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The Christmas Caper (1952 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Dec 24, 2017
US / 26 minutes / bw / Showcase, CBS Dir: Erle C. Kenton Pr: Hal Roach Jr, Carroll Case Scr: Arthur Orloff Cine: Norbert Brodine Cast: Reed Hadley, Lloyd Corrigan, John L. Coogan (i.e., Jackie Coogan), Alan Dexter, John Phillips, Willie Best, Louis Lettieri, Jeri Lou James, Paul Keast, Argentina Bru read more
Christmas Story (1956 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Dec 23, 2017
US / 26 minutes / bw / ZIV Dir: Herbert L. Strock Pr: Vernon E. Clark Scr: Donald A. Brinkley Cine: Monroe Askins Cast: Broderick Crawford, William Leicester, Jeanne Baird, Michelle Ducasse, Morgan Jones, Elmore Vincent, Billy Wayne, Art Gilmore (voiceover). When this was first aired in 1956 it cam read more
o/t: The Beautiful Refugees of Casablanca
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Dec 16, 2017
***Over at Silver Screenings, Ruth recently posted a splendid piece about an aspect of Casablanca that I’d never really thought about. She has kindly permitted me to reblog it here. Silver Screenings The beautiful people of Rick’s Cafe. Image: The Source Look at the people in the above photo. read more
By Whose Hand? (1932)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Dec 16, 2017
US / 65 minutes / bw / Columbia Dir: Ben Stoloff Scr: Isadore Bernstein, Stephen Roe Story: Harry Adler Cine: Teddy Tetzlaff Cast: Ben Lyon, Barbara Weeks, Kenneth Thomson, Ethel Kenyon, William V. Mong, Dolores Rey (i.e., Dolores Ray), Nat Pendleton, Tom Dugan, Dwight Frye, William Halligan, Helene read more
A Woman’s Vengeance (1948)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Dec 9, 2017
US / 96 minutes / bw / Universal–International Dir & Pr: Zoltan Korda Scr: Aldous Huxley Story: “The Gioconda Smile” (1921 in Mortal Coils) by Aldous Huxley Cine: Russell Metty Cast: Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Cecil Humphreys, Hugh French, read more
Reblog: Looking Back at Gun Crazy
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Dec 8, 2017
***B Noir Detour, written by Salome Wilde, is one of my favorite blogs on the intertubes. She’s recently published an excellent piece on one of the greatest of noirs, and has kindly given me permission to reblog it here. B Noir Detour 1950’s Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female) was hardly seen read more
o/t: leisure reading during November
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Dec 3, 2017
A reasonable cluster of books read this month, especially since one of them (Night Film) is really quite long and a couple of the others are longish, and especially since the Philcon weekend, my birthday and Thanksgiving between them disrupted life quite a lot. Oh, and there was an abandonment as we read more
The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Dec 2, 2017
vt Beyond Reasonable Doubt; vt Guilty Woman US / 62 minutes / bw / John Sutherland Productions, Pathe, Eagle–Lion Dir: Sherman Scott (i.e., Sam Newfield) Pr: John Sutherland Scr: Al Martin Story: Frank Burt, Robert Libott Cine: Jack Greenhalgh Cast: Marjorie Lord, Robert Shayne, Pierre Watkin, James read more
o/t: why oh why?
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 27, 2017
I woke up this morning to discover that a rather obscure short I included on the site a couple of years ago has suddenly started to garner hits. Why oh why could this be? It’s because The Candidate (2010) has Meghan Markle in it, that’s why. Puzzle solved. And congratulations to the hap read more
o/t: Creeping Crawlers goes into new edition
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 26, 2017
Shadow Publishing tells me that its Creeping Crawlers, the 2015 Allen Ashley-edited anthology that includes my story “Little Helpers” alongside a shedload of far better stuff, is going into a second edition, and with a new cover, this time by Peter Coleborn: You can find out a bit more read more
Illegal (1932)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 25, 2017
UK / 71 minutes / bw / Warner Bros. First National Dir: William McGann Pr & Story: Irving Asher Scr: Roland Pertwee Cine: Willard Van Enger Cast: Isobel Elsom, Ivor Barnard, D.E. Clarke-Smith (i.e., D.A. Clarke-Smith), Margot Grahame, Moira Lynd, Edgar Norfolk, Wally Patch, Margaret Damer, Joy C read more
Reblog: Casablanca: 75 Years Old And Still Going Strong – Flaws And All
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 24, 2017
***A splendid piece by Paul Batters of Silver Screen Classics — essential reading! Silver Screen Classics by Paul Batters Annina: Oh, monsieur, you are a man. If someone loved you very much, so that your happiness was the only thing that she wanted in the world, but she did a bad thing to mak read more
o/t: the Happy New Year Blogathon
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 19, 2017
Over at MovieMovieBlogBlog, Steve has just announced the Happy New Year Blogathon, and guess what? Just recently I watched 1947’s Repeat Performance, a fantasy/noir crossover that’s intimately concerned with New Year’s Eve. So you can predict with some confidence which movie I̵ read more
After Dark (1933)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 18, 2017
UK / 44 minutes / bw / Fox British Pictures Dir & Pr: Albert Parker Scr: R.J. Davis, J. Jefferson Farjeon Story: After Dark (1932 play) by J. Jefferson Farjeon Cine: Geoffrey Faithfull Cast: Horace Hodges, Hugh Williams, George Barraud, Ian Fleming, Gretha Hansen, Henry Oscar, Pollie Emery, Arth read more
Fièvre (1921)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 11, 2017
France / 43 minutes / bw silent / Alhambra, Jupiter Dir & Scr: Louis Delluc Cine: Alphonse Gibory, Georges Lucas Cast: Eve Francis, Gaston Modot, Solange Rugiens, Léon Moussinac, Edmond Van Daële, Elena Sagrary, Gine Avril, Yvonne Aurel, George Footit, A.F. Brunelle, L.V. de Malte, Lili Samuel, read more
Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (1938)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Nov 4, 2017
vt Mystery of Room 13
UK / 67 minutes / bw / British National, Associated British Picture Corporation Dir: Norman Lee Pr: John Corfield Scr: Elizabeth Meehan, Victor Kendall, Doreen Montgomery Story: Room 13 (1924) by Edgar Wallace Cine: Eric Cross Cast: Gibb McLaughlin, Sara Seegar, Peter Murray-Hi read more
o/t: leisure reading during October
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 31, 2017
A reasonable crop of books read during October, especially since I was mostly working my socks off through three of the month’s weeks and, for the fourth, was entertaining my darling daughter and grandson on an all too rare visit. I grow misty-eyed every time I think about how long it might be read more
Bait (1949)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 28, 2017
UK / 68 minutes / bw / Advance, Adelphi Dir & Pr: Frank Richardson Scr: Mary Benedetta, Francis Miller Story: Bait (n.d.; play) by Frank Richardson Cine: Ernest Palmer Cast: Diana Napier, John Bentley, John Oxford, Patricia Owen (i.e., Patricia Owens), Kenneth Hyde, Sheila Robins, Willoughby God read more
King of the Damned (1935)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 21, 2017
UK / 74 minutes / bw / Gaumont–British Dir: Walter Forde Pr: Michael Balcon Scr: A.R. Rawlinson, Charles Bennett, Sidney Gilliatt Story: King of the Damned (1934 play) by John Chancellor Cine: Bernard Knowles Cast: Conrad Veidt, Helen Vinson, Noah Beery, Cecil Ramage, Edmund Willard, Percy Parsons, read more
o/t: Crepúsculo (1945; vt Twilight)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Oct 15, 2017
***A splendid piece by Theresa/CineMaven on an important Mexican movie of noirish interest — hurry and read the rest! CineMaven's ESSAYS from the COUCH Since 2014 Once Upon A Screen’s Citizen Screen has been celebrating the contributions of the Latino community in classic films with her read more