Films you've watched recently.

[blues exile]

What Noirs have you enjoyed starring John Payne?

Apart from the aforementioned 'Slightly Scarlet', I like 'Kansas City Confidential'', '99 River Street' , 'The Saxon Charm', 'Larceny'and 'Hell's Island'.

 

[BALDY]

Apart from the aforementioned 'Slightly Scarlet', I like 'Kansas City Confidential'', '99 River Street' , 'The Saxon Charm', 'Larceny'and 'Hell's Island'.

Thanks a lot---I have listed them.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

An excellent film from 1951.
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The year I was born.Don't think I've seen the film though.

 

[BALDY]

My first viewing of this excellent 1947 movie.

 

[BALDY]

The first in a series of six John Payne films (thanks again "Blues Exile")----Very enjoyable.....

 

[BALDY]

Going back to 1952 with the exceptional.

 

[BALDY]

This is a damn good film.

 

[* ORM *]

Havoc - saw Tom Hardy in it and thought, hmmmm this’ll be ok. In a word ****!

A world where just about everybody dies, thousands of bullets (no exaggeration) are fired but 4 people are miraculously still alive. I love an action movie but with some reality please. Stretched it almost as far as John Wick 4.

Some will enjoy it no doubt but for me the scarcely believable only papers over a wafer thin plot.

 

[BALDY]

A very average John Payne film from 1948.

 

[BALDY]

Not very good.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Didn't have a lot of option on TV while we were away but did watch Parental Guidance starring Bette Midler and Billy Crystal. Thought it was fun, some proper old school humour.

 

[blues exile]

Not very good.
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Dan Duryea always worth watching and Shelley Winters too. I can overlook the considerable shortcomings of this and 'Saxon Charm' for the sheer pleasure of watching some of these actors at their best. On to some John Payne westerns now starting with 'Silver Lode' which has Duryea as the baddie naturally and Lizabeth Scott. Can be viewed as a critique of McCarthyism, Duryea's character's name is almost the same as the witch hunter senator.

 

[BALDY]

Of course Dan Duryea came to the UK and I have seen some U S and U K films of his which I have enjoyed.

 

[BALDY]

An OK film.

 

[blues exile]

Of course Dan Duryea came to the UK and I have seen some U S and U K films of his which I have enjoyed.

Have you seen 'Do You Know This Voice?', one of his British films made in 1964.

 

[BALDY]

Have you seen 'Do You Know This Voice?', one of his British films made in 1964.

No I haven't.

 

[BALDY]

A rare and very unusual movie.