Johnny Eager (1941)

Johnny Eager (1941) was a Crime - Film Noir Film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Mervyn LeRoy and John W. Considine Jr..

Academy Awards 1942 --- Ceremony Number 15 (source: AMPAS)

Johnny Eager (1941): Taylor and Turner Spark Dynamite

“Are you thinking of allowing her to play Roxanne to your Cyrano?” – Van Hefflin to Robert Taylor Pretty faces don’t always add up to a quality movie and if you want to find where the faults lie, you might look between the players and the script then split the difference. Joh... Read full article

Johnny Eager (1941)

Johnny Eager Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Written by James Edward Grant and John Lee Mahin 1941/USA Loew’s/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing/Warner Archive DVD Something about the title of this early film noir told me I might love this movie. ?I was so right. Spoiler alert: ?The plot is full of ... Read full article

31 Days of Oscar Blogathon: Van Heflin in Johnny Eager (1941)

Van Heflin was a standout in Johnny Eager. You don?t hear a lot about Van Heflin these days. When the classic conversation rolls around to actors of the Golden Age, you can pretty much count on the names of Clark Gable and Cary Grant popping up, along with Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney ? maybe Wi... Read full article

Johnny Eager (1941)

Dir. Mervyn LeRoy David Thomson?s The New Biographical Dictionary of Film refers to Johnny Eager (1941) as ?fatuous,? which I think unfair. (The IMDb hordes gave it a 7.1, for whatever that?s worth.) Casting the famously good-looking Robert Taylor was something of a gamble; Thomson?s other complaint... Read full article

Johnny Eager (1941)

Dir. Mervyn LeRoy David Thomson?s The New Biographical Dictionary of Film refers to Johnny Eager (1941) as ?fatuous,? which I think unfair. (The IMDb hordes gave it a 7.1, for whatever that?s worth.) Casting the famously good-looking Robert Taylor was something of a gamble; Thomson?s other complaint... Read full article