This Noirvember film is an odd one (but can I really call anything odd after Pillow of Death? And yes, I am going to keep bringing it up). It is, I would say a proper(-ish) spy film, with the War background and all the possible European connections. It was allegedly inspired by J. Edgar Hoover’s …
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This Noirvember entry is a 1953 film Count the Hours starring Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, and Dolores Moran. It was directed by Don Siegel – yes, the director of Dirty Harry (and my favourite of his, Invasion of the Body Snatchers). Macdonald Carey plays a lawyer defending an innocent man, Teresa Wright’s husband, who faces …
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Greetings. Time for another entry in our Noirvember series. And this one is… possibly not noir… Oops. But it IS classified as „Film-noir, Horror, Mystery” on IMDb and that is enough for me to justify making it a part of this „series” because it is truly something. Pillow of Death stars the world’s least charismatic …
Happy Noirvember! I thought this month was a perfect opportunity to, hopefully, get back into writing here (but – I am also participating in NaNoWriMo this year so I won’t make any promises). My goal is to watch at least ten noirs this month and I selected some obscure titles so I hope it is …
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Luca Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Suspiria was one of the most talked-about films of last year among film enthusiasts. As soon as the project was announced (or, in a way, even before that, considering the remake was planned for years and there was always something stopping it from actually being made) people …
This is the last day of Summer Under the Stars. And sadly, we have an Errol Flynn situation on our hands, meaning the star of today is someone I am… not a fan of. But, I pushed through. Here’s Kirk Douglas. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) This is Hollywood. I read The Day of …
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The way Summer Under the Stars is constructed is that female stars and male stars alternate, meaning one day a male star is featured, the next one a female star and so on. And that means that today we are celebrating a woman for the last time this August. And the woman is Susan Hayward …
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Only two days of Summer Under the Stars left and, like yesterday, I only watched one film (might seem like slacking but I know that tomorrow and especially the day after are going to be tough). As for Paul Lukas… Working Girls (1931) I am genuinely happy and excited right now because I attempted to …
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Two days ago I watched Mary Astor, who was the star du jour of that Summer Under the Stars Day, play Marmee in the 1949 version of Little Women. And, as I wrote in the blog post, I enjoyed the film overall, except for one thing – June Allyson as Jo. So I guess this …
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What’s the point of these introductions anyway? We don’t need them. Let’s get straight to the point. Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935) Well, let’s kind of get to the point. When I checked which Walter Brennan films I had on my to-watch list, the first position was a little-known 1935 film Biography of a …
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