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Written by James M. Tate / 1/29/2021 / No comments / con man , edmond o'brien , hubert cornfield , julie london , laraine day , maury dexter , mexico , neo noir , sixties , thriller

HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS EDMOND O'BRIEN IN 'THE 3RD VOICE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjcKVLfpzFDJ0k15RmIEXPFAhya1QQplchZ5cLCK3HnMC3Fwx0FdUX4mf9QxV1IEWhK__BullFOkCBfBYuo8WmBzfvJxbcV3Wqg97Szeck8CRormJgUW0TVzm96RPR5LTVohwMA7iRsBB/s517/3RDVOICE1SHHRws.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="517" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjcKVLfpzFDJ0k15RmIEXPFAhya1QQplchZ5cLCK3HnMC3Fwx0FdUX4mf9QxV1IEWhK__BullFOkCBfBYuo8WmBzfvJxbcV3Wqg97Szeck8CRormJgUW0TVzm96RPR5LTVohwMA7iRsBB/w400-h399/3RDVOICE1SHHRws.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: The 3rd Voice Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/01/thetameone.html">THE NIGHT AND THE FOLLOWING DAY</a>, the infamous Neo Noir with a troubled production and problems with star Marlon Brando that ended the Hollywood career of director Hubert Cornfield, it's important to go back and see how Cornfield made his few genuine film noir vehicles, or in this case, post noir, the period before anyone knew exactly what noir was to realize it had ended...<br></p><p></p><p>Enter THE 3RD VOICE, a B&W thriller (produced by Maury Dexter) that plays out like one right up to the casting of Edmond O'Brien as a hired con artist who works very hard to impersonate the voice of a blowhard rich man, hired by his disgruntled secretary, another veteran in an effectively sassy, snarky Lorraine Day, and the set-up about O'Brien learning the man's voice and dealings is covered with more expository polish than the rest of an intriguing yet sporadically unfocused thriller... </p><p>Taking place in Mexico, where O'Brien, now solo, maintains the impersonation, mostly during a string of nervous phone calls (that include Noirish self-narration), and where the typical human "close call" occurs, almost meeting one of the real man's old friends. And it's all suspenseful enough. But how exactly he's decided to get all the money (as the actual con plays out) is confusing... Yet everything becomes more clear when the big twist is revealed, and it's a pretty damn good one. But besides sexy ingenue Julie London and the well-shot wheeling & dealing, this is Edmond O'Brien's energetic one-man-show, playing the hell out of two people at once! <br></p><p><span></span></p>

con man, edmond o'brien, hubert cornfield, julie london, laraine day, maury dexter, mexico, neo noir, sixties, thriller

HUBERT CORNFIELD DIRECTS EDMOND O'BRIEN IN 'THE 3RD VOICE'

Title: The 3rd Voice Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2 Before THE NIGHT AND THE FOLLOWING DAY , the infamous Neo Noir with a troubled production and...

ALFRED HITCHFORK'S 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' WITH JOEL MCCREA

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Formerly doubled w/ <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/02/berlinC.html">Berlin Correspondent</a> Foreign YEAR: 1940</u></td></tr>
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Instead of gentle giant Gary Cooper, who was director
 Alfred Hitchock's original choice, and an actor most directors were in 
love with, it's lanky Joel McCrea who intrepidly traipses around Europe,
 specifically Holland and London, in search of an important man who's 
memorized what would possibly end the looming Second World War...<br>
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Had
 Cooper played New York reporter John Jones (using a
 heroic pseudonym), he'd probably be a lot more serious and deadpan 
within this extremely important, perilous assignment/situation compared 
to McCrea, who, dapper and always joking around no matter 
how dangerous the risks, cruises passively shotgun in a vehicle driven 
completely by the adventure at hand, which means lots more than the 
character: he's as a proverbial kite is to the breeze, and extremely 
breezy at that.<br>

action, adventure, alfred hitchcock, espionage, forties, george sanders, joel mccrea, laraine day, martin kosleck, war, world war II

ALFRED HITCHFORK'S 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' WITH JOEL MCCREA

Formerly doubled w/ Berlin Correspondent Foreign YEAR: 1940 Instead of gentle giant Gary Cooper, who was director Alfred Hitchock'...

'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' HAS RELOCATED

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Martin Kosleck as Tramp</u></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/02/kosleck2.html">CLICK HERE TO THE NEW HOME OF 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' </a></span>

action, adventure, alfred hitchcock, espionage, forties, george sanders, joel mccrea, laraine day, martin kosleck, war, world war II

'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' HAS RELOCATED

Martin Kosleck as Tramp CLICK HERE TO THE NEW HOME OF 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT'

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