the movie was made in either oth 50's or 60's. i think it is black and white. i think it has to do with a kidnapping. well anyway in this movie there is a scence on the Henrey Husdson Parkway, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and the characters are in a car near Kappock Street.
2006-07-04 01:57:51 · 12 answers · asked by margaret k 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
the movie takes place in ther 1950,s or 1960's. not in the 1920's
2006-07-04 08:02:23 · update #1
it cant be portrait of a mobster because that takes place in the 1920's.
2006-07-04 08:05:31 · update #2
Guilty Bystander
year 1950
Black and white film
This movie presents a curious case. It obviously was made on a rock-bottom budget (and looks it); its plot -- about a kidnapped boy -- is as hard to follow as The Big Sleep's, without any of that movie's big-studio glamour and high gloss; and prints of the movie in circulation, with poor sound and visuals, don't help its reputation either. Nonetheless, Guilty Bystander has a few very strong points in its favor. Chief among them is the old pro Mary Boland as Smitty, the proprietress of a fleabag hotel several notches below the threshold of respectability; she's a scheming old battleax who has more going on under her unkempt wisps of grey hair than she wants her cronies and go-fers to know. Next there's Zachary Scott, as Max Thursday, an ex-cop now sleeping off benders in the same fleabag, where he's kept on as the house dick; an underrated actor, he invests his loser's role with a painful intensity, stumbling and limping from skid row to waterfront to warehouse in pursuit for the son he hasn't seen in years. As his ex-wife and mother of the kidnapped boy, Faye Emerson (Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt to you), brings more than her fabled bone structure to the part. In fact, with better acting than you have any right to expect (plus an unrelentingly depressing milieu), Guilty Bystander is more than a curio; it's as if the cast knew what a lousy movie they signed up for and decided to go for broke anyway. Starring Zachary Scott and Faye Emerson?
2006-07-18 01:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Compulsion (1959)
It's about the Leopold-Loeb case. There was a kidnapping/murder involved and they went on trial for it. I believe it is in black and white.
Rope (1948)
It's about the same case but it's a Hitchcock version of the story.
Movies about the Leopold-Loeb case are really the only black and white movies from that time that sound right. I could be wrong though.
2006-07-18 22:36:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm.... maybe "Portrait of a Mobster"? It's from 1961 and it plays in the Bronx...
2006-07-04 09:17:08 · answer #3 · answered by jay_f_sebastian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry cant help you on that 1 but i did try
2006-07-04 09:00:37 · answer #4 · answered by cowboys4lee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi MARGaret!!!
hi dear...i m really sorry 2 disappoint u but i m unable 2 find dis movies name.....hope u hav a nice day...
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2006-07-17 18:49:15 · answer #5 · answered by $@LLu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry i don't know but you caint say i didn't try.i don't even look at them type of movies
2006-07-17 21:34:30 · answer #6 · answered by teetabug13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've watched many old movie but i don't know this one, sorry...
2006-07-18 23:32:03 · answer #7 · answered by dangail 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what actors were in it? memorable scenes?
2006-07-18 17:07:34 · answer #8 · answered by snowraider 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry but i don't know
2006-07-17 14:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont know
2006-07-18 15:24:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋