Posted Mar 7, 2013, 9:24 PM
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"Shockproof"....boilerplate LA noir
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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
I don't have a Shockproof DVD--avoiding having to netflix it, I went looking for it on youtube to double check the process shots. Found only the opening, but what an opening... including the Bradbury Building, mattes of the Hall of Justice and the Hall of Records--all this and Cornel Wilde too (can't remember who she is). Totally worth the 3:36 min:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp43NGzAv2U
I'd never thought of the similarities of the opening of two great noir movies whose titles begin with "S"...
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She can't drink or drive on parole. How will this girl ever make it in noir LA?
The story: Cornel Wilde plays Griff Marat, a parole officer who falls in love with a parolee, Jenny Marsh (Knight). Marsh had gone to prison in order to protect a gambler with whom she was having an affair. Out of concern for her welfare, Marat hires Marsh as a caretaker for his blind mother.
"Shockproof". Columbia Pictures 1949
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