Pickup On South Street [1953] Part 6/9

[9675775]

Thelma Ritter gives a superb performance in this movie. She was indeed an excellent actress.

[gqjohnny]

Check out Jean Peters in "Vicki" from this same year 1953. And she also did "Niagara " with Joseph Cotten and Marilyn whatsername.

[brianallancobb]

@gqjohnny Along with Gloria Graham, Jean Peters defines the noir babe role.

[norfolk03]

@brianallancobb Ruth Roman was good in these pictures too.

[brianallancobb]

@norfolk03

Ava Gardner in The Killers (1946).

[norfolk03]

@brianallancobb Excellent! How about Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers?

[brianallancobb]

@norfolk03

That's one I've yet to see, but Miss Stanwyck in Double Indemnity is to die for. (And Fred MacMurray was an inspired bit of counter-intuitive casting.)

[norfolk03]

@brianallancobb Good grief, I forgot that one, excellent! The book was good too, love James M Cains novels. I think you must have some damn good taste!

[brianallancobb]

@norfolk03

Cain, Hammett, Jim Thompson, Chandler, Richard Stark...I read everything I can find by those guys.

Even Cornell Woolrich, although he's kind of flowery.

Don't know if I have good taste, but I know what I like.

I've been working for seven years on a work of crime fiction, myself. "Mussolini's Still Dead", set in Sicily, Rome, Zurich, and London.

Sometimes I wish I'd never started. Trying to complete it is a real monkey on my back.

[norfolk03]

@brianallancobb Taste is subjective......but I think yours is pure gold, Would like to be first in-line to read the finished work, in my vernacular, sounds fucki'n awesome!

[natanielcostard]

@gqjohnny Manson?

[brianallancobb]

@gqjohnny

Niagara's a great movie, although it breaks my heart to see how pristine it was back then, and know the Canadian side is now like Las Vegas on the Falls.