A car containing a bullet ridden blackmailer’s corpse is left in front of the police station. The daughter of a mayoral candidate had visited the blackmailer that day, and is brought in for questioning. A newspaper editor, who does not want that candidate to win, visits Lt. Carson and pressures him to tarnish the daughter’s reputation until the election is decided. Carson resists.
The corrupt medical officer takes orders from the editor, and is commanded to get the body out of the police station before anyone else learns that the blackmailer was poisoned before being shot. Some slapstick comedy ensues during attempts to smuggle the body out of the station. After further plot complications, the murderer and his motives are revealed. The mayoral candidate’s daughter is cleared of suspicion before her father’s chance in the election is ruined.
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Directed by Otto Brower, produced by Robert Bassler, written by Charles G. Booth and Scott Darling, starring Carole Landis as Janet Bradley, William Gargan as Lt. Sam Carson, Don Beddoe as Dr. Yager (Medical Examiner), Richard Crane as Johnny Williams (Reporter), Mary Anderson as Nora Bard, John Ireland as Det. Engelhofer, Charles Russell as Arthur Templeton, Roy Roberts as Max Calvert, Mabel Paige as Flossie, Stanley Prager as Ruzinsky (Milkman) and Charles Tannen as Ames (Reporter).
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Source: “Behind Green Lights” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 17 January 2013. Web. 17 March 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_Green_Lights.
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Noir ??? Drama ??? You must be kiddin', this is almost slapstick
Good movie. Thanks for posting.
What a good movie !
WOW! A movie I can actually watch – without LOUD ads interrupting all the way through! Thanks YouTube!
This movie was going ok….a more respectable corruption than the American police today and then they tried to make it into a comedy..booooorrrrriiinnngggg!! Why WHY do they introduce such ridiculous humbug into the movies…are audiences really so easily manipulated?? Then comes the infantile nonsense of the negro milkman wanting to buy the stinking old coat of one of the press reporters…. Yaaaawwwwwnnnn!! Anyway let's see if the stupid bits are quickly over and we return to a reasonable, weak in parts, murder mystery 5minutes later..oh brother!!…off she goes!.
Very good movie!!!!! This one is kind of "THE FRONT PAGE meets film noir" – and, for me, it works. Excellent writing, acting, and directing throughout. Thank you very much for sharing this little gem with us!!!!!
@Cynthia Chatman Actually, this was only John Ireland's second movie role. His movie debut was as Private Windy Craven in the 1945 film A WALK IN THE SUN. He was almost 32 years old when BEHIND GREEN LIGHTS was made.
An ironic thing about this movie is that its director, Otto Brower, who directed mostly "B" features, while also working as Second Unit Director on a number of "A" features, died of a heart attack at the age of only 50 on 25 January 1946 – just 3 weeks before this film's release date (15 February 1946).
Slapstick to me is seeing cops getting snuffed–realife G s–yt.Hollywood dnt do it right:dang,gotta hv the second-uniyt location crew take care o business.Extras gettin paid.Whuytuyp.
LOVE IT!!!!! Thank you ever so much! (I also enjoyed the absence of advertisements).
Sad that Carole Landis committed suicide at young age. Watching this film, you could tell that she was a great actress.
one of these actors looks a lot like Tom Sellock
Awesome movie with lots of cops in it with plenty of drama and mystery and I was born in 1946.
Years ago when I was a teenage we went to drive in movies and we saw 2 movies not that us boys cared about because we were making out with our girlfriends ( smile ) but it was true.
On a scale 1 to 10 I give this movie a big 10.
Thanks for the upload timeless classic movies.
Ed
Haven't seen this in a while! Good to see tonight. 🙂 Thank you for uploading and I love your channel. I love these old black and white movies. Unlike many others, I think colorizing films took something very good away from them.
Very good, nice twist at the end. Having just watched three or four film noir, I think this is the only one where the acting improves and is only "corny" in a way that adds to our perceptions of the era and its culture: "Why, you dirty rat". "Hey fella, get yer mitts off-a-me". "She's quite a dame, ain't she" and all that sort of talk!
Gotta love Old Flossy
good movie
sincerely grateful for posting such a kind of good movies, I enjoyed very much. Regards from Chile
Guy sounds like the radio voice of Johnny Dollar.
well done
this film was made on the planet zion where cops are humans ,and polite
@ 302 the guy says what ? times have changed ! to say this nowdays you would a ——–
those black bands on their hats stopped sweat showing
I'm really sick and tired of advertising all over the internet. It's now no better than turning on the TV, which I never do…
This movie is just a good old "B" detective movie…it is not Film Noir.
"Gosh I hope I don't pull any boners" In fifth grade we heard my friend's uncle use this expression and we laughed till we cried.
That hairstyle of her's looks like it took all night to assemble.
The abundance of smoking in these 1940s movies is crazy.
Charles Russell, (Nora's lawyer), is the poor man's dark Steve McQueen. 🙂
Another Timeless Classic Stellar Performance.
Great movie, I too loved this one.
Thank You
What a great movie!
Ditto. Another great movie, thank you very much for uploading all of these.
Yeah, ask her out for breakfast, Lieutenant. She's only 20 years younger than you, the beautiful daughter of a rich and powerful local politician, with the dress and manner of a Hollywood starlet.
Those were better times.
3:04: Hope I won't pull any boners. "Just mine JOHNNY, JUST MINE!"