When one of the really good movies shows up on You Tube, I always want to inform readers about it so that they can watch it if they so choose.
Not that we can't all rent or buy the classic films on Amazon Prime and watch, but there's something wild and fun about finding one on You Tube for free.
If you can't stand the ads that some You Tube uploaders pepper their videos with, you can run it through Free Ad Block and you will have no ads. Aaahhh! Relief! - And the pleasure of a fantastic film!
And - you want to catch the movies we recommend ASAP, because after they get put up on You Tube, they get taken down by - I don't know who - some "Wet Blanket"....
I think it was a couple of years ago, we featured the information that Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949) was on You Tube - two different ones, the same movie, but one in the original black-and-white, and one in color. (How do they "colorize" movies?) And pretty soon - a few days or weeks - I went back and checked, and both of them were gone.
And then just recently, a few weeks ago, I think, I promoted All About Eve which was on You Tube - it's gone, now.
So the one I want to inform you of, now, is Laura, directed by Otto Preminger, starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. The excellent stage actor Clifton Webb also has a central role.
The movie is permeated with personal style and atmosphere.
It has "dissolves" - where the scene you see on the screen sort of melts away and you see a different scene in its place.
I love that - it makes the film flow more smoothly and dreamily, instead of the jerky, disjointed "cutting" from one scene to another.
You need cutting, sometimes, but in later movies, they use it all the time, with never any dissolves, someone decided that was better, & I don't think it is.
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There are two videos on You Tube with this movie, both from the same channel / uploader, named Kovboy Filmleri
The one to watch has the title "Laura I Mystery Movie" - and it says under the title "12 days ago" - meaning it was put on you tube 12 days ago, or by the time you get to it, it might say 14 or 15 days - recently.
The other one from Kovboy Filmleri has a different title and was put up 7 months ago. The sound cuts out on that one.
The good one starts without the opening credits or music or title of the film - I think the uploaders sometimes cut off the opening to try to have it go undetected on you Tube for a longer time before they take it down.
So it starts with the voice over: "get the weekend..."
What he said was "I shall never forget the weekend..."
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