“Somewhere in the Night is directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz who also co- adapts the screenplay with Howard Dimsdale from a story by Marvin Browsky. It stars John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson and Fritz Kortner. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by Norbert Brodine. 

George Taylor (Hodiak) returns from the war suffering from amnesia and trying to track down his identity by following a trail started by a mysterious man named Larry Cravat. Pretty soon George finds himself thrust into a murder mystery where nothing is ever as it seems. 

The amnesia sufferer is not in short supply in film noir, neither is the returning from the war veteran, but Somewhere in the Night may just be one of the most under appreciated to use these central themes. Amongst film noir writers it has a very mixed reputation, yet the trajectory it follows is quintessential film noir stuff. 

George Taylor (Hodiak assured and rightly playing it as low-key confusion) is very much at the mercy of others, thus he finds himself wandering blindly into a labyrinthine murder mystery. His journey will see him get a beating (no matter he is one tough boy), pulled from one suspicious location to the next and introduce him to dames, a stoic copper, a shifty fortune teller and a “too good to be true?” club owner.

The screenplay is deliberately convoluted, making paying attention essential, and the script blends tongue in cheek nonchalance with spicy oral stings. 

The locations Taylor visits are suitably atmospheric, even macabre at times, which allows Mankiewicz and Brodine (Boomerang/Kiss of Death) to open up some noir visuals. Dr. Oracles’s Crystal Ball parlour really kicks things off, fronted by Anzelmo (Kortner deliciously shady), it’s a room adorned by face masks on the walls and lit eerily by the glow of a crystal ball.

Then there’s Lambeth Sanitorium, with low-lit corridors, many doors that hide mentally troubled patients and the shadow inducing stairs. And finally the docks, with dark corners down by the lapping silver water, a solitary bar at the front, smoky and barely rising above dive status. These all form atmospheric backdrops to enhance the suspicion and confusion of the protagonist. 

Nancy Guild (apparently pronounced as Guyled) didn’t have much of a career, and much of the criticism for the acting in the film landed at her door, but unfairly so. It’s true that she’s more friendly side-kick than sultry femme fatale, but she has a good delivery style that compliments the doubling up with Hodiak. She’s pretty as well, a sort of Bacall/Tierney cross that’s most appealing.

Elsewhere Conte and Nolan offer up the expected enjoyable noirish performances while a host of noir icons flit in and out of the story, making it fun to see who will pop up next? There are undeniably daft coincidences and credulity stretching moments within the plotting, and in true Mankiewicz style the film is often very talky, but it’s never dull and quite often surprising, even having a trick up its sleeve in the finale.”

(1058) Coming up to elevenses folks, back in bed, about to snooze, quite a few jobs done all the same, spirits not bad (single malt, cognac), pleasantly shocked by the energy account balance, shall post this, then crash for a short while. (1146)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. It’s car attacks on the indigenous time again

8. This item some days old now

… just clearing the backlog …

7. Two nice articles imho at The Daily Sceptic (url in blogrolls)

First is this one DAD covers at 1203:

Second involves confessions of a former Beeb man:

“The BBC has always been very Left-wing. But it didn’t used to be biased.

I should know because I was one of those identikit Left-wingers who worked at the BBC for 25 years. Everyone thought the same: Thatcher was mad, the poll tax was evil, immigration was a good thing, the rich should be taxed and nuclear weapons were immoral. These liberal-Left attitudes were shared by the vast majority of the people I worked with in the British Broadcasting Corporation. With a few exceptions.

I remember a quiet young man called Robbie Gibb who appeared in the BBC’s Millbank complex in Westminster in the 1990s when I was presenting BBC political programmes there. He was a Tory, so I was informed, as if he had some affliction which was unfortunate but which should be respected and not mocked.

And on the whole he was respected.”

6. Andy

History doesn’t always repeat itself but often rhymes. Regime change needs a reason in the minds of the proles, in the past it has been either sponsoring terrorists or weapons of mass destruction. This time it’s narco terrorists. I am coming to the conclusion that Mr Prez is not all that he seems to be or is very poorly advised, maybe even compromised.

 

Glad he’s had his tech issues sorted, inc. sound:

(0915) That was a tough night … not just the damage to the roof and the downpour inside but I was having heart recurrence which is always the sign to shut up shop. It was still bad by Saturday [1] externally, wild wind, window blown out and flood inside, so with seven tubs deployed, it was crash time … and here I am now, tubs and old teatowels washed and drying. Abode itself warm enough. Carpet washed and drying.

IYE you can read in situ lower right in sidebar … link here. (0945)

 

5. Justin

I was watching a sort-of-ok interview with Kathryn Porter at DailySceptic, when I was asked a question by a family member. It turned out the answer was in this, for my money better interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgHbCqzQGkc.

TL;DR: KP is an extremely well informed energy expert. Knows how leccy and gas work, at a market/economy level. The 2nd is well worth 90 minutes of your time. Tea and a biccie and learn stuff.

JH: I’m thinking … and don’t quote me on it … but Steve also covered this lady … either way, worth a look.

4. Steve at 1203

• Meet Michigan’s Dead Voters: Several Voted “In-Person,” Others Voted “Absentee” — One Voted 41 Years After He Died
• Is Texas About to Fall to Islam? JH: Under Abbott … yes.
• [Anti]Pope Leo Embraces Transgenderism
• Trump Announces He Will Order Pam Bondi to Investigate … JH: Sounds like a Bondi promise
• Trump DHS Launches Nationwide Operation to Locate Hundreds of Thousands of Migrant Children That the Biden-Harris Regime ‘Lost’
• Explosive Night: Russia and [The] Ukraine Exchange Massive Strikes
• Kiev’s Darkest Day; Zelensky Begs More Missiles After Huge Russian Kiev Strike
• Former MAHA director warns that COVID-19 vaccine issues are intentionally hidden, as RFK Jr. is manoeuvred into compliance … JH: This is the one I ran at OoL and in Sat 1 here
• BBC doesn’t only have a global audience, it also heads the Trusted News Initiative, a global coalition of media to tackle “disinformation”
• Much more.

3. Rolf in Now and Next on the trainwreck PMQs

HERE … excerpt here:

“Despite its Net Zero zaniness Labour is losing voters to the Green Party, the “limes” who are eco-green outside and Pally-green inside – its leader “Zack Polanski” named “calling out the genocide in Gaza” as one of his missions and within a week of taking over got Conference to label Israel “apartheid.” Sir Keir’s paltering over “Palestine” has not stemmed the outflow which has split like the four rivers leaving the Garden of Eden: Greens, Lib Dems, Reform and militant Islamists.”

2. DAD at 1203

a) Ambarès-et-Lagrave (33): Two mosques installed in silence… and the rumor of a third is fueling tensions against the Socialist mayor, Nordine Guendez….

b) Paris: A Sudanese illegal migrant arrested for desecrating the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A 23-year-old man … born in El Fasher, Sudan….

c) Lies, damn lies and statistics… Bar graph of the intention to vote in the Presidential elections in 2027: do you believe this….

(0352) Morning! Not all that well, heart, gastric, last night’s storm, crashing again till maybe 0730, then to DAD, Steve, IYE, Andy. (0524)

Delve into the messenger first, to understand the angle

We have a watch list accessible from the navbar at Unherdables and it’s not the usual Obama, Blair etc. known-knowns … but the players behind the scenes in the current punditry, the ones who go under the radar because they’re the Paul Reveres they’d have you believe.

There are any number of people, often under reinvented moniker, who “rush” “breaking news” to you … they’re never there to examine in depth and to learn … watch out for these is my advice, just who are they? Whom are they representing in reality? Which lobby?

Part of the sum total of non-Wokerati pundits are the “would be big stars of punditry”, often with their own big followings and own site, e.g. Guido, but also a new breed, often found on substack for some reason, e.g. Dan Wooton. As one who uses substack himself, it has severe limitations … it’s for the pundit who wishes to bring the scoop or column in simple form, centre page, to be a “highly respected oracle, a go-to quotee” … these are the minor media empire builders.

What I’m asking you the reader to do is to be a bit more circumspect, a bit “uh huh, I’ll read you but what are your own antecedents, whom are you shilling for?” Before taking onboard and parroting. Beware those who are always wanting to bring the big scoop, the “Breaking News”.

I didn’t say dismiss … I’m saying place it alongside, on the table before you, with all the other “incoming”.

Slow down, examine, even against your own bias, your own natural inclinations. Sometimes a labelled “hostile” who may well be that due to his/her bad decisions on who’s good/who’s bad may have been diverted offtrack on some things. To my mind, blind faith in Donny is just as dangerous as TDS … slow down, examine via “trusted” sources you’ve built over time. Just whom are they lobbying for?

An obvious “be careful” is Ben Shapiro who may or may not have had a hand in the CK demise but is a known Nethanyahu European Zion exponent. Against that are almost the entirety of Whitehall, quite pro-deathcult and flooded-in illegals. Candace is another … I’ve read the criticisms, usually Zionist, which does not necessarily mean Jewish, which is another thing (see Revelation 3:9).

Beware those who immediately turn on you for quoting from the NT … what are they themselves? The secular Settled Science is god set? Again, be circumspect instead of grabbing your bat and ball and storming off.

Currently, I’m looking at this about Susan Wiles, gatekeeper to Donny, also exploring Ann Vandersteel:

…who seems more ultranationalist in a Stew Peters way, similar to Red Ice. I’m also posting this:

The links you need for that are currently at NOWP 1203:3 (Evets 1). And anyway, how sound are Natural News? And how about Gateway Pundit? Again, don’t dismiss out of hand but be circumspect.

Which brings me to navigation and transparency. If you visit any site, you should go straight to the About, to who’s funding this guy/gal? If it’s hidden away somewhere under all the waffle, if he/she won’t state his/her bias … then be most circumspect, reader. Some, like Rhoda at Expose, are basically sound, just derivative … as I am … name me a pundit who is not derivative … that’s quite different to carving out an empire on the back of other people’s resources and investigation.

Flag is often an indicator … my flag is the Cross of St George but also the Union Flag, but am also MAGA, pro-Orban, secret liking for Giorgia, I like people who use ✝️ in the profile but beware again … so does the socialist Chicago pope and the Canterbury graffiti loving new archbish to be, the rainbow ratbag. And the jargon “ratbag” is a giveaway too, it says Oz influence … I could have said “tosser” instead for her, or for Blair, Brown, Mandelson, Obama, Holder, McCarthy (ex House Speaker). Could have used “jerk”.

Then we should note strange likings, e.g. mine for Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Rupert, not Farage. But even here, apply the 70/30 rule. For every person we have misgivings about … do we like less than 70% of what they’re about? If we like 70 to 90% about them, then they’re on the “fairly trusted” list. I’d worry if you were 100% for any human.

(1709) Evening all. Wet and windy outside around here.

 

26. Xfriend Deryl wrote

“I have a roof leak and obviously the roofer doesn’t want to come back out in rain . He came yesterday but only made it worse . Am currently in loft stuffing rafters with absorbent material until it finally stops raining.”

I replied:

“Deryl, I hadn’t quite latched onto us being in a storm. True the rain started coming in through the roof … put out a tub … then the kitchen window blew open. Uh huh. A bit windy, thought I. Are we in a storm?”

Slowthinking day today. Um … er … do you have some wind and rain where you are?

25. Snippet

Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi both worked at Ballard Partners, a prominent lobbying firm with pharmaceutical clients including Pfizer.

24. So much for a formal, hierarchical church

23. The Ukraine Madrid connection

https://substack.com/home/post/p-178867522

22. Digital ID

21. Steve corner

Hearts of Oak at 1203: Dr Bradley Thayer – Identity Under Siege: The Trump Call to Counter Radical Ideologies

War Room at 1203:

• Mark Mitchell: An Entire Generation Has Been Priced Out Of The American Dream. The Right Kept Repeating “They’ll Never Choose Socialism,” But They’re Starting To Because The GOP Never Delivered
• Mark Mitchell: Remember The “Christmas Massacre” Of 2024 When The Youth Rejected Ramaswamy’s Defense Of The Indian Work Culture? Americans Aren’t Lazy Or Stupid; They’ve Been Sold Out
• Charlie’s Kirk’s Plan for Revival: 1 – Mass Deportations 2 – Stop The H-1B Scam 3 – Dramatically Reduce Legal Immigration 4 – End Chain Migration And The Visa Lottery 5 – Build 10 Million Homes For Americans 6 – Crush The College Cartel
• Richard Baris: One of the GOP’s Biggest Problems? Donors Fund Cocktail Parties, Not Ground Games. Democrats Write Checks To Win. Republicans Write Them To Network
• Claire Dooley: The World We’re Building With MAHA Is One Of Science, Not Censorship. We Don’t Silence Voices; We Win With Stronger Arguments
• Natalie Winters: US Army Funded Research At China’s Top Semiconductor Lab Targeting America’s Chip Dominance

 

Better late than never? Judge for yourself.

“This noir B thriller from 20th Century Fox shows the temptations that the police are under. William Gargan stars and plays a doggedly honest cop who has a homicide literally dropped on his doorstep at the precinct headquarters. It’s almost like someone was taunting the cops to solve this one.

The victim in Behind Green Lights was a seedy private detective who had a nice sideline in blackmail and no one really is going to mourn his passing. But the case is loaded with political implications because Carole Landis, daughter of the reform candidate for mayor was seen leaving the victim’s apartment.

The largest newspaper in town is supporting the current administration and Roy Roberts says that the easiest thing in the world for Gargan to do to advance his career is pick up Landis and book her. At least until the election is over which will be in a few days. Something about Roberts sticks in Gargan’s craw. He could easily justify holding Landis and helping his career, but he won’t do it.

There’s a nice array of suspects and by definition performances. There are two keys here, a very sleazy medical examiner played by Don Beddoe and a bag lady played by Mabel Paige. Between the two of them the real story comes out.

Behind Green Lights bears no small resemblance to Detective Story in structure. Most of the action takes place in the police station. This film is nicely paced with a few good comic touches. I can’t mention them because they are within the plot structure and not just added on. This noir film is a good one to check out.”

(1328) Afternoon all … well wasn’t that knitting fun!

 

20. Gates of Budapest

19. Kamikaze bike bombing?

18. Germany wants war

… will they invade Poland first … or the Sudetenland? North Minehead?

17. Tina Peters again

16. We might have had this one before

 

Sorry to get this to you so late, boys … knitting needles ready? Then we’ll begin:

Truth is, I’ve been through quite a journey to even find this lady … the Swedish lady knitter I’ve never posted I tried to thirty minutes ago and she’s disabled embedding so that’s her gone.

So I started going through all these knitting vlogs and discovered so many horrors … yes, dear reader, I bullsh you not … horrors! Now I never had this with crocheters … they seem to be more upmarket in the gentility stakes. The crocheter I used to go to was Daisy but in this one, she put herself in the vlogframe and it … er … cough … did not seem appropriate for our male heavy readership.

So I started looking at knitters. The number with bones through the nose, multicoloured wokeleft hair and all sorts hanging off their faces was offputting … one even seemed mutilated.

Eventually, the only one I could sit through was this lady above … no offputting head extensions, nor offputting noise (“music”) plus the English accent was quite different to the flood of American and European knitters.

Now, there were one or two men knitters … possibly quite acceptable chaps for the ladies, not knocking them, but it didn’t float my boat, nor I think … our readers.

So it was by no means straightforward.

10 minutes later … checked out this lady … was puzzled by her calling it Fall instead of Autumn … nothing on her profile page but there was a (she/her pronoun … oh dear no) … there was also an Instagram link … it’s not Victoria at all bt Wiktoria … no idea where from. Poland?

Hmmmm, sounds a bit Essex at times, sometimes Aussie (“wanna”), think she’s eastern European because of the name and also the good RP quite often … the ESL teachers do try to linguistically get students as close to RP as they can.

(0756) Morning all … went back to bed, am restarting the day now. Ooo, lovely drizzle out there. (0904)

 

15. Moosh corner

14. AJ Roberts

“Why do you think ALL the police commissioner roles are being dissolved? How many of them actively know about grooming gangs, the who’s who on the payroll at a minimum. It’s a lot easier on the public eye to make them all redundant than arrest them en masse and put the frighteners in the minions that they control. Although there’s going to be some very nervous people in these establishments. Watch new revelations come out daily now. The Art of War – EO 13818 in full swing!”

13. Spotlight on Susan Wiles again

Tiffany Cianci is the second person this week to allege that Susie Wiles has crushed MAHA.

“She was a huge lobbyist and negotiated all of Pfizer’s demands during Covid.”

“To pacify the donor base, [Susie Wiles said] we’re going to give Bobby Kennedy HHS, we’re going to plant a… pic.twitter.com/xn71PayxEf

— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) November 13, 2025

12. The House of the Rising Sun

No, I’m not running The Animals’ iconic version yet again but I did explore the history of the song on youtube … which was most interesting … all about Alan Lomax, Dylan, other versions and it traced the song back to 1937, 1934, with references in the 1860s and early 1900s …

… but then if you go to the Wiki entry, it broadens it to Britain and Europe and goes back centuries. That’s when I could see no great percentage in pursuing it as a standalone post, except for some curious asides along the way.

Alan Lomax’s father was heavily involved in Americana, became involved with The Library of Congress on that score … but … and it’s a big butt … he was also fired and blacklisted for being an out and out communist (post war McCarthy’s time). A communist concerned with Americana?

Also throw in Pete Seeger, ultraleftist, with the song ITHOTRS and it gets murkier. Go back even further to Papa Lomax teaching at university in Texas but the governor of the state firing him and others, only for the governor to be impeached and sacked, only for his wife to become governor and Lonax teaching again at university … and the story broadens.

And what of the song? Well if you have a female singer, female version, it means one from a brothel … but if a male version, then a den of iniquity … booze, gambling … the stuff of legendary folk ditties.

My feeling is that for centuries, so many people used it for their own purposes, framed the way they wanted.

So I shan’t run a standalone post on it. ☺️

11. Po plach o n’yom

That’s transliteration of the Russian song by the group Chaif (USSR dissident, iconic Uke/Russ musical band) from decades ago and the extended line says: “Cry for him while he’s still alive, rather than after his dead.” It’s an “ochen narodni” song, meaning a real heartland song there, as you can see from the concert in their latter years, with a new youth following.

One of the lines, in fact the opening few words of the song, the chorus in fact, are: “Za’chem teb’ye znat?” which roughly translates as “for what for you to know” or “why know”?

And that question is the one I ask myself often, especially as we bring you the collected grim world news in an effort to stay up to speed as a news service but also to delve, go down rabbit holes, in order to get to the truth. Somehow, it seems, like Tina Peters, that we must.

So there are all the normies and wokerati out there, quite oblivious to the truth, they know many are unhappy with things, they blame “far right malcontents” for stirring things up, not accepting the narrative to oblivion. After all, the Beloved Leader has said the far right are the enemies of the state.

So I ask the question yet again … zachem tebye znat? For what purpose for you to know? Why upset you, reader, when you can head for oblivion oblivious, like cattle to the slaughter?

And a perfect example is that, in the light of a recent post in which I ask just how aware people are that they’re about to be slaughtered … along came the 10th anniversary of Bataclan, yesterday.

https://nypost.com/2016/07/15/horrifying-details-of-the-bataclan-theatre-massacre-revealed

There are all sorts of warnings people neither see nor heed.

So that question again … za chem tebye znat?