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Blind Alibi (1938)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 19, 2014
US / 62 minutes / bw / RKO Dir: Lew Landers Pr: Cliff Reid Scr: Lionel Houser, Harry Segall, Ron Ferguson Story: William Joyce Cowan Cine: Nicholas Musuraca Cast: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frances Mercer, Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Lane, Jack Arnold, Walter Miller, Frank M. Thomas read more
o/t: more Wonders in the Dark romantic countdown . . . with something really special this week!
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 18, 2014
Five more entries added to this exciting countdown: 61. The Quiet Man (1952) 60. A Place in the Sun (1951) 59. The Philadelphia Story (1940) 58. The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) 57. Lady and the Tramp – Lady in Movieland (a video essay) That last one is a real treat! Its creator, Joel Bocko, read more
o/t: if it’s Thursday it must be time for Todd Mason’s Tuesday’s Overlooked Films
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 17, 2014
Another great roundup of reviews/articles posted around the intertubes concerning “forgotten” movies and TV items, many of which are of noirish interest. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out read more
Baryshnya i Khuligan (1918)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 16, 2014
vt The Lady and the Hooligan
Russia / 43 minutes / bw silent / Neptun
Dir: Yevgeni Slavinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky
Scr: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Story: La Maestrina degli Operai (1895; vt The Workers’ Young Schoolmistress) by Edmondo De Amicis
Cine: Yevgeni Slavinsky
Cast: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleks read more
Alias Mary Smith (1932)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 12, 2014
US / 58 minutes / bw / Hoffberg
Dir: E. Mason Hopper
Pr: Ralph M. Like
Scr: Edward T. Lowe
Cine: Jules Cronjager
Cast: Blanche Mahaffey, John Darrow, Raymond Hatton, Edmund Breese, Myrtle Stedman, Gwen Lee, Henry B. Walthall, Alec B. Francis, Matthew Betz, Jack Grey, Ben Hall, Harry Strang. John read more
o/t: down, romantic count!
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 11, 2014
The exceptional Wonders in the Dark series of essays continues with five new entries. Two of them are by me, as luck would have it, but the other three are jolly good: 68. Moonstruck (1987)
65. Out of the Past (1947)
64. The Awful Truth (1937)
63. La Boheme
62. Onna no Mizumi (1966) vt Woman of the read more
Public Ransom, A (2014)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 9, 2014
US / 99 minutes / bw / Denver/Goines, Kuboa Dir & Story: Pablo D’Stair Pr: Lisette Goines, Denver Alexander Scr: Pablo D’Stair, Goodloe Byron Cine: Paul VanBrocklin (i.e., Pablo D’Stair) Cast: Carlyle Edwards (i.e., Pablo D’Stair), Helen Bonaparte, Goodloe Byron. Directo read more
Out of the Past (1947)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 8, 2014
=== One of the best and best known of all films noirs, this obviously has a fairly substantial entry in my Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir. However, when Sam Juliano of the great Wonders in the Dark website offered me the chance to write about it in greater depth and at greater length as par read more
o/t: The Awful Truth (1937)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 8, 2014
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One of the delights about contributing a few essays to the Wonders in the Dark Romantic Movie Countdown is that in a couple of instances I’ve been pushed well outside my comfort zone. Nowhere is this more true than with the screwball comedy The Awful Truth. I mean, this is me: I don’t read more
Spy in Black, The (1939)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 5, 2014
vt U-Boat 29
UK / 79 minutes / bw / Harefield, London Film, Columbia
Dir: Michael Powell
Pr: Irving Asher, Alexander Korda (uncredited)
Scr: Emeric Pressburger, Roland Pertwee
Story: The Spy in Black (1917) by J. Storer Clouston
Cine: Bernard Browne
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson read more
o/t: another week of the Wonders in the Dark romantic countdown . . .
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 4, 2014
Five more fine movies discussed by various contributors as the race to the Numero Uno spot continues . . . #71 Somewhere in Time #70 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) #69 The Clock (1945) — a very hasty last-minute offering by moi #68 Say Anything #68 Le Quai des Brumes (1938; vt Port of Shadow read more
Young Captives, The (1959)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 3, 2014
US / 66 minutes / bw / Paramount Dir: Irvin Kershner Pr & Scr: Andrew J. Fenady Story: Gordon Hunt, Al Burton Cine: Wallace Kelley Cast: Steven Marlo, Luana Patten, Tom Selden, James Chandler, Ed Nelson, Dan Sheridan, Marjorie Stapp, Miles Stephens, Edward Schaaf, Joan Granville, Raymond Guth, C read more
o/t: The Clock (1945)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 2, 2014
===The Wonders in the Dark Romantic Movies Countdown continues. There was a panic last night when a contributor dropped out at the last moment, and, in a fit of stupidity, I said I’d cover. Finding our dusty copy of the movie (thank you, some forgotten yard sale) took the first hour (well, coo read more
o/t: Todd Mason’s Tuesday’s Overlooked Films
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 1, 2014
Go here for yet another useful roundup of reviews of and articles about (usually) obscure movies and other a/v, lovingly compiled by Todd Mason. Yes quite a diverse round-up again! Nice to see you have two in this lineup! :) I get Todd’s weekly movie-review updates through the RARA-AVIS mail read more
o/t: more of the romantic countdown at Wonders in the Dark
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 28, 2014
Five new essays on five more great romantic movies: 76. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 75. Man’s Castle (1933) 74. The Fountain (2006) 73. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 72. The Way We Were :) Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPr read more
You Have to Run Fast (1961)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 28, 2014
vt Man Missing
US / 73 minutes / bw / Harvard, UA Dir: Edward L. Cahn Pr: Robert E. Kent Scr: Orville H. Hampton Cine: Gilbert Warrenton Cast: Craig Hill, Elaine Edwards, Grant Richards, Willis Bouchey, Ken Mayer, Shep Sanders, John Apone, Brad Trumbull, Jack Mann, Max Mellinger, John Clarke, Claudi read more
Violent Moment (1959)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 25, 2014
vt Rebound UK / 61 minutes / bw / Independent Artists, Anglo–Amalgamated Dir: Sidney Hayers Pr: Bernard Coote Scr: Peter Barnes Story: “A Toy for Jiffy” (1956; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine) by Roy Vickers Cine: Phil Grindrod Cast: Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton, Jill Browne, John Pau read more
o/t: it’s Tuesday? must be time for another Todd Mason’s Tuesday’s Overlooked Films
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 24, 2014
In this week’s bumper roundup of movie articles/reviews from the intertubes, the one that stuck out for me was a truly spiffy essay by Megan Abbott on Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. I can still remember that feeling of how completely bowled over I was when I first saw it, decades a read more
To Kill a Dead Man (1994)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 21, 2014
UK / 10.5 minutes / bw / Fat Fish Dir & Cine: Alexander Hemming Pr: Lizzie Ross Scr: Portishead Cast: Geoff Barrow, Tim Bishop, Beth Gibbons, Dave MacDonald, Richard Newell, Adrian Utley. The assassin (Geoff Barrow) readies himself. From the opening credits: In 1994 we conceived and made “ read more
o/t: The Wonders in the Dark romantic countdown counts down yet further . . .
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 20, 2014
This week has seen another five entries in this admirably ambitious series. Here they go: #81. Beautiful Thing (1996) #80. Two for the Road (1967) — no essay, alas, but some evocative images #79. The Artist (2011) #78. On Dangerous Ground (1952) — essay by me, as earlier linked #77. Cami read more