Yes, for a female cop she wasn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Why wouldn't those thugs at least have known that Mrs. Neall had a son? I know she supposedly hadn't seen her husband for years, but...

I was conviced though that the fat man was a bad guy.
Why no cop downstairs so that fur collar guy couldn't just walk in and wait? There 'were' holes!


'The Killers' was a much better story. Why did a couple of thugs kill 'The Swede'? I love the early Burt Lancaster. I didn't care for the actress playing the femmme fatale. She wasn't 'bad' enough. But she was bad. Setting up that poor sucker to take the fall for stealing that money, then lambing with the brains of the outfit Colfax, and leaving The Swede to take the blame.

I didn't get to 'Zulu', so I have to recommend the 1946 version of 'The Killers'.

It is highly regarded and rated and Fleisher directed Mandingo and Soylent Green...two classics!  I was kind of disappointed.  Was that female cop the stupidest woman on the planet? Too many plot holes for me to fully enjoy it.  I laughed out loud a few times, when I wasn't supposed to.  

I watched The Naked City again (by mistake, I thought I hadn't seen it).  Jules Dassin is a great director (have you seen Rififi, Topkapi, Never on a Sunday).  A short time after this he became blacklisted and went abroad to escape HUAC.  What's funny is that The Naked City is totally pro-cop.

This was the first film made with all the exterior shots done on location in New York City so it was a real snapshot of NYC in 1948.  One of the features said it really was a picture of NYC just before television took over and everyone started staying at home, inside, in the evenings.  

Tonight - Touchez Pas Au Grisbi - French gangsters circa 1960

I will note that 'The Narrow Margin' lacked the best things in a Noir film, tension and suspense. You can really see what a good director can do with such a story, like 'The Lady Vanishes' compared to this film which had possibilities.

I'm so OC I've also rated over 1300 movies.  It's all aritrary and doesn't allow for a high B or a low C or an A+++ but then I get recommendations.  I must remember to get a life outside of watching films.  

I also like documentaries (I'll bet we wouldn't like the same ones!).  There's a series I'm watching now from Rick Steves does Europe.  I think these are from a public television series.  I watched the hill towns of Italy with lunch.  So beautiful.

I usually go six or seven at a time in my queue! Ha.

I like clicking on the description of one film and finding another that sounds good, then that leads to another one.