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Tracks from Hearing
the Detectives
- I
Recall Bacall (1451k) [1:32] — Title theme from Dick Trowel,
P.I.
(dir. Wally Harris, 1949). Story line: Out
from the mist by the Jersey City Stockyard Company’s pier in Hoboken
emerges a lonely male figure in a trenchcoat and Trillby. As he comes
into side-lit black-and-white close-up he lights a cigarette. The titles
tell us this is Dick Trowel, Private Investigator, starring Brian Hogarth.
He turns to look at the black Chrysler parked under a crane, and those
of us who recognise this famous film noir know that Trowel is hoping
in vain for Betty (Doreen McCall) to swing her shapely legs out of the
car’s driving seat door. But she has left him and gone up state, just
like the hoodlums Trowel helps send in the same direction. He walks
into the shabby warehouse building and climbs the stairs to the first
floor. He enters his spartan office. Melba, his over-made-up but devoted
secretary, has long since gone. Trowel starts musing philosophically:
maybe about Betty, maybe about the recent spate of home defeats suffered
by the Brooklyn Dodgers. He pours himself the last drops of bourbon
from the bottle in his desk drawer and looks soulfully out into that
late November night as the camera zooms back from his lonely window
into the crime-ridden cold and damp …
- Vindaloo
and Lager
(888k) [0:55] — TV theme. This Channel 99 series
was supposed to poke fun at anti-Asian racism in the UK. OK, it was
fine as long as the gang at the Taj on Liverpool’s Runcorn Road
spilt biryani sauce and Tiger beer all over racist lager louts who’d
been given a ‘free’ meal voucher and managed to get themselves tied
to their chairs, but it got a bit silly when most of the Merseyside
police force were supposedly locked up in the restaurant’s lavatory.
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