Out of the Podcast - A Film Noir Conversation

The lads take a peek into the file cabinet to get down to the bottom of Robert Siodmak’s 1950 noir The File on Thelma Jordon, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey. Will they find what they’re hoping for or will they be busted by Aunt Vera? Tune in and find out!

(Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts at 11:53)

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Get yourself out of the rain and join the one D lads for a Hollywood sip at The Blue Dahlia aka the nightclub, flower and 1946 film from director George Marshall and famed novelist Raymond Chandler! Featuring a trilogy of heavy hitters - Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix… what could possibly go wrong?

(Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts at 4:50)

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The lads bring the lilacs and infiltrate a murder room party in Fritz Lang’s return to the show: 1947’s Secret Beyond the Door, starring Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave. Do you dare to open all of the doors into shadowy drenched mystery, noir-o?

(Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts at 12:11)

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The lads take a summer vacation at Neptune Beach to discuss 1947’s The Gangster from director Gordon Wiles and screenwriter Daniel Fuchs (based on his novel). Reuniting Suspense’s Barry Sullivan and Belita, this one is dense, existential, brisk and nasty aka just how we like ‘em!

(Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts at 17:57)

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The lads take an emergency call and hop into an ambulance toward complicated love as they discuss 1953’s Angel Face, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. Will they put the whole thing in reverse or will their reviews survive the trial? Tune in and find out, noir-o!

(Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts at 10:31)

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Impact

1: To have a direct effect or impact on : impinge on; to strike forcefully

(Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts at 11:57)

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The lads celebrate 75 episodes with a casual viewing of one of the most BRUTAL film noirs ever made: Robert Wise’s 1947 classic Born to Kill, with the truly terrifying Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak, Audrey Long and Elisha Cook Jr.! It’s a San Francisco nightmare in all of the best ways - see you in your dreams!

(Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts 9:56)

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Prepare to be enthralled by the smell of Film Noir rising from the salty waters as the lads wreck their ship and return to black & white, kicking off summer at the beach to discuss legendary director Jean Renoir’s captivating yet compromised The Woman on the Beach, starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Pickford and Nan Leslie!

(Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts 8:36)

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