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Dualist Wins Criterion DVD for Correct Answer in FilmsNoir.Net screen cap contest

March 4, 2011 by wondersinthedark

Update March 9 2009 – Dualist correctly guessed The Dark Mirror (1946)

Tony d’Ambra has generously offered up a free sealed Criterion DVD of Samuel Fuller’s Pickup on South Street as acknowledgment of the recent celebration of noir and Maurizio Roca’s current countdown. Only the WitD staff members are exempt from participation. The screen cap is shown below. First correct answer in the comment thread wins the prize – clues will be progressively added at bottom:

Clues – clues will be added as the Noir countdown progresses:

A Hollywood film
Not The Woman in the Window (1944)
A shrink at half the price.
Not Shock (1946)
More than one mikado
Not The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)
William Talman is not in the cast.
Olivia and Olivia

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Posted in Uncategorized | 31 Comments

31 Responses

on March 4, 2011 at 1:21 pm | Reply DeeDee

Hi! Sam Juliano, Allan, Tony, and WitD readers…
Nice Move Tony!…Good-Luck! to the…Winner!
DeeDee
on March 4, 2011 at 1:28 pm | Reply Ed Howard

Am I the only one who can’t see the pic?
on March 4, 2011 at 1:42 pm | Reply Sam Juliano

Ed, I am at school now, and just got onto the WitD site. The picture is up; are you still having trouble seeing it?
on March 4, 2011 at 1:42 pm | Reply Ed Howard

Never mind, now I can. Don’t know what it is, though.
- on March 4, 2011 at 1:43 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Good show. I’m sure clues with be forthcoming Ed.
on March 4, 2011 at 3:07 pm | Reply Jaime Grijalba

“Only the WitD staff members are exempt from participation.”

Frack.
- on March 5, 2011 at 1:16 am | Reply Bob Clark
  
  Actually, it’s spelled without a C, Jaime. At least in the modern BSG era, anyway (that way, it can be a real four-letter word).
on March 4, 2011 at 4:27 pm | Reply Maurizio Roca

I think I know this. One of two possibilities. Someone is looking at a great dvd if they answer correctly.
on March 4, 2011 at 4:28 pm | Reply Jamie

We should offer prizes more, love this idea!
on March 4, 2011 at 8:05 pm | Reply Frank Gallo

A Woman in the Window?
on March 4, 2011 at 10:11 pm | Reply Tony D'Ambra

I will be offering clues as the countdown goes on. The first is that it is a Hollywood noir.

Sorry Frank, it is not Woman in the Window.

I will add the clues to Sam’s post so they are all in the one place, and add a link to the comp on the SideBar.
on March 6, 2011 at 8:36 am | Reply Drew

Is it The File on Thelma Jordan?
on March 6, 2011 at 11:57 am | Reply coffee messiah

Yikes – could never guess these in a million years, but fun to see how the answer evolves – Cheers!
on March 6, 2011 at 10:25 pm | Reply Tony D'Ambra

Clue #3: A shrink at half the price.
on March 7, 2011 at 1:22 pm | Reply Dualist

Shock, 1946
on March 7, 2011 at 1:53 pm | Reply Sam Juliano

Duallist, you seem pretty certain there! Hope it pans out. Good guess from you too Drew.
- on March 7, 2011 at 2:27 pm | Reply Dualist
  
  Not quite sure.
  Just guessing from third clue. On assumption that it’s no Edward Dmytryk. That’d be too easy for WitD!
on March 7, 2011 at 11:03 pm | Reply Tony D'Ambra

Clue #4 Sorry Dualist, not Shock (1946)
Clue #5 More than one mikado
Clue #6 Sorry Drew not The File on Thelma Jordan (1950)
on March 8, 2011 at 7:47 pm | Reply Dualist

No clue.

Does William Talman act in it?
- on March 8, 2011 at 10:24 pm | Reply Tony D'Ambra
  
  Sorry Dualist William Talman is not in it.
on March 8, 2011 at 10:28 pm | Reply Tony D'Ambra

Okay let’s make it a WHOLE lot easier.

Clue #8: Olivia and Olivia
on March 9, 2011 at 6:39 am | Reply Dualist

Drew came pretty close to it! So it is a Robert Siodmak film. The Dark Mirror (1946). Olivia de Havilland dual role.

I’m not complaining (esp. with the prize involved), but I haven’t seen it yet!
on March 9, 2011 at 9:53 am | Reply Tony D'Ambra

Congrats Dualist!

Send your mailing address to bazarov@gmail.com
- on March 9, 2011 at 11:36 am | Reply Dualist
  
  Thanks Tony. I mailed my address.
on March 9, 2011 at 11:36 am | Reply Dualist

The elation of winning makes me want to contribute to such contests in future. Next countdown perhaps? What’s the genre/criteria? Will decide the prize accordingly.
on March 9, 2011 at 1:10 pm | Reply Sam Juliano

Congrats Duellist!!!

You hung in there throughout!!!

Of course your participation would be appreciated in every sense at this site. Suggestions are most welcome.
- on March 10, 2011 at 4:21 am | Reply Dualist
  
  Nothing more than conduct the next ‘screen cap’ contest for April. The DVD will depend on the genre countdown around that time.
  - on March 11, 2011 at 7:15 pm Sam Juliano
    
    You’re on for that Duallist!!!!!
on March 16, 2011 at 5:23 am | Reply dudo wook

looks like Ingrid Bergman. my guess is “Spellbound” by Hitchcock.
on March 22, 2011 at 7:52 am | Reply Dualist

Picked up “Pickup On South Street”
Thank you Tony.
http://i52.tinypic.com/9jeu1d.jpg

Btw, I have decided the gift for my April Screencap contest. It’d be sealed criterion blu-ray disc of Tati’s “Playtime”. Watch out.
- on March 22, 2011 at 12:07 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Gezz, that’s fantastic Dualist!!!!!