Watch the drunks and the lovers appear to take turns as the stars of the Sovereign Light Café

[sovay]

theseatheseatheopensea invited me to make one, so here is a list of a hundred films noirs. It is non-completist. It is non-proscriptive. I had intended it to start with proto-noir and end with neo-noir, but it turned out I had far more than a hundred noirs of the classically defined period to winnow down from and any number of solid citizens and weird little ornaments had already been left by the side of the meme. Like all of the other lists, it will be different tomorrow. Anything on this one that I haven't written about, rest assured that I want to. I would, however, need to sleep more than an hour, which is how the last couple of nights have been going.

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[thisbluespirit]

Fingers crossed for a DVD in its proper region! I watched it originally off Netflix in the years when they were useful for that sort of thing and then on YouTube most recently. It's on BFI Player, too.

It might turn up on TPTV!

I mean, I find that dramatically compelling. (The placement of "BAIT" in that poster is really something.)

It's my favourite bit (apart from James Maxwell going in the swimming pool, obv.) I'm very fond of it, and, yeah, the first time I saw that poster I just assumed it was a different Traitors, but then I found a variation that clearly included the cast names. It is a terrible advertisement for the film; if anyone went in expecting the film in that poster they would have walked out again, or demanded their money back, possibly with angry jumping up and down at the swindle.

(I was trying to poke YT and see if it would cough it up, as I do from time to time, because it is a thoughtful little kitchen sink spy B-Movie with a lot of engagingly grubby 60s London location work & a nifty theme, but alas not, as usual. I did find, though, that a spy movie podcast watched it in 2023 and liked it as much as I did, without having a JM addiction as an excuse. I don't think I can possibly listen to their review, though, it's almost as long as the film!! XD

It goes round and round the back end of our Freeview channels a lot, though, which pleases me every time I see it there. Perhaps new people are watching a blurry b&w James Maxwell chew gum and make paper aeroplanes, who knows?)

Huzzah! My work here is . . . doing.

I need to get on things!

[sovay]

It goes round and round the back end of our Freeview channels a lot, though, which pleases me every time I see it there. Perhaps new people are watching a blurry b&w James Maxwell chew gum and make paper aeroplanes, who knows?

From such hits to the id are fandoms made!

If it ever shows up on TCM, I will (a) watch it (b) let you know.

[thisbluespirit]

If it ever shows up on TCM, I will (a) watch it (b) let you know.

Aww, thanks. <3

[sovay]

It might turn up on TPTV!

It came around last month! It may well do so again.