Noirvember is coming to a close. It was a weird one over here, with half of the films I featured on the blog barely being qualifying as actual noirs (and the most iconic film this year was definitely not a noir). And today, the finale, is probably the least noir-y of them all and just …
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Today’s film features none other than Tyrone Power, a star I have complicated feelings about but that’s a story for another day. Power plays the son of a stockbroker jailed for embezzlement. Because of this disgrace, Tyrone can’t find a job anywhere – his name is essentially tainted. So, naturally, he changes it – to …
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 …
NaNoWriMo has been pretty hard for me these past few days so the next entry in the Noirvember series is going to be a two-in-one. The first film is the 1947 The Arnelo Affair directed by Arch Oboler and it is the first film of his I’ve seen. We begin in a car, where a …
We’re halfway through Noirvember now and once again we find ourselves with a story of espionage. George Raft plays the main role in Johnny Allegro – John Allegro, a florist, former soldier. A soldier is only a part of it, though – he is a real war hero. Oh, he is also a former criminal …
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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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