This is a time I often wake up. Somehow in a noir film, the clock can be so glamorous. One of the things I love about noir films is that the industrial post Bauhaus design aspect of the 1940s is usually in evidence. How can you not love to look at this beautiful clock with perfect shadows? You can almost hear the loud ticking. What's happening just now? A mysterious phone call? Some of my favorite clocks appear in Trouble in Paradise directed by Ernst Lubitsch in 1932. A little early and not technically a noir, but the lighting foreshadows (so to speak) noir lighting. And it has one of my favorite lines in it. The brunette heroine Kay Francis says: "Marriage is a beautiful mistake that two people make together." Sweet!
Love Herbert Marshall's relaxed elegance, and the costumes and set design are flawless!
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