The Great Piggy Bank Robbery: Duck Twacy investigates a piggy-bank ring of grotesque villains in this Daffy Duck cartoon short. Animation by Robert Clampett. (Warner Brothers) (1946, c.8 mins, Color, 16mm, Print from Kit Parker Films) Lady on a Train is that rare hybrid, a comedy film noir; not a spoof of the detective story (it's a genuine murder mystery-thriller), but a subtly satiric paraphrasing of the noir ethos. As noted in Film Noir: An Encyclopedia of the American Style, "it parodies Cornell Woolrich's aura of fateful circumstance and quaint or pathological characters...The photography of Woody Bredell evokes the same atmospheric New York that he captured a year earlier in Phantom Lady." Deanna Durbin, an unlikely detective if ever there was one (unless we remember Nancy Drew of our youth), turns amateur sleuth when from her train window she witnesses a murder in a Harlem flat. Enlisting the unwitting aid of a mystery writer (David Bruce) who prefers his thrills in writing, she worms her way into the lives of the victim's eccentric family (Ralph Bellamy and Dan Duryea-as brothers?) and does a Singing Detective turn, impersonating the dead man's songstress mistress. (Numbers include "Give Me a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?" "Night and Day," and, yes, "Silent Night.") Altogether high concept and lots of fun.