As a kid I was lucky enough to catch all the "Johnny" movies on local TV -- Johnny O'Clock, Johnny Apollo, Johnny Eager. Stations ran movies all the time, instead of infomercials. Good times.
Powell was so cool, and is - in my opinion - underappreciated for his contributions to Film Noir. Who'd have thought he had it in him, based on those Busby Berkeley movies? Eveyly Keyes is hard as nails with a heart of gold, and they have great chemistry together.
Exactly, he was such a 'sucky-poo' in those musicals! But he delivered the lines (like a perennial tough-guy) in this movie as well as anyone could, and he had a great gritty voice for the genre too. Really enjoyed this again this evening (2nd time around).
I think this was a precursor to his tv show dante's inferno. Dick Powell was under appreciated, great singer did many good movies, radio detective and helped start television with four star playhouse.
I have never heard of this movie before but it is shocking how good it is. These Powell movies are really quite good. A forgotten part of HollyWood that is highly under rated. Some may say the dialogue is ‘tough guy’ but in my opinion this is a very sophisticated, well crafted movie. Thanks for the post!
This is Powell's second career as an actor. In the thirties he was a juvenile leading man in musical comedies in the forties as he grew older he graduated to dramatic roles.
Or the other way round: BECAUSE they did not have special effects and CGI, they had to work hard on the script, writing, and good acting. Make CGI and special effects ILLEGAL today and soon we will have better films.😍
These old classic movies are still the best to watch...Clean!!! No swearing or cursing! No hopping from one sack to the other!!! Worthwhile watching if you like this kind of movies. Thumbs up! 10/10!!!
I love Powell's knowing his own character's in these movies, the same must have been part of his own character and personality. And the way the most beautiful women fell heartfully in love with him, his elegance and his women's elegance danced together.
A wonderful movie on all levels. Not so stupid, not too demanding, the sympathatic side of chlichés... It succeeded perfectly in pleasing my senses. Tanks to UA-cam for suggesting it to me.
Good movie. I do not remember the last I have been back to a movie theatre anymore. Movies that are made today, disturb me sick, but not movies made in the seventies and back... Thank you for this.
Johnny O Clock was so cool; he reminded me of the p.g. version of the character De Niro played in Casino. Tough guy, Ladies Man, and a very cool cat. 👍👍
@@kathyflorcruz552 He became a t.v. producer but was killed by cancer in Jan.,'63, at age 58. As an actor he did well in post-war "noir" pictures, even this one.
Great movie - Dick Powell was a Gem of the Big.Screen. No matter what kind of character he pulled it off. Really liked seeing Lizabeth Scott again too, she's a honey (but that beret...looked about an inch too small all puffed up on her head like that, made me chuckle. What, the wardrobe department ran over budget when it was time for that scene??!) Really enjoyed this, thanks! 💖
I have a 55 inch "flat screen" TV that has an amazing picture and "soundbar" surround sound system. Unplugged it 2 1/2 yrs ago and seldom miss it. Yes, I forfeited big bucks on it. no regrets. Other things on my "priority list"!
They have, there are way better copies of this film available. The gentleman here just had this one to post, and I'm grateful that he has. This is a solid film noir! Even if not the best copy. Cheers.
Way better than it's title. Powell was always great, but Evelyn Keyes was such a a talent. She was never the big time star she could have been, but everything she did was first rate. This was written and directed by Robert Rossen who distinguished himself with The Hustler 1961 and All The Kings Men 1949, both films are among the best of the best with many awards. This is the best download of this film on UA-cam.
no body can talk more tough than Dick Powell. Movies of this genre put more people on tobacco than anything else. Geat movie with excellent camera work and dialogue. A beautiful woman always got a kiss and a bad man always got a slap.
You just don’t hear dialogue like this any longer. It’s been gone for a while. I close the scenes. Everything is gone incredible touching movie. I don’t make them like this no more.
@In The Domain What a great movie. I loved it. So much suspense and double crossing. Dick Powell is awesome, I love all his movies. I RoccoMend this movie.
Hard to find any free movies with Dick, so I watch this one all the time. He was good in musicals, but I prefer the shady parts best. Love Lee J. Cobb, especially in On The Water Front.
It's really cool the way these old films got around the Code. He kisses her. She puts her arms around him. Cut to him dressed in his tux. He smiles to himself when he looks at her. She's wearing a nightgown She's relaxed and looks very satisfied. Evelyn Keyes was a real knockout. The way she could project sexual innuendo makes Veronica Lake look like a nun.
the old unfiltered cigarettes. camera work was at times strange angles and movements. this type of story/film is a study in the 40's and its culture. No blue jeans and tee shirts....all suits/ties/hats/gloves/nylons/dress shoes/hair neatly combed/tie tacs and cuff links. Desire to impress and be impressed unlike today's common dress indicating lack of care for self or others in regard to personal grooming and dress. Gotta say culture is hiding somewhere.
I don't think it's the camera work that makes this film look like you are on acid while watching it, its the copy. The resolution is very poor so I wonder if someone just pointed a camera at a screen and decided to add some his own screwball editing.
After 15 minutes I realized this version of the movie is cropped and the image pans around to show the central action. I found a better quality version on YT that didn't do that.
Actually that was more enjoyable than a lot of the noirs I've seen. But I wish they would have explained how he got the name Johnny O Clock. It's the first thing you would have expected them to say. A couple of the characters remark that "it's a funny name", but yet nobody ever explains it.
The studio was never as big as MGM or Warners, but amazingly, it never lost money until 1959, the year after founder Harry Cohn died. Cohn had the idea of making two or three "big" movies every year, but specializing in low cost "B" movies Cohn used to call "those lousy little Bs."
Even for a studio head, he stood out as an SOB, but people still were willing to work for him because they trusted his instincts about how to make a good movie. The irony is that today, low-budget films are the ones that are considered Hollywood's best. After French critics began writing about film noir, movies like this got the attention they deserved. Look at the way the actors are entirely black. Amazing.
I don't know if this film was edited with so many vertigo-inducing swishpans and zooms, but I couldn't finish this movie. The scene cuts were so often literally sickening.
Always liked this type of movie---women looked and dressed like women and men looked and dressed like men!....Especially Dick Powell....very sexy and manly....so very sad he passed away at such a young age....His wife claimed that he chain smoked, but he also made a movie that was down wind from the atomic bombs that were set off before that....a lot of people in that movie died from cancer.....very unusual.
Good film noir with former song and dance man Powell (who, like Astaire and Kelly later on, almost glides across the screen in dramatic roles). It also benefits from appearances by two of the best "supporting" actors of the time in Lee J Cobb and Thomas Gomez. Shame about the jerky transfer in places. It doesn't detract too much - unless you're watching it at sea!
For a gangster movie, it's not bad! But the best part, with heart, is the end. I don't like when everything in a story hinges on guns. Looking for more movies with stories about people, just people with heart, without guns.
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I just love the positive comments on this movie. Great people watching great movies. I love it, being in good company. Sherie Rodrigues from Australia
As a kid I was lucky enough to catch all the "Johnny" movies on local TV -- Johnny O'Clock, Johnny Apollo, Johnny Eager. Stations ran movies all the time, instead of infomercials. Good times.
Powell was so cool, and is - in my opinion - underappreciated for his contributions to Film Noir. Who'd have thought he had it in him, based on those Busby Berkeley movies? Eveyly Keyes is hard as nails with a heart of gold, and they have great chemistry together.
Exactly, he was such a 'sucky-poo' in those musicals! But he delivered the lines (like a perennial tough-guy) in this movie as well as anyone could, and he had a great gritty voice for the genre too. Really enjoyed this again this evening (2nd time around).
I think this was a precursor to his tv show dante's inferno. Dick Powell was under appreciated, great singer did many good movies, radio detective and helped start television with four star playhouse.
I have never heard of this movie before but it is shocking how good it is. These Powell movies are really quite good. A forgotten part of HollyWood that is highly under rated. Some may say the dialogue is ‘tough guy’ but in my opinion this is a very sophisticated, well crafted movie. Thanks for the post!
This is Powell's second career as an actor. In the thirties he was a juvenile leading man in musical comedies in the forties as he grew older he graduated to dramatic roles.
The writing is pretty crisp, also.
They didn't need special effects back then because they had acting and they told a quality story
Or the other way round: BECAUSE they did not have special effects and CGI, they had to work hard on the script, writing, and good acting. Make CGI and special effects ILLEGAL today and soon we will have better films.😍
@@vidhushekhar17 hi Vidhu, Hollywood would puke and die if there were rules about blood and tortures. What would be wrong with that????👍😀👀🇺🇸
These old classic movies are still the best to watch...Clean!!! No swearing or cursing! No hopping from one sack to the other!!! Worthwhile watching if you like this kind of movies. Thumbs up! 10/10!!!
💯 agree with every word! 🙌
S o c I a l. .. M o d e l I n g
Yes, and they all died from smoking!
I agree with u 100%. Excelent movie!!!!!.
@@HADJEE And alcohol also. Sad, but oh so true. May Jesus mercy their souls.
I love Powell's knowing his own character's in these movies, the same must have been part of his own character and personality. And the way the most beautiful women fell heartfully in love with him, his elegance and his women's elegance danced together.
A wonderful movie on all levels. Not so stupid, not too demanding, the sympathatic side of chlichés... It succeeded perfectly in pleasing my senses. Tanks to UA-cam for suggesting it to me.
Good movie. I do not remember the last I have been back to a movie theatre anymore. Movies that are made today, disturb me sick, but not movies made in the seventies and back... Thank you for this.
Johnny O Clock was so cool; he reminded me of the p.g. version of the character De Niro played in Casino. Tough guy, Ladies Man, and a very cool cat.
👍👍
Any film starring Messrs. Powell and Cobb is a must see. Two screen greats for the price of one.
Love the dialogue in these old movies. Especially Powell films. This is such a good film.Well worth watching.
vanilla
This movie is Excellent!!! Love Powell in all his movies. He is soooooo smooth.
Not the best quality, but another “GEM” of a story and acting ! Keep them coming ,I loved every minute of it !
It’s awesome how this guy made the transition from musicals to tough guy in film noir.
There's a movie with Powell called, To the Ends of the Earth. If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching. Excellent movie.
Timothy MacDonnell See, “Cry Danger”. First rate.
And then to T.V..
@@kathyflorcruz552 He became a t.v. producer but was killed by cancer in Jan.,'63, at age 58. As an actor he did well in post-war "noir" pictures, even this one.
He was smart!! But he demanded woman to be ladies, not Hollywood trash!
Great movie - Dick Powell was a Gem of the Big.Screen. No matter what kind of character he pulled it off. Really liked seeing Lizabeth Scott again too, she's a honey (but that beret...looked about an inch too small all puffed up on her head like that, made me chuckle. What, the wardrobe department ran over budget when it was time for that scene??!) Really enjoyed this, thanks! 💖
Evelyn Keyes in the beret.
Lee J. Cobb....great actor, esp in film noir. Wish tv had this kind of quality entertainment.
I have a 55 inch "flat screen" TV that has an amazing picture and "soundbar" surround sound system. Unplugged it 2 1/2 yrs ago and seldom miss it. Yes, I forfeited big bucks on it. no regrets. Other things on my "priority list"!
Vikki Nicholson it did; Dragnet; I am the Law (George Raft)
Liked him in The Virginian when I was a kid.
Just 20 years later he would do the Flint movies. A little after that The Exorcist.
Made his name in the theater, as the definitive Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman." Arthur Miller called him the best dramatic actor he'd ever seen.
One of the best-ending classic movies, N this kind of ending is the majority if NOT vast majority wants.
This is the best print. Needs restoring.
Wish somebody would restore this film.
Strange stuff with the film frames.....
They have, there are way better copies of this film available. The gentleman here just had this one to post, and I'm grateful that he has. This is a solid film noir! Even if not the best copy. Cheers.
Great Movie!!!
Another great film! Thanks for uploading 👏
Stunning, thanks for posting this. I used to believe in evolution but we’ve got stupider since films like this were made.
Way too many "stupiders" around,
Way better than it's title. Powell was always great, but Evelyn Keyes was such a a talent. She was never the big time star she could have been, but everything she did was first rate.
This was written and directed by Robert Rossen who distinguished himself with The Hustler 1961 and All The Kings Men 1949, both films are among the best of the best with many awards. This is the best download of this film on UA-cam.
I agree 100 % about Evelyn Keyes.. VERY underrated actress, unfortunately
Love this Movie, They dnt make movies like this ANYMORE.
What a great cast .
no body can talk more tough than Dick Powell. Movies of this genre put more people on tobacco than anything else. Geat movie with excellent camera work and dialogue. A beautiful woman always got a kiss and a bad man always got a slap.
NOW THIS IS A REAL LOVE STORY 😊❤❤
Agree about the dialogue: real sassy! Thanks for the download.
Love this movie!!!
Intelligent script with many lines adding layers to the story. Thank you for uploading.
Thank you so much I love this movie
Some of the dialogue could come out of Second City TV. I loved it. I'm in love with ya, ya big palooka. Go figure.
Where do you think Second City got the dialogue?
It is always entertaining with Powell
Great upload. Thanks buddy.
You just don’t hear dialogue like this any longer. It’s been gone for a while. I close the scenes. Everything is gone incredible touching movie. I don’t make them like this no more.
Dick Powell work in radio was also outstanding enjoyed this Movie Saturday April 24 2021 Fresno ca .
@In The Domain What a great movie. I loved it. So much suspense and double crossing. Dick Powell is awesome, I love all his movies. I RoccoMend this movie.
they seriously don't have scripts like this these days! amazing work of art...
That was a pretty cool movie!
Really good movie.
Powell, Keyes, Cobb all great in this very good noir flick. Rossen was a terrific director.
good movie thanks for uploading...
He was great. Sadly, he was another person who lost their life to smoking cigarettes.
As opposed to ingesting cupcakes by the dozens? That, too, is "sad."
Terrific movie very enjoyable
They don't make movies like this anywhere.
that's right Johnny O. No more Johnny O'Clocks to tick tick tick
Picture swims so much it will leave you seasick. Skip it until it's reposted properly--good movie, unfortunately wrecked.
A film of art.
It was absolutely wonderful. Worth getting past the weirdness with the digitalization. Luckily the audio is in perfect shape.
The digital "enhancement" makes me feel like I've been slipped a "Micky Finn." Great movie, despite some tweaking hipster's consatan tweaking.
The waiter brings drinks
Johnny: who sent these?
Waiter: Have you ever eaten here?
Johnny:No
Waiter: You'll need them.
LOL
your a funny old fart, keep your lame ass thoughts to yourself!!!!
Atmosphere
great old shows
snappy repartee
Excellent
That was brilliant all round.
I choked on a piece of Scotch lol.
Such style
Hard to find any free movies with Dick, so I watch this one all the time. He was good in musicals, but I prefer the shady parts best. Love Lee J. Cobb, especially in On The Water Front.
hard to find any free movies with dick? i guess you haven't checked out pornhub lately.
enjoyable --a true film noir.
John Kellogg was on an episode of The Untouchables 1959-1963
Picture's a little blurred. Great film.
Really great one
Great riviting movie.
Lee J Cobb. One of the great ones.
It's really cool the way these old films got around the Code. He kisses her. She puts her arms around him. Cut to him dressed in his tux. He smiles to himself when he looks at her. She's wearing a nightgown She's relaxed and looks very satisfied. Evelyn Keyes was a real knockout. The way she could project sexual innuendo makes Veronica Lake look like a nun.
To put that into my comment, you're the one who has "issues."
Very good movie
Ahhhhhh when dames looked like dames.
And "thugs" looked like Dapper Dans.
Only the best made it to the directors couch , that's keeping it clean.
And acted like dames & men acted like men..OMG the dialogue between the sexes in those days was awesome!!!!
@@victor-oq7dl Wow, so true!
except there are no real women in the medis just trans men!
Dick Powell died 60 years ago (January "63) at age 58.
Superb
the old unfiltered cigarettes. camera work was at times strange angles and movements. this type of story/film is a study in the 40's and its culture. No blue jeans and tee shirts....all suits/ties/hats/gloves/nylons/dress shoes/hair neatly combed/tie tacs and cuff links. Desire to impress and be impressed unlike today's common dress indicating lack of care for self or others in regard to personal grooming and dress. Gotta say culture is hiding somewhere.
I don't think it's the camera work that makes this film look like you are on acid while watching it, its the copy. The resolution is very poor so I wonder if someone just pointed a camera at a screen and decided to add some his own screwball editing.
After 15 minutes I realized this version of the movie is cropped and the image pans around to show the central action. I found a better quality version on YT that didn't do that.
would love see a better version, but don't know what YT is....can you explain.
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Actually that was more enjoyable than a lot of the noirs I've seen. But I wish they would have explained how he got the name Johnny O Clock. It's the first thing you would have expected them to say. A couple of the characters remark that "it's a funny name", but yet nobody ever explains it.
Name reminds me of "Johnny Dangerously" with Michael Keaton. But that was a comedy. Still, has some parallels (gangster with a heart of gold).
Lee J. Cobb......Was the Judge on the Virginia western tv series..
Lee J. Cobb has several memorable performances in movies. He was also the best Willy Lowman in"Death of a Salesman" on Broadway
12 Angry Men
The 19th century era of the tobacco push, then the 21st century of the wine push.
Columbia made some great B noirs after the war. This is one of them.
We are so lucky that many of these pieces were saved for us to look back on. I love them!
The studio was never as big as MGM or Warners, but amazingly, it never lost money until 1959, the year after founder Harry Cohn died. Cohn had the idea of making two or three "big" movies every year, but specializing in low cost "B" movies Cohn used to call "those lousy little Bs."
Even for a studio head, he stood out as an SOB, but people still were willing to work for him because they trusted his instincts about how to make a good movie. The irony is that today, low-budget films are the ones that are considered Hollywood's best. After French critics began writing about film noir, movies like this got the attention they deserved. Look at the way the actors are entirely black. Amazing.
Falls into the “Wow” category!
I love flim noir! I'm so elated to have this app
whomever butchered the panscan from widescreen needs re -educating in filmography, after five minutes I gave up with dizzyness
Keyes was so underrated
How many smokes does Powell smoke.
he was a chain smoker in real life...........he died of lung cancer......so so sad.
Worth a watch. At four in the morning?
I watched at 0200 hours during the Covid19
pioneering, cinematography, I womder who arranged it? Director or camera man.
real pioneering job . Boy oh boy
Must have been somebody's out-of-work brother-in-law!
Liked the movie,but I could have come up with a better ending .
Something weird with the copy: strange vertical and lateral scrolling.
So, this inspired the "Dante" series. But you are not a gambler if you run the house.
...were the camera operators really that sloppy...or is the film damaged?
It might have been salvaged or rescued. I guess it was spliced - maybe damaged, like you said.
Richard Diamond brought me here
I don't know if this film was edited with so many vertigo-inducing swishpans and zooms, but I couldn't finish this movie. The scene cuts were so often literally sickening.
MY NAME IS JOHNNY O"CLOCK ! ! !
Lovely, was worth the trouble.
what's with the weird sudden camera dips and moves?
Always liked this type of movie---women looked and dressed like women and men looked and dressed like men!....Especially Dick Powell....very sexy and manly....so very sad he passed away at such a young age....His wife claimed that he chain smoked, but he also made a movie that was down wind from the atomic bombs that were set off before that....a lot of people in that movie died from cancer.....very unusual.
Was Lee Cobb in every film in those days
Love Lee J Cobb
I fell asleep with this movie. I have to watch it again.
Johnny o,clock would have gone to the electric chair because the police would not believe him !
Agreed
Good film noir with former song and dance man Powell (who, like Astaire and Kelly later on, almost glides across the screen in dramatic roles). It also benefits from appearances by two of the best "supporting" actors of the time in Lee J Cobb and Thomas Gomez. Shame about the jerky transfer in places. It doesn't detract too much - unless you're watching it at sea!
Tim Hepburn George Raft was a dancer and too James Cagney
@@robrutt7129 True. Raft was a particularly good dancer - better dancer than actor, some would say.
For a gangster movie, it's not bad! But the best part, with heart, is the end. I don't like when everything in a story hinges on guns. Looking for more movies with stories about people, just people with heart, without guns.
Actually not a lot of guns for the criminals, it goes with the turf, just like today. This was not a movie about good people, except for the blondes!
great flick