Hugo Haas John Agar & Cleo Moore Deliver a Fascinating Late Film-Noir
Hugo Haas, borrowing from Rodney Dangerfield Signature Line, "Gets No Respect".
He Got, Certainly, No Respect from the Hollywood Factory, was Ostracized when He Wasn't being Ignored, and Sent Packing to the Fringes of Low-Low Budget Film-Making to Apply His Talent.
"Necessity is the Mother of Invention", and Hugo Made-Do and Cranked-Out His Little "Slice of the Dark-Life-Look-Ins, on the Folks, Streets, and Stories.
Hugo Haas and Film-Noir Formed a Bond, and Produced some Significant "Primitive Art" that is, for the most part, Still Gets Little Respect to this Day.
Film-Noir has become More and More Respected, but Hugo Haas is one of its "Workers" that Still Lingers in the Shadows Waiting for Recognition. His Day Will Come.
Haas "Worked" in a Place that Main-Stream Hollywood Abhorred, and the Spirit of Film-Noir Found Fascinating, a Genre that Created Itself by Spontaneously Erupting to Life and Flourished in the 40's & 50's.
"Hold Back Tomorrow" is a Very Strange Piece of Work.
The Story of a "Murderer" and His Last Night Before the Hangman, Requesting a "Woman-Companion" and some "Music" John Agar is the Doomed-Man and Cleo Moore is the "Woman".
She, is First Seen Being Pulled from the River in an Attempted-Suicide.
There's a Noir Opening if there Ever Was One.
The Script Bends Over Backwards Trying to Define Her Profession, Suffice to Say, Former Factory Worker, Waitress, Dance Hall Dame, Escort, and Without Coming Right Out With It (the Code), Prostitute.
The 2 Noir Characters "Hook-Up" in the Hoosegow and to Say More would be Saying Too Much.
Because it's a Scene that Defies You to Find Another in the History of the Movies that is Remotely the Same Story.
Unique is an Understatement.
Discover this Hidden-Gem and See For Yourself Just what Mid-50's Films were Capable of with No Support from the Hollywood Elite or the then Current Conservative Restraint from "Gate-Keepers" of All Sorts.
This is "Primitive-Art" at its Best.
