This week’s mystery film has been the 1959 French picture Deux hommes dans Manhattan or Two Men in Manhattan and I chose it to feature the Los Angeles Public Library’s new service of streaming films from the Criterion Collection. It’s provided by Kanopy and it’s free.
The plot of Two Men in Manhattan unravels about two-thirds of the way into the movie but the shots of New York (lots of hand-held camera filming on location) are interesting and it’s got a jazzy score.
For Mardi, we have a mystery gent.
Update: This is Pierre Grasset.
For Mercredi, we have this mystery gent because I’m a sucker for eyeshades …..
Update: This fellow, alas, remains unidentified.
…. also deux mystery femmes.
Update: This is Colette Fleury.
For Jeudi, we have a mystery homme… And yes, he is wearing sunglasses indoors – at night – because it’s a French film.
Update: This is Jean Lara.
… and another mystery homme.
Update: This is Jerry Mengo.
For Vendredi, we have our mystery leading man in the New York subway. Quoi? A French movie shot in New York? Are you sure it’s French?
Update: This is the director, Jean-Paul Melville.
Oui! I’m quite sure it’s a French film.
Update: This is Michele Bailly.
We also have a dead mystery homme – well, the character is deceased, anyway.
Update: Our mystery UN delegate remains unidentified.
Brain Trust roll call: Gary Martin (mystery movie and Tuesday’s mystery homme).
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Maybe Jack Kelly (from the original “Maverick” series)?
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Interesting guess, but alas, non.
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Dirk Bogarde?
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Alas, non.
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Christopher Plummer
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Alas, non.
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Dane Clark?
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Alas, non.
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Can we have a hint? Is he a singer?
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Non. Il n’est pas un chanteur.
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Is this Emile Meyer looking shady.
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Alas, non.
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Is Wed a young Catherine Deneuve?
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Alas, non.
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ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS.
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Alas, non.
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Picking up on the clues you’ve dropped I guess with little hope that Monday it is Daniel Gelin.
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You’re on the right track. 🙂Mais, non.
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I believe this is Deux Hommes dans Manhattan which I just saw recently from Netflix …a short Melville retrospective.
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Pierre Grasset in an icon herring bone overcoat is an iconic image and a dead give away.
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Sorry, but I don’t watch French films.
We get too much French up here as it is!!
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Tuesday is Phillipe Gasset. Wednesday I don’t know (je ne cest pas) .Woman looking at camera Colette Fleury. Man in shades Jean Lara. Older man ( newspaper editor) Jerry Mengo. On the subway Jean Pierre Melville, also the director, in another great 50’s overcoat. And the stripper, Michelle Bailly. Like our heroes, I cannot find the dead man.
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Jean Pierre Melville today and TWO MEN IN MANHATTAN.
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Doh! I saw this a few years ago at the Film Noir Festival. Jean Lara Wednesday and Jerry Mengo yesterday.
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Forgot Pierre Grassat Monday.
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TWO MEN IN MANHATTAN, the only dud in the canon of Jean-Pierre Melville. We see him as a straphanger. You must be repenting for posting Gladys Cooper early last week.
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I saw Pierre Grasset somewhere before, Turns out it was RIFIFI, a classic caper movie…
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