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OUTSIDE THE WALL (1950)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 7, 2013
Larry Nelson gets thirty years in a big boy cell after he
accidentally snuffs a reform school guard. But fifteen years later, he’s a rehab
poster boy: educated, good-looking, trained in the prison infirmary, the pride
of inmates and staff alike. Best of all, his parole just came through. It ai read more
Mark Stevens: Patience is Poison!
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Mar 13, 2013
IT’S EASY TO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE LIVES OF THE A-LISTERS. They have biographers and publicists. They’re the subject of countless scholarly books and magazine articles. Cagney, Bogart, Lancaster, Mitchum? No problem. It’s more difficult with a guy like Mark Stevens, who nev read more
EXPOSED Magazine (1955) First Issue!
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Feb 23, 2013
This is the first ever issue of 1955’s Exposed magazine, which promises “All the facts…all the names” for the price of a quarter. The articles are great: a late-night divorce photographer and his “nude sinners,” a bunco scam involving that infamous Marilyn ca read more
THE STEEL TRAP (1952)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Feb 11, 2013
In
the 1952 film The Steel Trap, a
dissatisfied and bored Jim Osborne (Joseph Cotten) passes the hours dreaming up
ways to embezzle from the bank where he has, for the past eleven years, toiled
himself into a life of restless humdrum. Soon daydreams morph into actual preparation, and Jim waits for t read more
UNION STATION (1950)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Jan 17, 2013
Los Angeles Union Station has been called the “last of the
great railway stations built in the United States.” With its signature clock
tower, tiled arches, and cavernous lobby, the station is one of downtown’s most
recognizable structures. It opened during the summer of 1939, crow read more
50 GREATEST CLASSIC SCI-FI POSTER COUNTDOWN! Single Post Edition!
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Dec 24, 2012
Hi all! By request, here’s a repost of the classic science fiction poster countdown with all 50 posters in a single edition.
I chose sci-fi instead of horror because of the genre’s prominence during the mid-century period. With that in mind, I confined my selections to films relea read more
This is it! 75 GREATEST MOVIE POSTERS of NEO-NOIR! 15 – 1
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Dec 1, 2012
Welcome back! Let’s put this countdown on ice!
15. Heat (1995)
Were it not for those long shadows, this would have fallen far back in the countdown. Clearly this is a ‘big faces’ poster if ever there was one, but I’ve been drawn to posters that find a novel w read more
75 GREATEST MOVIE POSTERS of NEO-NOIR! 75 – 61
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Sep 22, 2012
NEW COUNTDOWN TIME!
Where Danger Lives is back with a new film poster countdown — this time around the
subject is NEO-NOIR! Unlike the
classic film noir period, which lasted less than two decades, neo-noir has been
part of the cinematic landscape for fifty years. So don’t b read more
WHISPER MAGAZINE November 1955
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Sep 14, 2012
Don’t jump off that building! It’s time for another gossip-laden scandal sheet post! Dig on Whisper magazine from November 1955. This month’s issue offers up a buffet of oddities, from the lurid love lives of Jimmy Durante and Terry “More!” Moore, to cautionary tal read more
LOOPHOLE (1954)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Aug 10, 2012
Take it easy. If you’re
innocent you’ve got no worries.
Yeah? Well, I am innocent. I
got plenty of worries.
Allied Artists’ Loophole is one of the numerous
exercises in “it could happen to you” storytelling that surfaced in the noir
films of the McCarthy era. Wi read more
SAL OF SINGAPORE (1928)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Jun 17, 2012
Note:
I typically confine myself to mid-century crime films here, but due to the
spectacular rarity of this film, and to its status as an
Academy Award nominee, I’m going to post first here at Where Danger Lives
and will follow at Cin-Eater in a few weeks. (And hey, this one has a crime or two read more
CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE, September 1954
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 29, 2012
It’s scandal sheet time! This time out it’s Confidential from September 1954, with stories about the woes of Van, the sheets of Zsa Zsa, and the moppets of Margarita. As an added bonus, Ellroy himself would dig on this story about the hypo-fueled hepcats of Jazz. Keep it cool and quiet p read more
Film Noir Movie Posters: JOAN CRAWFORD
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 7, 2012
Hey Cats and Kittens, with Mother’s Day coming up I thought I’d honor one of Tinseltown’s very best with one of our patented poster galleries. So here is Joan Crawford in all of her noir and noir-ish glory. All images hi-res, cleaned-up, and ready for downloading. And take note: no read more
Mother of Mercy: Edward G. Robinson and Film Noir
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Apr 9, 2012
It’s fitting that so many of the movies Edward G. Robinson made after he parted ways with Warner Bros. were film noirs: persecuted by red-baiters, alienated from the film community, and fated to a terribly unhappy home, Robinson’s personal life had taken on the dimensions of a real-life read more
FILM NOIR: FRENCH POSTER STYLE, PART TWO!
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Mar 2, 2012
Back today with another batch of French posters for classic American crime and film noir movies. Again, most of these are in the French Grande size, 47" x 63", a truly spectacular format! If you enjoy the posters, please consider following the blog. To view the first batch, click here.
Downlo read more
Just Shy of Respect: The Hollywood Life and Death of Alan Ladd
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Feb 16, 2012
Most people believe Alan Ladd
committed suicide, but the details surrounding his death are so convoluted no
one can be sure what really happened. History is often guilty of erring on the
side of sensationalism — but in Ladd’s case suicide is the logical
assumption. In 1962 he was fo read more
TRANSATLANTIC (1931)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Jan 30, 2012
I’ll
admit I’m cheating a little by essaying Transatlantic
here, but the film’s final few moments — a gun-in-hand, cat-and-mouse
chase over the catwalks and up and down the ladders of the steamy bowels of an
ocean liner — is as vividly expressionistic as anyth read more
CHINATOWN AT MIDNIGHT (1949)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Jan 16, 2012
“You’re a very paradoxical young man.”
Shops closing early! There’s a killer thief on
the loose in the Chinatown section of San Francisco, and the cops are hot on
his trail. That’s a bare bones plot description if ever there was one, yet it
jibes well with Chinatown read more
UNCHAINED (1955)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Dec 29, 2011
Jail
was on everyone’s mind in the fifties. During the war years, prison populations
in the United States had been greatly reduced while inmates were paroled into
the armed services. Yet in the years immediately afterwards crime rates spiked,
heavily taxing the federal prison system as well as read more
FILM NOIR: FRENCH POSTER STYLE
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Dec 12, 2011
Happy holidays! Here are a dozen French posters for various American crime / noir films — a few from my very own walls! These are all French Grande size, or 47" x 63", a few featuring poster art by the extraordinary Boris Grisson and Rene Peron. These are all cleaned up and sparkly for your ri read more