Posted on 02/10/2016 5:04:55 PM PST by Morgana
RIP Tommy.
Ditto Margaret O’Brien and Jane Withers, both of whom are still with us, in fact.
I saw that movie when I was about seven or eight at the drive-in. The scenes where Tom and Becky got lost in the cave and then chased by Indian Joe scared the you-know-what out of me.
I don’t think I ever saw it. Unless maybe when I was really young. But I’m going to give it a try on YouTube.
On the subject of great late-40s crime thrillers, if you've never seen if before, check this one out. I posted an entire thread on it a few weeks ago.
Movie: Kiss Of Death (1947) - Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
Richard Widmark, as gangster "Tommy Udo"
RIP.
Yep, that’s a classic. Another Widmark film from Fox I’m fond of is “Pickup on South Street” (1953), with Widmark an oily pickpocket who pilfers some secret documents and gets between the FBI and some commie spies.
And yet another Widmark goodie, “Slattery’s Hurricane” (1949), in which he finds himself a smuggler, caught between two women and an impending storm.
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