If you’re looking for me on Twitter, you’d see this. My handle there is @CineMava. What the heck is this Baby Boomer doing on Twitter? Trying to keep up with today’s Social Media.
( Now I just need Instagram and Tumblr under my belt to be almost totally savvy. Dare I explore SnapChat??? )
So while I was on Twitter, I saw that everyone was playing this movie challenge. This 30 Day Movie Challenge. More appropriately: #30DAYMOVIECHALLENGE if you’re on Twitter. Well I like a good challenge, so I took it. I didn’t participate daily. ( Who wants to hear from a Baby Boomer daily? ) So I figured I’d do it all in one fell swoop.
And here’s the swoop. I’m not sure WHY the 30 Day Movie Challenge was held in May, a month with 31 days. Guess the 31st day is a day of rest. Take the challenge my fellow classic film lovers. The month doesn’t matter.
One of my favorite films of 1947 is “OUT OF THE PAST” which I write a little about it here if you scroll down. Mitchum takes his girlfriend for a ride and tells his tale in flashback. By the time he pulls up to his destination at Kirk Douglas’ Tahoe retreat, we (the audience) are caught up to speed and the rest of the story takes place in real noir time.
I cannot rationally explain why I love Jane Greer so much as The Femme Fatale. She’s beautiful. But then again, that’s pretty much a pre-requisite for any femme fatale. Maybe it’s her cold dead eyes. Maybe it’s the off-hand way she throws out the bait ( “I sometimes go there.” ) Maybe it’s the scene in the bungalow that rainy night when Mitchum’s fallen deep and she melts into his big burly chest. ( “Love me?” ) Or maybe it’s the way she throws every man under the bus. I say, her lies are merely… self-preservation. She must have “something” if a man knows she’s dangerous and STILL says: “Baby, I don’t care.” He puts the noose around his OWN neck. She’s my favorite lethal lady, in my favorite film noir.
I, like Ricky Nelson, went to a garden party…but I had a better time than he. I attended Twitter’s #TCMPARTY where the movie discussed, dissected and gushed over was the film noir classic: “OUT OF THE PAST.” ( In fact, this particular Twitter Party made it onto the “Now Voyaging” blog as the best TCMPARTY she “attended” last year:
It’s better if you know the movie as you read this post, because the tweets fly fast and furiously at #TCMPARTY. You will see comments from everyone that participated that night. Some comments might be repeated or overlapped. It’s all good. Hey, maybe it’s like watching a Howard Hawks comedy. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Hopefully my little transcript will give you the flavor of a TCM Twitter Party, and make you want to join. But if you do…don’t give away any spoilers and playnicewithothers.
“Out of the Past” stars Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas. I know this movie like the back of my hand. It’s Twitter I need to be catching up with. This is the Twittered goings-on for “OOTP.” Make time to read it before the SuperBowl starts.
( Beware, SPOILERS. See, I warned you: )
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Fussy: The credits for “OUT OF THE PAST” make me positively giddy.
MuseofIre: It’s Mitchum time!
Bryan: I had the under on Robert O. Saying “Nymphomaniac” tonight. Anybody else?
Tiffany: He’s deaf but he ain’t dumb.
Aurora: All hail Jacques Tourneur.
The Nitrate Diva: Of “OUT OF THE PAST”‘s cast, Dickie Moore, Rhonda Fleming, and Kirk Douglas are all still with us.
Theresa:There’s my favorite character actress playing the waitress:
Todd: Cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca started his film career as producer J. Stuart Blackton’s chauffeur.
TCM Party: Nicholas Musuraca, who provided this stunning b & w photography, also did “CAT PEOPLE” ’42 with “OOTP” director Jacques Tourneur.
The Nitrate Diva: “I think of you as a blonde.” “For all the thinking you do about me I could be bald-headed.” Even minor lines in this are great.
Theresa:This should be shown at TCMFF.
Aurora: The first time I saw “Out Of The Past” my jaw dropped. Photography like I’d never seen!
Theresa: And the music here while they’re in the sun.
Fussy: Ever been to a place “one too many” ?
The Nitrate Diva– Aw, man. Mitchum’s hair is doing that disheveled, droopy thing. Sigh.
Liz: I’ve always had a soft spot for Robert Mitchum…I think it started with “HEAVEN KNOWS, MR ALLISON.”
Jeff: This is my first time seeing “Out Of The Past”. . . . be gentle with me.
TCM Party: “You’d be amazed the way people talk about you” Mmmm-hmmm.
Theresa: “Don’t like to make any mistakes do you Joe?” “They don’t let me have many.”
Kerry: I saw this at a film festival 20 years ago introduced by Mitchum and Roger Ebert. It blew me away.
Todd: You saw it introduced by Mitchum and Ebert. I’m jealous.
Kerry: It was wonderful. I met Ebert too. He sat directly behind me.
Aurora: This is the movie I recommend to anyone not familiar with FilmNoir.
Tiffany: Noir trench coat alert.
Dr. Horror Geek:The first time I saw “Out Of The Past” was on a flight to Vegas. Made for an awesome flight.
Kim: Lots of first timers tonight for “Out Of The Past.” Excellent! Can’t wait to hear what y’all think.
Fussy: All of us veterans really need to watch out for releasing spoilers!
TCM Party: Tough to think of Bogart, John Garfield or Dick Powell as Jeff Bailey, but per IMDB, they were all offered the role & passed. Warner Brothers also passed on the script, hence it was produced by RKO.
The Nitrate Diva: Remembering his work in noir, Mitchum said, “The big stars like Cary Grant got all the lights. Ours they lit with cigarettes.”
Kelly: A dame with a rod …
Deborah: “A dame with a ‘rod’ is like a guy with a knitting needle.” Hmmmmm…
The Nitrate Diva: “Ya know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.”
Theresa: I LOVE when Kirk points and says “What’s he doin’ here?!” Love it!
TCM Party: That’s Issur Danielovitch Demsky and he’s going to be 98 in a week.
Tiffany: Kirk and Robert: Battle of the Butt Chins!
Joel Williams: It’s a ‘dimple-off’ between Mitch and Kirk!
The Nitrate Diva: “I can let it all go.” But can you *really*, Jeff?
TCM Party: WOW. Did Mitchum talk about how much he smoked? he had a cigarette already when Douglas was to offer him one?
Alan: I read Rhonda Fleming’s bio on @IMDb and it’s fascinating. She’s 93 – how about guest spot at TCMFF.
Kim:The lighting and texture is such a treat. I find myself getting lost in the surroundings, the small details.
MuseofIre: “$5000 now and $5000 when you bring her back.” “That should have been the first thing out of your mouth.”
TCM Party: Well out of the light of the countryside now…into the dark underworld of night life & shady scams.
Kim: It really sucks that there are no dance halls like this anymore.
Fussy: “Baby, I don’t care.” I’m going to say that tomorrow to every question asked of me. Things #RobertMitchum says #OutOfThePast
Aurora: Tweet amongst yourselves. I’m mesmerized. I’ve only seen this 20 times!
LondonLee: Watching “Out Of The Past” on @tcm and my son asked where Godzilla was.
rpupkin: I still don’t know the difference between chump and sap.
Theresa: RPupkin, I think a chump gets used and a sap allows himself to get used. Either way, it’s okay if Greer’s doing the using.
Joel: Just home…what’d I miss?!
Aurora: Chumps and Saps.
Alan: Quite a lot of varying artistic styles in Italian and German posters.
MuseofIre: Somebody pointed out to me that in the first half, Kathy only wears white; in the second half, only black.
The Nitrate Diva: Director Jacques Tourneur told Jane Greer to underplay as much as possible: “No big eyes.”
Theresa: Yes Nitrate: “Em-pass-seeve.” Her eyes are mesmerizing.
Liz: Robert Mitchum is to cool as Cary Grant is to charm.
The Nitrate Diva: “Let’s go down to the bar and we can try to impress each ot- her.”
Kerry: “Think of a number, Joe.”
Fussy: “Something tall and cool” Can I have Jeff, please!
TCM Party: Despite begin based on “B material,” “OOTP” had an “A” budget due to Tourneur’s success on Val Lewton films like “CAT PEOPLE.”
Aurora: Danger lurks & builds beautifully. Then back again.
Sue: “It was the bottom of the barrel and I scraped it, and I didn’t care.”
Theresa: Their kiss in the road is sweet. I think the core of the movie that makes this THE FILM NOIR is him saying: “He had followed her.”
Aurora: “I had her”…and Nicholas Musuraca!
Joel: VO by Robert Mitchum = #Winning
The Nitrate Diva: “He’d sell us both for $1.95.” Swell friends you’ve got, Jeff.
Gayer Than Thou: I say things like “I really hadn’t ought,” and people look at me like I’m a pretentious asshole.
Jeff: I’m convinced the only difference between Mitch and me is he had better lighting. . . Or not.
Theresa: She’s got a gun?
Joel: She brought a gun to a fist-fight…well done.
Kerry: Mitchum’s face.
The Nitrate Diva:“He isn’t going to tell Whit anything.” This is where we learn that the toughest person in the room is wearing heels and a skirt.
Gayer Than Thou:“Sure I shot him. And I’m not sorry about it. But I didn’t take his money.”
Aurora: A Mitchum punch has gotta hurt!
Fussy: If he punches you, you stay punched!
Aurora: Awfully cold around the heart!!
Gayer Than Thou: I love noir because noir dames take action. They have their own motives, and those motives matter to the action of the plot.
Kelly: @Gayer_Than_Thou – Well said! Dames in action and central to the plot.
Gayer Than Thou: @Kelly – And though they may want a man, they also want money, power, revenge.
TCM Party: @Gayer_Than_Thou – I think this is why film noir is popular w/ women, even tho they are usually evil. Actual agency in life.
Gayer Than Thou: @TCM_Party – And, I would say, with gay men: noir dames evince the possibility of a kind of non-macho agency. #yesitspretentious
TCM Party: @Gayer_Than_Thou – That sounds plausible. But watch it with the insight…I have a reputation to keep up.
Dr. Horror Geek: I wonder how my students would react if I started lecturing in “film noir dialogue” style.
Ghost Mullet: I think one actor who has a bit of the laid back Mitchum coolness is Clive Owen.
Kerry: “Cigarette?” “Smoking.”
TCM Party: When “OOTP” was remade in the ’80s as “AGAINST ALL ODDS“, Jane Greer played her original character’s mother. I guess I should watch “AGAINST ALL ODDS” cos Jeff Bridges played the Mitchum role & I just can’t picture it.
Theresa: Loved “Against All Odds.” Different but fine in its own right. Hey…there’s Kathie. Walking in for breakfast. AWKWARD!
Dennice: I forgot about “Against All Odds”! Didn’t realize it was a remake of “Out Of The Past.” It’s been SO long since I saw it. I’d like to see it again because… Jeff Bridges.
The Nitrate Diva: For an actor who can sure bring the gravitas, Kirk does smarmy so well.
Gayer Than Thou: I do find it a little bit jarring when noir films have rural settings, or outdoor locations ( especially daytime scenes ).
Todd: You really hadn’t ought say things like that.
Liz: “It’s a nice view…am I here to admire it?”
Sue: “My feelings? About 10 years ago, I hid them and haven’t been able to find them. Where’d they go?” “My pocketbook.”
The Nitrate Diva: Wow, this is a lot of dimple for one screen.
Fussy: Butt chins eclipsing the screen.
Aurora: About to call the cable company…my screen is full of dimples!!
Fussy: @CitizenScreen OMG, we are so on the same page, sistah!
TCM Party: Roger Ebert wrote that cigarettes were the weapons in “OOTP”, the true hostility btw Whit & Jeff was when they smoked.
Outfield Angel: Kirk Douglas played a slimeball quite well.
Gayer Than Thou: I wouldn’t have liked Kirk Douglas in smarmy villain roles all the time, and he can be a whale of a ham, but he’s great in this.
Joel: Jane Greer…I need a moment…
Whit: “Kathie’s back in the fold.”
Dennice: Simma down.
Gayer Than Thou: “@joel: #imonlyhuman
Kim: This is back when people had lovely penmanship. Because they taught it in school. *sigh*
This is a sample of movie penmanship – from “A Letter to Three Wives.”
David: @kim – cursive is dead. I know. I buried it.
Theresa: David, I had the best penmanship of all the girls in the entire third grade class. Comes in handy for ransom notes.
Kerry: “You’re like a leaf the wind blows from one gutter to another.”
Sue: “You’re like a leaf aren’t you? The wind just blows you from gutter to gutter.” Ow, that’s gotta hurt.
Theresa: “Just get out Kathie. I have to sleep in this room.”
Kim: That is a smack with words if I ever heard it.
Aurora: “Feel sorry for you????” COLD!!!
Patrick:Jeff’s about as convincing as someone not in love as Rick is in “Casablanca.”
Fussy: Jeff seems pretty incredulous regarding Kathie’s “praying.”
Aurora: RHONDA!!!
Gayer Than Thou: @CitizenScreen: #shecangetit
Kim: Help me, Rhonda. #TCMparty #forgiveme.
TCM Party: Meta is a double to Kathie…she sends him back into the labyrinth but good.
Meta Carson: “You may have whiskey if you like.”
The Nitrate Diva: This movie’s so dark we get a second femme fatale, like an orchestra has a second violin!
Dennice:Rhonda is SO good at being bad.
Theresa: “You may have whiskey if you like.”
Fussy: Mitchum rocks that trenchcoat! Only Bogie has ever done trenchcoat as well/better.
Jackie: Mitchum rocks everything *sigh*.
Kerry: “Drop the Junior League patter.” Fabulous dialogue.
“You always go around leaving your fingerprints in a girl’s shoulder? Not that I mind particularly. You’ve got nice strong hands.”
Aurora: “It could be that I’m the patsy and you’re on the spot.”
Todd: This is the kind of film that would have a character named “Eels.”
And that’s my very own vodka martini, folks; three olives, very dirty…like some-thing out of a Hitchcock movie, huh?
Kim: “Keep the martinis dry, I’ll be back.“
David: One thing I love about b&w, and noir in particular, is that the light doesn’t neces-sarily come from actual lamps….I’m now amusing myself looking at all the imaginary light sources.
Theresa: I love Stefanos talking to Kathie about how he killed Eels. He’s really shaken up. Good moment for him.
Kerry: “You killed him?” “Certainly.”
Kerry: “Awfully cold around the heart.”
Jackie: Ahhh a little Mitchum is better than none at all. #BetterLateThanPregnant.
Patrick: I’d never noticed how good the soundtrack is in “Out Of The Past.”
Jackie: Geez I can’t even remember the plot to this one.
MuseofIre: It’s noir, baby. Plot is optional.
Joel: Who has time for plot when there’s Greer, Fleming and 2 dimples!
Fussy: I know, it is so good you almost don’t notice it.
Theresa: Oh there’s plot there allright. Loads of it. Whoa! Here comes some plot twist now. Look out!
Ghost Mullet: Never a good sign when the door bumps something while opening it.
Gayer Than Thou: Is she wearing Mildred Pierce’s hand-me-down mink?
Colleen:Veda didn’t approve…
Jackie: “I got stopped by a gabby cop.”
Todd: “I lost her.” / “She’s worth losing.”
Aurora: “She’s worth losing.” DAMN!
The Nitrate Diva: Kathie’s internal monologue: ‘I’ve had a hard day of sending guys to their deaths. I need a drink!’
Aurora: Greer looks gorgeous here. The colder, the more beautiful. ( I sort of want that coat. )
Theresa: “I don’t want to die.” “Neither do I baby, but if I have to I’m going to die last.” Jaysus – words from the Gods!
Dennice: Jane’s beautiful doe eyes rate right up there with Judy’s, imo.
Aurora: She’s used to playing men like fiddles. #FantasticFemme.
TCM Party: “I swear I couldn’t help it.”
KATHIE: “I don’t want to die.” JEFF: “Neither do I baby, but if I have to, I’m going to die last.”
( Dang, Jeff didn’t even get THAT right, either!! )
Patrick: He knows she’s trouble yet he still lets her ruin him ( and again and again ). This is noir.
Kelly: “I always say everybody’s right.”
The Nitrate Diva: “I always say everybody’s right.” Even the bit part actors got great dialogue!
Theresa:“I always say ‘everybody’s right.'” I wait for that guy. Mitchum takes a good slap from the guy who fought Heflin in “…Martha Ivers.”
Fussy: “I wouldn’t kill a guy for a martini.”
Kim: I’d give anything for a rumpled trench coat.
Jackie: If Mitchum could be in it, that’d be better.
Kim: No question.
( ASIDE: For those out there who thinks Robert Mitchum can’t act, just check out this moment. He’s brought in with the briefcase he stole and there he finds Kathie, with all the berrry baaad guys. His recognition is slight…subtle, but there. An inflection here, a small gesture there. He’s a quiet actor. I’m pretty sure he already knew he could no longer trust her, but I think seeing her with those den of thieves confirmed it. But he’s still one step ahead of all of ’em. )
Aurora: You get to slap Mitchum ONCE!! After that, Harry Powell surfaces.
Dr. Horror Geek: “You talk big mister” “Uh… yeah – I’m Robert-freakin-Mitchum!”
Dennice: Jeff would have to be…high, or something, to fall for her lies this time.
Aurora: THIS LIGHTING!! My goodness!!
KIm: All these lies go really well with milk and cookies.
The Nitrate Diva: The way her eyelashes catch the light here is worth a sonnet.
Theresa: @NitrateDiva – Your line here is worth a sonnet.
Kerry: His eyelashes are making me weak.
Kerry: My 17 yo saw my eyelash line and said, “Mom, get yourself together.”
Theresa: I believe her. She’s in dim light…with the eyes…”we can make them do anything.” You don’t believe her? “I never stopped loving u.”
TCM Party: Beautiful beautiful backlighting and lies, lies, lies. Lol
Aurora: “FOOLPROOF AND BEAUTIFUL” describes Kathie and this movie!
Gayer Than Thou: I mean, look at this lighting in the two-shot!
WonderWomAnn: There’s something about Robert Mitchum that is just so intriguing.
Gayer Than Thou: I’m coveting some of these minks. Won’t we make quite the pair?
Theresa: I think all of us here know that film noir means never having to say ‘I’m sorry.’
Kim: @Gayer_Than_Thou match made in cinema heaven.
Ebenezer: Mitchum sure did show up on time and remember his lines well.
The Nitrate Diva: I suspect that Robert Mitchum could strangle a man with smoke rings. alone.
Kerry: “Will you bust this for me, Jackson?” I’m saying this tomorrow.
TCM Party: Discussion question: Did Kirk Douglas do his best work in noir? “…MARTHA IVERS”, “ACE IN THE HOLE…”
Aurora: Hmmm…methinks I may agree with that!
Kerry: Noir and “Lonely Are the Brave.”
Kim: I prefer Douglas in B&W anything, in color he was over the top Kerry – Oh and “Paths of Glory.”
Theresa: Yes, Nitrate. He DID do his best work in Noir ( “I Walk Alone” too. ) But he was good in “A Letter to Three Wives.”
TCM Party: As soon as I sent that though, I thought of “PATHS OF GLORY”… you know what, I gotta throw in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL…maybe not his best, but a fave
Dennice: Kathie is a master at thinking one thing while her expression says something else. #FemmeFataleRules.
Gayer Than Thou: Actual good girl and her folksy parents seem atypical noir elements.
Diane: #FilmNoir #PrettyDames messing with #BadBoys #WhatCouldGoWrong #OutOfThePast
Bryan: I really like Kirk in this type of role. SO good! And so early in his career. I like Kirk playing a bit crooked. “Out Of The Past.”
Theresa: Ann doesn’t want the Vanilla sheriff after tasting the darkness of Mitchum. Plus the sheriff needs a trenchcoat.
The Nitrate Diva: Jeez, the good, normal people in film noir are dull. They deserve each other.
Liz: I think Jeff is done being tricked.
Theresa: Dickie catches a marlin.
Patrick:When the going gets tough, the tough go fishin’.
Tiffany: See? Deaf, but ain’t dumb!
Kerry: Man, that’s a great death!
Liz: Fishing saves the day!
Tom: Death by fishing rod.
David: That deaf dumb and blind boy sure plays a mean fly cast.
Jeff: That’s one way to, um, lure a man to his death. . . . Oh, God, I’m so sorry. That was horrible.
Dr. Horror Geek: Enjoying my first time tweeting with #TCMParty.
Theresa: “I’m not framing any woman.” Ooh, that slap! Kirk lands a good one on Jane. You could feel that slap across time.
Joel: That was a nice slap.
Aurora: Now THAT’S A SLAP!! He meant that with every fiber of his Douglasness!
The Nitrate Diva: I don’t see how any many could sleep in the same house of a woman who shot him four times in the belly.
Theresa: I think men are funny that way Diva.
Jeff: Mitchum has just gone into Full Badass Mode.
Jackie: He has another mode?
TCM Party: 2 yrs after OUT OF THE PAST, Mitchum & Greer appeared in another noir “THE BIG STEAL.” It’s good but it wasn’t quite the same.
Dennice: Jane Greer also starred with Mr. Wonderful, aka Dick Powell, in “STATION WEST.” I love that film!
Kerry: Man I love this film.
David: Second viewing and I still lost track of when the plot stopped being a flashback.. and where is that ferkakta light in the woods??
Gayer Than Thou: All these shadows in the woods!
Aurora: Yeah. I mean if a dame’s gonna stab ya go for a Jane Greer!
Alan: “She can’t be all bad. No one is.” #hooboy #OutOfThePast
David: WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THESE DAMN LIGHTS!? – thanks… had to get that out of my system..
TCM Party: Virginia Huston (Ann Miller) retired in 1952 after making 12 films.
Kerry: “She can’t be all bad. No one is” “She comes the closest.”
Theresa: Roller skates don’t trump a good Mitchum roll in the hay.
The Nitrate Diva: “I was going to kill you.” “Who isn’t?” I’d forgotten about that line. So bitterly clever.
Kevin: This police officer character is the only flaw in the writing of this flick. His character honestly makes no sense.
Kim: I know Jeff’s no good, but that Jim is a real creep. That Ann’s just a hard luck woman!
Aurora: She’s one cold dame!!!
Jackie: She looks like a nun.
Theresa: NOW we see the real Kathie. Kirk’s dead, Mitchum carries her bag. She was ALWAYS running the show. Kathieeeeeeee!
Diane: #FilmNoir #PrettyDames always have their own agenda and they know another bus/ oops man will come along.
Tom: Can’t make deals with a dead man, Jeff.
( They look like they’re at an altar… )
Aurora: “Build my gallows high, baby. Yeah! Original title of the movie.
Theresa: Is it my imagination, but does Kathy’s head dress look like a nun’s habit? Is she like Scarlett O’Hara? Thinking she’ll win Jeff back?
The Nitrate Diva: “You’re no good for anyone but me. You’re no good and neither am I.” Kim: At least she’s a well dressed sociopath.
Theresa: That last kiss was the kiss of death. Well…we all gotta go.
Patrick: Moral of the story: when you’re hanging out in Acapulco with Jane Greer on an expense account, you stay there.
Kim: “You’re no good for anyone but me.” Whoa. They just don’t make ’em good like this anymore.
Gayer Than Thou: Did I miss the part where Jane Greer joined a convent?
Ross: Out Of The Past 1 of my absolute favorite films though I had to see it many times before I could follow the plot.
Jackie: “You were a very clumsy flirt. I liked that.”
“I never told you I was anything but what I am. You just wanted to imagine that. That’s why I left you.”
Fussy: Hubby just said “is that Joan of Dark?” Film noir NUN!
Theresa: “I remember you were a clumsy flirt. I like that.” TCM Guys, are you learning and paying attention to all our tricks?
Kim: Someday I’m gonna have a drink, break the glass in the fire and say “we deserve each other.” Just ’cause.
The Nitrate Diva: I like her nunnish traveling costume. It says, “I own YOU now. I don’t have to try to impress you anymore.”
Ross: Well to be honest I still can’t totally follow the plot.
Aurora: Damn Jeff! Imagine how many more raincoats you coulda worn!
“No good, dirty, double-crossing rat!!!”
Kerry: It’s nunnish and masculine. She’s taking over.
TCM Party: This kid is the only completely pure person in the film, he’s the only one that always tells the truth.
Theresa: Ann walks away like Barbara Bel Geddes “VERTIGO.” Walking towards a new but bittersweet life with closure. Dickie’s ending the movie…brilliant.
Kim: Ok Sheriff man, I’m yours.
The Nitrate Diva: This ending just kills me. Dickie waving goodbye to Jeff…
Fussy: One of the saddest happiest endings ever in film. *tear* #OutOfThePast
Tiffany: Aah SO GOOD.
Jeff: Great film. Loved it. I’m pretty sure I’ll be seeing it again.
Joel: Thanks for the pick & for hosting, @TCM_Party Paula!
TCM Party: Thanks for stopping by the #TCMParty, everyone! Hope you enjoyed one of the best film noirs ever made ^PG
Aurora: Terrific film! So much to enjoy in each viewing! Pleasure to watch with you. Thanks for hosting.
THIS SHORT VIDEO IS VERY NICELY PUT TOGETHER – “SIX CUES OF THE ‘OUT OF THE PAST’ THEME”
This is a sample of movie penmanship – from “A Letter to Three Wives.”
