If you have access to Turner Classic Movies, you can view their listings for the month at http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/. It will appear as a pop-up box, so have those enabled on your Explorer (or other). The Unsuspected just showed up this morning on 1/28/08.
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I got it taped this morning...I couldnt believe I found it on. I was talking with a few friends last night about it by chance checked to see if it was on...and it was !!! I must be living right.
They really should have this on DVD...it's a great movie during a time in the 40's when I dont think there was a lot of movies like this out..
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Usually if it's shown on TCM there is a proper DVD release on the horizon.
We'll probably see it on one of those Film Noir Classic Collection box sets.
There are lots of good film noirs from the forties and early fifties. Check out
1. Conflict (Bogart)
2. Leave her to Heaven (Gene Tierney)
3. The Accused (Loretta Young)
4. Woman in Hiding (Ida Lupino)
5. Reckless Moment (Joan Bennett)
6. The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Bogart)
7. Dark Passage (Bogart & Bacall)
8. Out of the Past (Mitchum)
9. My Name is Julia Ross (Nina Foch)
10. The Clouded Yellow (Trevor Howard)
11. The Uninvited (Ray Milland)
12. Nightmare (1942)(Diana Barrymore)
13. Sudden Fear (Joan Crawford)
14. Sleep, my Love (Claudette Colbert)
Would you recommend this movie more so than Sleep, My Love or not as much?
shareI love "Sleep, My Love" with Claudette Colbert, but the "Unsuspected" is at least as suspenseful IMHO.
Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) directed it.
Hope this helps.
BTW you can catch both movies every year on TCM.
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It helps, thank you. I love noir, though I prefer the psychological thriller sub genre, the melodramatic, twisted minds haunted madness more so than cops, gansters, and detectives, even if it's not true noir. For instance, out of the list above, of those I've seen I most like
Conflict
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Sleep, My Love
Have you seen The Locket (Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum) and would you recommend it based on preferences above? I watch TCM but no luck catching it yet.
Thank you!
"Conflict" is my favorite Bogart movie followed by "Dark Passage" and "The Two Mrs. Carrolls".
"The Strange Love of Martha Ivers", "Witness to Murder", "Double Indemnity" and "Sorry, Wrong Number" are all great Barbara Stanwyck thrillers.
Unfortunately I have not yet watched "The Locket", will put it on my TCM Search List. Usually 2 to 4 movies from my search list are aired on TCM per year, so it takes years to finally having watched all the missing film noirs/mystery movies from the 1940's/1950's.
Two more favorites of mine are "My Name is Julia Ross" (the version with Nina Foch, ca. 1945), "Nightmare" (1942) with Brian Donlevy and Drew Barrymore's aunt, I think her name was Diana Barrymore, and the Ida Lupino thriller "Woman in Hiding".
I also enjoyed watching "Fear in the Night" (1947, with DeForrest Kelly), but think the remake from 1956 with Kevin McCarthy is a lot better, "Nightmare".
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My absolutely favorite film noir (it's available on DVD and sometimes scheduled on TCM) is "Reckless Moment" (1949, with Joan Bennett & James Mason, based on a novel) which definitely is more of a psychological thriller as is "My Name is Julia Ross" or "Woman in Waiting". None of them are a gangster movies.
"Leave her to Heaven" (Gene Tierney) and "They won't believe me" with Susan Hayward are both very atmospheric movies and so is "Storm Fear" (Cornel Wilde) which I watched repeatedly even though the ratings were not great.
Highly recommendable: "The Accused" (1949 with Loretta Young) is really very suspenseful, I later read the novel on which it's based. "Cause for Alarm" also with Loretta Young is pretty suspenseful, too.
You know that you can check for your favorite or still missing movies every month on TCM?
http://www.tcm.com/
On the right upper corner is a search function.
TCM used to disclose movies for up to 3 months in advance, but lately I couldn't find any of the movies I was looking for and even movies that I already have were not scheduled. It's very strange and such a pity that all these great websites are made worse and harder to use thanks to incompetent web designers which is so superfluous!
Instead of keeping a certain design that's working perfectly well for the users, the web designers feel the urge to mis-improve it. I wonder why TCM let them do that? Fortunately the imdb has not yet let this happen.
Here are some more:
Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (Joseph Cotton)
"Suspense" and "Framed" (1947), both with Barry Sullivan
"Impact" (1949, Brian Donlevy)
"The Unfaithful" (Ann Sheridan)
"The Uninvited" and "Ministry of Fear" (Ray Milland)
"The Woman in the Window" and "Scarlett Street" (both Joan Bennett)
"Woman on the Beach" (1947, Joan Crawford & Jeff Chandler)
"Boomerang" (1947, Dana Andrews)
"Born to Kill" (Lawrence Tierney)
"Call Northside 777" with Jimmy Stewart
not to forget "Sudden Fear" (Joan Crawford & Jack Palance) as well as "Mildred Pierce" and "Shadow on the Wall"(both Zachary Scott)
"Laura" (Gene Tierney)
"Woman on the Run" (Ann Sheridan)
"Cry Terror" (1958, James Mason & Inger Stevens)
Excellent: "House on Telegraph Hill" (1951, Richard Basehart)
You probably have seen most of these, but maybe there are a few more listed that you still don't know.
The SCHEDULE button near the top left of their main page, namely tcm.com, now has listing for up to three months ...
I never think about the future, it comes soon enough
THE UNSUSPECTED will be shown on Turner Classic Movies (USA) on early Thursday morning October 1, 2009 at 1:45 AM Eastern Time.
shareThanks! I've been trying to catch up on Joan Caulfield's films and this one was great fun (plus Michael Curtiz is my favorite director, too). I'm watching it again right now and love the camera angles and use of lighting---very good indeed.
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