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...
Monday, March 11, 2024

One Revealing Moment: Something that Happens in “The Night of the Hunter” Made Me Rethink My First Impression of the Film and See It in an Entirely New Light

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Robert Mitchum, "The Night of the Hunter" (1955). By Paul Parcellin I first saw “The Night of the Hunter” (1955) around 20 or so ...
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Sunday, March 3, 2024

The 900 Pound Gorilla in the Room: Why Watching “Lady in the Lake” Requires Extensive Mind Over Matter Skills, and Perhaps a Bourbon on the Rocks

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Robert Montgomery, "Lady in the Lake" (1946).  By Paul Parcellin   I have a confession to make: For as long as I’ve watched film ...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024

The Man From Nowhere: Who is Larry Cravat and why do so many people want to do him harm?

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John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, "Somewhere in the Night" (1946). Battle Fatigue on the Homefront: Two views of life after the big one By...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Murder, Suspense and Mystery Take Hold in Two Films by Master Storyteller Henri-Georges Clouzot

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Simone Renant, "Quai des Orfèvres" A.K.A. "Jenny Lamour" (1947). By Paul Parcellin “Quai des Orf è vres”  is a Gaulish p...
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Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Demimonde After Dark: Two Visions of Paris, and the Gangsters Who Inhabit Each are Worlds Apart

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Roger Duchesne, “Bob le flambeur” (1956). Contains Spoilers By Paul Parcellin Two films about the Parisian underworld are as different as f...
Friday, January 26, 2024

Gumshoe Confidential: Would-Be White Knights, Reluctant Heroes and Rotten Apples, Otherwise Known as Private Detectives, Walked the Mean Streets of a Noir Hellscape

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Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, “The Maltese Falcon” (1941). By Paul Parcellin Private eyes, those lone ranger...
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