Earlier today was at the hospital w/my wife (she’ll be fine) and semi-watched a few minutes of a B/W movie (no sound on the set). The characters addrressed the camera as a character, but in what I saw we never left this subjective POV to reveal who (or what) the character was.
I believe I may have spotted a young Lauren Bacall driving an old panel van gabbing away with this unseen person.
From what I saw, it seemes like something I might like to seek out. Looked to be late-1940s/early-50s.
I don’t recall seeing him, but I really only know Montgomery from the boxer goes to heaven and forty years later Warren Beatty follows him movie. After Bacall, “Camera” talked to a cabbie, then went to a hotel room and talked to some guy there. I think a pair of hands (the hands of the camera character) handed the guy in the hotel a saxaphone.
Well, hard to tell, but that sounds like it, I guess. I only saw maybe ten minutes of it, and wasn’t paying super close attention. There was a scene where we do see somebody with a completely bandaged head that looked to be filmed in regular omniscient (or whatever the word is) camerawork.
At that moment, the deoctor called and that was all I saw.
I’m guessing Dark Passage. It’s got Becall, it’s got Bogie, and it’s playing in rotation on TCM right now, says IMDb.
The early scenes are all character POV of a con who breaks out of San Quentin. Becall and a friendly cabbie take the con to a plastic surgeon and after the bandages are removed the con is Bogie. I don’t remember any saxophone, but it’s been decades since I’ve seen it.
Thanks, that’s it. It may not have been a sax, as I said I wasn’t giving it more than compartmental attention, but I thought I remembered him handing something with “keys” to the guy in the hotel. Hell, I may have been thinking of something else in yet another corner of my mind as I saw the scene.