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Vicki (1953)
Vicki (1953)
Director: Harry Horner
Writers: Steve Fisher (novel), Dwight Taylor
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid, Richard Boone
Genre: Film Noir
A beautiful New York model (Jean Peters) who's on her way to stardom in Hollywood is found murdered on the eve of her leaving for California.
The suspects are her friends: manager-promoter (Elliott Reid) who found Vicki working as a waitress. The news paper gossip columnist (Max Showalter) who used his column to promote her. An actor who once dated her and even her loyal younger sister (Jeanne Crain) is called into question by the hard nosed police detective (Richard Boone) who's hell bent to find the murderer and isn't above shady practices to get a confession.
Left, Jean Peters is Vicki a New York glamour girl/model who's career is created out of thin air by a promoter and news paper columnist. Her dutiful sister is Jeanne Crain who might be in love with Vicki's promoter.
This is a damn good noir! Thanks to a near-psycho cop played to the tee by Richard Boone. He's so far off his rocker that he breaks into the suspects rooms and torments them in hope of getting a confusion.
Richard Boone gives one of the most menacing portrayals of police work, I've seen done in classic Noir. His police detective reminds me of Kirk Douglas in the Noir Detective Story (1951).
Richard Boone and the brutal police interrogation scenes makes Vicki well worth the 90 minutes it takes to watch this little gem.
At police headquarters, Jeanne Crain and Elliott Reed.
Elliott Reed who usually played light comedies makes a good 'nice' guy who's caught up as a murder suspect. He's very likable and gives the audience a character they can relate to. I liked the lovely Jeanne Crain who's a very skilled actress and Jean Peters who plays the murdered Vicki in flashbacks. Jean Peters was married to Howard Hughes the billionaire.
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Writers: Steve Fisher (novel), Dwight Taylor
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid, Richard Boone
Genre: Film Noir
A beautiful New York model (Jean Peters) who's on her way to stardom in Hollywood is found murdered on the eve of her leaving for California.
The suspects are her friends: manager-promoter (Elliott Reid) who found Vicki working as a waitress. The news paper gossip columnist (Max Showalter) who used his column to promote her. An actor who once dated her and even her loyal younger sister (Jeanne Crain) is called into question by the hard nosed police detective (Richard Boone) who's hell bent to find the murderer and isn't above shady practices to get a confession.
Left, Jean Peters is Vicki a New York glamour girl/model who's career is created out of thin air by a promoter and news paper columnist. Her dutiful sister is Jeanne Crain who might be in love with Vicki's promoter.
This is a damn good noir! Thanks to a near-psycho cop played to the tee by Richard Boone. He's so far off his rocker that he breaks into the suspects rooms and torments them in hope of getting a confusion.
Richard Boone gives one of the most menacing portrayals of police work, I've seen done in classic Noir. His police detective reminds me of Kirk Douglas in the Noir Detective Story (1951).
Richard Boone and the brutal police interrogation scenes makes Vicki well worth the 90 minutes it takes to watch this little gem.
At police headquarters, Jeanne Crain and Elliott Reed.
Elliott Reed who usually played light comedies makes a good 'nice' guy who's caught up as a murder suspect. He's very likable and gives the audience a character they can relate to. I liked the lovely Jeanne Crain who's a very skilled actress and Jean Peters who plays the murdered Vicki in flashbacks. Jean Peters was married to Howard Hughes the billionaire.
Do you know who that is? Later he would become one of the most successful TV producers in history. Here he plays a young nervous hotel clerk ...It's Aaron Spelling
Vicki offers up a well structured film noir that starts out intense and stays that way right through the ending.++