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Another low budget noir gem is GUN CRAZY.....
FILM NOIR ..... any fans ?
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I've been watching a lot of Charlie Chan on YouTube lately. I prefer the black and white movies over color almost always.
As someone said: lighting, dialogue, music, camera angles and so on make great movies.
Fortunately, the USAEUR library system has a fair number of DVD which I can get since YouTube channels aren't always reliable.
As someone said: lighting, dialogue, music, camera angles and so on make great movies.
Fortunately, the USAEUR library system has a fair number of DVD which I can get since YouTube channels aren't always reliable.
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I pulled out my collection last month and watched all the Warner Oland and Sydney Toler films...I have the Roland Winters series , but they are so ultra low budget and so
Another great noir is "The Sniper," featuring some great vintage location shooting in San Francisco.
some great poster art being...posted. Movie posters in the past were quite attractive works of art. Also, my wife and I watched Gun Crazy for the first time about 6 months ago. It was startling how modern it felt.
I agree that the quality dropped with each new Chan actor, however there were some very good Toler moments. I would love to see some of the "lost" movies.
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They did cut corners during the WW2 era , but the Roland Winters films were of 1950's " TV " quality...The missing Chan films would be a real pleasure to view ! ......
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I grew up in the SF east bay area in the 50's - 60's , and you're so right , the filming locations are fantastic , so is the entire film..... The Sniper (1952)
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some great ones. Another one I've always enjoyed is Phantom Lady, particularly Elisha Cook's highly suggestive drumming scene. Cook was a stalwart of the noir scene.
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Elisha Cook was born to do film noir !!!
I'm watching Detour as I watch this. Great flick.
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On TCM channel today: THREE STRANGERS
Nice use of a hit song too
Not only are the movies great, the music is also in a class by its self. I'm glad to see more and more jazz musicians are putting out more noir music.
The actors and scripts also seemed to be more powerful with less Hollywood gimicary to work with. Gloria Grahame,Carole Landis, William Bendix,Richard Widmark etc...
The actors and scripts also seemed to be more powerful with less Hollywood gimicary to work with. Gloria Grahame,Carole Landis, William Bendix,Richard Widmark etc...
My favorite noir composer is miklos rosza
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I faintly remember the show from when I was small. Last year I caught an episode with the very young Robert Vaughn in it, on YouTube. It's certainly not as nose-smashingly violent as Spillane's books, but it seemed entertaining.
There was a semi-noir thriller made in about 1950 called The Killer That Stalked New York. It's not so much a crime story, though several of the main characters are criminals, as it is a story about trying to keep a smallpox epidemic from starting in NYC. I thought it was Jan Sterling who played the lead, a woman criminal who (unknown to her) has brought the disease to America, but it was Evelyn Keyes. Her transformation from attractive if hard-edged woman to haggard, walking-dead smallpox victim is horrifying.
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For sure !.....She made many a horror film as well, and yes, she was great in Killer that stalked New York , a film I've seen a few times over the years , but time to watch it again !....Vaughn was always entertaining. When I was young Man from UNCLE was a treat to watch..He was in a few good war films as well...... Ron....
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