#The fall guy on dvd movie
One view of a Times Square movie marquee shows that the feature The Phantom Broadcast is playing. The New York location is a mixture of Monogram's indifferent sets - we keep expecting Tom to bump into a Bowery Boy - and a multitude of stock shots, some of which date back twenty years. That explains why everything in the script by Jerry Warner ( The Cat Creeps) is simplified. The cameras were heavy and the crews large the only way to cut costs was to minimize the number of shooting days. Even for Monogram, filmmaking in 1947 was not cheap. But nobody will cooperate, Inspector Shannon is closing in and Lois's guardian "Uncle" Jim (Charles Amt) may take what he knows about Tom to the police.įall Guy is a humble but respectable production.
#The fall guy on dvd mac
The slippery Joe naturally denies any knowledge of Tom: "What kinda Rum-Dum are you, anyway?" Our frustrated fugitive also tries to track down the mysterious singer Marie (Virginia Dale), who Mac thinks may have been part of the frame-up. By hanging around a bar called Benny's Club, Tom remembers that the guy who took him to the party was an elevator operator named Joe (Elisha Cook, Jr.). What he does remember is terrifying - he thinks he may have killed a young blonde, and stuffed her body in a closet. Tom's girlfriend Lois Walter (Teala Loring) also helps him try to remember what happened on that fateful Wednesday night. Tom doesn't remember a thing, and rather than be put to the third degree he slips out of the ward and hooks up with his brother-in-law, ex- cop Mac McLaine (Robert Armstrong). Inspector Shannon (Douglas Fowley) would like a confession, and quick: Tom was found unconscious on the street, stoked to the gills with drugs, and soaked in blood with a bloody knife on the sidewalk beside him. In this case the unemployed, unhappy young Tom Cochrane (Clifford Penn) wakes up in a detox ward. The story follows a variation on a favorite Woolrich theme, amnesia. how often did the Monogram studio adapt published material? That fact is touted right on the posters, proving that Woolrich's name was a selling point, at least at this level of filmmaking. The show can also boast a decent literary pedigree - the author of the original story is the celebrated mystery novelist Cornell Woolrich. The film's leading player "Clifford" Penn is a source of interest - he's really Leo Penn, the father of the famous star Sean Penn. Although Fall Guy isn't exactly a front-rank example of the filmic style, this "Loser Noir" did make the cut for the first Encyclopedia of Film Noir in the late 1970s. Only years later would they be branded as Films Noir. 1947's Fall Guy (no "The") is a mini-budgeted B-pic hoping to compete with the trendy mystery thrillers that were then in vogue.
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#The fall guy on dvd archive
The Warners Archive Collection has released some of Monogram's more prestigious efforts but Mirisch's very first production wasn't among them. Walter Mirisch spent a decade producing "programmers" and B-pictures, mostly for Monogram and its upscale 'house label' Allied Artists. Say the name Walter Mirisch and one's thoughts jump to a proud producing credit on some of the best pictures of the 1960s - when Mirisch wasn't making his own Oscar-winners ( In the Heat of the Night) he was enabling producer-directors like Billy Wilder and Blake Edwards to fashion one unforgettable comedy after another.īut one must start somewhere. Written by Jerry Warner from the story Cocaine by Cornell Woolrich Starring Clifford (Leo) Penn, Robert Armstrong, Teala Loring, Elisha Cook Jr., Douglas Fowley, Charles Amt, Virginia Dale, Iris Adrian, Christian Rub, Jack Overman, Lou Lubin, Milton Parsons. Street Date Ap/ available through the Warner Archive Collection / 18.95