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crafty_packratThe Noir City DC them this year is "Film Noir A to B -- CLASSY As and TRASHY Bs!" which explains why ever showing is a double-feature.
This Gun for Hire -- a Veronica Lake/Alan Ladd film from 1942 which really holds up. Veronica Lake is a nightclub magician who accidentally winds up embroiled with a hitman who is out to get the man who double-crossed him, who is also the nightclub owner who just hired her for his business. It's based on a Graham Greene story.
Quiet Please, Murder is about an art forger, the antiquarian book dealer who is his accomplice, and the way their scheme to sell multiple forged copies of a stolen Shakespeare first edition blows up when the book dealer goes against her partner's orders about avoid selling to a buyer with Nazi connections. The story gets complicated when the art forger arranges a murder in a public library to cover for the theft of more rare books, and a private detective gets into the mix. George Sanders plays the art forgers, and for the first ten minutes it was impossible to listen to him without imaging Shere Khan saying those lines.
This Gun for Hire -- a Veronica Lake/Alan Ladd film from 1942 which really holds up. Veronica Lake is a nightclub magician who accidentally winds up embroiled with a hitman who is out to get the man who double-crossed him, who is also the nightclub owner who just hired her for his business. It's based on a Graham Greene story.
Quiet Please, Murder is about an art forger, the antiquarian book dealer who is his accomplice, and the way their scheme to sell multiple forged copies of a stolen Shakespeare first edition blows up when the book dealer goes against her partner's orders about avoid selling to a buyer with Nazi connections. The story gets complicated when the art forger arranges a murder in a public library to cover for the theft of more rare books, and a private detective gets into the mix. George Sanders plays the art forgers, and for the first ten minutes it was impossible to listen to him without imaging Shere Khan saying those lines.
