude in Idaho, giving the film romance as well as suspense. Well worth seeing.

[@bmbrainiac]

Ive been trying to remember the title of this one recently. I knew it was one word with an !. But I was getting it mixed up with: They Wont Believe Me, another good one. Yeah -this ones unique.

[@franl5905]

love brian donlevy great actor

[@2degucitas]

I like his ordinary accent, no mid-atlantic nonsense for him. Very manly and every man.

[@cgpyper7536]

Full of fantasy on the criminal/legal part (lawyers watching gotta forget they're lawyers) but a nice high-morals flick; including touches of spiritual/religious values (what a relief from the base crud produced from H-wood these days). Enjoyable story and acting (by all players). Bad girl gets her due and good girl gets the hero. Me? I'd have opted for returning to small-town life in instead of a rat-race big city (which, in real life, I did 40+ years ago, and NEVER looked back). Thanks again P.F.

[@mdnis]

Williams has the gash on his head. Torrence drove the car into the oil tanker. The Bekins guys saw him drive off alone. How does this make Williams a murderer? Still, an OK movie. Great street scenes of old USA.

[@leonardjoesten1222]

Good Point. They said both were in the car, then Williams (who wasn't driving) jumped out at the last second. Add the Bekins guy and it's impossible.

[@xmillion1704]

Conrad Gaarder- Fun fact, those few blocks of Magnolia Ave., through downtown Larkspur, CA, (standing in for Idaho), have changed very little. That same building that housed the Fire Dept in the movie, performs the same function still to this very day.

[@johnrogan9420]

Think they are trying his wife for murder...no one looks for Walter Williams even though the Police know it was Torrance not WW who died in the auto accident.

[@johnrogan9420]

@@leonardjoesten1222 jumped out?...Williams was slugged with the lug wrench by Torrance and pushed unconscience down the ravine by James Torrance.

[@johnrogan9420]

1:22...Irene goes after "softy".

[@heatherbowlan9822]

Thanks great drama pizza Flix !

[@blancatirado576]

Great movie thanks

[@HeatherGlen33]

I got the sound up. A movie like this, describes once again, that a well written script like this, and great acting, appears to be gone forever. Now...can you take a teenage kid to a film like this, and both enjoy it...? Or a film of today, with the open sex- nudity, and graphic horror, that makes one sick to look at it? Yes, teenagers need a role model. There is none. Thus promotes violence among our teens and pre-teens of today. Plus video games.

[@melodiefrances3898]

I agree about video games. You are compulsively killing people over and over and over. That cant be good for children ...

[@vingedheart]

I watch these old movies with my daughters all the time - they've learned to love them and the slow pace too! But you are so right.

[@xmillion1704]

Good thing that you harbor no disapproval of an unfaithful wife exploiting her husband's devotion and, with her lover, plotting an act of violence where one man attempts to brutally murder another, by bashing his skull with a tire iron, before callously dumping his body off the road, leaving him for dead.

[@raymondsaquet2922]

@@melodiefrances3898 The so-called 'news' media is just the same

[@raymondsaquet2922]

@@xmillion1704 What? Nowadays we'd be treated to unspeakabley explicit scenes at the muzzle of belt-fed machine guns wielded by crystal meth soused assailants in glorious color with language in Hi-Fi Stereo loud enough to ring our ears. Ever wonder why there's so much more violence among our young?

[@howtoguroo2686]

THAT WAS VERY GOOD