Went to the Noir festival at the Castro last week. A couple young ladies from work wanted to go so we went together. Their combined ages (and weight) didn't add up to mine.
The movies were pretty bad. I Love Trouble was quite forgetable, except for a little snappy dialoge. Pushover was more interesting but had some serious flaws like horrible music and some scenes that needed to be editted way back.
Both were written by Roy Huggins who went on to do a lot of TV (Rockford Files, etc.).
So the dialog with Kim Novak (her first movie) was pretty snappy, but her haircut was terrible. Pushover (great title) had some interesting noir-ish elements but Novak's character wasn't really a femme fatale.
I gave the young ladies a ride home and felt both kinda old, and kinda lucky.
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