More Great Movies on ABC TV
Further to my post of 30 December Feast Of Free Noir Movies, here are more great movies to catch ad-free on Australia’s ABC HD Digital TV over the next fortnight:
Thurs 17/1 Film Noir Triple Feature:
11:30pm Body And Soul (1947)
Starring John Garfield. Screenplay: Abraham Polonsky. Director: Robert Rossen
1:15am Journey Into Fear (1943)
Starring/Director: Orson Welles With Joseph Cotton Screenplay: Eric Ambler
2:25am The Leopard Man (1943)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur and based on the book Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich. From the renowned 1940’s Val Lewton horror production unit at Universal. See Scorsese Chronicles Horror Film Producer.
Mon 21/1
12:25am Dakota Lil (1950) A noir Western with Marie Windsow as Dakota Lili!
Thur 24/1
11:25pm Casbah (1948)
Hollywood remake of the saga of Pepe LeMoko (1937), the French poetic realist classic. Pepe is a criminal who hides from the law in the Casbah section of Algiers until the love of a woman forces him to the outside world and his doom. Starring Peter Lorre and Yvonne De Carlo.
Wed 23/1
10:35pm Hitchcock Classic: Rear Window (1954) Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly.
Mon 28/1
1:45pm Citizen Kane (1941)
Wed 30/1
10:40pm Hitchcock Classic: Frenzy (1972)
1:35am Ramrod (1947)
Men are so Easy!… A Little Lace, a Pair of Lips, a Touch, and they Kill for you!
Noir western with Veronica Lake! Directed by Andre de Toth.
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Orson Welles did not direct Journey Into Fear. It was directed by Norman Foster. I believe this production was part of Welles deal at RKO, done at the same time as Kane.
Comment by Joe D — January 24, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
Joe, my understanding is that it was largely Welles’ work, but for some reason, he was uncredited.
This is the view of a number of writers, who see Welles’ creative influence, even though the film carries the signature of Norman Foster.
Borde and Chaumeton in A Panorama of Film Noir (1955): “Orson Welles collaborated on the scenario, and the exceptional breeziness and subtlety of his style [is evident] in the precision of the shooting script and the plastic beauty of the photography.”
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — January 24, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
Tony
I’m sure he was very involved and the film looks like he had a lot to do with it but in the book This is Orson Welles he says that Norman Foster directed it. It is a Mercury Production, maybe Welles was giving Foster and Joseph Cotten notes. The guy pretty much lived without sleep during this period. I think he was acting in this at night after shooting Kane all day. A mystery, everyone is dead, so maybe we’ll never know the exact truth.
Comment by Joe D — January 25, 2008 @ 3:32 am