Movie Notes from the Rust Belt.........Youngstown, Ohio Whilst perusing the “Crime” catagory of Pub-D-Hub on my ROKU box, I tripped across that 1944 thriller, Dark Mountain. Truth be told, I don’t have much use for movies from the 30s. They’re made in a completely different way, and, like so many other things, I just don’t like them. But movies beginning in about 1942 (the war years and beyond) really turn me on. Dark Mountain was probably shot in one take and in a couple of weeks tops. It’s got everything, all packed into less than an hour. Love, betrayal, good guys (in this case, the U.S. Forest Service), bad gangsters, a wonderful girl, a goofy side-kick, comedy, a car chase, a cute dog, a woodie station wagon, and a happy ending. There’s not much of a story to get in the way of the beautiful mountain scenery, classic cars, and sometimes snappy dialog. Wonderful girl marries a gangster, but she doesn’t know he’s a gangster. She gets caught up in a murder investigation