On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:25:03PM -0700, Kevin Burton Smith
wrote:
> Not that I know of. You're probably thinking of
Geoffrey Homes'
> HUMPHREY CAMPBELL, another milk-drinking eye, who
appeared in NO
> HANDS ON THE CLOCK (1941, Paramount) and CRIME BY
NIGHT (1944, Warner
> Brothers), as well as five novels. If you actually
saw these films,
> you're one (or two) up on me.
>
> We get the Mystery Channel, but all they show are
Mike Hammer reruns,
> mostly (and NOBODY'S THAT BIG a Stacey Keach fan).
Maybe one day the
> Campbell flicks will show up on Turner Movies or
something.
I have not read the novel it's based on so I can't say how it
compares, but I have seen Crime By Night. It was on TCM a
month or so ago and I recorded it onto my Tivo. It was better
than I expected. Murder among the well-to-do in a small town
(with a corrupt sheriff) and investigated by a PI who can
take a punch, and often does.
One of my favorite character actors, Jerome Cowan, plays the
rather sleazy PI. Jane Wyman is his assistant and gets star
billing. It would have been better without her.
It has the bloodiest murder scene I've ever seen in a movie
from that era, and a fair number of fist fights and
beatings.
I don't recall the PI drinking milk, however. Oh well, can't
have everything.
Mark McGlone
dmcglone@san.rr.com
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