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TCM's Film Noir of the Week is Back!

 

 

By David in TN
Friday, January 5, 2018 at 5:55:00 P.M. EST
 

George Raft, the man who made Humphrey Bogart a star, with his dear childhood friend, Ben Siegel. Some people called Siegel “Bugsy,” but not to his face. Not, that is, if they wanted to live. Siegel is also famous as “Moe Greene,” the name that Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola gave him in The Godfather (1972), in which Alex Rocco (1936-2015) played him. Siegel/Greene was a figure of such mythic stature that even in death, he played a huge role in The Godfather, Part II (1974). Puzo and Coppola gave the Meyer Lansky character, “Hyman Roth” (Lee Strasberg) one of the greatest speeches in pictures about Greene.
 

 

TCM's Film Noir of the Week returns Sunday, January 7 at 10 a.m. ET. This week's feature is Red Light (1949). It stars George Raft and Virginia Mayo, with Raymond Burr in another Noir "heavy" role.
 

George Raft and Virginia "Ginnie" Mayo  

Raft is a trucking business owner whose brother, a priest, is killed on the order of Burr, whom Raft had caused to be sent to prison.
 

Raymond Burr, left

 

 

I read in a film noir book that George Raft “couldn't act.” Presumably, this is because Raft tended to give the same characterization in every film.
 

Gene Lockhart

 

N.S. Fortunately, Raft also had bad professional judgment. Humphrey Bogart became the immortal “Bogie” by taking great roles Raft had rejected, like Baby Face Martin in Dead End (1937), Roy “Mad Dog” Earle in High Sierra (1941), and Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon in the same year. However, if Raft had taken them, we probably wouldn’t even know they were so great.

Dead End (1937)  

High Sierra (1941)  

The Maltese Falcon 1941

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