Phantom Lady - The Jazz Band Scene (1944)

[billthestinker]

jazz booze coke and a massive orgasm!

[SarahJoyBrownFan]

This moive looks very interesting.Thanks for showing it here.

[CuteCatFaith]

This DVD is in our library in France and blew our minds! I only hope our cinemathèque shows it so I can see it big screen! Uprated and favorited. Shared! Thanks for posting -- I think I may have commented here before.

[plazpastic]

Fantastic. That was great montage baby.

[4Topwood]

Crazy and sexy in equal measure.

[slakjaw]

Thanks! I've been trying to remember this title for years. Saw it back in the 90s as part of a noir series and couldn't remember for the life of me the title. Knew it was a Siodmak film though. I only remembered the two shot of the drummer's mad look and the woman getting turned on.

[IJG26]

I flew a post production man to Bishop California some years ago to re record some dialogue. Spent the day with Cook and discussed this film. He told me that Buddy Rich doubled for him. 

[boredoldlady]

the drummer is.....Dave Coleman

[slobomotion]

This is a really cool and exciting scene. I always rave about Elisha Cook, Jr. to my French husband, who is a huge fan of noir and hardboiled movies. This was a superior actor.

[charlessavarese]

Anyone know who's the drummer?

[Wolf459]

@charlessavarese Elisha Cook, Jr. He was best-known for playing characters most likely to suffer the most unceremonious or humiliating end.

[charlessavarese]

@Wolf459 Is he synching or really playing the drums? If not, who is it? Krupa? A favorite of mine is the jazz band scene at The Fisherman Club in "DOA".

[slobomotion]

I'm a hip kitty! cutecatfaith d com bless ya babe!

[webstercat]

This is too funny. Wild crazy woman and drummer. I play drums and have never had that happen. Any day now....

[slobomotion]

@webstercat you didn't know me!

[webstercat]

@slobomotion I love that look in your face when you look into the mirror but everything changes when you see the dump he lives in. What did you expect, he's a drummer!

[CuteCatFaith]

@webstercat Hee hee!

[charlessavarese]

That's got to be the ultimate for a drummer, to have a woman to actually have an orgasm over your solo. Those double strokes and parradiddles will do it every time.

[CuteCatFaith]

@charlessavarese I was a huge fan of some musicians in NYC in the late 1970s through the early 1990s and they LOVED it! I went to CBGB one night in early 1994 (or was it late 1993?) to pick up the singer for BAND OF SUSANS. I was dressed to kill and I just went for him, he was floored, ha ha! Nice guy still in touch Robert Poss.

[jes059]

I love Ella Raines in this scene too--especially when she looks in the mirror and doesn't recognize herself. What a disappointment that she didn't have a longer and more distinguished career.

[foxvienna1]

@jes059 Ms. Raines loved her family and country more I think. She was a wonderful talent.

[CuteCatFaith]

@jes059 I was in some movies and I found it all a huge bore. I hated being a model, married to a top fashion photographer. I was nothing but a Barbie doll, arm candy, it sucked. I forget to even tell people about my success, also as an artist in NYC, I had my first one-woman show in SoHo there after only two years in town, big deal, that art scene was all rigged. It was who you slept with, your actual talent counted for nothing.

[billthestinker]

the musicians are high on drugs, coke pot, horse and are sexually depraved, great stuff, next scene would be a gang bang!

[slobomotion]

@billthestinker I was in em in the 70s!

[MisterEsoteric]

Wonderful stuff! Why did we see so little of this kind of wild swinging euphoria in older movies? It's so great to see that kind of timeless carnality captured on film. Even tho the filmmakers had to depict it as "Crazed" & "Unbridled Madness" as in the drum solo. But this kind of exalted performing is as near to divine as humans get, IMHO

[extrajimmies]

This shit is dope!

[tuxguys]

Drum solo: Gene Krupa

Energy source: "Herbal Jazz Cigarettes." (John Lennon)

Musician's payoff: Priceless.

[billyguns2]

Are you sure it's Krupa? I was always told it was Buddy Rich. Whoever it is, it's fantastic! This whole sexually charges scene is remarkable, especially from 1944; Elisha Cook, Jr., as always, is amazing here.

[tuxguys]

No, I'm not sure at all, I was just parodying a credit card commercial. I have no idea who the drummer on the track was, it could easily have been Rich. Cook, Jr. is always weirdly good, you are so right.

[swingpotato]

As my film prof put it, "Bet you've never seen rape by jazz before..."

[Fripitto]

Your professor rocks! :D

I love this scene.

[hdvparis]

I AGREE! It is the closet to "rape by jazz" experience if it is possible. The is one of the reason why Film Noir (plus German Expressionistic style) is so mesmerizing!!! #1

[MsLadylove72]

Love it love it love it!!!! Elisha Cook is just so dynamic and handsome. I just love this whole scene!