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TCM Pick for June: Film Noir
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Jun 12, 2012
With just days to spare, and with apologies for not being more timely, I am tickled pink to recommend Shield for Murder, airing on TCM on June 16th, as my film noir pick of the month. Starring Edmond O’Brien, this feature is one of my favorite “obscure” noirs – in fact, you can read more about read more
TCM Pick for June: Pre-Code
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Jun 8, 2012
My TCM pre-Code pick of the month is the aptly named Street Scene (1931), starring Sylvia Sidney. Its name is apt because all of the film’s action takes place on a single street, focusing primarily on the tenants of a single apartment building. Next to Strange Interlude (airing on TCM late in the read more
TCM Pick for May: Film Noir
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 15, 2012
As I always say, better late than really, really late. (Well, I don’t always say that. Actually, what I usually say is, “HURRY UP! We’re going to be LATE!” But I digress.) I’d intended to share my TCM film noir pick of the month long before now, but with the Seven Shadows series a couple read more
TCM Pick for May: Pre-Code
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 9, 2012
What’s that phrase . . . an embarrassment of riches? Well, that’s what TCM is offering this month in the realm of pre-Code. I counted a whopping 28 pre-Code features airing in May – which certainly made it none too easy for me to select my pick of the month. It was a mighty struggle, but I finally read more
Seven Shadows – Day Seven: The Asphalt Jungle
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 7, 2012
Our final movie for Seven Shadows Week is The Asphalt Jungle (1950), arguably one of the best caper movies ever made, and a first-rate feature from the film noir era. The story of a jewelry heist that is intricately planned and executed by a motley crew of small-time crooks, Asphalt Jungle is based read more
Seven Shadows – Day Six: GUN CRAZY by Andrew D.
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 6, 2012
Running Time: 86 minutes Directed By: Joseph H. Lewis Written By: MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman Main Cast: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Anabel Shaw, Harry Lewis Third time’s the charm here at Shadows and Satin as I return for my third and final installment that will appear on this read more
Seven Shadows – Day Five: OUT OF THE PAST
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 5, 2012
Whit Sterling is about to put the literal “smackdown” on Kathie Moffat. Today, Seven Shadows looks at one of the most awesome of awesome films noirs: Out of the Past. (For Andrew’s review of this classic, skip on over to his site, 1001 Movies I [Apparently] MUST See Before I Die.) It’s read more
Seven Shadows – Day Four: THE KILLERS by Andrew D.
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 4, 2012
Running Time: 105 minutes Directed By: Robert Siodmak Written By: Anthony Weller, from story by Ernest Hemingway Main Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene For those of you who may be new to my writings, I want to thank you for taking the time to read this and read more
Seven Shadows – Day Three: THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 3, 2012
I have a soft spot for The Postman Always Rings Twice – it’s one of the few noirs I’ve ever seen on the big screen, and one of the first I ever saw, many (many) years ago. (For the review of this classic noir, check out Andrew’s entry for Seven Shadows Week over at 1001 Movies I [Apparently] read more
Seven Shadows – Day Two: MILDRED PIERCE by Andrew D.
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 2, 2012
Save for the beginning and the end, Mildred Pierce isn’t your typical piece of film noir, at least it’s not what I think of when I picture the genre. As the film opens, gunshots fill the air and a mustached man, whom we later learn is Monte Beragon (Scott), keels over dead, his last word: “Mildred!” read more
Seven Shadows – Day One: MURDER, MY SWEET
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on May 1, 2012
“Now, look, Marlowe – we’re arraigning you. It ain’t personal. We don’t like you, but it ain’t personal.” I love this line, with its staccato delivery and wry meaning, which comes mere seconds after the start of Murder, My Sweet – a classic 1944 offering from the film noir era starring read more
Introduction to Seven Shadows by Andrew D.
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Apr 30, 2012
So who am I and what am I doing on your favorite blog? For starters, if this is your favorite blog, then allow me to congratulate you on having exceptional taste. But back to my main point, which is introducing myself. My name is Andrew D. and back in the fall of 2009 I purchased a book entitled, 10 read more
Stay Tuned . . . Seven Shadows is Coming . . .
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Apr 19, 2012
Seven Shadows, a week-long cross-over blog event, will shine the spotlight on seven of the greatest features of the classic film noir era. The event will feature reviews written by Andrew from 1001 Movies I (Apparently) MUST See Before I Die and related articles penned (keyboarded?) by yours truly, read more
Anita Page in Under Eighteen (1932)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Apr 15, 2012
Under Eighteen tells the story of Margie Evans (Marian Marsh), a young seamstress struggling through the effects of the Depression and tempted to emulate the “smart girls” who use their feminine wiles to snag the finer things in life. As the film opens, Margie is helping to prepare her older sister, read more
TCM Pick for April: Film Noir
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Apr 7, 2012
Unlike the sparseness of April’s pre-Code offerings on TCM, the channel is fairly bursting at the seams this month with first-rate film noir features! In fact, I was hard-pressed, initially, to come up with my pick. Would it be Gilda, a sentimental favorite as one of my first-seen and most-lov read more
TCM Pick for April: Pre-Code
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Apr 3, 2012
The TCM pre-Code pickings are slim in April, y’all. I didn’t have a whole lot to choose from, but there is a morning filled with Kay Francis pre-Code features on April 6th, and of these, I managed to find my pick of the month: Guilty Hands (1931), starring Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans, and the read more
A Noir Banquet: The Dark Page and The Dark Page II
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Mar 18, 2012
Start saving your pennies. At $95 each for a two-volume series, The Dark Page and The Dark Page II: Books That Inspired American Film Noir, are pricey, but they’re worth every cent. The first thing to recommend these massive tomes is the catchy and inventive name (wink, wink)! But there’s so much read more
Quotes in Pre-Code: The Office Wife (1930)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Mar 17, 2012
In this first-rate pre-Code feature, Dorothy Mackaill stars as Anne Murdock, a typist who is elevated to the position of personal secretary to the company head, Lawrence Fellows, played by Lewis Stone. On her first day of the gig, Anne is summoned by her former supervisor, J.P. McGowan (Hobart Boswo read more
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction (and sometimes they’re one and the same!)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Mar 15, 2012
So I was flipping through the September 7, 1953, issue of Time magazine the other day – you know, the one with Audrey Hepburn on the cover (she’s such a delightful sprite, isn’t she?) – when I came across a write-up in the “National Affairs” section of the publication. In the news for the read more
TCM Pick for March: Film Noir
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Mar 11, 2012
In my humble opinion, Richard Widmark was one of the greatest actors of his era. He was outstanding in his film debut, Kiss of Death (1947), as the manically giggling, woman-in-a-wheelchair-shoving hood Tommy Udo, and he was just as memorable in No Way Out (1950), Road House (1948), Don’t Bother to read more