Pitfall Review Now Appearing at Noirbabes.com
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Noir City Film Festival January 22-31
The 8th annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival starts on January 22nd at the Castro Theater. Films in the program includes: Cry Danger (restored) Walk a Crooked Mile Armoured Car Robbery Red Light Pitfall Niagara Larceny The Postman Always Rings Twice Odd’s Against Tomorrow Women’s Prison He Ran All the Way Pickup on South Street […]
British Film Noir at the Film Forum
Here is a major reason I miss living in NYC – The Film Forum. Starting this friday, the Film Forum is presenting a 44 film series of British Film Noir. From well known classics like The Third Man and “Gaslight” to lessor known ( at least to me) films like Roy Ward Baker’s “The October Man” […]
Act of Violence Revisited
Mary Astor’s career was a long one going back to the early 1920′s. Over the years her career continued to grow until an infamous marital scandal broke in 1936 while she was making William Wyler’s “Dodsworth.” During the court battle her husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe threatened to submit Astor’s spicy, fully detailed, diary as evidence […]
Lee Marvin: Point Blank – Interview with Author Dwayne Epstein – Part One
According to biographer Dwayne Epstein, Lee Marvin made it possible for future action stars like Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood to blast their way on to the screen. It was Marvin who brought the level of violence to a new and realistic level that had never been seen before. Think Vince Stone in “The Big […]
Stromboli (1950) Roberto Rossellini
Like her character, Karin in “Stromboli,” Ingrid Bergman found herself ostracized in real life from Hollywood and America after making this film with her director/lover Roberto Rossellini. Their affair and out of wed-lock child caused a scandal that found Bergman unable to find work in the United States for six years. In the film, Bergman […]
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) Lewis Milestone
Steely eyed and sexy, that’s Barbara Stanwyck at her best. No one conveyed the tough dame, determined yet alluring look that can arouse a man’s loins any better. With a screenplay by Robert Rossen (Force of Evil) based on a story by John Patrick, “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” is a hybrid twisting mix […]
The Story of Temple Drake (1933) Stephen Roberts
One of the spiciest of the pre-code movies ever made was “The Story of Temple Drake” based on William Faulkner’s decadent novel, “Sanctuary” which was considered a scorcher for its time. Published in 1931, the novel dealt with rape, bondage and murder, and can probably be compared to today’s “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy in […]
The Maltese Falcon (1931) Roy Del Ruth
Okay, I am not going to tell you this original version of Dashiell Hammett’s now classic novel is better that John Huston’s 1941 masterpiece, but the truth is Roy Del Ruth’s 1931 pre-code has a sensual sinful aura the Huston/Bogart film lacks and it makes you want to keep it in your back pocket and […]
Kiss Me Deadly (1956) Robert Aldrich
Nothing seems to make sense in “Kiss Me Deadly,” even the opening credits roll backwards. Author Mickey Spillane hated the movie, screenwriter AI Bezzerides hated the book and film goers back in 1955 must have been confused with what it was they were exactly looking at. Sure there was a P.I. and plenty of hot […]
