{"id":40,"date":"2008-03-21T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T00:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-03-21T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T00:15:42","slug":"blind-alley-on-tcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/blind-alley-on-tcm\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blind Alley&#8221; on TCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blind Alley <\/strong>is going to air on Turner Classic movies on Tuesday, March 25th at 11:00pm EST.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/Filmography\/?directory=Blind%20Alley%20(1939)&amp;currentPic=14\" title=\"Blind Alley photos\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/Filmography\/Blind%20Alley%20(1939)\/Alley14.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/Filmography\/?directory=Blind%20Alley%20(1939)\" title=\"Blind Alley photos\">Blind Alley<\/a> <\/strong>was one of three movies Ann Dvorak filmed at Columbia in 1939. Based on a play by James Warwick, the story involves an escaped convict (Chester Morris) who, with his gang, takes over the lakeside home of a psychology professor (Ralph Bellamy) and holds the family hostage while waiting for a  getaway boat. Dvorak is Morris&#8217; devoted gun-toting moll.<\/p>\n<p>This psychological drama is far less gruesome than the play it was based on, and it&#8217;s sometimes a bit hokey when taking us into the troubled psyche of a hoodlum. That said, it&#8217;s still one of  my favorite Ann Dvorak films of her post Warner Bros career and I have watched it many a time. She looks stunning and it&#8217;s not often she had the chance to play a character with such a nasty streak. Chester Morris is a favorite of mine (<em>loved<\/em> him in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/6303092012\/104-5041142-4377545?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=anndvoholsfor-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=6303092012\" title=\"Order The Big House\" target=\"_blank\">The Big House<\/a>), so it&#8217;s great Ann got to play dame to his thug. <strong>Blind Alley<\/strong> was remade a few years later as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Past-William-Holden\/dp\/630282480X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=video&amp;qid=1206144274&amp;sr=1-1\" title=\"Buy The Dark Past\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Dark Past<\/strong><\/a> with William Holden and Nina Foch.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recall the last time <strong>Blind Alley<\/strong> was aired on TV, so this one is not to be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blind Alley is going to air on Turner Classic movies on Tuesday, March 25th at 11:00pm EST. Blind Alley was one of three movies Ann Dvorak filmed at Columbia in 1939. Based on a play by James Warwick, the story involves an escaped convict (Chester Morris) who, with his gang, takes over the lakeside home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-where-to-see-ann-act"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anndvorak.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}