Strange Illusion (1945) FILM NOIR

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William
In this classic Film Noir directed by the great Edgar G. Ulmer, a young man's dreams of death and destruction begin to come true!

[@johnraymond4322]

I grew up in the 1940s and I remembered this movie back then. It's good to see it again thank you for showing it.

[@kindredspirit3875]

hey, wow, you grew up in the 40"s? that makes you in your 80's ! Congrats! I was born 1950! realizing "we are born with a death sentence, and life is the executioner! This spring find myself wondering" how many more do I get?" Going check out this movie just from your comment Hey,. folks with Bibles -try living what it says! Let's all be Kinder ?

[@michaelfitzgerald3467]

@@kindredspirit3875 Hey fool without Bible, who the hell are you to instigate? Start by following your own advice, jerk. You're too old to be so stupid, hypocrite.

[@da5footah]

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[@weepingwillow-ud6xl]

Film Noir films are wonderful to immerse yourself in. With far less money to make a movie due to war, & financial depression, film makers had to be more creative with special effects. Strange Illusion had a very detailed script, which really engages the viewer. Without spoiling the end, you're still left with some questions, that needs your own imagination to complete the story.

[@adrianovasconcelos2739]

Exceptionally clever film. To me unknown director and actors, but what a great flick and screenplay! Congrats on finding this treasure and posting it. Many thanks!

[@cindersmolloy6584]

This is the second time I watched this. The film is full of emotion, especially in the first part. I could actualy feel it. Wonderful. Films nowadays don't know how to do this well.

[@timebot000]

One reason I love these old movies is when the night scenes look really dark, with just enough moonlight to tell what's going on. Nowadays there's always stagelights that make the whole production look fake as can be !

[@patricianeville9197]

I enjoyed this movie so much. Thank you. It brought back a memory of a dream I had years ago. One night I had a dream I was in a room without walls and it was completely white as if I was in a cloud. But there was a baby basinet in the middle of this white. I was worried and so sad about the baby. As I went close to the basinet my dad was standing beside me. He said don’t be sad because the baby is well taken care of. The next morning when I went to work I forgot about the dream, but I got a phone call from my best friend’s husband. He told me his wife, my friend, had a miscarriage the night before. She was 7 months pregnant, My dad had died 5 years before. He stood beside me in my dream to comfort me and I knew her baby was, as he said, is well taken care of.

[@RanBlakePiano]

Patricia Neville wow! Amazing !

[@arshemoalla]

i think the dream was meant to comfort your friend through you. it was not about you.

[@CoExist64]

@@arshemoalla uhhhhh, yeah

[@kindredspirit3875]

Thank you so much for that . I was in deep dark place after being a victim to an assault -being held -left for dead. closer i was to not getting back i would have a dream: my adult son would be a naked child about 7 ahead of me silently pointed the way we were walking in water in nearly darkness -in the forest- knew somehow i knew in the dream and when i awoke i was going get me back . in awake life could not get out -could not see humans for nearly year. -only to God could i speak. would only get out in the night darkness .in the forest -like in the dreams - with God 's help only not drugs or humans it was 15 year ago. It was medicine to my soul /and body ! you get strong even in your 50's hiking in high country rocky mts.

[@AstralPixie]

I have to say, I got more "into this" than I was expecting to! The characters were intelligent, curious and reasonable. Thanks ;)

[@dianevitale1214]

Entertaining. Enjoyed seeing the old cars, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles, etc and the good manners....

[@karenlee2332]

I'm with you, I love seeing all that !!!

[@peggygenoway]

Good manners? Now that's rare...count me in!

[@ruthmaryrose]

Diane Vitale His friend had to borrow a tie so he could stay for dinner and dress properly!

[@russellgrenning1317]

James Lyndon (Paul Cartwright) was 22 when this 1945 movie was made. He began as a child actor in the 1930s with one early starring role in 1940 in Tom Brown's School Days. He worked in movies and all major TV series and helped create 77 Sunset Strip and M*A*S*H. Now 96 (2019), Lyndon continued to act well into the 1980s in shows such as Lou Grant, Simon and Simon and St Elsewhere. Although rarely out of work in his long career he never became the major star that he early career suggested he might.

[@elizabethbeatty8983]

Thanks Russell G for the info. Its so much more interesting to know backgrounds, etc about a movie. Of course reading Replies first can put one in danger of finding out the ending. I just hate that! 😬

[@russellgrenning1317]

@@elizabethbeatty8983 Hi Elizabeth, I quite agree about the danger of reading viewer's comments!

[@russellgrenning1317]

@Jay Harter Perhaps you are right. Just perhaps.

[@hookbeak3516]

James J. Lydon was born in 1923 an American actor & television producer. He started acting in 1932 aged nine first part was that of 'Danny' in the Broadway play Weston Waters. He's the fifth of nine children, he now ninety-eight.

[@theredsofine8375]

Sad, he just passed away 2022. March.

[@jeccawillow3635]

Another fab black and white film, great story line and loved the suspense, couldn't stop watching ! Thank you for sharing.

[@user-oz2eu9in3i]

Thanks for nice old films. サナトリウムだったんですね。あの鏡はマジックミラーでこちらからは鏡だが，向こう側からこちらが監視できる。ぞっとする場面です。In the sanitarium room, his own jacket being hung on the mirror, suddenly some figure appears to stand beyond the one-way mirror. So frightening! I found many such surveillance systems used from scene to scene. that kind of society is really all horrible. そういう場面が多数取り入れられた興味深い映画でした。内容はもちろん面白いですが，監視社会の恐怖を感じることができました。感謝です。この時代に鉄枠のゲートが自動だったのには驚きです。

[@peterkingsley8736]

Tight, nice little psychodrama with some inventive plot twists. Nicely directed and acted too!

[@haybee1246]

suspenseful, great movie..... very old fashioned values, with chivalry at it's height.... thanks so much for the great upload!

[@billwilliamson9842]

@randall2020 and you are the biggest piece of shit goin

[@thenorthernspinozist397]

Except where he tried to kiss her under water at the pool. Seems to be a bit of a stretch to be able to do it, still it was an unwanted sexual advance so it constitutes a form of assault today.

[@billwilliamson9842]

@@thenorthernspinozist397 only because many people today have lost their damn minds, common sense and revel in bein a victim of one sorts or another. in other words, they have turned into complete and utter idiots.

[@thenorthernspinozist397]

@@billwilliamson9842 Sexual assault is real. The difference is today we are talking and doing something about it. In those days it was not talked about or was simply alluded to. But it did go on as it always has. This is my point and it is progress for BOTH genders, but it is a particular benefit to women in general.

[@DavidRice111]

Igor- you can't be a modern democrat and espouse these values! I salute you!

[@keithharvey7230]

Jimmy is still with us.He is leaving his body to science,his money to animal charities and his skin to World of leather.

[@vals74]

Thanks for uploading another great film! In my opinion, the film was full of suspense, but had quite an unexpected ending.

[@AbbasIdris]

I just finished watching like 10 movies in a row on your channel. I enjoyed every single minute! Thanks!

[@APRAPR-nq2wn]

in the raw ?

[@ronnyc8722]

Maybe you should have worn clothes, since you were, in the "raw"

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX. May the Sauce be with you!

[@robertwesley4416]

abba wabba whobba time to start praying wabby whoobby

[@daviddaube810]

17APR69 16APR71 western movies

[@frankyzee]

This is a really good movie.

[@gbernd2837]

As of April 2016, leading actor Jimmy Lydon is still with us and 93 ...

[@babygretz5]

G Bernd ....update June 19, 2017 & not only is jimmy still alive his wife is too...married in 1952 ....wish I knew more 😎

[@pa3997]

gary schultz there is also an Interview from 2013 with him on KZbin

[@babygretz5]

P B .............. thanks

[@puff000100]

God bless Jimmy Lydon at 94 years, I used to watch the Henry Aldrich movies in the 1970's, Saturday mornings in Chicago If my memory serves me correctly, I believe he made quite a few......

[@miroporvos]

October 1, 2018 👍

[@danddd5376]

Ephesians 6:11 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

[@leelarson107]

Oh, give me a break.

[@larryrobertson2150]

You can't cheat an honest man.

[@YOGI-yl4ff]

Thank you for sharing. People use to dress so smart back then. Jimmy Lyon's Career began as a teenager in the 1930's. At this writting he is living in Bonita, CA. Regis Toomey started as a singer until actue laryngitis damaged his throat (08/13/1898 - 10/12/1991. Warren William was nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code. (12/ 02/1894 - 09/24/1948). He was married to his wife (17 years his senior) from 1923 until his death. Happy viewing from Las Vegas, NV 10/08/2018

[@lorahill-carney4522]

👍🏿 this movie was great, sometime our dreams tell us a lot. Most people dismiss them as nothingness, but in my life I have learn to pay attention to mine, because some of them have saved my life.

[@jaynewelllerand8252]

have they fu(k .... don't talk shite

[@deby5983]

+Lora Hill I so agree with you about dreams. I always go to www.dreammoods.com/ to get a better insight into what mine mean!

[@lorahill-carney4522]

Cool. Sorry it took so long for me to respond.

[@nancycatania7763]

Great movie! Thanks for posting!

[@johnnyray88]

Jimmy lydon played Henry Aldridge on radio and in the movies. I listen to him on the radio as a kid growing up in the 1940's.

[@mariamarisi6154]

Thank you for the great movie. ❤

[@Wanamaker1946]

That beautiful mansion was another loss to LA. It was torn down out of greed to subdivide the estate for lesser mansions. That house was a true treasure. We only saw the outside. The insides were a stage set. The real inside of the house was baronial. It even had a pipe organ. So sad how we waste beautiful hand made things in America. We don’t give them a chance to become 800 years old as in Europe.

[@sugarpop7377]

David Bell such a shame , especially when in America everything is relatively new . In Europe we have aqueducts from Roman times in perfect state and still working ...😲

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

Well, that's capitalism for ya!

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

@@sugarpop7377 Well, that's slavery for ya!

[@memawcooper9308]

Good one👍

[@sheristewart3940]

That was a good one! Thanks for uploading this fun suspenseful film. It was rather a male version of a Nancy Drew mystery.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Thanks for watching! Please subscribe. May the Sauce be with you.

[@vin.handle]

The peak of Warren William's career was in the 1930s when he made a number of path-breaking films. He was a particularly oily villain here.

[@jodieturner3161]

Had me on the edge of my seat! Great movie.

[@sharegreats2157]

What a nice noir thriller. I enjoyed it so much.

[@PizzaFLIX]

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, whose next film after this one was the Film Noir classic DETOUR.

[@shirleysavitts9647]

Love those cars when USA made.. you could slide across to the drivers side. too bad the auto manufacturers are now owned and ruled by Japanese mode. Thank you for the film It really got to me.

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

Second time enjoying this. It was wonderful! Thank you, Pizza!!!

[@texicanamerican9346]

The son is so mature...his mother should've listened to him

[@rlsnorton864]

Thank you very much for this engaging movie!

[@skeltonknaggs1600]

Jimmy Lydon was born May 30 1923.. He's 97 years old,

[@uncatila]

Even the cads in the 1950s understood that mariage came before sex.

[@debeeriz]

thats only on screen, behind the scenes they were at it like rabbits

[@drhyshek]

Don't believe everything you see on TV.

[@uncatila]

@@drhyshek before congress outlawed smutty films in 1934 it was terrible

[@floydroadheroes]

wonderful gripping film!! Just love these old films with no high profile actors! Thank you for letting me see such a great flick!

[@scottleipski1015]

Loved this movie!!! Brings me way back, Way Way back! (9 -10- 2021) sgl.

[@nini1957]

Oh, what a treasure! Thank you!

[@debedwards1717]

Excellent movie, lots of suspense.

[@hookbeak3516]

Don't miss the "juvenile vernacular" which starts at 52:52 ... ' young romance in the modern manner ' says the nurse.

[@vals74]

Thanks for uploading another great film! Although, the film was full of suspense, it had quite an unexpected ending. In my opinion.

[@lydiavliese8246]

Good movie. Gives one a wonderful feeling.

[@williamcolella4794]

Jimmy Lydon played the title role in the Henry Aldrich films.

[@malkaringel7864]

started late saturday night n completed sunday....enjoyable in every aspect!!!

[@posttyped11]

I just dreamed that I understood the ending of this movie.

[@christylovejoy5564]

While knocked out, he had another premonition dream - obviously, this would be coming true: that his mother was fine and had her friend with her, and he and his girlfriend go forward happy together. Happy ending.

[@lcballard]

What an interesting movie. Would love to see a remake for current times. Loved the plot!

[@adrianovasconcelos2739]

Great flick for a small and shoestring B or C production. Agree there hands down. That said, I would hate to see a remake. These days they would include CGI and all manner of mindless violence. We're all very lucky to have this copy: Internet, current mindset, clothes, media, etc would make it preposterous today.

[@orchidlilly7518]

Thanks so very much PizzaFlix* !!!

[@gregatkinson7276]

This is a fine old movie...and I am a rather picky one when it comes to movies.

[@plutoplatters]

the lead villan's been dead 71 years … PAUL is still alive at 95

[@Catquick1957]

I dreamed I ate a 500 lb ice cream sandwich, and when I woke up my mattress was missing.

[@tiplady]

mark fahey you’re a scream!

[@APRAPR-nq2wn]

I thought you were gonna say my ex-wife lol

[@petermaxwell2965]

I'll have to remember that lol 😊

[@holgerhn6244]

but it's still okay - 'cause you're on vey-cay-shun

[@stevieg6418]

Ok that was funny haha

[@Indymom12]

Great Movie! Thanks

[@knowtheway2791]

Wow! Super great!

[@shirleyrandle3138]

AI have watched this two times in the past but never tire of this movie.

[@leoharker734]

Me too

[@robj8862]

Great Movie

[@malkaringel7864]

Enjoyed this film very much. The sound on the 2nd half I found muffled n difficult to hear correctly. Loved the suspense n shadows.....of film noire genre! Well worth watching, in my opinion.

[@RanBlakePiano]

Best film I ve seen on your channel. If film noir course will be taking place this autumn at New England Conservatory ,I will plan on having this shown

[@PizzaFLIX]

An interesting film, glad you liked. Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX

[@robj8862]

See thats the thing about old movies engrossing plot lines great acting and real talent

[@JanetCaterina]

Wow, what an emotional movie

[@susieq7552]

Good movie thanks.

[@swissotto1]

I love this movie. In fact, this is my second time watching and it’s just as enjoyable. I like the setting and the mood it captures.

[@j.d.honeyheart1991]

Reminds one of the film with Basil Rathbone in similar role. The later was more of a thriller.

[@erniebakeswell9623]

unusual psychological Noir that's a Hamlet update complete with widow, criminal boyfriend, detective son who is sent to a sanatorium to "cure" him of his "hallucinations" about the murder of his father.

[@ria1636]

Spoiler Alert!

[@susanjaeger5645]

And the Doc moves in and swoops that widow up.

[@ecuadorexpat8558]

Awesome movie

[@vernalc2449]

A very suspenseful and intriguing film. A very enjoyable picture from beginning to end. I'm pretty sure the bank president was Perry White, future editor of "The Daily Planet". Guess he left the boring world of high finance for the thrilling world of editing?

[@madderhat5852]

"I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids"

[@poetcomic1]

Superior B Movie and lots of sinister vibes throughout. Enjoyed and never bored.

[@kallistersmith3535]

Good movie. Thank you.

[@carolinastroer9170]

rReally good and thrilling movie until the end!

[@samuelsalespessanha8538]

Humanity's questions are answered on the Cross of Calvary: 'Forgive them because they don't know what they do' or 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' Want to know what to do? Do you want to be supported? 'For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son of him, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.'

[@RanBlakePiano]

Very interesting that noir started in Germany ,Cabinet Journey to California and traveled to west France Claude Chabrol changed costumes ,characters becoming more polite on the surface .le Boucher ,merci pour. Le chocolate

[@pinkbeautytwinkle]

Young man looks like a young Frank Sinatra

[@Mimi-ex6jo]

I think so to he played on A LIFE WITH FATHER starring William Powell

[@APRAPR-nq2wn]

good stuff

[@plutoplatters]

Gotta love the birth of psycho babble !

[@robertdesantis6205]

My favorite line in the movie, "I don't need a psychiatrist."

[@plutoplatters]

Love the jail bars in the Sanitarium room window.

[@InOppositiontotheNewWorldOrder]

About 59:20 the volume decreased so low that I couldn't hear what was being said. An hour into the movie, and I suddenly felt like I had wasted the last hour for nothing. I had to synchronize my phone with my computer to hear the last 25 minutes. What a pain in the behind.

[@barbarawhittall2311]

Have watched this before and have enjoyed each time, thank you old fashioned but I love that as it is historical moment of yesteryear.

[@b1i2l336]

Terrific movie starts slow and picks up speed to a thrilling but awful conclusion!

[@roberthicks1507]

Did the boy die?

[@thegreatreverendx]

@@roberthicks1507 That’s what I wanna know!

[@adolfmussolini996]

Movies and entertainment back then. Now trash not worth seeing from Hollywood elites

[@markjg2275]

Agreed , The movies today are junk, lousy actors, political correctness, I hate it. I have plenty of old movies to watch and re watch on KZbin and DVDs and take me away from this 21st century hellhole.

[@winmancan8374]

Bull crap! The old days were better days has been sung by the sirens by every aging generation remembering the good old days. Great movies out there. Get off your azz

[@LilliR4116]

@@winmancan8374 Yes, each generation says the good old days, however, this generation of the millennials onwards will not be saying that....because you have nothing to compare it to! Only gets worse and it's already worse starting with your generation!! most of you don't think about the effects and influence you have on others especially the younger no values, no morals these days it's anything but goes, eh?

[@bodyweightkiller]

@@winmancan8374 I don't know anything that is great these days. The majority out today is pathetic.

[@MrRogerCorby]

get off my lawn you damned kids

[@joyslabaugh8286]

suspense, mystery, thriller

[@feliciamaddox6860]

I just watched 4 movies thanks for these🤓🤓😎😎😉

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

At the very beginning, when he was saying "doc", I thought he was saying "dad" like Ajax from Duckman. "Hi, dod".

[@barbaramitchell7726]

this a good plot i love these good movie

[@gloriapsmith]

One point this movie makes that is as true today as it was in Plato's time, there are users and people that are (or can be), used. Point or moral of this story "love whom you want BUT watch whom you marry. Stay alert and look for signs, but be happy.

[@roberthicks1507]

I always wear a suit and tie for dinner. Don't you? Heck, I don't even have underwear. 😛

[@ellamone9998]

I just wear my *Formal Underwear* for dinner

[@msbrowngault]

They didn't even try catching him when he fainted, smh

[@hookbeak3516]

My mother is in her mid-seventies, she collapsed on the pavement, a number of people ignored her. One one came to her aid.

[@bruceshelton1498]

Very good

[@wr9733]

Good movie but can someone explain the ending to me?

[@deby5983]

The acting wasn't that great in the beginning - I dunno' seems like they were reading script without much feeling. However, it became more real as it moved along. I enjoyed it! Your channel is great - finds these unheard of classic movies and I so enjoy them. Thanks again and again for these gems from days gone by.

[@plutoplatters]

I wonder how many times one is going to hear the name " Paul " mentioned in this movie ?

[@creativebubble.7836]

....OH! PAUL.....OH! -PAUL....OH! PAUL.....OH! PAUL....I LOVE YOU

[@davidmansfield9167]

Nothing is how it was. I think people should know how concerned I am with that.

[@feliciamaddox6860]

Great movie once it started to pick up..slow at first ...wait for it

[@charliewest1221]

So many echoes of Hamlet.

[@brendaleverick3655]

Good film. Thanks. But the volume was much too low.

[@ixamxmsright]

No show of the naive mother at the end? Many a woman have destroyed their children by hastily remarrying the wrong men.

[@marilyntape508]

10 out 10😊👍💜🇦🇺

[@nancysanders2398]

Quite unusual movie& I agree w other stated review,it was slow-going@ first but as it progressed pace of movie picked up! Thanks4 Sharing this interesting film,PizzaFlix!

[@puff000100]

Not sure why they put this one under the genre of film noir?, I am kind of a film noir buff and fan of the Crime Drama, I probably would have labled this one differently.....

[@pa3997]

I think it is, although with a teenage lead. Shadows and light are there, a feeling of deep mistrust and paranoia (the new man in the family is the murderer of the father - or does the boy just make this up in his mind?). And Edgar G. Ulmer, the director of DETOUR.

[@shawnmalone9711]

" Mother"? "Father"? Are they trying to exploit James Lydon's portrayal of the "Henry Aldrich" movies character?

[@tonyamoony]

I liked it! ty