Title : TCM's Film Noir of the Week at Midnight ET Saturday Night-Sunday Morning is Suddenly (1954), Starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden
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TCM's Film Noir of the Week at Midnight ET Saturday Night-Sunday Morning is Suddenly (1954), Starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden
By David in TN
Friday, April 6, 2018 at 12:12:00 A.M. ED
TCM's Film Noir of the Week at Midnight ET Saturday Night-Sunday Morning is Suddenly (1954) starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden.
Sinatra plays a would-be Presidential assassin with two partners. They take over a house overlooking a train station through which the President (Eisenhower in 1954) is going to pass.
They take hostage the family living in the house, including Hayden, who plays the police chief of the small town named "Suddenly." A widow living in the house (Nancy Gates) is being courted by Hayden, without success so far. (Note that beautiful Nancy Gates is still alive, at 92 years of age!)
Sinatra's character is a psycho WWII veteran who loves killing, and has been hired by somebody to kill the President. Sinatra has a good time chewing the scenery. Hayden's character is also a veteran. He scoffs at Sinatra's claimed heroics, enraging him.
It was a B film at the time, and looks in parts like a 50's TV show. Suddenly was filmed at Newhall, California, a small town 30 minutes north of Los Angeles. Note what the area looked like, circa 1954.
The subject matter is why Suddenly has some controversy attached to it. It was long thought Frank Sinatra had the film pulled from circulation after the JFK assassination, which apparently wasn't true.
Another legend is Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly watched Suddenly shortly before killing President Kennedy. The film doesn't seem to have been on Dallas TV during the period or in a local theater.
Still, a movie about a plot to kill the president took on extra meaning after November 22, 1963.
There is a similarity. In both the fictional film and real life, the shooter uses an enemy rifle from WWII. Oswald used an Italian Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, probably because it was cheap to buy.
Sinatra's character has a German G43 semiautomatic rifle, which the Germans introduced in the last year-and-a-half of the war to counter the American M1 Garand. In one scene, Sinatra has his minions bolt the rifle to a table due to “heavy recoil.”
Not so. The G43, like the M1, doesn't have a heavy recoil, due to being gas operated. I've collected WW II rifles and have fired both.
Suddenly repeats at 10 a.m. ET Sunday, April 8.
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