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SOUTHSIDE 1-1000 (1950)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 18, 2009
Update: October 2012: Southside 1-1000 is now available in an excellent print from the fantastic Warner Archive collection.
There can be no doubt that Southside 1-1000 is a minor film noir. But despite the fact that almost everything written about it labels it as a cheap knock-off of Anthony read more
RAY DANTON DOUBLE FEATURE: The Night Runner (1957), The Beat Generation (1959)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 12, 2009
Ray Danton starred in two pseudo-noirs in the late fifties, The Night Runner and The Beat Generation, both of which I caught recently. Despite the triple play of being tall, dark, and handsome, Danton’s limited skill forever doomed him to a low budget existence in Hollywood — though he d read more
SHAKEDOWN (1950)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 8, 2009
In Shakedown, Howard Duff plays the aptly named Jack Early, a driven news photographer out to make a name with one of the big San Francisco papers. His ambition is such that he’s willing to do anything in order to get his foot in the door, including taking a vicious beating. The film opens wit read more
THE RECKLESS MOMENT (1949) (1)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 4, 2009
Joan Bennett plays Lucia Harper in The Reckless Moment, all-American wife and mother in a small California seaside town. As the story opens, a lowlife named Darby gets his greasy hooks into Lucia’s gullible daughter Bea, a student at an L.A. art school. When Lucia warns him to keep away he off read more
THE TATTOOED STRANGER (1950)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Apr 13, 2009
“He looks like a guy I know.”
A man strolling in Central Park finds a ladies’ glove on the dog walk. He spots a woman reclining in a nearby sedan and approaches to ask if it belongs to her. The problem is she can’t answer — she’s dead of a shotgun blast to read more
WITNESS TO MURDER (1954) (2)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Apr 13, 2009
For a movie that goes out of its way to mock the television cop dramas of the day, the screenplay for 1954’s Witness to Murder is ironically conventional and topped off with cliché. In spite of this, and the fact that stars Stanwyck and Sanders are playing characters we’ve seen too many read more
ROADBLOCK (1951)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Apr 12, 2009
More than 50 years past the end of the classic period of film noir, Charles McGraw, with his tough-as-nails screen image and unmistakable voice, has come to represent the quintessential noir tough guy. One might also characterize Bogart or Mitchum in this way, but their household name stat read more
ABANDONED (1949)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 25, 2008
It’s jarring to experience a classic era film like Abandoned that deals bluntly with an issue that is still controversial sixty years later. Films such as this provide a necessary and welcomed reality check for those of us who are easily entranced by the plastic sheen and fake nostalgia of the read more
THE NAKED STREET (1955)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 21, 2008
The first time I saw the 1941 Greer Garson film Blossoms in the Dust I was surprised that Hollywood could manage an entire production (not to mention one with four Academy Award nominations) about the crusade to have the word illegitimate removed from birth certificates in the state of Texas. Appare read more
SHOCKPROOF (1949)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 20, 2008
With some writing credit due to Samuel Fuller and direction by Douglas Sirk, the nonsensically titled Shockproof will always receive more than its fair share of attention from film buffs. However, this oft-told tale of the parole officer who falls for the beautiful parolee doesn’t cry out for read more
COP HATER (1958)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 19, 2008
Cop Hater is the screen adaptation of the first of Ed McBain’s numerous “87th Precinct” novels. Although clearly a B, there are plenty of reasons to like this film. McBain’s fictional Isola is transposed to a realistically depicted (yet nevertheless unnamed) New York City, wi read more
THE CAPTIVE CITY (1952)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 18, 2008
For Robert Wise’s 1952 film The Captive City, former Time magazine scribe Alvin Josephy adapted his own short story of a crusading editor who discovers the big city rackets have quietly taken hold in his small corner of the world. The editor, Jim Austin, is played by television icon John read more
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME (1945)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 30, -0001
8.5.5
“C’mon Diana, make with the tonsils.”Believed to be a lost film for decades, 1945’s Why Girls Leave Home recently became findable for those who know where to look for such things. I’ve been after for it for 25 years. And guess what? It’s a bona fide f read more
100 GREATEST MOVIE POSTERS of FILM NOIR! 10th Anniversary edition!
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 30, -0001
Ten years, 1,000,000 hits, and a book later!
Just about ten years ago, when this blog was in its infancy, I garnered some attention by counting down the 100 best film noir posters in a series of weekly posts. When all was said and done, the countdown had been featured on more than 100 read more
NO QUESTIONS ASKED (1951)
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 30, -0001
A black widow without a mate is just another spider.
A man is on the run through the wet, deserted streets of lower Manhattan. He scuttles into the shadows cast by a stairwell just as a prowl car tears by, its siren whining against concrete and brick. As the man hunkers down we hear his voice, R read more
A CHAT NOIR WITH GRAHAM CHAFFEE
Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on Nov 30, -0001
This interview was originally published in The Comics Journal.
“I’m a terrible writer, is what it is,” Graham Chaffee tells me—but I don’t believe him. The cartoonist, who spends his days working as a tattoo artist in his Hollywood studio, is being too mod read more