Above a jazz club in New Orleans a poker game run by Blackie (Jack Palance) is being held. One of the players, a foreigner named Kochak (Lewis Charles) who has become ill forces his way out of the apartment. A couple of the other guys, his cousin Poldi (Guy Thomajan) […]
1950
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In the opening moments of Rudolph Mate’s suspense heavy film noir masterpiece D.O.A. (1950) star Edmond O’Brien is filmed in a tracking shot as composer Dimitri Tiompkin’s barreling percussion and tension filled strings accompany the images on the screen. As O’Brien’s character walks into police headquarters his motivation for doing […]
After starring as the goody two shoes character Andy Hardy throughout the 1940’s, Mickey Rooney decided to take a role against type in this “film noir in a teacup” and “pretty nifty little picture” directed by Irving Pichel that was released in 1950. Rooney plays an auto mechanic named Dan […]
An aspiring screenwriter named Joe Gillis (William Holden) isn’t having luck in Hollywood, he’s up against the wall and is on the verge of heading back East where he’s from. While driving around town one day, he is spotted by a pair of repo men out to take his car, […]