[ April 19, 2026 ]
After transcribing Imam Feisal Rauf’s audio and listening to him drone on all week (here and here and here), I thought we should screen a Peter Lorre film. Rauf sounds just like Peter Lorre. He must have studied Lorre’s elocution and inflection. The sacrifices new media makes to get the story out …………… Rauf’s voice is that of a poor man’s Lorre — only like nails on a chalkboard.
Tonight’s feature is Quickstand (1950) starring, Mickey Rooney, Peter Lorre, and Jeanne Cagney. Classic film noir. How we love that …………
After borrowing $20 from his employer’s cash register, an auto mechanic
is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances which
rapidly spiral out of his control. Mickey Rooney on the dark side. Ouch. “Plenty of suspense, plenty of humanity.”
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One of the lesser-known treasures of classic film noir, this tough little
chronicle of a hapless boy taken on a criminal joy ride by his own
uncontrollable lusts succeeds partly because of the brick-house design of
Cornell Woolrich’s original story, partly because of its ingeniously chosen
cast. Pairing the still fresh-faced Mickey Rooney with the creepily
worn-looking Jeanne Cagney instantly suggests corruption; the subtext that
the boy is just a pawn in a weird game being played between this nasty dame
and her lover (Peter Lorre, looking one drink over the line) makes the
spine
crawl.
Click below link to view film:
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