Sunday 17 November 2013

The Dark Corner (US, 1946)

A noir with Lucille Ball in it? Yes indeed, and not a bad one either, with some very good photography, especially at the beginning, and not the first happily-ever-after noir with an investigator and his hard-to-get secretary.

Veteran noir support man William Bendix, as is the beautiful Cathy Downs as Mari Cathcart.

Some recently viewed noirs seem to have been filmed more in the studio than outside. Not necessarily a bad thing, but the more urgent noirs tend to feature realtime, on-location footage.

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