Shockproof (1949): hownos/allaby viewing session
 

6:45 pm Eastern

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Looking forward to it. Shockproof is available on Youtube and is directed by the legendary Douglas Sirk. I have seen 11 of his films.

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Cornel Wilde in the lead is the biggest name in this.
Character actors Russell Collins and Howard St John I recognize

Sam Fuller was one of the writers.

I've seen 7 Cornel Wilde films.

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I haven't seen Patricia Knight in anything before.

i don't know her at all.

She was only in 5 films and 1 episode of a tv show.

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started

Me too.

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looks like a femme fatale movie

That was my first thought. Oh no, a sexy dame! Watch out!;)

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Picture quality looks very good.

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She's not allowed to drink alcoholic beverages! No fun!

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"You've got to change your brand of men."

she was married to wilde

"I'm the one who gets spanked."

Naughty!

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shared washrooms

Interesting. They got divorced two years after making this film.

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so the doc is a psychiatrist?

Maybe she multitasks. They couldn't afford two separate doctors, so she does it all.

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wesson looks like a young robert mitchum

Charles Bates who played Tommy is still alive and has been married to the same woman since 1958.

I wonder why Patricia Knight didn't do more films.

he was in shadow of a doubt

He was in 43 films, including The Song of Bernadette (1943) and The Curse of the Cat People (1944). I've only seen 4 films he was in. Shadow of a Doubt was the best film he was in out of what I have seen.

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i don't think parole officers would go on dates with parolees today

Probably not. It seems unlikely even back then.

If you take a wayward woman to the movies and buy her ice cream, she will turn from her ways and go straight.

I wonder what movie they saw.

The kid brother has a crush on the sexy bad lady. But who can blame him?

must be cool to still be alive and watching this. a whole different world

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Fun fact: In many of Sam Fuller's screenplays he features a main character named "Griff", including in The Naked Kiss (1964), The Baron of Arizona (1950), House of Bamboo (1955), Forty Guns (1957), and The Big Red One (1980). Griff was the name of a soldier Fuller served with in the U.S. Army and who was killed overseas during World War 2.

fuller loved message movies. there has to be a message in this one

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it's strange how they are married in real like and haven't had a kissing scene.

"Excuse me while I push Humpty Dumpty off his wall"

That's a good line! I wonder if this is the only film noir that references Humpty Dumpty or if there are others.

Yeah, that's kind of funny. Maybe they will have a steamy kissing scene later.

This guy must be the worst parole officer ever.

he got in real deep

You got to watch out for those pretty ladies!

There's that kiss we were looking for.

i think i know why the marriage didn't last

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the bad guy comes through for some reason.

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The ending feels like a bit of a cop out and isn't quite believable.

it has a 6.5 rating. i would give it a 5.5.

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Evidently they rewrote the ending and it was different in the original script. From imdb: Director Douglas Sirk signed on to make this film on the basis of Sam Fuller's original screenplay, which was called "The Lovers" and ended in a shoot-out. Co-producer Helen Deutsch rewrote the script and added a cop-out ending Sirk disliked. He later said Deutsch's script changes ruined the film by depriving it of the sense of doom in Fuller's original story.

I give it a 6/10.

that explains a lot

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It would have worked better with a darker ending. Film noir isn't supposed to have a happy ending!