Noir Alley spotlights The Yellow Canary, starring Pat Boone

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Tonight TCM's Noir Alley screened The Yellow Canary, the 1963 crime film scripted by Rod Serling and starring Pat Boone and Barbara Eden. Eddie Muller introduced and closed the show, and viewers noted a 93-minute runtime and the film's cool 1960s jazz score and camerawork by Crosby. Several commenters said Boone financed completion of the picture so the production could pay cast and crew, and others described the script as a lesser Serling effort after Twilight Zone burnout but still entertaining. Reactions were mixed: some praised Steve Forrest and the supporting cast, others called Boone an odd choice for noir while acknowledging effective moments and setpieces. Noir City New York screened The Yellow Canary earlier this year and Muller's introduction referenced an interview from that screening. Muller's sign-off promised a more conventional noir for next week's Noir Alley.

CondimentGrrl aka Marcy

@condimentgrrl.bsky.social

Remember when Pat Boone did a heavy metal album? #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheYellowCanary

2434d ago

Library Ang12

Omg! Is this real? What? Why? 😳 #TheYellowCanary #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Stewart Moncure7

Someone played it at a record shop i was at the day it came out as a joke. I was guffawing through the whole thing. #TCMParty

Stephanie Morrison6

OMG, that’s insane. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheYellowCanary

DBjorkCA 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2

*shudders* Yeah, I remember this. Thankfully, never heard it but I do remember the ridiculous press coverage and seeing an interview or two with him. So very cringe worthy.

Rd bacon1

Honestly the most Satanic thing I’ve seen in a while.

Phyll Indablank

@phyllindablank.bsky.social

ngl the only Pat Boone song I know/like is the one he sings about collard greens w Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies #TheYellowCanary #NoirAlley #TCMParty

2434d ago

Hello Andrew3

That makes you one song more of a Pat Boone fan than me!

💙 Michael C. Cordell 💙3

That’s one more than me.

Michael Campbell

@moviemikec.bsky.social

Eddie said #TheYellowCanary wasn’t Rod Serling’s finest 93 minutes, but even lesser Rod Serling is pretty good #NoirAlley #TCMParty

2134d ago

Pam Newman6

I agree with you. #TheYellowCanary #NoirAlley #TCMParty

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul5

That's what I was thinking! #TheYellowCanary #NoirAlley #TCMParty

Sophronia Borgia, maybe.5

One way I could tell it was Rod Serling: The ex-cop beating up on the barroom floozy isn't a sign that he Gets the Job Done, it's a sign that he's a heartless psycho. Rod was a liberal to the last. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheYellowCanary

🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul

@celluloidsoul.bsky.social

Ok despite all the Pat Boone mocking, it's pretty cool he came up with the 💵 to make sure the movie got finished. It would be a bummer for all those people to have to walk away and go home, maybe not get paid for some of the work they did, have nothing to show. #TheYellowCanary #NoirAlley #TCMParty

1834d ago

Kim Britt Knits 🧶

@kphbritt.bsky.social

Noir Alley is back tonight: The Yellow Canary 1963. I saw it when it came out. I will never forget it. My sibs had the mumps. I was at my Gran’s. She had a babysitter take me. The girl hooked up w/ her b/f at the movie. I didn’t see her until after it ended. #tcmparty youtu.be/EhqSOavJ1jg?...

1434d ago

Jo2

Still waiting on that biography. 🤣

David A. Dike1

Was the b/f a (guy) ••• 🤔

Stephanie Morrison

@stephaniemorrison.bsky.social

Can we ALL agree that with every Noir intro and outro, @eddiemuller.bsky.social informs us in Hollywood history. I am amazed at how much content he downloads and I appreciate it. Feels like I am in a master film history class. #TCMParty

1634d ago

Andrija Popovic

@andrian6.bsky.social

Well, tonight I will be watching #TheYellowCanary on #NoirAlley where Pat Boone plays a domineering pop star shamelessly robbing from black artists to make it rich. What? #TCMParty

1434d ago

Van Stanwyck

@vanstanwyck.bsky.social

That is the most cooperative baby of all time. I don't even know why they had to mummify the babysitter. #TheYellowCanary #TCMParty #NoirAlley

1634d ago

Aldo Gandia

@shadowsspeak.bsky.social

If the kid could hold on for two more years all Pat Boone would have to do is wish him back home. #TheYellowCanary #NoirAlley #TCMParty with a corny joke just to post this photo

1634d ago

Teresa Rodriguez

@teresarwv.bsky.social

So glad she chose the leopard coat. If you're going to rescue your kid, be fashionable about it. #TheYellowCanary #NoirAlley #TCMParty

1533d ago

CT Million

@ctmillion.bsky.social

With all the TV actors in #TheYellowCanary , I'm not sure if I'm supposed to buy a Maytag washer, ID a dead body at the morgue, or "know nuuuthingk!" #NoirAlley #TCMParty

1534d ago

Pam Newman

@radiantaerynsun.bsky.social

"Crosby Stills and Nash. And Young. Just in case Neil is watching." You're the best, Eddie. 😁 #TheYellowCanary #NoirAlley #TCMParty

1534d ago

@gingergray.bsky.social

Looking forward to #TheYellowCanary on #NoirAlley tonight, with Barbara Eden & Pat Boone. Screenplay by Rod Serling. #TCMParty

1334d ago

dwayneadd.bsky.social

@dwayneadd.bsky.social

The #YellowCanary was screened as part of the Noir City New York edition several weeks ago. Here is the interview that Eddie mentioned from a screening earlier this year. #TCMParty #NoirAlley www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7UT...

1133d ago

Marci

@marcikay.bsky.social

BTW, Yellow Canary, the British espionage film, is worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. No wall-to-wall jazz score though. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

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