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Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1946: STEP BY STEP & CRACK-UP
There's Sometimes a Buggy
English - May 10, 2024 04:14 - 48 minutes - 29.5 MB - ★★★★ - 14 ratingsTV & Film Society & Culture Philosophy memory timetravel amnesia continuum identity paradox romance thefuture thepast timeline Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this RKO 1946 episode we discuss Crack-Up (directed by Irving Reis), an eerie noir with a couple of great Expressionist set pieces. Pat O'Brien oozes vulnerability as a WWII vet and populist art critic who has to find out who's trying to make him look, or go, insane; Claire Trevor plays the love interest who's trying to help him (or is she?). Oh yeah, and we also watched Step By Step (directed by Phil Rosen), a goofy spy drama in which Lawrence Tierney gets to play a nice guy for once. Remember this episode when we watch Tierney and Trevor at their nastiest in Born to Kill, coming soon!
Time Codes:
0h 00m 35s: STEP BY STEP [dir. Phil Rosen]
0h 17m 09s: CRACK-UP [dir. Irving Reis]
Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin
Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joe W. Finler
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