Friday, June 10, 2022 - This program begins with matinee Film Noir classic attractions, starting with "Chicago Syndicate," starring Dennis O'Keefe and Abbe Lane. Remember, the Film Noir Channel will present a new Noir picture. The Film Noir community gives this film 🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿.
Chicago newspaper editor David Healey (Richard H. Cutting) and civic leaders asked accountant and war hero Barry Amsterdam (Dennis O'Keefe ) to go undercover and infiltrate Arnold Valent's crime syndicate. Valent runs a corrupt insurance business and is believed to be responsible for murdering bookkeeper Nelson Kern, who had gone to the newspaper with proof of the criminal activity.
Barry (Dennis O'Keefe) hears how Kern's wife committed suicide and how their daughter Joyce was committed to an institution. That and a $60,000 reward convince him to accept the dangerous job. He goes to a nightclub Valent owns, the Maracas, meeting a woman named Sue Morton, who helps him gain access. He meets Valent's girlfriend, singer Connie Peters (Abbe Lane). He then tells Valent he was a witness to Kern's murder and will go to the police unless Valent makes him a better offer.
Valent (Paul Stewart) hires but doesn't trust him until Barry, secretly working with the police, arranges a jewel theft and insurance scam. Then, turning again to Sue Morton for help, she pulls a gun on Barry and orders him to leave. But she learns from the police who he is; Sue (Allison Hayes) works with Barry (Dennis O'Keefe), revealing she is the murdered man's daughter, Joyce Kern (Allison Hayes).
Unable to find some incriminating microfilm, Barry (Dennis O'Keefe) runs out of options until he schemes to make Connie (Abbe Lane) jealous by introducing the other woman to Valent (Paul Stewart), who makes a play for her. Connie (Abbe Lane) threatens to expose Valent (Paul Stewart), whose thugs give her a brutal beating. She gets the microfilm to Barry, who is shot and wounded before Valent (Paul Stewart) is killed by the police.
Cast
✦ Dennis O'Keefe as Barry Amsterdam
✦ Abbe Lane as Connie Peters
Paul Stewart as Arnold 'Arnie' Valent
✦ Xavier Cugat as Benny Chico
・ Allison Hayes as Joyce Kern – alias Sue Morton
・ Richard H. Cutting as David Healey / Narrator
・ Chris Alcaide as Nate
・ William Challee as Dolan
・ John Zaremba as Det. Lt. Robert Fenton
・ George Brand as Jack Roper
・ Hugh Sanders as Pat Winters
・ Mark Hanna as Brad Lacey
・ Carroll McComas as Mrs. Valent
The FBI recruits an ex-military accountant to infiltrate the mob in Chicago to break open the rackets. But to complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their plan.
Director: Fred F. Sears
Writers: Joseph Hoffman (screenplay), William Sackheim (story)
Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Abbe Lane, Paul Stewart
Trivia
The oddly-angled building with a clock tower seen under the closing narration is the Wrigley Building in Chicago, Illinois, completed in 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the chewing gum company.
Quotes
Pat Winters: You were born for this job, Barry.
Film Noir Commentary
Abbe Lane had an excellent vocal style and knew how to be sewn into a glamorous dress. Her real-life husband, Xavier Cugat, is also on hand: He's her band leader and pining after her.
Though she gets lower billing, the leading female is Allison Hayes. Yes: The star of the immortal "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman." Hayes does a fine job. She's an exciting presence: She looks like a meaner version of Jane Russell.
The only distracting part of the movie is the O'Keefe character's name: Barry Amsterdam. It kept reminding me of a specific comic on a classic TV show about writers for a TV comedy ...
O'Keefe had the goods, though. He is one of the best of all noir actors.
From Russia with Love is a 1963 spy film. It is the second in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions and Sean Connery's second role as MI6 agent 007 James Bond.
The picture was directed by Terence Young, produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and written by Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood. It is based on Ian Fleming's 1957 novel From Russia, with Love. In the film, Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr. No. The film followed Dr. No (1962) and was followed by Goldfinger (1964).
Following the success of Dr. No, United Artists greenlit a sequel and doubled the budget available for the producers. In addition to filming on location in Turkey, the action scenes were shot at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, and in Scotland. Production ran over budget and schedule and was rushed to finish by its scheduled October 1963 release date.
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All Through the Night is a 1942 American comedy-crime-spy thriller film directed by Vincent Sherman and starring Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, and Kaaren Verne, and featuring many of the Warner Bros. company of character actors. Warner Brothers released it. The supporting cast features Peter Lorre, Frank McHugh, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Barton MacLane, and William Demarest.
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So, stock up on buttered popcorn and Good & Plenty. Then grab seats down front. The show is about to begin. And we will see daylight again sometime this afternoon.
Cast notes
⦿ Jackie Gleason and Wallace Ford are billed onscreen as "Jackie C. Gleason" and "Wally Ford," respectively.
⦿ Jackie Gleason and Phil Silvers owe their presence in the film to the direct intervention of Warner Bros. studio head Jack L. Warner, who personally phoned Sherman to...
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - Episodes 246-250 - The Alvin Summers Matter - 1955
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962.
✦ Starring Bob Bailey
Written by Robert Ryf
Produced and Directed by Jack Johnstone
Features Virginia Gregg, Marvin Miller, Don Diamond, Tony Barrett, and Parley Baer
The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a private investigator drama, with Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien, and John Lund portraying Dollar in succession over the years. In 1955, after a yearlong hiatus, the series came back in its best-known incarnation with Bob Bailey starring in "The Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action-packed Expense Account – America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator." There were 809 episodes (plus two not-for-broadcast auditions) in the 12-year run, and more than 710 still exist today.
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