Femme Fatale Noir With A Twist | Blonde For A Day (1946) | Retrospective 

I love the gritty picture quality, the dream-like pace, the fleeting conversations, the pretty women, the non-descript interiors, the robust cars, and the hard-boiled men each with a fitting hat and suit - in other words, the perfect film noir

Loved that motorcycle cop at about 1:55 in the film. An old Harley-Davidson starting on the first kick? No way.

Clear print. Enjoyable film and casting. The 1930s,40s and 50s had the wises cracks peppered in the scripts , happy days. Thank you for sharing.

Love the way everyone, including the goons, wear their suits fully buttoned up, even while fighting.

The superintendant of the apartment building getting hit by the door when the police chief opened it! Also, loved the doorman! 😂

Just what I like and Hugh Beaumont, too!! Thank you, Retrospective!!😊

Love these old cars. Hollywood doesn’t make good movies like this.

The most convoluted & confusing movie I've seen in awhile. I kept waiting for Eddie Haskell to show up. Glad it was only 67 minutes long. At my age all movies should only be 67 mins long.

Great oldie - got everything ... guns, humour, etc 😀😀

That was great. "I hope this wraps it up, I'm getting dizzy"

I loved 🥰 it back when beautiful printed wallpaper was so popular. Now the walls are mostly just painted.

Here's something for police buffs and for those who are on 'the other side': Shayne mentions changing barrels on that automatic pistol. However, the way to handle that is to get a spare barrel, use THAT one to do whatever is to be done, dispose of THAT one, put the original barrel back in the gun, and then rest easy. As for the mark on the shell casing from the extractor claw, that in and of itself is 'insufficient evidence'. Indeed, rest easy.

S Mariposa Los Angeles, the Avenue they drove up towards the end of the film, actually exists. Though if it’s the original it’s slightly different now. Nice Avenue.

A great movie thanks for the upload 💞😊😀👌👍👏👌⭐✨

Love the clothes, the suave wise-cracks, the impeccable manners.

29:18 the light through those plants make up a creepy looking face.

Great to see the Beaver's dad before his TV career.

It's Beaver's dad, Mr.Cleaver!

Good one. Loved that last punch. Thanks

Good movie. I saw it on another channel not long ago. Thanks for the upload!

Ilove hearing those old phones ringing..they bring back old memories!!!😊

Hugh Beaumont made a pretty entertaining P.I. and had several fun half-hour episodes in the "Pier 23" series. Then he traded it in for a pipe & an easy chair on 'Leave it to Beaver'. @22:24, that looks like George E. Stone, "The Runt" from "Boston Blackie", but this flick doesn't show up in his filmography.

❤ the love 😘 and kindness of others 💓 awesome

⭐⭐Baylor School salutes Hugh Beaumont, Class of 1930.⭐⭐

Young Mr. Cleaver!

Many thanks for this film. i enjoy Hugh Beaumont movies. Really liked the very pretty and interesting piece of jewelry his secretary was wearing...with the chain and brooches, or perhaps one of the brooches was a watch? Nice idea. i wonder whatever happened to it!

Great movie

"hey wally , I didn't know pop was a detective" "don't tell mom beav" "uh , ok wally"

His secretary caused The Honeymooners Trixie to flash before my eyes there for minute!!

Mike Shayne's Girl Friday here is actually Hugh's wife.

The only intelligent comments made here are "Poverty Row Cinema" and "That was great"...clearly no one else weighing in has much on their minds. For a postwar B programmer, probably made on the run in less than 2 weeks, this is a surprisingly efficient effort. While no treasure dredged up from the ocean floor - no "Detour" nor "Blonde Ice"....this is a fun little detective noir. But I'm guessing most of the watchers will be drawn by their nostalgic memories of bland 1950s TV fare. Worth a watch if mainly because it's clear that this was the kind of effort Vincent Minnelli was lovingly celebrating when Jonathan Shields and Fred Amiel were cranking out THEIR programmers at the rate of 2 per month. And if you don't know what I'm referring to, move along, please. Professional, nicely crafted, well paced. Good find.

I wonder if June knew Ward was such a player in his past.

Chiaroscuro eh? Could you shed some light on that?

What if I say. The Lady Refuses. Now Gift the Reimbursement

What's the point of having a cop outside the door if he isn't going to do his job and stop people from entering the room he's assigned to guard? Then the nurse says she isn't supposed to tell information about the patient to anyone but family but she still tells to a guy who identifies himself only as, "his best friend." 🙄

I can't say I followed the plot as far as the culprit went. Hugh Beaumont was quite quippy in these old noir yarns. I guess they asked him to pull it back by the time he was Beaver Cleaver's Dad.

Good movie, but why does the description say there's a female reporter?

I liked the part where Shayne jumps out of the moving car and where he is punched in the face but has no bruises or black eye.

Kathyrn Adams was a lovely lady, his real wife and was in alot of movies

Great dialogue!!! Marge was murdered. I'll be combing cops out of my hair for a week!!!!

Watched

Lot et Garrone. My love 💓 Home 🏡 from Cedar

Poverty Row Cinema

The bay bridge was so empty 😮. Why make a city for a few people

B movies or Films Noirs were second billed on a movie theater marquee enabling a large cast of character/supporting actors/actresses to remain gainfully employed in "poverty row" studios along with screenwriters, producers, editors, cinematographers, makeup) hair people, costume/set designers & directors. I'm used to Lloyd Nolan as Mike Shayne; Hugh Beaumont is a less muscular, too gentlemanly version of the smart alec dick.

Is Dame Mae Fishman in this one?

Either Hugh Beaumont's girl was really tall, like 5'11" or Hugh was short for a man.

Errr... talk about a complicated plot!

A many a twice a fortnight watch

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A commercial within 14 seconds..bye

for nostalgia reasons people love watching this but take away nostalgia its just plain boring movie, please post movies that have a good story, thanks

kinda boring