Film Noir. Full of trenchcoats, femme fatales, murder and intrigue. When men were men and dames were sassy, making you long for a yesteryear full of World War II’s (so good it needed a sequel), ration books and polio. Ah, memories…Seriously though, I do love this genre. Whether it’s Bogart […]
Joseph Cotten
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The Last Sunset (1961) – imdb, Director: Robert Aldrich. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten. Release title in Germany: “El Perdido” “Are you a Killer?” she asks him. A question so innocent and yet, in the middle of the desert, almost a banality. In savage places, the […]
In the tradition of films like Phantom of the Opera, Murders in The Rue Morgue and House of Wax, this 1971 AIP horror classic directed by Robert Fuest (And Soon The Darkness, The Devil’s Rain) stars Vincent Price as Dr. Anton Phibes, one of the many memorable characters in the […]
INTRODUCTION Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915, Orson Welles was a childhood prodigy who had dazzled those who knew him with such things as Shakespeare puppet shows, paintings and poetry. He had even taken solo trips to far off lands when he was at the age most kids would be […]
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 […]