Undertow (1949) Film noir 

I agree.

Spot on.

Amen

Exactly the same with me!

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lots of old de Sotos and LaSalles

Ouiiiii je vous rejoins pour les éloges tous les bons sentiments sont au rendez-vous Merci beaucoup

Men who look and act like men. Women who look and act like women.

I feel the same way! nothing like a good classic movie. It's unfortunate we don't have quality scriptwriters, directors and actors like we once did back in the golden Hollywood glamour era. We have just a very few in todays age.

@@LUIS-ox1bv 100 %, unlike today, you're not sure which one it is, lol

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I was born that year

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Until we meet them again

@@1946luke 💙🕊

Most movies today really do insult the intelligence of some people. Juvenile, highly predictable, and even obnoxious at times.

@@JOHNTHEWHISK Unwatchable to me.🙄🙃

I was thinking about that as I watched. Everyone dressed up back then. These days, we're all slobs lol

It was such a wonderful time, the style was was classy. The women the clothes the cars the music. Would love to visit that year and stay a while.

That was the year I was born. When sex was dirty and the air was clean.

When I was little, my mum and I wore white gloves if we went downtown on the bus in the summer. Dressing up made it more of an occasion.

I hate white gloves. I remember when I was young my mother made me wear them,even on hot days, on special occasions. I loved my mother. She was a great person,but this was not on. I'm glad when it fell out of favour.

I know the feeling !

And they don't take their clothes off! Especially when I'm wishing they'd leave them on, which is most of the time.

True. And regarding clothes, the 'dress code' of the time was really something. I wonder if this will ever return to modern day style, it would be nice. Something to be said for civility and good manners. Golden Years 🎵

No CGI

@@lemorab1 love you lemorab1 need more ppl like you in the world.

all the comments below correct, as for the clothing - no words to describe the difference between than and how ppl dress today.

Me too.

born in 44 travelled extensively lived in chgo east erie st off michigan with first ex wife i agree with u well stated

I also was born in 1955. We had movies like this on TV on Sunday afternoon! You and I could be penpals. I’m in Australia, Melbourne! Xxx Sandra Hall

"Downhill" is the perfect word...............by what be seen just about anywhere. Just a short, greasy ride to the "bottom".

You and me both!

This was the year I was born. I remember the clothes styles and cars from my toddler days. Simpler times for sure. It's nice to see an African American actor with a fair-sized role here--unusual in those days.

Same here. Just like my parents.. the conversation, clothes...

@@lawsonj39 And not the stereotypical role of that era, I noticed the same thing during the film. Also to your comment regarding the clothes styles and cars. (born 1950 here)

Born 1949. I am so grateful for these old movies. It helps keep me sane in Clown World.

Love, love the outside shots of the outside in these older films. It does take you back to the look and feel of life in that era quite successfully.

Everybody's a critic

@@dizzman5546 I Wish .

A good summary without giving away the plot

@@lambdalambdalambda257 given the pathetic standard of today’s ‘critics for cash’ they actually could be. I’ve never seen critics of today so out of step with what the audience like- because they are too busy crawling up Hollyweirds back passage ‘message’ films.

Radio is it kind of propagande .. Tell me please.

Old movies are always great! Its the new ones that suck.

Sky~ I'm going to take your advice. I love old movies. Have you seen "Too Late for Tears" starring Lizabeth Scott? If not, toss the dice, as I promise you will be dazzled by this beauty. 💲

@@gregoriopalofuego9808 Love that ~ 🎲🎲🎲🎥🎞️🍿🎲🎲🎲

Looks like a great place in the 50s.

The Palmer House was in a Monkees song called 'Don't Call on Me', as part of the intro. This movie is the only other time I've heard it referenced, in 50 years.

@@terencejay8845 Yes !! Yes !!! It sure was; one on their biggest albums feature that song by Mike Nesmith !!

@@timklein3962 Micky does a voice intro in to the song as though it's either on radio or as compere. 'And now, from from the magnificent Palmer House high over Chicago..' I still have all their albums on vinyl.

@@terencejay8845 In the film The Music Man, Prof Harold Hill asks a local man if he can recommend a good hotel, and the man replies, "Try the Palmer House in Chicago!"

She had retired after only three years in the business and got married and raised five Sons.

No. And her real name was Varnadow.😀

@@Mercmad good clean story thank u

It's 2024 now and Peggy Dow is apparently still alive at 96!

@@peterpiper7441 She is still fabulous. Just accompanied her with friends to the Edith Head Costume exhibit at the OKC Museum last week! She is amazing!

I'm with you!

Cuz they are awesome!

Craft

Thanks @MsAnna47

Shut the door and enjoy normal stuff!

I prefer the proostitute looking broad to the wifey looking one.

"Safe"? What in hell is that supposed to mean? All those "nice" dresses, and even gloves on a hot summer's day. Ridiculous.

very true i share you comment

That would be funny if someone would redo The Cheap Detective

Ha ! Yes ! And they always get a parking spot right in front of the building they want to enter ! Only in Hollywood ! 😂

Huge population explosion since that time and immigration to the U.S. running at about 1 million per year for the last 40-50 years, so it was inevitable that we just don't have that kind of space anymore.

Thank you for the insightful comment @ShakespeareCafe

Yes even though this is still a hollywood set and location.

Looks like the backlot at Universal Studios was pretty realistic looking.

Glad you enjoyed it @DrMatey215

I had a feeling "Miss Lee" was up to no good from the moment she picked up he phone.

Someday in the near future people will pine and long for the days of, Covid masks, lockdowns, Communists rigged elections, Race riots, filthy language, military occupation of the capitol, senile and lunatic leaders and they’ll be sorry they don’t have the brains to appreciate how dumb they have become.

@@roberteckert As you're "dumb" enough to believe the 'rigged election' lie. For "filthy language", look no further than Donald and Melania Trump.

@@roberteckert You are Brilliant !!! I agree one million percent !!!!!

The look was a giveaway

Thank you. I saw Roc Hudson in the cast but missed his scene. Good eye my fellow old movie enthusiast!@

Nice Noir movie! Peggy Dow is in her nineties and still with us in 2021!

You will enjoy Peggy Dow in Bright Victory even more if you haven't seen it. Knockout for sure.

@@mebeingU2 wow who knew.

Totally agree. It is great acting by the entire cast. Great film.

Scott Brady born ( Gerard Kenneth Tierney ). Brother of Lawrence Tierney.

Absolutely Erik.

I especially noticed it in this film..lots of good street shots

Erik Hertzer No McDonald's, Starbucks, KFC or GMO none of those horrible leggings that fat girls wear. There was style then for the men and women, now they will wear any old rags. Purple hair, green hair, pink hair blue hair. No class.

Barbara Crickley : indeed...our culture has increased in technology but decreased in quality. One could do a thesis on the reasons why...

This was right after WWII. Food was rationed, sugar, eggs and butter were almost impossible to get during the war. There were also no fast food joints on every corner like today.

Indubitably !

Cool. You will!

Films like this got my wife and I though the early days of the lockdown. Things have eased up a bit, but the movies are still great.

So true! Hope you're VACCINATED. 😀

Hope you got through it like a summer breeze. Happy Thanksgiving.

12/2022 just found this film and diving in.

Indeed!!

They had another actor brother. But Lawrence was more handsome.

Tierney was the security guard in that Simpsons episode where Bart stole the video game.. Catfish 🤣🤣

Lawrence Tierney was a tough-guy off-screen as well as on celluloid (didn't he throw someone out of a window ?): he certainly played believable killers.

Lawrence Tierney was very difficult to work with and quite the alcoholic. Which probably explains why he never married

no relation to gene tierney?

Me too Kevin.

What month I was born in 49 July.

@@alandehn8541 Me too..April.

@@annapurna2389 I was in 52, January, any good. ???.

I’m a 49 model also. All kinds of great movies on the late late show

I was born in 47, December

Rock Hudson was such a handsome man.

One of Scott's brothers was Lawrence Tierney who was also a good actor.

Brady is also outstanding in another famous film-noir: He Walked By Night (1948) with Richard Basehart and a young pre-Dragnet Jack Webb.

Brady was good in The Model and the Marriage Broker, vehicle for Jeanne Crain but Thelma Ritter and a crazy support cast including Zero Mostel, Nancy Culp ( Miss Jane) and Frank Fontaine ( Crazy Guggenheim) steal the show. But Brady, and the equally unappreciated Michael O'Shea are rock solid.

@@9284vr Lawrence Tierney was a good actor but could have been a great actor had it not been for his off screen behavior which was uneccessary

I think the cops wore suits not suites, too big to carry around.

No bad words, or nasty comments. Classy movie.

yes I was curious bout HUDSON, and that John Russell who was in westerns later as in a small role in Rio Bravo and one of his last roles- as that leader of guys in trenchcoats gunning after CLINT EASTWOOD at end of Pale Rider

@@michaelceraso1977 Yeah, and Bruce Bennet was in Treasure of the Sierra Madre and a couple of noir films.

@@nominalegg5865 yes Bennet had that subdued way of talking, He just was a few notches below leading man

I missed him. Where was he in the film?

@@andrewfrancis7272 54:45

I thought so too Bubby.

@@BrokenTrout Peggy Dow is still alive as of today Dec 4th 2021.

Peggy Dow is so charming. She had five boys - it's easy to understand how.

wow you are highly articulate about fashion design!

Thank you Mike. Sometimes I think I am inflicting these instead of sharing them. this film is very special though @Mike S

@@BrokenTrout Not at all, I love these films, the lack of special effects, the straight talk, the sets: cars, clothes, architecture, and the morals, these are works of art.

I love these classic films!

She was the nurse in the movie Harvey

Turned 93 last Thursday (March 18th).

@@Ace1King1 Not so hot now, sadly.

Yes, but many disappeared during my years between 1980 and 2008. The city, especially during the Daley seniors reign, waa hellbent on eradicating its past, that much was bulldozed into oblivion. Miracle much of it survived.

And little Bobby Hyatt as "Teddy"!

Peggy Dow as the ultimate prize would suit me just fine!

Wonder if Hudson was dating his party line & she was unaware & blond.

Big part of how the film engages, so little dialogue needed for long stretches of stellar camera work

Ditto !

I thought the same thing at first, but if you listen to the intercom announcement of the flight in Reno it mentions the UAL flight to Salt Lake City connecting with the flight out of SLC to Chicago and New York. So, I guess they transferred to the DC-6 at Salt Lake.

Peggy Dow 😍🥰😍🥰😍🤩😘🥰😍

Or lounge pants @Hannah McCarthy

or wearing pijamas at Walmart!

There are two reasons why i think i was born late: 1. i absolutely LOVE the 40's. fashion, where people dressed nicely, just to go out of the house. LOVE the clothes, the cars, the polite language; 2. Technology does not seem to like me at all, and back in the 40's, there wasn't a lot of technology around. Lol. Thank you Broken Trout, for giving us something worth watching, without cringing at the ridiculously foul language or sex scenes!

@@helainegaray8205 Even the accents were more mellifluous then. Something has made a large section of American voices terribly grating, whereby they don’t open their mouths sufficiently to pronounce vowels and so on. Or they sound like they are sloppily masticating while speaking. It’s most off-putting! But yes, like you I cleave to the forties. (And to the thirties, really) Perfect style, and one that’ll probably never return now that leisurewear has infected us! :-)

@@helainegaray8205 you must also remember this is a movie not real life. Ppl cussed, swore, and did everything ppl do today except the clothes. Movies were made in those days to escape reality. But now they're made as reality.

I agree but not a hope . Hollywood today seems to attract the most ghastly calibre of people , plus the studio heads have been replaced by investors and accountants , all money driven. Long gone the days when authors of note were contracted as script writers, actors had to adhere to strict rules of behaviour and conduct , at least be seen publicly , to be upholding values of morality , decency and good conduct . And no politics allowed. Today, led by number crunchers , they’re a bunch of self serving, unintelligent , often unintelligible, uneducated , uneducable crowd representing and encouraging the anarchic breakdown of society. The endless stream of guff churned out , the loss and lack of scripts and stories worthy has been replaced by a stream of sewage containing filled with repugnant violence and filthy language. On a better day , guff and rubbish , so simplistic and superficial - all indicative of the dreadful drop in standards and dumbing down of education , decency and discipline. And then there is Disney . Until and unless there is a return to the much mocked and derided attempted values of yesterday - no hope.

Impossible today. We are too far gone.

I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !

Yes Uncle Johnny it is a rather unknown noir but a high quality one. Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it.

Someone else says it's around 54 -- only like 16 lines.

Your welcome TheYorkshirelady. The only credit I can take is sharing the film, Universal and Scott Brady did the hard part. Thank you for the lovely comment.