Film Noir Classics: THE LONG GOODBYE
Before Robert Altman’s Neo Noir The Long Goodbye (1973) which revolves around the character of private detective Philip Marlowe, another film was made called...
Before Robert Altman’s Neo Noir The Long Goodbye (1973) which revolves around the character of private detective Philip Marlowe, another film was made called...
To celebrate the month of Noirvember I wanted to delve into the first wave of film noir and its post-modern form that is every...
Above a jazz club in New Orleans a poker game run by Blackie (Jack Palance) is being held. One of the players, a foreigner...
Did you ever think that Ben “Gigli” Affleck would become a respected Hollywood director who now has three great films under his directing belt?...
A mysterious masked man (Preston Foster) planning a robbery is putting together a special trio of underworld thugs to help him pull it off....
The lightning speed of a commuter train racing along behind the bold opening credits of Cry Danger (1951) lets us know right away we’re...
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...
In Anthony Mann’s semi-documentary, procedural film noir T-Men (1947) we get a first hand account of how the U.S. Treasury Department operates with a...
The sounds of upbeat jazzy music by composer David Raksin in the opening credits of Joseph H. Lewis’ The Big Combo (1955) lead straight...
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...