This week’s mystery movie was the 1954 film Black Tuesday, with Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves, Milburn Stone, Warren Stevens, Sylvia Findley, Jack Kelly, Hal Baylor, James Bell, Victor Perrin and Russell Johnson.
Story and screenplay by Sidney Boehm.
Music by Paul Dunlap.
Photographed by Stanley Cortez.
Art direction by Hilyard Brown.
Set decoration by Al Spencer.
Edited by Robert Golden.
Makeup by Gus Norrin.
Sound by Tom Lambert.
Assistant director Sam Wurtzel.
Black Tuesday Blues composed and sung by Bob Parrish.
Produced by Robert Goldstein.
Directed by Hugo Fregonese.
Further information on Black Tuesday is available from the AFI Catalog.
Black Tuesday is available on Blu-ray in a box set from Critics’ Choice Video.
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I picked Black Tuesday by going through the trades and was pleased to discover that it’s a tough, excellent movie – powerfully acted and beautifully photographed.
I’m going to guess that Bosley Crowther disliked the movie, if he bothered to review it. Possibly he fobbed it off on one of the alphabet critics.
Indeed, it is reviewed (The New York Times, Jan. 1, 1955) by HHT, previously encountered in a review of Watusi:
Even on New Year’s Eve, it’s good to have a reminder that Hollywood still holds top priority in the gangster melodrama field. Take Black Tuesday, which accompanied the Palace’s new stage bill yesterday, with Edward G. Robinson playing his old, snarling, savage self.
We hastily add that this medium-budget United Artists offering, produced by Robert Goldstein, by no means reprises the sterling tradition of those cops-and-killers yarns about our urban jungles of the roaring Twenties, when the Robinsons, Cagneys and Munis cut their fangs. however, purely on a surface level, the new entry can snuggle up to them quite respectably.
For Monday, we have a mystery guest.
Update: This is Don Blackman.
For Tuesday, we have a mystery woman and Back of the Head Guy.
Update: This is Sylvia Findley with James Bell as Back of the Head Guy.
For “Hm Wednesday,” we have a mysterious man at a typewriter.
Update: This is Jack Kelly.
Brain Trust roll call: Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and all mystery guests).
For “Aha Thursday,” we have these mysterious folks.
Update: This is, from left, Than Wyenn, Peter Graves and Jean Parker.
Also these mysterious fellows.
Update: This is Victor Perrin, left, and Milburn Stone.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (mystery movie and all mystery guests, plus Back of the Head Guy), and Howard Mandelbaum (Wednesday’s mysterious reporter).
For Friday, we have our mysterious leading man and a mysterious companion.
Update: This is Jean Parker and Edward J. Robinson.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mystery guests), Greg (mystery movie, Thursday’s Nos. 2 and 4), Howard Mandelbaum (Thursday’s mystery guests), Incredible Inman (mystery movie, Thursday’s mysterious fellow No. 4), Mike Hawks (mystery movie, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s mystery guests), Suznchaz (mystery movie, Thursday’s mysterious priest), Benito (Thursday’s mystery padre), Sylvia E. (mystery movie and Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Thursday’s mystery guests), and Megan and Thom (mystery movie and all mystery guests).
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Moses Gunn, NOTHING BUT A MAN.
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An excellent guess, but alas, we did Nothing but a Man in 2018….
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At first glance for Tuesday’s BOTHG, James Stewart popped into my head, so I’m sending it in. I’m really still looking though. Monday’s guy looks so familiar.
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Monday: Don Blackman in BLACK TUESDAY (1954)
Tuesday: James Bell, Sylvia Findley
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BLACK TUESDAY. Don Blackman Monday, James Norris BOTH with Sylvia Findlay, and Jack Kelly today. Are you going with films I talked about from TCM Fest and Noir Fest?
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Jack Kelly.
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Jack Kelly
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Than Wyenn, Peter Graves, and Jean Parker, and Vic Perrin and Milburn Stone.
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Peter Graves and Milburn Stone has got to make this movie “Black Tuesday”.
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Than Wyenn, Jean Parker, Peter Graves;
Vic Perrin, Milburn Stone.
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Milburn Stone today, and our movie, in honor of the recent eclipse, is “Black Tuesday.”
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Jack Kelly, Vic Perrin, Milburn Stone and Jean Parker in Black Tuesday.
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“Black Tuesday” from 1954. With Milburn Stone as the priest. Can’t wait to see Edward G. Robinson!
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milburn stone aka doc in GUNSMOKE
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Thanks to today’s future TV stars:
“Black Tuesday” 1954
Monday – Don Blackman (I think)
Tuesday – Sylvia Findley and BOTHG James Bell (I think)
Wednesday – not sure
Thursday – 1) Milburn Stone 2) Peter Graves and Jean Parker (I think). The teller in profile is Than Wyenn (I think)
Tomorrow brings Edward G. Robinson
A lot of “I think”s this time. Interesting storyline and from the different sites and their reviews seems to be a pretty good litter ‘B’ picture.
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Our movie is Black Tuesday. Our guests in order are Don Blackman, Sylvia Findley, Jack Kelly, Peter Graves, Jean Parker, Milburn Stone, and Vic Perrin.
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Jean Parker and Edward G. Robinson.
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Jean Parker, Edward G. Robinson.
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Jean Parker and Edward G. Robinson.
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Vic Perrin was a noted voice actor. He was among many who auditioned for God’s intro to The Greatest Story Ever Told. He was hoping for a call back but his agent eventually called to tell he wasn’t being called back: George Stevens had selected Vic’s audition tape as is for use in the film.
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