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A Movie A Day: Quint sees KILLER BAIT (1949)!
Don’t ever change, Tiger. I don’t think I’d like you with a heart.

Wake me when you hit Crusoe on Mars
by Durant		Jun 16th, 2008
05:05:44 PM
Adam West's finest work until Young Lady Chatterly 2...
sweet
by JeanLuc Dickhard		Jun 16th, 2008
05:05:58 PM
good picks here
THIRD!
by TheBoManKicksAssAndTakesBlame		Jun 16th, 2008
05:14:30 PM
YEAH!
I'm stoked for tomorrow
by kungfuhustler84		Jun 16th, 2008
06:19:47 PM
I just used the word "stoked."
by kungfuhustler84		Jun 16th, 2008
06:20:12 PM
Huzzah!
By the way
by kungfuhustler84		Jun 16th, 2008
06:22:23 PM
this is my favorite thing AICN does. this and Harry's DVD picks. It's great to get some suggestions for really obscure, but fun movies. I've been working on my own list compiled from the stuff in both Quint's and Harry's posts that i have not seen, and I really appreciate the stuff.
That's BRIDGET Fonda, thank you.
by Lenny Nero		Jun 16th, 2008
06:49:59 PM
Otherwise, sounds like something I should definitely pick up.
Quality of Print?
by MediaNerd		Jun 16th, 2008
07:10:15 PM
Quint, how is that box set's quality? The problem I have with Noir is that there's lots of good pics out I'd love to see, but so much has lapsed into the pd that you never know what you're going to get in a box. Wish I could find one good reliable source.
DON'T BLAME RAIMI
by Det. John Kimble		Jun 16th, 2008
07:12:34 PM
"A Simple Plan" was based on a novel by Scott Smith.
Damn You Michael Bay
by MCMLXXVI		Jun 16th, 2008
07:30:32 PM
Damn You Michael Bay
Love the expression
by Napoleon Park		Jun 16th, 2008
08:23:23 PM
"just plain crazy dark"

Maybe not the only kind of movie I like, but certainly one of my favorite varieties.

Looking forward to Robinson Crusoe on Mars - at last a film I've seen a few times and more recently than 40 years ago.

Man, I can only afford basic cable but I sure wish TBS, TNT, TV Land, ABC Family, WGN, PBS or any or the networks would set aside a night to air these classic flicks.

heck, if the big nets have given up on even trying to program on Saturdays (except same old same old Fox), why not try something like this? Wasn't "showing old movies" one of the foundations the television industry was originally based on?

I knew something was wrong with him right away… I think it was t
by Napoleon Park		Jun 16th, 2008
08:26:23 PM
"I knew something was wrong with him right away… I think it was the polka dotted bowtie."

I'm hearing Garrison Keillor's Guy Noir deliver that line in my head. Hey, if he was a Uniformed cop with a polka-dot bow-tie, there'd definitely be room for suspicion.

D.O.A.
by Teapot Jones		Jun 17th, 2008
01:17:23 AM
Quint, I hope that first image is the copy that you have because D.O.A. is a great gem with perhaps my favorite opening dialogue to kick off any noir films that I've come across. You have to add that one to your list if you haven't seen it yet. Also, Lizabeth Scott is a total dish that just doesn't exist anymore in movies. Love her.
replicating storylines.
by NedNederlander		Jun 17th, 2008
03:58:18 AM
It's no wonder Raimi (or rather Scott B. Smith) are using these simple, powerful storylines. Sure, these old noirish films seem pretty stiff, but the stories are unbelievably clever and often pretty well executed. The advantage Killer Bait has over Simple plan is Lisbeth Scotts man-head, she's like this strangely sexy androgynous immoral dark character. UNSETTLING.
Why do so many of these movies have two titles?
by Knuckleduster		Jun 17th, 2008
07:55:18 AM
It's really annoying, and incredibly stupid. Did you know that High Tension is called Switchblade Romance in the UK? And that Statham/Li movie War is called Rogue Assassin in other countries? I can understand it when the title gets translated to another language, but a different english title? Lame.
Robinson Crusoe On Mars....excellent, Smithers!
by Ninja Nerd		Jun 17th, 2008
10:43:11 AM
Quint....can't wait for your take on this one. I saw this at a drive-in when it was released as part of an all night sci fi / horror bill. Cost a whopping $1 to sit in the car through 6 movies. I can't remember the other films, but RCOM stuck with me all these years. I won't say anything about the movie until tomorrow, so as not to influence your viewing. I do think you will like it. And, it compares well to a much later film with some similarities that I'll mention...tomorrow!
Ahhh, Liz Scott
by chudson		Jun 17th, 2008
10:50:38 AM
Love that voice....
Dan Duryea always reminded me of Doug McClure.
by dannyocean		Jun 17th, 2008
09:51:44 PM
A Doug McClure with depth. Same reedy voice. Always looked like they were coming off of the dt's. Both played recovering drunks, more Duryea than McClure. And they appeared together as old drunk gunfighter and young upstart gunfighter in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" called "Mr. Denton on Doomsday". Catch Duryea in a noir called "Black Angel", based on a Cornell Woolrich book, about a blackout drunk who tries to clear his name of a murder commited during one of his "spells". Awesome film.
Lesbian Lizabeth Scott Was Shunned By Studio Hollywood
by Red Dawn Don		Jun 18th, 2008
11:31:41 PM
That may be why she did so few movies. I always think of her in that Elvis Presley movie LOVING YOU (1957). She was cast as the MILF the younger EP character wanted. I think the movie's younger love triangle actress (DOLORES HART) became a NUN in real life. Not sure if by NUNing she was escaping EP or the lesbian LS or both. Elvis always claimed he had SEX with all but one female co-star. That is a lot of young actresses. Ann Margaret, Hope Lange and Mary Tyler Moore among the mix. A SIMPLE PLAN is a great under-rated movie. Billy Bob Thorton was great in it as the ner-do-well brother to Bill Paxton.
GIVE ME THE AMULET, YOU BITCH!!!!
by DRACULA_WANTS_THE_AMULET		Jul 5th, 2008
11:00:06 PM
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