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Two years after making the film noir classic Out of The Past (1947) together, Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer co-starred in this South of The Border crime adventure. Mitchum plays U.S. Army Lieutenant Duke Halliday, who is robbed of a $300,000 payroll he is carrying by a fast talking shyster named Fiske (Patric Knowles). Meanwhile, Halliday’s superior Capt. Vincent Blake (William Bendix) suspects him of the actual crime and is [read...] 
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, so he tries to make a quick escape and ends up on Sunset Boulevard where he pulls into a long [read...] 
FILM REVIEW The classic film noir genre usually dealt with many of the same types of subject matter such as gangsters, double crosses and femme fatales, but Robert Aldrich‘s film adaptation of Mickey Spillane’s novel Kiss Me Deadly (1955) really took the genre to the edge. Screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides left the worn out mafia storyline about drugs behind and brought the Cold War nuclear era sci-fi into focus, ultimately making [read...] 
A shovel full of Dashiell Hammett, with a touch of Orson Welles, David Lynch and Frank Miller or something. All that looking overly ambitious but not being able to shake off a slight b-movie feel. If that sounds complicated you might be right. However, The Big Bang (imdb) is a surprisingly interesting under-the-radar type film, that starts out like a Kammerspiel and develops into a neo film noir detective story [read...] 
Ever since first seeing Touch of Evil (1958) it has been one of my favorite films. It is often cited as one of the last examples of film noir but that statement is partially incorrect because the term, while largely associated with the 40s/50s hard boiled crime films is not a true genre but rather an aesthetic used in films from crime cinema to psychological thrillers to sci-fi. Film Noir [read...] 
For our new FC series Crimewatch we’ll be taking another look at some of our favorite crime genre films from the 20th century up to today. There will be an emphasis on many of the subgenres we love most like film noir, mobster movies, revenge thrillers, heist pictures to Hong Kong gun operas. Our first spotlight title is Detour (1945) which is an early example of the crime subgenre known [read...] 
Movies just wouldn’t be as exciting if they didn’t contain those colorfully warped characters known as “villains”. Often times these people are merely twisted, lonely, misunderstood souls that have been psychologically damaged and/or are out for revenge. Then there’s the flat out, pure evil ones who have nothing driving them except an innate need to cause mayhem and terror. Whatever they are, wherever they come from, they provide us film [read...] 
Charles Laughton’s only outing as a director The Night of the Hunter (1955) has been recently released on DVD by the good folks at The Criterion Collection. I first saw it on Turner Classic Movies several years ago. Ever since my initial viewing, it’s been one of my most favorite works of classic cinema. What Laughton did was create one of the most stylized, expressionistic pieces of noir cinema ever [read...] |
   
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