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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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Virtual Virago: December 2014
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Classic movies, literature, and popular culture - welcome to my world! Monday, December 29, 2014. Classic Movie Tourist: The Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West. As most cinephiles know, Ernest Hemingway wrote numerous works that were adapted for the big screen, including A Farewell to Arms. 1932 and 1957), For Whom the Bell Tolls. 1943), To Have and Have Not. 1944), and The Old Man and the Sea. 1948), of course, but less familiar are pictures like The Prisoner of Shark Island. 1936), Mercy Island. Classic...
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Virtual Virago: Classic Films in Focus: CROSSFIRE (1947)
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Classic movies, literature, and popular culture - welcome to my world! Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Classic Films in Focus: CROSSFIRE (1947). Shadowy cinematography and a twisted murder plot make Crossfire. Struck a chord in Hollywood in the late 1940s, and it still has a lot to say to viewers today. Although anti-Semitism serves as the picture's specific focus, Crossfire. Was not the only 1947 picture to deal with the topic of anti-Semitism; the Best Picture winner for that year was Gentleman's Agreement.
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Virtual Virago: Classic Films in Focus: WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950)
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Classic movies, literature, and popular culture - welcome to my world! Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Classic Films in Focus: WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950). Robert Mitchum takes another dive into darkness in Where Danger Lives. 1950), and once again he plays an easy mark for a dangerous dame, this time embodied by the sultry Faith Domergue. An icon of film noir, Mitchum made more celebrated forays into the genre both before and after this outing, but Where Danger Lives. 1944), the admonition proves prophetic.
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Vince Keenan: Me Elsewhere: Scotch, Guarded
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Movies. Crime fiction. Baseball. Jazz. Cocktails. Friday, April 10, 2015. Me Elsewhere: Scotch, Guarded. A justly neglected musical about a highland rogue. Rudolph Valentino. Stan Laurel. The Three Stooges. And a one-time toast of Broadway whose name proved one letter too difficult. What do these have in common? They all factor into the history of one of the trio of Scotch cocktails spotlighted in my latest Down the Hatch column at Eat Drink Films. View my complete profile. Me Elsewhere: Scotch, Guarded.
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Vince Keenan: March 2015
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Movies. Crime fiction. Baseball. Jazz. Cocktails. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Me Elsewhere: Brandy, You’re A Fine Drink. Another month brings another Down the Hatch column at Eat Drink Films. I focus on apricot brandy, a staple ingredient in vintage cocktails undergoing a resurrection thanks in part to a quality product now available at a good price. With three drink recipes so you can play along at home! As it happens, Punch magazine takes up the same subject this week. Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Is in Portl...
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Vince Keenan: Me Elsewhere: Brandy, You’re A Fine Drink
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Movies. Crime fiction. Baseball. Jazz. Cocktails. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Me Elsewhere: Brandy, You’re A Fine Drink. Another month brings another Down the Hatch column at Eat Drink Films. I focus on apricot brandy, a staple ingredient in vintage cocktails undergoing a resurrection thanks in part to a quality product now available at a good price. With three drink recipes so you can play along at home! As it happens, Punch magazine takes up the same subject this week. View my complete profile.
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Pocketful of Ginch: Little America, Granger, Wyoming, August 27 1938
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Your Source for Ginch, Without all the Taint. Thursday, August 21, 2014. Little America, Granger, Wyoming, August 27 1938. Found this lovely thing in Indiana a few weeks ago:. This is the kind of weird old-timey Americana I'm always looking for in old pictures. And only two dollars! As always, click to enlarge, there's plenty of satisfying detail in there. Pic of the day. August 23, 2014 at 12:30 PM. Dig those new restrooms! August 23, 2014 at 8:28 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). B C BROWN WRITES.
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Pocketful of Ginch: September 2014
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Your Source for Ginch, Without all the Taint. Monday, September 1, 2014. Taxidermy from the Four Corners region of Colorado. This fox was in the window of an antique mall in Pagosa Springs, CO. This bear was in the Lake City, CO Historical Museum, repository of many fine artifacts relating to the Alferd Packer cannibalism case. The bear, which has nothing to do with old Alferd or his dietary idiosyncrasies, stands only about four feet tall. (More on Packer soon! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Twist Of Noir.
