44 Replies to “the dark corner”

  5. `Film Noir. My escape from reality. It's 2 a.m., got a good cigar and sipping on an Old Fashioned while sitting in my Lay-z- Boy. PEACEFUL.

  6. Gregory peck Capt Ahab was mine very first adventure film. Greatest adventure novel! Introduced each unique character. Indian, young black child, building up incrible anticipation for the meaniest Sea Capt born. second crew mate bent on killing capt. 30 minutes after the films there he is Capt Ahab 's whale tooth foot slowly moving up to a deep ugly scareface. Its Al pacino"s scarface No its Steven Speiberg jaws! Were in for a hell of a ride. Ahab before he kills the crew haunting for the great white red coat British whale. Interactive adventure. So much water right in the great blue sea with the greatest sea captain that has ever lived. Unyielding for blood. I reminded Ahab I'm only 6 . I repeated. I can't swim yet. Alfred Hickock birds swarming by the millions. " There he blows!! _The great white snow mountain 80 foot 30 tons of British monster. "Moby dick"

  9. The 'B Films" from this era, like THE DARK CORNER, are better than 90% of the 'A Films" of this era.

    Thank You Ray Batchelor for posting this cool Film Noir from the Golden Age of American Film.

  12. I have watched this movie on Turner Classic Movies, and consider this Lucille Ball's most underrated and serious movie.
    I am waiting to buy it, as a Film Noir movie worth owning. Thanks, Ray.

  17. Hello ALL —

    As a transit and NY City historian I enjoyed this movie very much and always do when I see it again. Here is a bit of location history.

    Brad Galt's office was on the 2nd floor corner of a building at the South East corner of 3rd (Bowery) Avenue and Grand Street. Having any office on or along the Bowery (the street of Bowery bums back then) was "low rent" for many decades in that era. Here is the LINK to a a current google street view looking EAST – its the red building on the corner at the right — his office was at the 2nd floor, the left 3 windows heading north towards the corner and the 3 windows on the Grand Street side from the corner. The Bowery (3rd Avenue, where the EL long ago traveled over) passes left to right in foreground. The El stairway seen from Galts corner office from its Grand Street side windows, was along the building at the left (where the police car screeched to a stop as cops come to arrest Galt near the film end)

    https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7184975,-73.9948975,3a,75y,135.23h,90.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZ9RsHb3LBbRkDvulJ7au2Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en

    I lived in the East 80's next to and grew up along – and rode much on, the Manhattan 3rd Ave EL and I made full scale operating models of its trains and the streetcars under the EL, as well as a scale NYC style Elevated structure operating layout — see my photos website via the picture avatar link on this page.

    Here ALSO is the link my FLICKR Page to my NYC EL & Trolley Layout photos –modeling the NY EL and subway trains from the past to present.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/44268069@N00/albums

    Here is a STORY writeup with detailed and captioned photos I did on "The Dark Corner" for an Internet Magazine forum site — LINK BELOW

    http://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/movie-the-dark-corner-from-1946

    I first saw this movie back in 1951 or 52 on a B&W TV with my parents. And have seen it many times since, and have the DVD of it. Having grown up in the 1940's-1950's era — the " live" on the streets location filming rekindles how I remember the people, streets, cars and NY City looked to me back then.

    Outside Brad Galt's office was the IRT 3rd Avenue EL's GRAND STREET Express Station, having 3 tracks and 2 island platforms. The Station platforms began at the edge of the north side of Grand Street with a stairway (seen at times in the the movie from Galts' 2nd floor Grand St. side windows) down to the north sidewalk of Grand Street, from the under-tracks station mezzanine Fare control area. Uptown and downtown local trains of MUDC Class (formerly open end platform "gate cars" converted in 1923-24 to enclosed vestibule ends with outside-hung-sliding side doors) can be seen and heard with their groaning gears and motors regularly passing by Galt's secretary's office windows which faced directly west towards the Bowery (3rd AVE)

    The opening and closing image was taken from the Grand Street Stairway to the under-tracks Mezzanine station, looking north along the east side of the Bowery (3rd Ave.) along the higher up uptown local track, with an uptown local train seen entering and leaving the station platform which was on the left side of that track. The scene in the opening where Bendix waits at night time in his white suit, with the bus in the background, (8:24 to 8;38 location) is looking south along Bowery (3rd Ave) towards crossing Grand Street, under the downtown track side of the EL, towards the bus passing eastward as it crosses under the EL and passes the downtown side station stairway at the south end of its Grand Street Express Station. All scenes there were filmed live on location at night. The opening theme song I believe is called "Manhattan Serenade"

    The car chase scene (after Bendix takes a dive from the 32nd floor) rolls thru lower Manhattan with a scene of the City Hall Station of the 3rd Ave El with the Municipal Bldg. at its right in the background…and passes the Court Houses. The car chase ends turning east on East 60th Street from northbound on 1st Avenue along the south side of the Queensboro Bridge approach where a cab garage existed back in the 1940's-50's

  21. Ms.Ball was Great in this movie! Mr.Stevens,also.Mr.Webb, nasty role that he played quite well! This movie kept the suspense up4 a long,involved time,made me think of multiple ways,Brad be able to get out of his predicament! Thank You, Mr.Batchelor4 showing this film!

  25. OMG…I LOVE Lucy! I have never seen her play a dramatic role such as this! The entire world LOVES Lucy! These old flicks sure make today's movies look like the  pornographic trash they really are! I grew up watching Lucille Ball making me laugh…but this is a completely different Lucy! I LOVE this movie…I LOVE Lucy!! Thanks so much for making my day!!!!!

  26. I cannot help seeing "I Love Lucy" in my mind's eye while watching this good ole movie. It is hard to accept her in a serious role, for me anyway and yet she is quite effective here. I suspect other viewers feel the same. The TV show typecast her forever.

  30. The tall guy who played the police lieutenant, Reed Hadley, had one of the best voices in Hollywood. Did lots of narrations in movies and television.

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