{"id":1273,"date":"2009-08-26T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2009-08-26T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:00:21","slug":"the-locket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"The Locket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/thelocket1947.jpg' title='thelocket1947.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/thelocket1947.jpg' alt='thelocket1947.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Locket<\/em> is a wonderful psychological noir featuring Robert Mitchum playing a Greenwich Village artist. It&#8217;s directed by John Brahm, a German ex-pat who learned his stuff at UFA then came over here to avoid the Nazis and made some great films. I got turned onto him through the 20th Century Fox Horror Classics dvd collection, featuring three films directed by Brahm- <em>The Undying Monster, The Lodger, and Hangover Square<\/em>. These are all great and definitely worth watching. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/john_brahm-bis.jpg' title='john_brahm-bis.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/john_brahm-bis.jpg' alt='john_brahm-bis.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>German Genius- John Brahm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A little research led me to <em>The Locket<\/em>, an RKO gem lensed by one of my favorite cameramen, Nicholas Musuraca (the original Prince Of Darkness). Brahm also directed a Raymond Chandler based film, <em>The Brasher Doubloon, aka The High Window<\/em>, a Vincent Price vehicle <em>The Mad Magician<\/em>, and the super groovy <em>Hot Rods To Hell<\/em>! He then directed a lot of cool TV, Outer Limits, Man from U.N.C.L.E. etc. An interesting note, Brahm directed some episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he directed a version of <em>The Lodger<\/em> years after Hitchcock did and Hitchcock&#8217;s <em>Marnie <\/em> is very similar to <em>The Locket<\/em>, but in my opinion inferior to the earlier B&#038;W noir. <em>The Locket<\/em> is not on dvd but you can watch it as I did on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-haeegPJqUk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-haeegPJqUk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The Locket- Part1<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Locket is a wonderful psychological noir featuring Robert Mitchum playing a Greenwich Village artist. It&#8217;s directed by John Brahm, a German ex-pat who learned his stuff at UFA then came over here to avoid the Nazis and made some great films. I got turned onto him through the 20th Century Fox Horror Classics dvd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,13,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}