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I don’t think Macao formed part of any of Warners’ film noir collections, but I thought this might be a good place to record that I popped on the standalone DVD this evening, and it got as far as minute 56 before expiring. Disc rot or something.

It was part of the Mitchum box set

I’d prompt any owners of that set to check their discs. Pity, I was looking forward to the commentary on Sternberg’s treatment of the cast.

A man named Mike Malloy becomes obsessed with a short lived radio detective who shares his name, and begins tracking all the cross references between projects made by those involved, including the recurrences of references to Raymond Burr and Steve Brodie in Mann’s Desperate. I found this video unexpectedly touching in how it highlights little details and stories of bit players and creatives working in virtually forgotten projects all randomly exhumed by a mere quirk of a shared name decades apart

domino harvey wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 7:23 pm I found this video unexpectedly touching in how it highlights little details and stories of bit players and creatives working in virtually forgotten projects all randomly exhumed by a mere quirk of a shared name decades apart

Hey there! I'm that Mike Malloy, and I just found this comment. Thanks for the lovely words.

Since completing that video a year ago, I've befriended the only living daughter of the show's creator, and I have all his files and media now! A bunch of 70-yr-old documents and materials -- unbelievable!

I've just published a third video history of MIKE MALLOY, PRIVATE EYE now, using some of those additional materials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs1RYwuR_B0

If you get a chance to watch it, I hope you'll let me know what you think...
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