Hi folks,
I’ve just watched this 1948 movie yesterday and found it so good that I thought I would share it with all the connoisseurs around here. Moreover, it was supposedly lost for decades and never run on TV.
As usual, it is about an (half) hard-boiled private eye based in LA played by Franchot Tone toying around with felons, cops and femmes fatales. You’ll even spot a young Raymond Burr! But, this fast paced picture is so well written and played that I have to rate it as high as The Big Sleep! Moreover, you’ll get some nice shots of the town and very interesting views of Venice’s oil fields, 10 years before A Touch Of Evil.
In fact, what makes it so special is that Roy Huggins wrote the story and what we have here is the forerunner of what he’ll do 25 years later: The Rockford Files. Jim Rockford could have uttered the humorous lines delivered here as well. I can’t help to imagine what Jim Garner would have made with such a vehicle. This one would have been much better that its Marlowe.
Sorry for being so dithyrambic about it but I felt compelled to do so. If you want to watch it, you ‘ll find it here: https://archive.org/details/I_Love_Trouble_movie
Don’t be deterred by the first shots as the film has somewhat badly aged. It is really worth seeing.
Nice day to all.
I’ve just watched this 1948 movie yesterday and found it so good that I thought I would share it with all the connoisseurs around here. Moreover, it was supposedly lost for decades and never run on TV.
As usual, it is about an (half) hard-boiled private eye based in LA played by Franchot Tone toying around with felons, cops and femmes fatales. You’ll even spot a young Raymond Burr! But, this fast paced picture is so well written and played that I have to rate it as high as The Big Sleep! Moreover, you’ll get some nice shots of the town and very interesting views of Venice’s oil fields, 10 years before A Touch Of Evil.
In fact, what makes it so special is that Roy Huggins wrote the story and what we have here is the forerunner of what he’ll do 25 years later: The Rockford Files. Jim Rockford could have uttered the humorous lines delivered here as well. I can’t help to imagine what Jim Garner would have made with such a vehicle. This one would have been much better that its Marlowe.
Sorry for being so dithyrambic about it but I felt compelled to do so. If you want to watch it, you ‘ll find it here: https://archive.org/details/I_Love_Trouble_movie
Don’t be deterred by the first shots as the film has somewhat badly aged. It is really worth seeing.
Nice day to all.
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