That stunning closing scene on the lake at sunset probably clinched #LeaveHerToHeaven cinematographer Leon Shamroy's third of four Oscars. #TCMParty

It was a clever bit by Hackett and Goodrich to have "the big reveal" gathering be a baby party with hoodlums, a call-back to an early scene in the film with "Creeps". #AnotherThinMan #TCMParty

Woody Van Dyke loved his newspaper montages, because they helped to keep the story moving. I think there's four or five of them in #AfterTheThinMan. #TCMParty

Wasn't "Smoke Dreams" one of those '80s Cheech and Chong movies? #AfterTheThinMan #TCMParty

#AfterTheThinMan is my favorite of the series because it has some great 1930s San Francisco location shots, like Nick and Nora driving down bustling Market Street and up their driveway-with-a-view– actually the approach to Coit Tower, the Art Deco landmark that sits atop Telegraph Hill. #TCMParty

The faithful dog in #SOB... 🥹 #TCMParty

That's Rosanna Arquette as the free-spirited hitchhiker/sunbather Babs in #SOB. #TCMParty

#SOB is one of those films that took me multiple viewings to really "get" where it's going. There are a lot of layers to the satire, and the large cast is perfect; Richard Mulligan and Robert Webber are hilarious, and Larry Hagman was at the absolute height of his "Who shot J.R." fame. #TCMParty

#NoirChecklist for #CrimeWave: -Violence 90 seconds in -Murder 5 minutes in -Gruff cop with quirky habit -Ex-con blackmailed -Boozy ex-doctor who is... -not the guy named Doc -Heist gone wrong -Hostages -73 minutes of LA locations -More ginormous old cars than Jay Leno's garage #NoirAlley #TCMParty

I'm pretty sure that Leslie Nielsen was mostly channeling Sterling Hayden from #CrimeWave when he did Police Squad and the Naked Gun films. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Don't know about him in a film noir, but Gene Nelson was multi-talented. Here he is the same year as #CrimeWave. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Gene Nelson Dances In A Gym 1952

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Humongous 1950s car chase– Drink! #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Choice: 1) Getting your fingernails pulled out; 2) Hanging out in an apartment alone with Timothy Carey Didn't need those fingernails, anyway... #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Noir gang hideouts are always second floor duplexes with one of those outside wooden staircases. #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Steve picked the perfect inconspicuous vehicle for an ex-con trying to keep a low profile... 🤔 #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

There's Hank Worden as the aircraft facility boss, AKA Old Mose in The Searchers. #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Well Gene, you probably should have stuck to those second leads in third-rate musicals... #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Great close-up of the hands on the phone with just a voice-over- that's DeToth! #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

OK, the bloodhound better be fine by the end of #CrimeWave... #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Floozy interrogation– Drink! #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Dub Taylor in a turban– Drink! #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

That airport's city code is RPJ, for Rear Projection International Airport. #CrimeWave #NoirAlley #TCMParty

I fairly certain that Ted DeCorsia's collar size was just slightly less than the circumference of the Earth. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #CrimeWave

This is at least the third time that #CrimeWave has been on #NoirAlley; it was also on #SUTS last year. But as Eddie says in his (recycled) intro, it's worth multiple viewings, so I'm filling the tank of the #NoirChecklist machine with its proprietary mix of violence, deceit, and regret! #TCMParty

🚨 #TCMParty DVR Alert! Tonight on #TCM at 10:30PM PT/1:30AM ET is Blake Edwards' delightfully black satire of Hollywood, #SOB, with a stellar classic film cast, led by William Holden in the last of his great late career roles. Childhood memory trigger warning: Mary Poppins might, umm... get nekkid!

The beautifully nostalgic cinematography of #HopeAndGlory is by Philippe Rousselot, who shot Henry and June, Dangerous Liaisons, and Oscar-winner A River Runs Through It, among many other of the biggest films of the last thirty years... and he's still working at age 81! #TCMParty

On a walk when in London a few months ago, I came upon this memorial in a park. It was the site of a trench bomb shelter that in 1940 took a direct hit from a Nazi bomb meant for nearby Waterloo Station. 104 people, including children, were killed; many buried at the site. #HopeAndGlory #TCMParty

I have not seen #HopeAndGlory since it came out, but having been in London a few months ago and visited a number of WWII museums and historical sites, I'm interested to see it again. #TCMParty

The filmmakers of #BoormanAndTheDevil really got some great interviews. Louise Fletcher's stuff is documentary gold. #FilmsOnFilm #TCMParty

Interesting how much the then-new technology of the Steadicam was used in #TheHeretic, since prior to its invention, cinematographer Owen Roizman improvised a lawn chair sling suspended from a bungee cord to get Steadicam-like stair shots in the original #Exorcist. #BoormanAndTheDevil #TCMParty