Friday, July 8, 2022

A Cache of Hot Money Fires Up ‘Private Hell 36’

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Det. Jack Farnham (Howard Duff) and wife Francey (Dorothy Malone) in 'Private Hell 36' (1955). W e’re in a New York City office buil...
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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...
Monday, June 20, 2022

‘The Big Clock’: Time Runs Short for Crime Mag Editor

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  Charles Laughton and Ray Milland in 'The Big Clock.' A t first glance, “The Big Clock” is merely a workplace crime drama set in a ...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Dressed to Kill: ‘The Outfit’

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Mark Rylance as Leonard Burling in 'The Outfit.' S et in 1956, “The Outfit” (2022) is a smart-looking Chicago-based drama starring M...
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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Sunday, May 1, 2022

Danger Lurks in the Seedy World of Film Noir Carnivals

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Tyrone Power, 'Nightmare Alley' (1947) T raveling carnivals are supposed to roll into town and deliver family entertainment — tacky,...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Red Scare Noir: Communists on the Waterfront

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Janis Carter, John Agar and Thomas Gomez in ‘The Woman on Pier 13’ (1949). ‘The Woman on Pier 13’ (1949) W hen the Berlin Wall went up in 19...
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