Today on Summer Under the Stars 2021 it’s Tony Randall day and I feel like it would have been difficult to pick a movie more perfect than Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? for the occasion. Randall plays a man working in advertising and we are treated to some amazing 50s ad aesthetic. This is essentially …
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Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Odds Against Tomorrow is a crime, noir (-ish) story about how Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan (whose character is a racist) are basically recruited to rob a bank together by an ex-policeman. They agree because Ryan is a con and Belafonte is a gambling addict with debt. There is no doubt about it, and I …
Noirvember 2019 – “The Wrong Man” (1956)
We have an Alfred Hitchcock Noirvember film! At the beginning of all those entries I mentioned who directed each movie and what other works of theirs I have seen before. But I think this time there’s no need for that. Alfred Hitchcock himself shows up as the film starts, or rather, we hear his voice …
Swingin' at the Seance 