Anyone catch the Jennifer Jones/Joseph Cotton double feature on Sun. night? Neither of those films are shown on TCM very much. I tuned in during the middle of Portrait of Jennie (not realizing it was on). I love Love Letters, but it ran too late, so I recorded it to watch this wknd. I love the score...

The first murder points to a variation on the old saying about bringing a knife to a gun fight. If he had a gun he could have shot Tierney with nothing to worry about. Of course it would have been a much shorter movie. Yes, Sam Wilde is one of the most cold-blooded killers in noir and one of the mo...

I think there were a handful of jazz nightclub type episodes. Unsure which one I'm remembering. Yeah, suddenly Perry is on 3 or 4 cable channels now with marathons on wknds on one of them. And starting earlier on weeknights too. Yeah, I just noticed tonight that PM is also on another channel in add...

Oh joy!! THE BIG KNIFE is coming on the 27th and 28th!! Wonder what Eddie has to say about this laugh fest noir. It's a treasure trove of campy good badness, including hilariously gauche "ironic" musical touches emphasizing the existential and metaphorical aspects of Charlie's compromised...

:D Who else enjoyed the cheapjack Monogram WWII propaganda "thriller" I ESCAPED FROM THE GESTAPO? Dean Jagger (when he still had hair, but it was probably a rug) plays a forger unwittingly involved with a drab bunch of B-movie Nazi saboteurs in hard g "Los Angle-eez" headed by J...

I think I vaguely remember that episode now, at least that Bobby Troup was in it. (unless he was in another one) I'll watch out for it! :D Yeah, Bobby played the beatnik piano player with the hard to fathom monologues. I think he was in a couple other episodes, maybe the one where James Drury playe...

I was glad that Eddie pointed out the homosexual implications of the Elisha Cook, Jr./Lawrence Tierney relationship. Their little apartment has one bed. Elisha is reading on his side of the bed when Tierney enters the room after committing two murders and then goes to sit down on his side of the be...

Just saw Born To Kill (1947) for the second time. One of the darkest and most depraved of the 1940s noirs. Laurence Tierney plays one of the most menacing thugs in film history. He apparently was like that in real life. Just from the way he looked, he didn't appear to have an upper lip so even when...

Just saw Born To Kill (1947) for the second time. One of the darkest and most depraved of the 1940s noirs. Laurence Tierney plays one of the most menacing thugs in film history. He apparently was like that in real life. Just from the way he looked, he didn't appear to have an upper lip so even when...

Oh joy!! THE BIG KNIFE is coming on the 27th and 28th!! Wonder what Eddie has to say about this laugh fest noir. It's a treasure trove of campy good badness, including hilariously gauche "ironic" musical touches emphasizing the existential and metaphorical aspects of Charlie's compromised...

Happy Birthday!

Ironically, the next episode we watched last night of Perry Mason was Paul Drake's Dilemma. A good episode, but not sure why it would have been rated #3. Paul is my favorite character of all on the series. As for the Final Fade Out, that was the closing episode for the series. Not as good as some o...

Who else enjoyed the cheapjack Monogram WWII propaganda "thriller" I ESCAPED FROM THE GESTAPO? Dean Jagger (when he still had hair, but it was probably a rug) plays a forger unwittingly involved with a drab bunch of B-movie Nazi saboteurs in hard g "Los Angle-eez" headed by John...

I will put in a good word for Arty Tragg. I never got the impression that he loathed Perry and Paul. Naturally they were on opposite sides, but for the most part Tragg kept his cool. In some episodes he would come to Perry's office at the end and pass along something that had made Burger mad and al...

LMREO!!!!!!! I must've missed that one! I always get a kick out of it, no matter how many times I've seen it. It's at the very end just before the credits. I likely forgot a few words of Tragg's whole beatnik speech. IIRC, Bobby Troup played the beatnik pianist and Frankie Laine was the comic. Beat...