#NoirChecklist for #BerlinExpress: -Dramatic narration -Gritty postwar setting -Robert Ryan filling out a suit -Noir master Lucien Ballard on camera -Sleazy nightclub -Trains -Shifty foreigners -Abandoned building shootout -Plot harder to follow than the rules between zones #TCMParty #NoirAlley

I like how in these #CrimeDoesNotPay shorts, the host guy is just the generic "MGM Crime Reporter" and the cops are from the nebulous "Metropolitan Police Force." It's like a 1940s film version of an AI-written email. #TCMParty

Truck hijacking- subject of many a fine film noir! #TCMParty #CrimeDoesNotPay

Paul Lukas- proud member of Antifa... #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley

#NoirChecklist for #BerlinExpress: -Dramatic narration -Gritty postwar setting -Robert Ryan filling out a suit -Noir master Lucien Ballard on camera -Sleazy nightclub -Trains -Shifty foreigners -Abandoned building shootout -Plot harder to follow than the rules between zones #TCMParty #NoirAlley

Whew, that was a whole lotta noisy abandoned brewery gunplay there. #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley

#BerlinExpress cinematographer Lucien Ballard is probably the only man who shot both classic B&W noirs (The Killing, Murder By Contract, Don't Bother to Knock) and classic Technicolor westerns (Ride The High Country, True Grit, and his groundbreaking work on The Wild Bunch.) #TCMParty #NoirAlley

"Let me get my bearings... we're somewhere in front of a large screen, with background scenes projected on it... yes, that's it!" #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley

"I have a question– what are the 39 Steps?" #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley #WrongMovie #WrongRobert

Sleazy postwar German cabaret scene- Drink! #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley

"Zum Spaten" is the noise I make if I accidentally ingest turnips. #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley

As somebody who has lit a lot of faces of all shapes and sizes, it's easy to see (especially in a noir) the "Obie" light being used on all the close-ups of Merle Oberon by her husband, cinematographer Lucien Ballard. #BerlinExpress was the last of their five films together. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

Cary Grant was the haberdashery king, of course, but Robert Ryan could wear the hell out of a tweed suit. #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley

I feel like I'm watching a 1940s Army training film with all this dramatic narration in #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley

"21:45 was 9:45 PM..." #BerlinExpress #TCMParty #NoirAlley

For awhile there with this narration, I thought that #BerlinExpress was one of those James FitzPatrick Travel Talks and we were about to "bid a fond farewell..." #TCMParty #NoirAlley

It wouldn't be an Arthur Hailey related film without some kind of disaster... it's ELEVATORAGEDDON! #Hotel #TCMParty

Rod Taylor hasn't even removed his tie during this entire naughty liaison with the sexy French lady. That's discipline. #Hotel #TCMParty

Smarmy Kevin McCarthy describing a "fully automated hotel" sounds like some of today's techbros talking about some of today's techstuff, js. #Hotel #TCMParty

Well, it’s now officially fall, which means it’s also finally summer in San Francisco.

Does #CasinoRoyale fall under the category of films whose title/theme songs are better known than the actual films ? #TCMParty

Since Champion was "America's Foremost Police Dog", I wonder if there were second-tier police dogs who could star in supporting roles while working their way up to Foremost. #TheSkyRider #TCMParty #SilentSundayNights

Looks like parts of #TheLawsLash were originally tinted. #TCMParty #SilentSundayNights

I'm ready to see Klondike the Dog chomp some Northland smuggler bootay, even if he is kind of a Temu Rin-Tin-Tin. #TheLawsLash #SilentSundayNights #TCMParty

I wonder if films like #TheMurderersAreAmongUs will be produced here in the U.S., in about... oh say, 1216 days or so. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

#NoirChecklist for #TheMurderersAreAmongUs: -Grim postwar setting -Revengeful war veteran with flashbacks -Trains (from concentration camps) -Copious Dutch (German) angles –Broken mirror shot -Nosy neighbor lady -Nightclub floozies -Shadows thrown on both walls and souls #TCMParty #NoirAlley

Holy knockwurst, #TheMurderersAreAmongUs is not pulling any punches. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

#TheMurderersAreAmongUs is making #Cabaret look like... well, a musical. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Hildegard Knef looks a bit like Elizabeth Mongomery. #TheMurderersAreAmongUs #NoirAlley #TCMParty

The lovely Hildegard Knef has a very modern look in #TheMurderersAreAmongUs #NoirAlley #TCMParty

The stunningly sharp, high contrast cinematography of #TheMurderersAreAmongUs in these post-war locations is like if Gregg Toland and Nick Musuraca somehow had a love child. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

"Many questions arise. Who shall answer them? Who can answer them?" #TheMurderersAreAmongUs #NoirAlley #TCMParty

I may need to strengthen my coffee with something more than cream and sugar to get through #TheMurderersAreAmongUs. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

I thought that a scene full of German nightclub floozies might lighten the mood of #MurderersAreAmongUs, but nein. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Settling in–somewhat trepidatiously– on this fine late summer morning for some #NaziNoir with #TheMurderersAreAmongUs. So far the setting and cinematography are stunning. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

Travel and social obligations have kept me from watching #NoirAlley with the usual late night crowd recently, but I’ll be trotting out ye olde #NoirChecklist for tomorrow morning’s showing of #TheMurderersAreAmongUs, which looks to be some tasty and timely Nazi noir. See ya then! #TCMParty

Note in that still from Body and Soul that James Wong Howe was on roller skates while shooting the ring sequences, long before similar methods were used for Raging Bull. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

Wait, Shelley Winters had flighty fits? Who knew?! #HeRanAllTheWay #NoirAlley #TCMParty

These sweaty close-ups in #HeRanAllTheWay are making me want to towel off, and I'm only watching it on TV. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Repost of last night's #NoirChecklist for the Noirista morning crowd watching #HeRanAllTheWay. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Masterful cinematographer James Wong Howe just BRINGING the deep shadows and high contrast and deep focus and multiple-plane dramatic compositions on every shot in #HeRanAllTheWay! They just don't shoot 'em like that anymore. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

John Garfield always had great hair, but Wallace Ford's bouffant is giving him a run for his money. #HeRanAllTheWay #NoirAlley #TCMParty

With the NFL season starting up, I thought #HeRanAllTheWay was going to be another one of those Flo-Max commercials aimed at middle-aged men with prostate issues... #NoirAlley #TCMParty

The kid Tommy is pretty much the only member of the family willing to stand up to Robey. #HeRanAllTheWay #NoirAlley #TCMParty #KidPower

John Garfield must have had great confidence in his abilities to put his money and career on the line to play such a thoroughly unsavory character. #HeRanAllTheWay #NoirAlley #TCMParty

The charming Mrs. Robey seems to umm... enjoy her Pabst Blue Ribbon rather liberally. #HeRanAllTheWay #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Noirists and Noiristas, I give you the winning tweet from last night's #TCMParty on #NoirAlley! IYKYK #HeRanAllTheWay

Note in that still from Body and Soul that James Wong Howe was on roller skates while shooting the ring sequences, long before similar methods were used for Raging Bull. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

Dad went straight down to the Spirit Halloween Store and got the Maltese Falcon special outfit. #HeRanAllTheWay #TCMParty #NoirAlley

#NoirChecklist for #HeRanAllTheWay: -Face slap in first three minutes -Heist gone wrong -Paranoid crook on the run -Floozy in a pool -Boozy tough-talking mom -Hostage situation -Jimmy Howe with the deep focus -John Garfield getting sweaty -Shelley Winters making bad choices #TCMParty #NoirAlley