cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/9036783

Film Noir

Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton

Annoying whistle sound, intermittently.

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Film Noir 101, one of the best of the genre: a near-perfect blend of melodrama, pacing, atmosphere and hard-boiled dialogue. The entire production careens just over the edge of “over-the-top”. Neville Brand’s Chester is iconic! If you’ve seen it, see it again because you’ve surely forgotten how good this movie is. If you haven’t, well, you know what you have to do.

N.B.: The audio on this copy isn’t great and suffers much like today’s tone-deaf cinema: barely audible then deafening. You’ve been warned. The “annoying whistle sound” mentioned in the original post is a (supposedly) incidental wolf whistle in the actual movie soundtrack.