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Jealousy (1945) 70m
Posted by Solomon on 10/30/2020, 10:30 am

This one is well worth watching. I like it a lot, and re-watched it two days ago. See here for a free viewing: https://ok.ru/video/278949530275

It's surely been discussed here before. This movie is immediately identifiable as a noir in the first 2-3 minutes. The sound track and music, the montage, the voice over, the uneasiness or disorientation generated by the editing, which alternates Hollywood views, traffic signals and the uneasy face of Jane Randolph as cab driver. I love it. Lots of noirs have this feeling, like The Amazing Mr. X, The Gangster, Voice in the Wind, and part of it is sonic.

Re: Jealousy (1945) 70m
Posted by Don Malcolm on 10/31/2020, 2:29 pm, in reply to "Jealousy (1945) 70m"

Machaty's wrecked career is one of film history's most regrettable tragedies--a major talent who was almost systematically kept from the director's chair once he left Eastern Europe.

The notoreity of ECSTASY (1933) did not ultimately harm Hedy Lamarr's career, but Machaty was allowed to make only two films under his own name over a fifteen-year period in Hollywood. Republic Pictures should have been able to keep Machaty employed in the late 40s, but it's likely that Machaty's politics were not a good match for the studio (he favored leftists and emigrés, as a look at the cast of JEALOUSY reveals). A pity, indeed, because just a couple of years later Republic decided to "up its game" by working with bigger budgets and bigger names (Borzage, Welles, etc.). A "art noir" director in the mix with Blair and Ford and Auer would've been just dandy, and would have certainly produced several more films that give off that "noir scent" so copiously and conspicuously in their opening moments.

Another film that has a good bit of that is from this same timeframe, and showcases an interesting performance variant from A VOICE IN THE WIND's lead Francis Lederer is THE MADONNA'S SECRET (1946), the only noir directed by another emigré, William Thiele, who benefited from the presence of John Alton behind the camera. These two films featuring Lederer would make for a fine double bill once Eddie gives up his desire to "cover the waterfront" and dabble in foreign noir. (It appears that the folks bankrolling the Republic restorations have made a new print of MADONNA'S SECRET, and it's well worth a watch.)

Re: Francis Lederer
Posted by Dan Hodges on 11/2/2020, 6:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Jealousy (1945) 70m"
Lederer is excellent as the money-grubbing pro-fascist informant in Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)and as the murderer/jealous husband in Stolen Identity (1953).

Re: Jealousy (1945) 70m
Posted by Dan in the MW on 11/27/2020, 7:13 pm, in reply to "Jealousy (1945) 70m"
I enjoyed watching "Jealousy" for the first time. My sole complaint is that the conclusion was hurried. It was probably the worst wrap up since "Pursuit to Algiers."