Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951) Crime-Mystery | Richard Travis, Tom Neal
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Can fingerprints be faked? That's the question that crime specialist Richard Travis must ask himself when he finds Richard Emory's prints on the gun that was used to kill the town's mayor--but many, including the mayor's daughter, refuse to believe that Emory was responsible. More twists, and a second killing, lie ahead in this offbeat mystery.
Cast: Richard Travis, James Stover, Shelia Ryan, Sid Melton, Tom Neal, Margia Dean
Director: Samuel Newfield
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The organ music seems better suited for a roller skating rink.
Or a horror movie.
According to Wiki, Margia Dean is alive and is 101 years old.
😢Her remarkable mother still looks after her.
She died on June 23, 2023.
@@orbyfan Wow, that's sad. It had happened just after I had posted that comment. RIP Margia Dean
Which character did Margia play in this movie?
@@keithharvey7230
Jesus, how the hell old does that make her mother 123 yrs old?
I think I finally figured out what really killed off silent movies...that damned horrible organ music!
My guess is that someone's aunt was an unemployed silent movie organist, and they got her a job on this film! Not a bad movie for such a low budget.
Nowadays someone with a computer can score a movie by using a copy of every instrumental sound there is.
@@389383 8
The music sounds more suitable for a B horror movie
Sounds kind of like a haunted roller rink.
@@richardchambers3533 Or a Roller Skating Rink.
"Friendly Freddy" and idiotic organ score....geez
The bumbling photographer gets old pretty quick. And the organ music is out of place in this movie. Better suited for a monster flick.
Very good resolution and i liked the unusual music also- poss novelty is probable. Agree the comic photographer i wouldn't miss. It,s free and easy to watch, so thank you for providing this interesting film!
Very nice film. From today's perspective, the bumbling photographer adds nothing to this film - wish they has left it out. Perhaps audiences of the period liked this kind of cheesy humor, in the post-war period.
but hes the samdwich delivery guy o dick van dyke show fer christ sakes a legend
And he did hook up later on with Captain Midnight ...
Post war? The Korean Police Action was in progress. The Republic of Viet Nam Police Action was being set up by the UN. Oh yes, cheesy humor is always popular to everybody.
Second rate, Sid Melton was obnoxious.
He was never that good.
Was made even worse by deplorable backdrop music and the inept photographer character.
An intelligent mystery film. However, the clownish press photographer failed to be remotely amusing, and could easily have been dispensed with.
Have to agree with you on this clownish photographer being an annoying character in this movie. Just not a likeable comedy relief.
I wish someone could tell me what commercial that plodding sound was from that was being played in this movie.
That and the hokey organ and choral music in the background. Ughhh.
Because breaking and entering always makes for admissible evidence.
That actor portraying the photographer is often inserted in these noirs as a goofball comic relief…usually unsuccessfully.
Doesn't get anymore B movie than this, I bet the music budget was $500.
Actor Sid Melton plodding along gets tiresome pretty quickly. Sooo move on along. Too much of the movie 🍿 is devoted to this. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🥴🥴🥴🥴😡😡😡
The role of the stupid photographer was totally unnecessary.
Music is horrible after awhile
corny carping cameraman
That camera man almost ruined the whole film for me!!!
The actual plot of the movie was good.. but the inane organ music and the ‘comical’ photographer (Sid Melton) made this film unwatchable. This must have had a very low budget such that they couldn’t use typical noir background music in the movie. The organ music reminded me of an early silent movie being shown in a theater.
How come low budget showed Richie Rich Richmond father in law unrelenting killed?
Oh my God. That organ music.
You're not going to start singing an opera are you?
"You're a brilliant idiot" i have to remember that one😊
Tom Neal was unforgettable in Detour.
Worst Photographer ever😆📸
Great little film Well worth an hour. Enjoy. September, 2023.
Highlights of this film: 1. The all pervasive, tacky organ music! 2. The stream of comic photographer gags! 3. The 'accomplished' surrealistic artwork adorning the Bohemian artist studio!
That dye job dame's a fink I tells ya, a real fink!!!!
That photographer from Green Acres was too irritating..Had to fast forward him‽
Please tell me how gloves don't cover the palms of someone's hands...😅
Ask O.J.
Yep, was wondering how that line ever made it in too.
Some don't, it depends what the gloves are for..
Music doesn't fit this movie.
Music sounds like a soap opera.
It’s hilarious!
It ruining the movie
Not a bad movie but the music is absolutely awful. 😱
Sounds like a low-budget radio show from the 40’s
Damm, you beat me to it.
The photo reporter with the never ending camera issues routine reminded me of why vaudeville died.
2 American films copied that scenario.
Weird church music. Nice device about forged prints. The camera guy does not help.
The organ music is really over-the-top.
That's a polite way of saying that it SUCKS.
The police can legally lie to you, but it is a crime to lie to the police! 🤪
Yes very true...get a lawyer before saying anything!
They can't in Australia, they get sacked for that shit..
That photographer guy is so annoying
Annoying? He isn't THAT good. Between him and the organ 'music', I'm leaving right now at the 13:08 mark.
this was a really bad film the idea of it isn't bad but it really needed a better script and while Sid Melton could act thankfully them doing the same joke over and over was tiring. i got so tired of it that when he was trying to shoot those models i fast forwarded it. i'm just grateful it had good acting though
He goes through kelso apartment without gloves.
Now kelso could easily frame him
Great movie. Could have done without the camera guy! So it gets a 4 out of 5
I can hardly sit through this film with that soap opera organ.
Not a bad little matinee B film. Except for 2 things could of been better:
1- obviously Melton was put in for comic relief. For what? The film didn't have us in suspense of danger, it was very mild.
And Melton was irritating. Not funny. So dumb ....
2- producers saved a little money by not having a real musical score . Instead hired someone with an organ . Terrible.
Other than these 2 glaring problems , a nice little B film
Thank you for sharing this great movie.💙🕊🌟
Its a good film but why the organ.
cheaper than an orchestra
dreadful soundtrack.
Sid Melton could ruin any film.
His “comic relief” didn’t offer much relief in this film!🙄
What a different kind of movie with organ music reminiscent of the Silent movie years and the old Serials. I couldn't decide if I liked it or not...!!
At 5:37 the photographer looks at information board and mentions Sid Melton is wanted for murder. This is an inside joke. The photographer was played by comic Sid Melton.
"Wanted for murder Sid Melton!" Now that is a funny line.
His irritating comic schtick here made me want to murder him!
Whered the disgusting , ridiculous music come from
By having organ music in the background, I feel like I'm watching a vintage soap opera!
Prints on the gun!!! The mayor was killed with a PHONE (something not likely to happen these days. It used to be a person could be killed with just a phone's receiver. Phones were very heavy).
The choice of music for this film was very odd.
I saw a film-noir recently where a woman was under attack from someone in her house and tried to call for help but the intruder intercepted the effort so she clocked him with the phone and killed him. I don't recall if the DA reversed the charges ...
What producer in his right mind ever thought attaching sid Melton to the project would add value to the content
He must know the producer. Blaaah.
Its was terrible the same joke over and over
He grew on me. Kept it from being too Dragnet-y.
it's a Robert Lippert film apparently it said it at the end and if what i hear is true that he was his brother in law and was forced to put him in films.
@@rolandofgilead43
I know that Sid Melton appeared in 3 or 4 Robert Lippert movies. However, I can't find evidence
(Wikipedia) that he was ever married at all. Does anyone know if Robert Lippert was his brother-in-law?
Quite a good film - trying to prove a man's innocence ... 💯
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
I enjoy a kitschy movie once in awhile. Not bad and held my interest.
The beautiful Sheila Ryan, wife of Pat Buttram from 1952 until her untimely death in 1975 at age 54.
MIster Haney! Hey, Mr. Douglas, can I interest you in a bathtub? Eddie Arnold: "that's my bathtub. You stole it from me!"
Richard Travis later appeared in episodes of “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp”, which used also some soundtrack from this film.
David Couch. That's an interesting bit of trivia.
Sid Melton...Friendly Freddie in Gomer Pyle USMC.
Lot of hate here, but i think of it like a radio play that they were trying to figure out how to film. The organ music and the narration early are very much like something you'd hear on the NBC radio hour or whatever.
The organ background music is horrible.
Interesting, but totally second rate.
Movie is horrible...Sid is annoying has no acting ability....just wasting time has nothing to so with plot...horrible movie...
The comic with the camera is way out of place. His stupid acting grates on me.
When the guy falls through the window after being shot, you can still see him lying there just below the window frame. That's 55 minutes I'll never get back
so what? He was laying on the fire escape.
@anthony1947 There aren't any minutes you'll get back.
@@KarmicSalt So she screamed because he fell 1 foot.
56 minute lesson on how to not establish and maintain a chain of evidence.
Ha! You gave seen our current DOJ, right?
Okay...@45:58 Lt. Grayson has a secretary named, "MISS GRAYSON"?? Wondering if the guy flubbed his line. So much about this movie makes little sense to me. Lol😂 Also, at @46:48, there is a sign pasted to a wooden door that says: "HOMICIDE DEPT."...but, @45:19, it's a glass door that says: "HOMICIDE OFFICE - LT. GRAYSON".
The door is multi-tasking
A foolish script, a unbearable "comic photographer", an irritating organ music, totally inappropriate... but the girls are gorgeous, and the painter, Richard Emory is very cute.. That's all to be said.
So, you were smitten.
The strange organ music did not fit this movie and it drove me nuts. Weird.
The producers used it because it was public domain or they'd already paid for it for some other movie that didn't use it.
35:09 You may remember YOU took his prints on that very spot and that fingerprint power could be yours.
Just a thought.
Lyle Talbot - in 100% of all movies between 1950-1960
If you can’t deal with organ music…pass on this one. It drove me mad. And of course that goofy actor portraying the photographer was a bit much.
Sniff, sniff.
crime mystery comedy...😉 lots of comic relief to which the organ music added
The original negative containing the theatrical release music has been lost. All that survives is the television negative, which has the so-called "music" most people object to. Film decomposes, so we made the movie available in the only format available to us. The only other option would have been to never show the movie again and just let it decompose.
As a professional silent film accompanist and organist, I take exception to the term "so-called music', but I realize it's not everyone's cup of tea.🤓
The organ music makes it sound like a silent film.
K, here is the story on the organ "music." The producer, Robert L. Lippert, paid for original music to accompany the movie in theatres. When television came along he didn't feel he should pay again; the composers disagreed. Instead of paying, Lippert commissioned organ "sounds," with no melody or anything that could be considered a song.
@@kitparker9448 Interesting backstory.
Photographer is obnoxious
Soap operas used organ music at one time too.
Released February 23rd,1951
All these old 40'stype movies always have to have a comedian as a time filler, too bad they could have had a good movie.
It is a 1950s style movie.
Early on Sid Melton 4rth wall joke...actually funny.
too bad we can't all make a career out of being an oaf.
I don't know where to begin here, so I won't🤐💩👎
finger prints can lie when they are stolen by illegal copying
Nowadays, they'd be able to pick up traces of the copying, eg the sellotape
Fingerprint expert says, "I don't think anything." Hilarious!!!!!
The organ music is distracting!
❤️ Lyle Talbot
Not too bad a movie - I enjoyed it late at night.
What I don't like about films from the 1950s is that it inobvious everyone back then had to go to the bathroom back then, which is frankly disgusting. That's not at all as it is in 2023.
What's with the creepy funereal music, almost spoiled the film.
There's lots of things that spoiled this movie.
Oh no, Sid Melton alert.... Why is he always popping up in these old mysteries? The whole movie grinds to a halt every time he does the same old schtick, film after film. And also, what's with the funeral home music? Weird.
The funeral home music? Well, the mayor and the Police Commissioner were dead.
Okay, I just started this. The Police Chief is the murderer.
dude wheres your spoiler alert ? rude my dude
@@michaelhoffman5486 Anyone could figure out that only a police official could place his own fingerprints on the card assigned to the suspect.
Wow! You're so astute. Whoops! Forgot to take my "stop smartassism" pill today.
Less than halfway thru and I'm identifying this as an earlier attempt at a SOAP OPERA.
They all basically know each other, they only had one person to throw under the bus, the SO background music---GOAT! 🤣🤣😆😆
That photographer needs to get a different gig, because this one isn"t working for him, and he's beginning to get on my nerves with all of his incompetence.
This was my second time to watch this film. It provoked my curiosity. It has all the earmarks of an attempted "cash cow" effort, but then , maybe just a hardscrabble budgeted film to prove you can make a film; a "pride" issue, financed by whom; ???. The production values were good; camera, sound, lighting; but, i think the actors were forced to wear their own clothing, the "cheesy" scientific kit, the asinine lab, and small apts. ( a Police Commissioner only can afford a one room apartment?), so sets were ill conceived for the movie. The plot? Well, as those three letter government agencies state, "plausible but deniable." As Buddy Holly sang, "...Think it over..."
I love old monochrome films and am pretty tolerant about them but this was terrible. There is absolutely nothing much to it and they had to pad it up with that very very annoying photographer who cannot use a flash. Even with all that padding it comes up short. Then there is the terrible music like they would have in a cheap drive in B movie. Terrible film that could have been done so much better but then it has nothing to work with.
Simple minded and silly.
What a cheesy movie.
IMHO Sid Melton's scenes add nothing to and detract from the plot. Otherwise, the film is watchable.
Is dis a filum or church service
Why is it that women had such
slim waists back then?
No junk food and a more active life style.
It's rare that I don’t finish a movie. This one was just too slow.
And he's done his medal s worth. Brilliant with or without Brilliantine. 📷 Man
this is a fun watch, i love the old time organ music too. 🎥😊
nice film with a bit of comedy thrown in
Ridiculous😃
Organ makes me feel like roller skating