In this Universal 1945 episode of The \xa0Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year, we look at a couple of noir-adjacent films, Robert Siodmak's\xa0The Suspect, starring Charles Laughton as an abused husband who looks for a way out of his miserable marriage when he meets sweet and lovely Ella Raines, and the comedy/crime film\xa0Lady on a Train, which stars Deanna Durbin as an exuberant and resourceful murder mystery addict who gets involved in a real investigation when she witnesses a murder from her train window. And in Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto, we discuss three short documentaries about James Baldwin, along with another Douglas Sirk masterpiece,\xa0There's Always Tomorrow\xa0(1956).\xa0
Time Codes:
0h 00m 35s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 THE SUSPECT [dir. Robert Siodmak]
0h 27m 39s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 LADY ON A TRAIN [dir. Charles David]
0h 38m 11s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto \u2013 TIFF Cin\xe9math\xe8que \u2013 There\u2019s Always Tomorrow (1956) by Douglas Sirk and three short documentaries about James Baldwin
Studio Film Capsules provided by The Universal Story by Clive Hirschhorn
Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler
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