Tuesday, November 28, 2023

It Came from Poverty Row: Hollywood's B-Movie Factories Mined Noir Gold

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Ann Savage, Tom Neal, "Detour" (1945). Hitchhiking on the road to hell. So many westerns were filmed at the small, independently ...
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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Lovesick Wanderer Returns ... to a Double Cross

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Burt Lancaster, Yvonne DeCarlo, "Criss Cross" (1949). This article contains spoilers. By Paul Parcellin The magnetic attraction be...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

More Than a Gunsel: Elisha Cook Jr. Played Wobbly Tough Guys, Inept Would-Be Heroes and Dyed in the Wool Victims Often Displaying Raw Emotion and Unexpected Vulnerabilities

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Humphrey Bogart, Elisha Cook Jr., "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). Just a cheap gunman hanging around hotel lobbies. When he died in 1...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

How a Real-Life Prison Sentence Added Another Dimension to Mitchum's Performance as a Woozy Doctor on the Run in a Nightmarish Flight From Justice

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Robert Mitchum, "Where Danger Lives" (1950). By Paul Parcellin This article contains spoilers A lot of red flags should go up whe...
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Thursday, October 26, 2023

The Big Caper: Burning Desire For a Life of Luxury Drives Career Criminal to Score a Cool Million Bucks

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Roxanne Arlen, Paul Picerni, Corey Allen, "The Big Caper" (1957). Heist films must always be centered around a carefully thought-...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

‘Hollering Hank,’ A Director of Noble Lineage, Turned Out Landmark Semi-Documentary Crime Dramas That Capture the Unease of Post-World War II America

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Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens, "The Dark Corner" (1946).  Director Henry Hathaway is probably best known for th e westerns he made wi...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Riding an Express Train to Hell: In Noir and Thrillers, Passengers Embark on Dark Journeys Aboard Shadowy Railroad Cars Hurtling Toward Uncertain Destinations

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Charles McGraw, Don Haggerty, Marie Windsor, Don Beddoe, “The Narrow Margin” (1952). This article contains spoilers By Paul Parcellin Rail t...
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