Shadow of a noose.
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Found it! If you look about 20 feet behind the "Crab Digger" in his first appearance on the beach, you can clearly see a moose "squat walking" near the shore. It turn it's massive head towards the camera and pouts it's slobbering lips and reveals it's gnarly teeth. Cool scene! Now if I could just find the turtle in a toilet scene. It was cut because the director believed it added too much comic relief to an otherwise gloomy picture. The turtle was said to have "Splashed Egg-Nog on the crotch of Mr. Lancasters slacks. Why there was eggnog in the toilet with the turtle remains a mystery. Mr. Lancaster cried like a baby. That was his favorite pair of pants. All time favorite."
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I thought it added a nice noir touch and perhaps TV prints have faded but you can just barely see it hanging in the background in shadow when the scientist is giving Leona the final messages she must give to her husband about the beach house being closed, etc.
A minor tidbit but those small details make those 40s films what they were when first shown and are to us filmophiles today.
I have to disagree. It looks like the mark of an old frame removed from the wall. And they showed his suitcase packed with his hat on it, his jacket, and his umbrella all ready to leave. I think if it was a real shadow, it would have moved a bit.
shareIf it were a noose, where would the shadow be coming from? The only light was right in front of that wall. There is also no "shadow" at the top of the loop. So a noose suspended in mid-air? It's just some kind mark on the wall. Not a mark from an old frame though. His picture of The Horse Fair still hangs over the bed.
shareWatched again yesterday, and yep, I see it. Kind of in the corner just past the Horse Fair painting. Nice catch!
sharehe was planning suicide. he told Leona he could reached at The Bowery Phone number.
and that was the Morgue. last stop!
Brilliant Classics Guy- I hadn't considered that Evans' call was effectively a suicide message, but that makes so much sense.
Now, if I could only work out the significance of the camera zooming in on the Horse Fair painting in Evans' room then I'd be completely happy...
I would say maybe it signifies the ending of his long time dream.
his suicide message. the noose and the painting of the horse altogether.
he was a real victim here.