Dish of the Day (A Lost Weekend Edition)
Just some film musings of a more succinct, spontaneous and sometimes seditious nature:
Friday, July 17, 2026
Today and this weekend on TCM:
Immediately following The Asphalt Jungle (1950), stay tuned for Nicholas Ray's character study In a Lonely Place released the same year. This is another highly probative film noir with Humphrey Bogart perfectly cast as Dixon Steele whose unpredictable explosions of anger make him a prime suspect for the killing of a young ingénue. It was previously recommended here and will be investigated Friday, July 17 at 7 pm PDT.
(From left) Humphrey Bogart, Don Hamin
Dark Passage (1947) is a wildly engrossing film noir that combines the best of romance with the best of noir in the best location for both: San Francisco. Previously endorsed as a Blu-Ray release here, Bogart will make his dark (rite of) passage down Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley Saturday, July 18 at 9:15 pm PDT and again on Sunday, July 19 at 7 am PDT.
That’s Humphrey Bogart as Vincent Parry standing at the crossroads of Greenwich Street (behind him leading to Coit Tower) and Hyde where he will soon board the Hyde cable car. This will take him to its final stop: the turntable turnaround at Powell Street and Market (seen below).
From the same director who brought us Citizen Kane comes another kind of cinematic hero (of sorts). Michael O'Hara, who like the deeply flawed Kane, is flawlessly played by his creator Orson Welles. Unlike Citizen Kane however, this film fell under its producer Harry Cohn's butchery with considerable footage lost and destroyed forever. Nevertheless, what survives is vastly entertaining and not to be missed. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) was previously recommended here and will arrive at TCM Sunday, July 19 at 3:15 pm PDT.
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Hope to see you Monday, July 20th.
A.G.