Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Kaelan Mccaffrey
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
wsnoce
Ford was a natural for film noir, and "Framed" illustrates this. He is a more vulnerable character than we're used to seeing him play in his other films, and he seems to be easily duped by a beautiful blonde(Janis Carter). Carter puts in a solid performance and should have been in more films of this type. She is perfect as the scheming and seductive Paula.Barry Sullivan is a bad guy here, the co-schemer with Paula. While the plot is somewhat predictable, it does include enough surprises to make it a good film noir. It puzzles me that Framed has apparently not been released on any format in video in either Region 1 or Region 2.Perhaps Sony will produce a Volume 4 of Columbia film noir and include Framed.
madmonkmcghee
One of the great things about film noir is that even though the key ingredients are over-familiar, if cooked up right they still taste fresh. A case in point is Framed, with a storyline straight out of chapter One of "Let's make a Film Noir". Down on his luck drifter meets a conniving dame who thinks he's just the ticket to act as the fall guy in her murderous scheme. Except that the potential patsy is way ahead of her and saved by his suspicion of dames that are just a tad too eager to help a total stranger they barely met. He almost falls for her obvious charms, but pulls away from the abyss just in time to turn her over to the law. No way he's gonna take the fall for her. When his partner is falsely accused of murder, he's supposed to do something about it, right? (Thanks,Bogey!). Yes, you've seen it all before in better and worse movies than this, but this one has everything we like about noir and served up in just the right way. Enjoy!
gordonl56
FRAMED - 1947I have had this one laying around for several years gathering dust so i decided it was time for a viewing. What a great little film noir it turned out to be!Glenn Ford, Barry Sullivan and Janis Carter headline this classic femme fatale ditty. Ford is a man who gets set up to take the fall for a bank robbery. The bank manager and his girl, played by Sullivan and Carter, plan to help themselves to $250 grand of the bank's cash. They plan to liquor Ford up, plant Sullivan's id on him and stick him behind the wheel of Sullivan's car. Then off a cliff and let the fire take care of the rest. Sullivan however has underestimated just how much Carter wants the cash. She applies a monkey wrench to the back of Sullivan's head instead of Ford. She then lets Sullivan take the spin off the cliff. Carter then sets Ford up as Sullivan's killer. Needless to say Carter's perfect plan is anything but. Carter comes across as a Joan Crawford clone in this one. A cold and calculating femme fatale if ever there was one. A brisk and to the point noir with cast and crew all shining. Great time-waster. (b/w)
bkoganbing
Framed casts Glenn Ford as the drifter with a chip on his shoulder who doesn't make a good impression on his first arrival in town. He takes a job driving a truck with faulty brakes that crashes into Edgar Buchanan's car and gets himself arrested in the process.A mysterious blond waitress played by Janis Carter pays his fine and gets him out of a 10 day jail sentence. For what she's got in mind, it would have been better if he took the 10 days.She's the tootsie on the side of Barry Sullivan the Vice President of a local bank by marrying the boss's daughter. He's embezzled a whole lot of cash and wants to run away with Carter. But Carter starts to develop ideas of her own.This starts the web of a whole lot of double crossing and dirty dealing by the feckless lovers. Framed is a nice little noir film and I love that Maltese Falcon ending.
