Vicki (1953) 

This is a remake of the 1941 Film "I Wake Up Screaming" starring Victor Mature, Betty Grable, Laird Cregar, and Carole Landis as Vicki. In the 1941 film, Elisha Cook Jr. played the role of the desk clerk played by Arron Spelling in this film. What I miss in this version is the composer Alfred Newman's [Uncle of Singer-Songwriter Randy Newman} song "Street Scene" which is the theme song of the 1941 film, played throughout the entire movie.

Ed Cornel, officer obsession towards the end - similar film 'fallen angel' 1945 starred Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Alice Faye. Thanks for the upload! Good morning! Happy Friday. 3/3/2023 London UK 🇬🇧

Great movie! Thanks so much

I thought she'd NEVER wipe that Blood off of his face! lol This is one well made movie all the way around. I can't believe Aaron Spelling was Harry. Jean Peters seemed to have a pleasant expression at first, then she looks harder, almost mean (The picture over the mantle). Great acting from a unique cast- TY!

I love when old movies opening scene is a nighttime view of bustling city streets

The way the police and the suspects are portrayed is so odd to me, looking at it from a 2023 perspective. I do wonder how accurate it is to how it was back in 1953. Thank you so much for this movie. It was really enjoyable and I didn't see the end coming at all! So surprising, who killed Vicki! Thanks again.

What? No civil rights in 1953. Never answer a cops questions.

They had wonderful interviewing techniques in those days...

A young Aaron Spelling as the killer! 😲 Wow! I wasn't surprised it was his character that did it, but I was surprised it was Aaron Spelling! I never had seen him in anything, when looking so young. That's one of the reasons I love watching the older movies, like Richard Boone and Carl Betz. Richard Boone and Carl Betz who were stars of their tv shows... Richard Boone for "Have Gun Will Travel" and Carl Betz playing Alex Stone as Donna Reed's doctor husband. Liked both in this movie, but have to admit, lived them both in their tv roles. Thanks for this one. Enjoyed it!

More than 90% of american actors died of câncer in the early ages of the movie era ( 30s 40s 50s and so on.) Due to cigarrett smoking...what a tregedy 😢

I thought a weak performance Richard Boone - he improved a lot when he got older. Enjoyed the movie, though.

A Rashomon plot structure. Noir was always "morality" plays, with often excessive retribution for choices and characters painted cynically & stereotypically. We are situational creatures, personalities appearing largely due to feeling or acting differently to different people. It's true that alcohol diminishes, narrows our responses into crude channels, as do other drugs, preventing growth. Noir varies with the emotions, moods, and persistent chatacter traits of writers and directors. If their perceptions are stultified by religion, by reactions to past personal experiencesand frictions. Thus retributive plots - revenge et cetera, vary enormously. Some Puritanical, others more empathically tragic. That detective who wanted the case sounds like a younger Have gun will travel actor - Richard Boone i think. Watching movies since covid, one becomes familiar with long-ago screen actors. Boone always acts out a similar laconic reticent cynical character.Some seek broad ranges of characters, others bring the same persona - the word means mask, used in Rome & Greece for theater parts - like simple mask. But it is film noir morality plays, that is unique as a style of that period. Black & white, claustrophobic, except for the few performers who suggest depth even when scripts and direction force them into weird cell or closetlike packaging. We so often see people who so remind us of those we encountered as a child, imputing traits on them they do not possess. This rather tragic stereotyping runs beneath our conscious attention, and we sometimes, like police, make grave mistakes concerning others. Some noir does, is intended to, expose this nonconscious fact.

I love me some Richard Boone, but I truly hate him right now.

Is police tactic of bright lamp, dark room, really so bad ? Far safer than knee on neck....

Lost interest within the first 15 minutes and suspected I would after the body was wheeled out with shoes on.

Axe Boone is that his nose or is he eating a banana

Hate the police brutality!

The good old days when victims had more rights than suspects! Ha

As if he can come in his room while he's sleeping.

Also Carl Betz who would later co-star in the Donna Reed show.

Gosh, the actresses of this era were just so breathtakingly beautiful. 😮 what a wonderful film, thankyou so much for uploading all these treasures!!❤

So Vicky and the columnist played a couple in the movie “Niagara”. Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotton were in the picture also.

Aaron Spelling at 1.16.41 became a multi-millionaire t.v. producer: he even married Julie Andrews*. It proves that you can look like a loser and still come out on top. * that should have been Carolyn Jones,of course: another 'producer' got Julie.

What a great little gem on my current noir spree. Jeanne Crain is always great. Thank you so much for sharing.

Wow ! Great movie. Thanks

Chris T your channel is excellent. Keeping me very entertained. This is another good one. 30 January 2023

Very clean movie with good language no vulgarness.

I always got these two “Jean” actresses mixed up. Now I see they’re playing sisters here. I just know one was with Howard Hughes.

I love it when the story is told from different perspectives and then a really quirky ending lie this one. Thank you, Chris, for this great movie!!

I need to watch more Richard Boone movies. I couldn't stand the role he played but he played it well.

I like these movies because of simple story lines, no violence no vulgarity and no horrified scenes. Good and great old movies.

What a twist 😮

Excellent remake of the 1941 film "I Wake Up Screaming" (or "Hot Spot") starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, and Carole Landis. I love the two films, except for the role of Cornel, played in '41 by Laird Cregar, much more impressive than Richard Boone, as talented as this one was. Never actresses were more beautiful than during the 40's and 50's : make up, hair dressing, clothes, the way they walked, and talked, and smiled, everything was pefect. Jeanne Crain is particularly seducing here. Thank you very much.

.... Love the nice touch, in the movie theater, from LAURA, playing the interrogation scene of Detective Mark MacPherson (Dana Andrews) on Laura (Gene Tierney) ... no need to show the scene - seen Laura so many times I think I have memorized the entire script! ... don't think it was accidental. Laura had the leading lady at least dead at the beginning and the killer, Waldo Lydeker (Clifton Webb) obsessed with her.

Jean Peters looks so much like Vivien Leigh, it's uncanny.

Wow. Another fantastic story.

Great film noir.

I knew Harry had murdered Vikki when he was seeing her sister into the taxi and the doll fell on the ground .

This is a remake of I wake up screaming

Gonna watch all the movies from your first download to the Now... Only problem is time.... Makes me get lost in the past and free from the present... Thanks

Another great one on your channel! Thank you!

What a movie... Love these old films. Good is good, bad is bad. To help people is right,to kill people is wrong. Women are women: feminine, gentle, caring. Men are men: strong, brave, masculine. What has happened to the world nowadays? Sometimes looking at an online catalogue it's difficult to say who is in the photo, m/f? The "heroes" of the modern films are maniacs, murderes, robbers, frauds... Sometimes I feel lost in a jungle

The cop was a psycho and very annoying 😑

Thanks for sharing another great film!

I last watched this film over 40 years ago on TV , and had faded memories who of the killer was . Interesting to watch again , and a very clean print ! Thanks .

Great film noir 🙂📺

Richard Boone was really creepy and ugly in this movie; I miss Paladin (Have Gun Will Travel.)

"It's very quiet here"......and then she bangs on the bell 5 times.

Great movie. Two good looking dames. I noticed Gus in the net from Leave it to Beaver. ha Where was Aaron Spelling? I didnt notice him.

Tysvm any chance of "Laura" 😉💋

Gosh that sadistic police detective. Can such character exist in the American police? Also he suddenly changing from a tough guy to a pathetic imbecile at the end. Totally unconvincing ending.

John Dehner and Richard Boone both appeared as "Paladin" on "HAVE GUN- WILL TRAVEL"- Dehner on radio (1958-'60), Boone on TV (1957-'63).

Thank you so much..!

Between the two, I prefer I Wake Up Screaming. The biggest reason is because the superior cinematography. However, I prefer the more serious tone of this film. The earlier movie goes a little too heavy on comedy.

Richard Boone could play a good guy or a bad guy with such relative ease.

Thanks love the implied meaning and inferences in the film. I suppose it reflects the times it was made in.

I enjoyed this movie. Glamour Gal recommended 😂

Outstanding film noir drama played by first-class actors. Thanks C.T.

Jeanne Crain was a underrated In Hollywood,

That creepy cop sure breaks a lot of laws.

Excellent!

I am here as a favourite guesst 👍

I remember that I’ve watched this movie before and I hated the way Richard Boone kept slapping the guy around and saying that they all knew that he had killed the girl 👧 so why didn’t he just go ahead and admit it. That was just plain mean and I think 🤔 part of the reason he was doing it was because he was jealous of the guy because he was so good looking. 😱😱😱😳😳😳😡😡😡

That cop, oy!

I love film noir and all of your offerings, Chris...but this was a truly weird one, lol.

Thx Chris T.

This rocked. Twisty AF

I gave up and bought it. Know all the lines just like The Big Sleep that I bought the DVD for and converted to mp4.

This really had me stumped. i just couldn't figure out who killed Vicki!

Great cast!

Burt Mustin had a walk on part as bellboy in the very beginning. He looked like an old man back then. He lived another 24 years and had appearances in 'Leave it to Beaver', 'Dragnet', 'All in the Family', etc.

Great movie!

Richard Boone really played his part well. He was so despicable it was so easy to dislike the guy. Great old movie. I watched before a few years ago but I'd forgotten a lot. Well written, directed and acted.

R Boone made a good bad guy, but I wish he would have been the “good guy that got the girl”once in a while.

I wake up screaming after reading too many comments. You will hear me tonight.

Ah, the good ol' days, when police knew how to deal with "suspects". 😄

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Seen it a while back.

I really like the movie Niagara….this one too

Missing 44DD carol Landis hi kicking in a string bikini

فيلم رائع، شكرا ❤

Oops 🙊. I just saw Richard Boone pick up the paper and see where the girl had been murdered. I remember that I had already watched it and sure didn’t want to suffer through that again. 😳😳😳😱😱😱😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

know it, but enoyed it again

Love @jenn comment ✅

Thanks babe

Poor remake of I wake up screaming!

Poor guy. Crazy 😜 as a bed 🛌 bug 🐜. 🤪🤪🐜🐜

Was that James Wood?

Suboptimal trash remake. Better wit lard stevens