Guest blogger Richard Finch writes: What a dilemma The Lady from Shanghai provokes. Orson Welles is in my directors’ pantheon, so I want to like the movie more than I do. Individual parts of it contain moments of great brilliance,…
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In 1945 John E. Rankin, the long serving, bombastic, and racist congressman from Mississippi stated “one of the most dangerous plots ever instigated for the overthrow of this government has its headquarters in Hollywood … the greatest hotbed of subversive…
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Guest blogger Richard Finch writes: Film: In a Lonely Place Country: U.S. Director: Nicholas Ray ***1/2 It’s taken me more than one viewing to warm completely to In a Lonely Place. In the film Humphrey Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a…
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Struggles with his weight might have cost him a leading man’s conventional career arc, but this native New Yorker’s indisputable presence and gifts granted Edmond O’Brien some four decades as one of Hollywood’s most compelling character players. Born in the…
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Guest blogger Sarkoffagus writes: Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is living a quiet life, running a gas station in a small town. But then a stranger drives his car into town, and everything changes. It seems that someone from Jeff’s past…
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. And sometimes, desperate movies. You can’t get any more desperate than film noir, dark movies in which corruption, duplicity, violence and dames collide. There certainly is no absence of film noir on the big…
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Lured (1948), directed by Douglas Sirk in high style, presents George Sanders as a good guy detective from Scotland Yard and Lucille Ball as a woman working with Scotland Yard who presents herself as bait to help draw a murderer…
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One of the things Vivien Leigh did after finishing filming on Gone with the Wind was test for the role of the second Mrs. DeWinter in the film version of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca. The film, being directed by Alfred Hitchcock…
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Cary On Turner Classic Movies has pacted with Universal to issue several new-to-DVDs showcasing the great Cary Grant. This comes after TCM’s release of such Universal-licensed efforts as Remember the Night and the Universal Cult Horror Collection. These films, originally…
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“Film noir” is a term that movie marketers have pinned to practically every film involving crime or suspense that was shot in black-and-white during the 1950s. While some of the labeling has been downright silly, such as the case with…
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