Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

MartinHafer "Two O'Clock Courage" is a nice looking B-movie. It has the nice RKO look--pretty sets, good direction and nice acting. However, the plot itself if pure B--not exactly believable and a bit over-familiar.The film begins with Conway wandering about in a daze. Someone apparently hit him with something very hard, as he walks right in front of a cab and nearly is run over by the female cabbie (female cabbies were common during WWII, as many male cabbies were in the service). Apparently the blow was so bad that Conway has amnesia--100% amnesia. Heck, he didn't even remember who he was or what he looked like! This is a relatively common Hollywood cliché--and another is a stranger (the cabbie) suddenly abandoning her job and spending the rest of the film assisting him figure out the truth. Also, if you nearly run someone down and they have a head injury with amnesia, wouldn't you either take them to the hospital or call the police?!?! None of this makes any sense at all. What follows isn't bad, but it's a pretty typical B-mystery movie that turns into a murder investigation.One big plus the film does have despite its silly script is Conway. I loved this man's elegant acting and it's a darn shame that drinking shortened his career. Oh, and if you didn't know it, he was the brother of the equally smooth George Sanders. You can tell by their incredibly suave and melodious voices!

blanche-2 Tom Conway and Ann Rutherford star in "Two O'Clock Courage," a 1945 film. Rutherford plays Patty, a taxicab driver who picks up an injured man (Conway) with amnesia. She attempts to help him, and the two are drawn into the murder of a producer. Her fare may or may not have had something to do with it.This film is more of a mystery/comedy, done with a light touch and a perky Ann Rutherford. She's pretty and bubbly, perhaps a little too much at the beginning of the film. Conway, who somehow, despite a similar voice, never had his brother George Sanders' smoothness, is good as a confused man trying to fake his way through a situation where he doesn't even know his own name."Two O'Clock Courage" has plenty of suspects and twists and goes on just a little longer than it needs to, but it's still a fun watch.

dgabbard A rather rushed whodunit, with the plot weaving all over the place littering the screen with suspects, motives and distractions. At the end we have an anti-climax solution followed by the real killer being revealed. Bewildering? Thankfully Mann's direction is solid and the main leads Tom Conway and Ann Rutherford do a good job putting over the somewhat unlikely plot.The Noir Festival programmer at the American Cinematheque in his comments before the screening (where I saw this gem) quipped like many RKO b pictures this one has story contrivances that cut costs like most of the characters staying in the same hotel. But it gets a bit much when Conway's character gives the police the slip to search a room elsewhere in the hotel which results in a fight that the cops can hear through the ceiling. Talk about plot contrivance!

David (Handlinghandel) This came before Anthony Mann's famous, unique and quirky noir. By the time it was made, there had already been many authentic films noir. However, this updates what had been a formula throughout the thirties: the romantic/comic/mystery. There is romance. There is some comedy. But instead of mystery: We have here a true film noir. (The difference between this and other entries in the genre makes the importance of a good director very clear.) It begins with Tom Conway, in an excellent performance, looking at a sign noting an intersection of two streets. He doesn't know where there are, where he is. Or, even, who he is. Amnesia, yes indeed.Now the comedy: Ann Rutherford, a female cab driver, happens by and helps him out. She calls her taxi Harry and, later, people get confused and think Harry might be the name of a suspect.Though this has its light moments, it is a dark little movie. (And little it is, at just a bit longer than an hour.) We have a comic newspaperman and a semi-comic police officer. But we have some genuine bad guys too, and some women who are right out of the noir canon as well.Among these is Jane Greer in a very early appearance. Though her role is small, she grabs out attention. The camera loves her, almost in the way it was to love a very different sort of performer: Marilyn Monroe. Though Greer doesn't have a lot to do or a whole lot of screen time, when she's around, we can't take our eyes off her. Now, there was real (and sadly underused) star!