Director: Edgar G. Ulmer Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William In this classic Film Noir directed by the great Edgar G. Ulmer, a young man's dreams of death and destruction begin to come true!
hey, wow, you grew up in the 40"s? that makes you in your 80's ! Congrats! I was born 1950! realizing "we are born with a death sentence, and life is the executioner! This spring find myself wondering" how many more do I get?" Going check out this movie just from your comment Hey,. folks with Bibles -try living what it says! Let's all be Kinder ?
@@kindredspirit3875 Hey fool without Bible, who the hell are you to instigate? Start by following your own advice, jerk. You're too old to be so stupid, hypocrite.
Film Noir films are wonderful to immerse yourself in. With far less money to make a movie due to war, & financial depression, film makers had to be more creative with special effects. Strange Illusion had a very detailed script, which really engages the viewer. Without spoiling the end, you're still left with some questions, that needs your own imagination to complete the story.
Exceptionally clever film. To me unknown director and actors, but what a great flick and screenplay! Congrats on finding this treasure and posting it. Many thanks!
This is the second time I watched this. The film is full of emotion, especially in the first part. I could actualy feel it. Wonderful. Films nowadays don't know how to do this well.
One reason I love these old movies is when the night scenes look really dark, with just enough moonlight to tell what's going on. Nowadays there's always stagelights that make the whole production look fake as can be !
I enjoyed this movie so much. Thank you. It brought back a memory of a dream I had years ago. One night I had a dream I was in a room without walls and it was completely white as if I was in a cloud. But there was a baby basinet in the middle of this white. I was worried and so sad about the baby. As I went close to the basinet my dad was standing beside me. He said don’t be sad because the baby is well taken care of. The next morning when I went to work I forgot about the dream, but I got a phone call from my best friend’s husband. He told me his wife, my friend, had a miscarriage the night before. She was 7 months pregnant, My dad had died 5 years before. He stood beside me in my dream to comfort me and I knew her baby was, as he said, is well taken care of.
Thank you so much for that . I was in deep dark place after being a victim to an assault -being held -left for dead. closer i was to not getting back i would have a dream: my adult son would be a naked child about 7 ahead of me silently pointed the way we were walking in water in nearly darkness -in the forest- knew somehow i knew in the dream and when i awoke i was going get me back . in awake life could not get out -could not see humans for nearly year. -only to God could i speak. would only get out in the night darkness .in the forest -like in the dreams - with God 's help only not drugs or humans it was 15 year ago. It was medicine to my soul /and body ! you get strong even in your 50's hiking in high country rocky mts.
James Lyndon (Paul Cartwright) was 22 when this 1945 movie was made. He began as a child actor in the 1930s with one early starring role in 1940 in Tom Brown's School Days. He worked in movies and all major TV series and helped create 77 Sunset Strip and M*A*S*H. Now 96 (2019), Lyndon continued to act well into the 1980s in shows such as Lou Grant, Simon and Simon and St Elsewhere. Although rarely out of work in his long career he never became the major star that he early career suggested he might.
Thanks Russell G for the info. Its so much more interesting to know backgrounds, etc about a movie. Of course reading Replies first can put one in danger of finding out the ending. I just hate that! 😬
James J. Lydon was born in 1923 an American actor & television producer. He started acting in 1932 aged nine first part was that of 'Danny' in the Broadway play Weston Waters. He's the fifth of nine children, he now ninety-eight.
Except where he tried to kiss her under water at the pool. Seems to be a bit of a stretch to be able to do it, still it was an unwanted sexual advance so it constitutes a form of assault today.
@@thenorthernspinozist397 only because many people today have lost their damn minds, common sense and revel in bein a victim of one sorts or another. in other words, they have turned into complete and utter idiots.
@@billwilliamson9842 Sexual assault is real. The difference is today we are talking and doing something about it. In those days it was not talked about or was simply alluded to. But it did go on as it always has. This is my point and it is progress for BOTH genders, but it is a particular benefit to women in general.
God bless Jimmy Lydon at 94 years, I used to watch the Henry Aldrich movies in the 1970's, Saturday mornings in Chicago If my memory serves me correctly, I believe he made quite a few......
👍🏿 this movie was great, sometime our dreams tell us a lot. Most people dismiss them as nothingness, but in my life I have learn to pay attention to mine, because some of them have saved my life.
Thank you for sharing. People use to dress so smart back then. Jimmy Lyon's Career began as a teenager in the 1930's. At this writting he is living in Bonita, CA. Regis Toomey started as a singer until actue laryngitis damaged his throat (08/13/1898 - 10/12/1991. Warren William was nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code. (12/ 02/1894 - 09/24/1948). He was married to his wife (17 years his senior) from 1923 until his death. Happy viewing from Las Vegas, NV 10/08/2018
Thanks for nice old films. サナトリウムだったんですね。あの鏡はマジックミラーでこちらからは鏡だが，向こう側からこちらが監視できる。ぞっとする場面です。In the sanitarium room, his own jacket being hung on the mirror, suddenly some figure appears to stand beyond the one-way mirror. So frightening! I found many such surveillance systems used from scene to scene. that kind of society is really all horrible. そういう場面が多数取り入れられた興味深い映画でした。内容はもちろん面白いですが，監視社会の恐怖を感じることができました。感謝です。この時代に鉄枠のゲートが自動だったのには驚きです。
That beautiful mansion was another loss to LA. It was torn down out of greed to subdivide the estate for lesser mansions. That house was a true treasure. We only saw the outside. The insides were a stage set. The real inside of the house was baronial. It even had a pipe organ. So sad how we waste beautiful hand made things in America. We don’t give them a chance to become 800 years old as in Europe.
David Bell such a shame , especially when in America everything is relatively new . In Europe we have aqueducts from Roman times in perfect state and still working ...😲
Love those cars when USA made.. you could slide across to the drivers side. too bad the auto manufacturers are now owned and ruled by Japanese mode. Thank you for the film It really got to me.
Great flick for a small and shoestring B or C production. Agree there hands down. That said, I would hate to see a remake. These days they would include CGI and all manner of mindless violence. We're all very lucky to have this copy: Internet, current mindset, clothes, media, etc would make it preposterous today.
While knocked out, he had another premonition dream - obviously, this would be coming true: that his mother was fine and had her friend with her, and he and his girlfriend go forward happy together. Happy ending.
Enjoyed this film very much. The sound on the 2nd half I found muffled n difficult to hear correctly. Loved the suspense n shadows.....of film noire genre! Well worth watching, in my opinion.
Best film I ve seen on your channel. If film noir course will be taking place this autumn at New England Conservatory ,I will plan on having this shown
Humanity's questions are answered on the Cross of Calvary: 'Forgive them because they don't know what they do' or 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' Want to know what to do? Do you want to be supported? 'For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son of him, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.'
unusual psychological Noir that's a Hamlet update complete with widow, criminal boyfriend, detective son who is sent to a sanatorium to "cure" him of his "hallucinations" about the murder of his father.
A very suspenseful and intriguing film. A very enjoyable picture from beginning to end. I'm pretty sure the bank president was Perry White, future editor of "The Daily Planet". Guess he left the boring world of high finance for the thrilling world of editing?
Very interesting that noir started in Germany ,Cabinet Journey to California and traveled to west France Claude Chabrol changed costumes ,characters becoming more polite on the surface .le Boucher ,merci pour. Le chocolate
One point this movie makes that is as true today as it was in Plato's time, there are users and people that are (or can be), used. Point or moral of this story "love whom you want BUT watch whom you marry. Stay alert and look for signs, but be happy.
Agreed , The movies today are junk, lousy actors, political correctness, I hate it. I have plenty of old movies to watch and re watch on RU-vid and DVDs and take me away from this 21st century hellhole.
Bull crap! The old days were better days has been sung by the sirens by every aging generation remembering the good old days. Great movies out there. Get off your azz
@@winmancan8374 Yes, each generation says the good old days, however, this generation of the millennials onwards will not be saying that....because you have nothing to compare it to! Only gets worse and it's already worse starting with your generation!! most of you don't think about the effects and influence you have on others especially the younger no values, no morals these days it's anything but goes, eh?
About 59:20 the volume decreased so low that I couldn't hear what was being said. An hour into the movie, and I suddenly felt like I had wasted the last hour for nothing. I had to synchronize my phone with my computer to hear the last 25 minutes. What a pain in the behind.
Quite unusual movie& I agree w other stated review,it was slow-going@ first but as it progressed pace of movie picked up! Thanks4 Sharing this interesting film,PizzaFlix!
The acting wasn't that great in the beginning - I dunno' seems like they were reading script without much feeling. However, it became more real as it moved along. I enjoyed it! Your channel is great - finds these unheard of classic movies and I so enjoy them. Thanks again and again for these gems from days gone by.
Not sure why they put this one under the genre of film noir?, I am kind of a film noir buff and fan of the Crime Drama, I probably would have labled this one differently.....
I think it is, although with a teenage lead. Shadows and light are there, a feeling of deep mistrust and paranoia (the new man in the family is the murderer of the father - or does the boy just make this up in his mind?). And Edgar G. Ulmer, the director of DETOUR.
