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YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 17: Brute Force (1947)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 17, 2020
Brute Force (1947) is not your typical film noir. Almost entirely set inside the confines of a maximum security prison, there’re no rainswept city streets, no anti-hero detectives, and the two femmes fatales are on screen a total of about three minutes. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find a darker read more
YouTube Noir: Noirvember Day 16: Scarlet Street (1945)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 16, 2020
Dan Duryea. Joan Bennett. Edward G. Robinson. Fritz Lang. Talk about a winning combination. They’re the principals who brought to life yet another one of my favorite noirs, Scarlet Street (1945). It’s been in the public domain for so long that I’ll be surprised if anyone’s left who hasn’t read more
YouTube Noir: Noirvember Day 15: Murder By Contract (1958)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 15, 2020
Until recently, Vince Edwards was on my radar for only two reasons: he played Dr. Ben Casey on TV, and he co-starred in one of my favorite noirs, The Killing (1956), which I recommended for YouTube viewing earlier this month. And then I saw Murder By Contract (1958). There’s so much to say about thi read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 14: The Enforcer (1951)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 14, 2020
I never hear people talk about The Enforcer (1951). I’m going to remedy that today. First off, let’s talk about the film’s cast. It stars Humphrey Bogart, which is a premium selling point all by itself. But it also boasts a boatload of other veterans from the noir era: Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 13: Too Late for Tears (1949)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 13, 2020
How do I love Lizabeth Scott? How much time do you have? She may not have been the best actress in the world, but boy, was she made for noir. There was just something about her – was it her voice, her hair, her eyes, her smile? The way she wore her clothes? (The way she sipped her tea?) Whatever it read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 12: Shield for Murder (1954)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 12, 2020
If I had a dollar every time I said a noir was one of my favorites . . . But I can’t help it – there are so many good ones out there. And Shield for Murder (1954) is definitely on the list. It’s got so much to recommend it: a perfect noir opening and a perfect noir end, and in between, a cast read more
YouTube Noir: Noirvember Day 11: The Big Combo (1955)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 11, 2020
If I’ve said it once on this blog, I’ve said it 10 times – I’m a HUGE Richard Conte fan. I don’t care if he’s filing his nails, doing his taxes, or working a crossword puzzle, if he’s doing it on my screen, I’m there. And I’m especially there for today’s YouTube noir: The Big Combo read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 10: The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 10, 2020
The Man Who Cheated Himself serves up yet another fascinating noir opening. We see a man, alone in a room, occupied with several tasks – putting bullets in a gun and carefully stashing it in a bureau, burning a box in a fireplace, using a poker to do some damage to a door. What’s his deal? What’s read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 9: Sudden Fear (1952)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 9, 2020
Sudden Fear (1952) holds a special place in my heart. First of all, it stars my girl Joan Crawford. Secondly, it’s one of the first noirs I ever saw on the big screen. It was at Chicago’s Music Box Theater, and as I sat there in the dark, I was practically overcome by the intelligent script, the read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 8: Private Hell 36 (1954)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 8, 2020
Today’s YouTube pick is (yet) another personal favorite – Private Hell 36 (1954), starring Steve Cochran, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, and Dorothy Malone. There’s a lot to love about this underrated feature, starting with the rather unusual opening, which fades in on a dark, downtown city night, accompa read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 7: Cry Vengeance (1954)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 7, 2020
Many classic film fans have never heard of the star of my Day 7 recommendation, let alone the movie: It’s Cry Vengeance (1954), starring Mark Stevens. But I’m hoping to change all that. Before I started working on today’s post, I’d only seen Cry Vengeance once, and that was nearly 20 years ago. read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 6: The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 6, 2020
If you know anything about me, you know that I love Joan Crawford. Her picture is in an art deco frame in my breakfast nook, and my wall is graced by a gorgeous Italian poster from her 1947 feature Possessed. Her face is the screen saver on my phone. And she’s the star of two of the YouTube noirs read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 5: Detour (1945)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 5, 2020
If you’ve never seen Detour (1945), you’re in for a down and dirty, noirishly good treat. I envy you. Detour is one of those “B” noirs you may have heard about, with a budget so low that the director, Edgar Ulmer, used his own car for filming. But it doesn’t feel cheap, and it packs a noir read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 4: New York Confidential (1955)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 4, 2020
I frequently find myself talking about how this noir is one of my favorites, and how that one is on my top 10 list. But I can’t help it – there’re so many noirs to love! And today’s YouTube noir is one of them. Incredibly underrated, New York Confidential (1955) is simply great, in my estimation. read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 3: The Killing (1956)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 3, 2020
I cannot count the number of times I have seen today’s YouTube pick for Noirvember: The Killing (1956). It’s one of my favorite all-time movies – I’ve seen it twice on the big screen, and I own it on both VHS and DVD. It’s one of the earliest (and best, in my opinion) films directed by read more
YouTube Noir — Noirvember Day 2: Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 2, 2020
Today’s YouTube pick for Noirvember is a film I saw for the first time just a couple of days ago: Ladies in Retirement (1941). I’d heard of it before, but I never knew anything about it except that it starred Ida Lupino. Had it not been for a virtual classic film Meetup group I belong to, I’d read more
Hold on to that cheap cigar, y’all … it’s Noirvember!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 1, 2020
What’s Noirvember? The creation of Marya over at Cinema-Fanatic.com, Noirvember is an awesome month-long observance of all things film noir. And I can hardly believe it, but this is my seventh year participating in this event! This means that I’ll be posting about film noir here at Shadows and read more
TCM Summer Under the Stars 2020: Recap, Review, Rejoice!
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Aug 31, 2020
Another TCM Summer Under the Stars event is behind us, but the 2020 celebration was a blast — I learned so much about the stars and added many films to my must-watch list! In case you missed any of the days, here’s the entire month’s worth of posts. Enjoy! Day 1: Barbara Stanwyck D read more
TCM Summer Under the Stars: Day Thirty-One — Alain Delon
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Aug 31, 2020
The most seductive man in cinema. Never heard of Alain Delon? Never seen one of his movies? TCM has a remedy for that. And believe me, you won’t need a spoonful of sugar to help this medicine go down. IN THE BEGINNING: Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was born on November 8, 1935, in a suburb read more
TCM Summer Under the Stars: Day Thirty — Charlton Heston
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Aug 29, 2020
Forever Ben. When many people think of Charlton Heston’s film career, they think of his biblical epics, like Ben Hur or The Ten Commandments or El Cid. But Heston produced a body of work that encompassed a wide range of roles in a variety of films, from noir to westerns, and from science fiction to read more