Made at a time when America was obsessed with foreign influence, Pickup on South Street tells the tale of an unsophisticated guttersnipe with a heart of gold: a beautiful but dangerously unaware woman who unwittingly finds herself involved in international espionage. Jean Peters plays Candy, a born-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks broad who’s aware […]
1953
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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 […]
What’s a young woman who doesn’t have a “penny in her jeans,” to do when she blows into town on a Trailways bus with little more than her fine figure to recommend her? Get a job at a saloon, be-friend the alcoholic saloons’ proprietress, seduce her new boss’ bar manager/husband, […]
One of the greatest film noirs is coming to Blu Ray from KINO CLASSICS on October 15th in a newly remastered edition. Based on the true story of Billy Cook, a psychotic killer, Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker (1953) is a prime example of what makes film noir a general aesthetic […]
Director Andre de Toth’s 1953 Horror classic HOUSE OF WAX was a remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), but where that film had lighter comedic moments this version did not. It was the first 3-D film produced by a major studio and to feature stereophonic sound in a […]
Billy Wilder’s World War II comedy masterpiece, STALAG 17 is coming to Blu Ray from Paramount Home Video on October 8th. Based on the stageplay by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski (both real prisoners of Stalag 17B in Austria) the story takes place in a Luftwaffe prison camp somewhere on […]
Based on the true story of Billy Cook a psychotic killer, Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker (1953) is a prime example of what makes film noir a general aesthetic as opposed to a specific genre. To elaborate, this story takes place almost entirely on the road in the brightly lit Mexican […]
Every now and then we at Furious Cinema turn to one of our favorite classic genres, the western. We’ve previously posted a list of 50 Furious Westerns, and to build on that, we’re launching a series of in-depth looks at some classics of the genre. No rules. First up is […]