RE: RARA-AVIS: BBC4 Film Noir Doc plus short season

From: Mark Sullivan (DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net)
Date: 23 Aug 2009

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    Ed, do you mean Murder My Sweet, or did it revert to the novel's name in the UK? Same with Build My Gallows High, which is known as Out of the Past in the US?

    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > From: ejmd__@ntlworld.com
    > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:01:16 +0100
    > Subject: RARA-AVIS: BBC4 Film Noir Doc plus short season
    >
    >
    > "Raymond Tait" raymond.tait@ntlworld.com
    > <mailto:raymond.tait@ntlworld.com?Subject=%20Re%3ABBC4%20Film%20Noir%20Doc%20plus%20short%20season>
    > wrote:
    >
    >
    > > There was a one hour film noir documentary presented by Matthew Sweet
    > on BBC4 last night
    > >
    > >You can watch it again. I only saw the last third but It looked quite
    > good - fairly entertaining if nothing new in it really.
    > >
    > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mbstz
    > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mbstz>
    > >
    > > They are also showing a few movies - I watched The Big Combo
    > > again last night, great stuff. Stranger on the Third Floor is on tonight
    > > at 23.30. I have never seen this and it looks interesting - Nathaniel
    > > West co-wrote it and it stars Peter Lorre.
    > >
    > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_on_the_Third_Floor
    > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_on_the_Third_Floor>
    >
    >
    > I haven't managed to catch any of these yet (nor the documentary) but
    > they are showing six films in all over the course of this weekend, all
    > of which will be available online to those with access to content in the
    > BBC iPlayer. Here's a list of the films:
    > *
    > * Farewell My Lovely (1944)
    >
    > The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
    >
    > The Big Combo (1955)
    >
    > Force of Evil (1948)
    >
    > Build My Gallows High (1947)
    >
    > Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
    >
    >
    > ED
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