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Man who Walked Alone, The (1945)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 18, 2018

US / 71 minutes / bw / PRC Dir & Story: Christy Cabanne Pr: Leon Fromkess Scr: Robert Lee Johnson Cine: James Brown Cast: Dave O’Brien, Kay Aldridge, Walter Catlett, Guinn “Big Boy” Williams, Isabel Randolph, Smith Ballew, Nancy June Robinson, Ruth Lee, Chester Clute, Vivien Oakland, Vicki read more

13 East Street (1952)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 11, 2018

UK / 69 minutes / bw / Tempean, Eros Dir: Robert S. Baker Pr: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman Scr: John Gilling, Carl Nystrom Story: Robert S. Baker Cine: Monty Berman Cast: Patrick Holt, Sandra Dorne, Sonia Holm, Robert Ayres, Dora Bryan, Michael Balfour, Hector MacGregor, Michael Brennan, Alan Judd, read more

book: U is for Undertow (2009) by Sue Grafton

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 9, 2018

Good old Goodreads. I was halfway through a considered discussion of this book when, shambalaboolipops, Goodreads wiped out what I’d written. If I were Alex Jones I’d assume it was an Illuminati, Deep State plot. As I have a brain, or some semblance thereof, I think my little accident w read more

snapshot: Small Town Murder Songs (2010)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 8, 2018

Canada / 75 minutes / color / 3 Legged Dog, Resolute, Kinosmith, Telefilm Canada, The Movie Network, Movie Central, Monterey Dir & Scr: Ed Gass-Donnelly Pr: Lee Kim, Ed Gass-Donnelly Cine: Brendan Steacy Cast: Peter Stormare, Aaron Poole, Ari Cohen, Jackie Burroughs, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Marth read more

Our newly available titles on NetGalley

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 5, 2018

Sharp and Pointed We’ve been running a NetGalley promo, and just changed some of available titles. The books listed here are the ones now available. Corrupted Science will be down soon, replaced by another title, so if you review books and are interested in Corrupted Science, it’d be a good idea read more

Return to Sender (2015)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 4, 2018

US / 95 minutes / color / Voltage, Boo, WOC, HW Dir: Fouad Mikati Pr: Candice Abela-Mikati, Holly Wiersma Scr: Patricia Beauchamp, Joe Gossett Cine: Russell Carpenter Cast: Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, Camryn Manheim, Illeana Douglas, Nick Nolte, Alexi Wasser, Rumer Willis, Stephen Louis Grush, read more

o/t: leisure reading in July

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 2, 2018

Again not too many books this month, but two were pretty long and two of the others moderately chunky. Once the current MS deadline’s passed (well, technically speaking it actually has passed, but once I’ve, y’know, finished the book) I’ll get back to chucking a few more GADs, etc., into my read more

book: The Perfect Nanny (2016 as Chanson Douce; trans Sam Taylor 2018) by Leila Slimani

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 1, 2018

In Paris, career up-and-comers Myriam and Paul hire for their two small children a woman whom they assume is the perfect nanny, the doll-like Louise. She has glowing references and she does far more than merely look after the kids. She keeps the apartment spotless, she cooks meals, she works long h read more

snapshot: Irresistible (2006)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 1, 2018

Australia / 99 minutes / color / Intandem, FFC Australia, Cascade, Take Partnership, Baker Street, Kennedy Mellor, Film Victoria, Palace Dir & Scr: Ann Turner Pr: David Parker, Tatiana Kennedy Cine: Martin McGrath Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt, Bud Tingwell, William McInnes, Georg read more

book: A Trip to the Stars (2000) by Nicholas Christopher

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 31, 2018

A genuinely astonishing piece of work. For much of the time I was reading it I thought it was one for the ages, the best book I’d read this year and perhaps for several years; but a number of niggles built up toward the end, and then finally a true howler meant it was knocked from the pedesta read more

Devil You Know (2013)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 28, 2018

US / 72 minutes / color / Roger, Nightfly, Wonder, RIVR Dir: James Oakley Pr: Michael Webber, Peter McIntosh, Amanda Foley, James Oakley Scr: Alex Michaelides Cine: Kenneth Brown Cast: Lena Olin, Rosamund Pike, Dean Winters, Molly Price, Barbara Garrick, Bern Cohen, Matthew Faber, Stephen Gevedon, J read more

snapshot: The Crooked Road (1965)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 25, 2018

UK, Jugoslavia [sic] / 94 minutes / bw / Argo, Triglav, Trident, Seven Arts Dir: Don Chaffey Pr: David Henley Scr: J. Garrison, Don Chaffey Story: The Big Story (1957; vt The Crooked Road) by Morris L. West Cine: Stephen Dade Cast: Robert Ryan, Stewart Granger, Nadia Gray, Marius Goring, Catherine read more

My Death is a Mockery (1952)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 21, 2018

UK / 65 minutes / bw / David Dent, Adelphi Dir: Tony Young Pr: David Dent Scr: Douglas Baber Cine: Phil Grindrod Cast: Donald Houston, Kathleen Byron, Bill Kerr, Edward Leslie, Liam Gaffney, Kenneth Henry, Felix Felton, Sheila McCormack, Christopher Quest, Michael Voysey, Vincent Holman, Meadows Whi read more

book: Pretty, Nasty, Lovely (2017) by Rosalind Noonan

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 19, 2018

Even though I’ve written quite a lot about film noir and have to embrace noir as my favorite movie genre (ahead of another genre about which I’ve written fairly extensively, animation, although sometimes the competition between the two is fierce), there are times when, I admit it, given read more

snapshot: Getingdans (2011)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 18, 2018

vt A Sting of Maud Sweden / 29 minutes / color / SVT, Rolands Hörna, Svenskafilminstitutet, Svensk Novellfilm, Mellan Dir: David Färdmar Pr: Frida Hallberg, David Färdmar Scr: Lisa Linnertorp Story: Maude Danser (1971) by Knut Faldbakken Cine: Erik Persson Cast: Lisa Linnertorp, Reine Brynolfsson, read more

book: Snowdrops (2010) by A.D. Miller

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 17, 2018

English lawyer Nick Platt, working in Moscow during the early years of this century as a facilitator for western bank loans to dubious Russian projects, rather thrives in the cutthroat, amoral society he finds there. One day he encounters two sisters, Masha and Katya, and soon convinces himself he read more

book: Crime of Privilege (2013) by Walter Walker

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 14, 2018

A roman a clef, a mystery story, a legal thriller, a travelogue? Crime of Privilege doesn’t really fit fairly and squarely into any of these genres, although it has aspects of them all — and, indeed, more. What it is is one of the most engrossing, involving novels I’ve read all ye read more

I’ll Name The Murderer (1936)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 14, 2018

US / 68 minutes / bw / Puritan Dir: Raymond K. Johnson (i.e., Bernard B. Ray) Pr: C.C. Burr Scr: Philip Dunham, Edwin K. O’Brien Story: Philip Dunham Cine: James Diamond Cast: Ralph Forbes, Marion Shilling, Malcolm MacGregor, James Guilfoyle, John W. Cowell, Wm. Norton Bailey, Agnes Anderson, Charlo read more

snapshot: When the Bough Breaks (1947)

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 11, 2018

UK / 78 minutes / bw / Sydney Box, Gainsborough, GFD, Rank Dir: Lawrence Huntington Pr: Betty E. Box Scr: Peter Rogers Story: Moie Charles, Herbert Victor Cine: Bryan Langley Cast: Patricia Roc, Rosamund John, Bill Owen, Brenda Bruce, Patrick Holt, Leslie Dwyer, Cavan Malone, Torin Thatcher, Catheri read more

book: The Queen of Bedlam (2007) by Robert McCammon

Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 10, 2018

It’s 1702 in the fledgling city of New York — still a small town, by today’s standards — and young legal clerk Matthew Corbett takes it upon himself to weasel out the mystery of a serial killer who’s been nicknamed the Masker, because of the way he mutilates the faces read more
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