Showing posts with label Barbara Stanwyck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbara Stanwyck. Show all posts
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Is It or Isn’t It? “Clash by Night” is a Gripping Drama, Alright, But Some Insist It Doesn’t Make the Cut as an Authentic Noir Because It Lacks One Crucial Element

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Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, "Clash by Night" (1952). Contains Spoilers By Paul Parcellin “Clash by Night” has   t...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Two Couples Who Murder: “Double Indemnity” Faces Off Against “Body Heat” — And It’s Not Even Close

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Left, Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, "Body Heat" (1981). Right, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, "Double Indemnity" (19...
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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Ripped From the Headlines: True Crimes Explode onto the Screen in Noir Movies

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Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, “Double Indemnity” (1944) By Paul Parcellin It’s no wonder that Hollywood in the 1940s and ’50s scooped up...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

‘Double Indemnity’: Two On a Conveyor Belt Toward Doom

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Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, 'Double Indemnity' (1944). This article contains many SPOILERS, so if you haven't seen the f...
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Thursday, June 30, 2022

Out of the Shadows (and onto the Cathode Ray Tube)

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Raymond Burr in 'Pitfall' (1948). Film noir heavies and second bananas of the 1940s got respectable in the late ‘50s and ‘60s when t...
Friday, May 6, 2022

In 'Double Indemnity,' A Stalled Car is a Flash of Genius

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Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, in 'Double Indemnity.'   A s many times as we pore over "Double Indemnity," there are...
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