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NoirWorthWatching: NO QUESTIONS ASKED (1951)
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Saturday, 1 August 2015. NO QUESTIONS ASKED (1951). This is an edited version of an article which appeared in the Summer 2015 Edition of Noir City. 8220;They turn a spotlight on you when they keep narrowing the circle closing in for the kill…You wonder how it happened and where it really began…”. Hough there are plenty of weightier noirs, few have the irresistible, jacked-up urgency of No Questions Asked. Pundit Jay MacIntyre says of the picture, “it’s a pulp novel come to life”. And Hart to Hart. The la...
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NoirWorthWatching: July 2014
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Friday, 25 July 2014. VANISHING POINT (1970)/ GONE IN 60 SECONDS (1974). An ex-cop/ former racing driver (Barry Newman) gets whacked-out on Benzedrine and sets out to muscle a torqued-up 1970 Dodge Charger from Denver to San Francisco in record time. County cops and state troopers soon are all over him like a cheap suit. Unfortunately 'Vanishing Point' turns out to be a sour conceit of a movie that comes apart under the weight of its self-conscious heaviosity and general raggedness. Apart from Dean J...
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NoirWorthWatching: March 2015
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Sunday, 29 March 2015. SUNNYLANDS NOIR: 2015 PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (January 2015). In Aussie-speak, if someone is ‘mad as a cut snake’ he's so ‘round the bend you don’t want to know. Here the someone is Jim aka ‘Pommie’ (Sullivan Stapleton) who after release from prison loses no time in tracking down an old mate, Merv ‘Sparra’ Farrell (Alex Russell). Like the others, ‘Cut Snake’ is coolly committed to its story and characters. Though the film’s set in 1974, there'...In contrast is R...
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NoirWorthWatching: July 2015
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Friday, 31 July 2015. HOLLYWOOD ACTORS IN CLASSIC BRITISH FILM NOIR. Something I've been working up for a while. Any suggestions for additions would be welcome! The Good Die Young. The Intimate Stranger AKA Finger of Guilt. Chase a Crooked Shadow. 3 Steps to the Gallows AKA White Fire. The Last Page AKA Man Bait. Third Party Risk AKA The Deadly Game. The House Across the Lake AKA Heat Wave. Traitor Spy AKA The Torso Trunk Mystery. Shake Hands with the Devil. The Noose AKA The Silk Noose. Carroll, Leo G.
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NoirWorthWatching: HOLLYWOOD ACTORS IN CLASSIC BRITISH FILM NOIR
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Friday, 31 July 2015. HOLLYWOOD ACTORS IN CLASSIC BRITISH FILM NOIR. Something I've been working up for a while. Any suggestions for additions would be welcome! The Good Die Young. The Intimate Stranger AKA Finger of Guilt. Chase a Crooked Shadow. 3 Steps to the Gallows AKA White Fire. The Last Page AKA Man Bait. Third Party Risk AKA The Deadly Game. The House Across the Lake AKA Heat Wave. Traitor Spy AKA The Torso Trunk Mystery. Shake Hands with the Devil. The Noose AKA The Silk Noose. Carroll, Leo G.
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NoirWorthWatching: September 2014
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Saturday, 27 September 2014. Around these, Leonard plotted like a bandit holding tightly to a schematic that at first has us puzzling over how the characters relate to each other and what they’re up to. Then just as we think we’ve got it figured, there's some. Dizzying lift of events and. All bets come off. On the other hand, ‘Jackie Brown’, released in 1997 was the real deal and the only film that can lay claim to having captured Elmore Leonard where he lived and breathed. However Leonard from the begin...
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NoirWorthWatching: August 2015
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Monday, 31 August 2015. ROOM AT THE BOTTOM: LAURENCE HARVEY AND FILM NOIR. 8220;I’ve never been able to like you”, Sam Houston (Richard Boone) to Col. William Travis (Laurence Harvey), The Alamo (1960). 8220;Get down off your high horse, Travis”, Col. Davy Crockett (John Wayne). Then, of course, there’s Laurence Harvey, a man who many people disliked and some despised, both as an actor and human being. Walk on the Wild Side, 1962,. 1961), Capucine and Barbara Stanwyck (. Walk on the Wild Side, 1962.
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NoirWorthWatching: October 2014
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Thursday, 30 October 2014. FOR YOU I DIE (1947). Georgia (admiringly): ‘Maybe you’ve got something. (He’s) almost like having a wild animal for a pet’. Hope: (disgustedly) ‘You make me sick’. Meantime Gruber is out there and nothing‘s changed for him – which presents a serious problem for everyone. Thankfully after a time 'For You I Die’s better instincts show themselves and the film again begins to threaten. Johnny Coulter is straight out of the film noir workbook. Paul Langton a journeyman characte...
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NoirWorthWatching: GIL BREWER, HUBERT CORNFIELD, AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SWAMP
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Thursday, 6 August 2015. GIL BREWER, HUBERT CORNFIELD, AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SWAMP. No, nobody knew, but I told him. As I watched while he sank into the quicksand, I told him, and was it sweet". Brewer wrote pulp fiction and a lot of it – hundreds of short stories and more than fifty novels, most of them with. Nude on Thin Ice,. So Rich, So Dead. On the other hand, Brewer's books, unlike those of. Many of his pulp contemporaries,. Said, Brewer’s lurid,. No Pockets in a Shroud. A Killer is Loose.
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NoirWorthWatching: April 2015
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Friday, 3 April 2015. SMALL PICTURES, BIG PERFORMANCES: MICKEY ROONEY AND FILM NOIR. 8220;He sure is short.”. 8220;Yeah, well, so was Napoleon”. 8216;Drive a Crooked Road’ 1954). Mickey Rooney was too big to fail. For nine decades Rooney was never more than steps away from the footlights or the limelight. When he died in 2014 at age 93, the little actor with the outsized personality left behind an amazing 340 screen credits, an Emmy, two Oscars, and a pair of Golden Globes. 8217;) about pro roller derby.