Film-Noir Discussion/DVD Review Thread

[drinkanddestroy]

some more intros/outros from Eddie & Ben's neo-noir series on Fridays in July:

Blade Runner intro https://youtu.be/gt4BAz0Sl7s

Blade Runner outro  https://youtu.be/-SR8SDTBlQQ

Tequila Sunrise intro  https://youtu.be/B3CLIm6DC90

Tequila Sunrise outro  https://youtu.be/NY3_IRU_Sjo

[dave jenkins]

Noir enough for ya? http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-ray_review_160/a_life_at_stake_blu-ray.htm

[dave jenkins]

Noir City #32, in da house! Cover story on Gloria Grahame! This month's cocktail: The Left Hand by Sam Ross: 2 parts bourbon, one part vermouth, one part Campari, 2 dashes of chocolate bitters. I've never even heard of chocolate bitters before, but the other stuff I had on hand. So I gave it a try--yikes, it's sweet. I tried thinning it out with some soda, but it was still too cloying for me. I tried to fob it off on the wife, and even she wouldn't drink it. I'm gonna have to give it a 4/10.

[dave jenkins]

thanks check out this film if you haven't:

The Capture (1950) Another one of those on the cusp "End of The West" Westerns shot in a very noir style its practically not only a bookend film to "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" but it probably could be considered as a stand alone film noir, It begins around the oil fields of Tampico and in the same time (just like TTOTSM) and then moves into the interior just like (TTOTSM). Its directed by John Sturges and has enough sleazy interior cantina shots with old whirling overhead electric fans and trains to keep me happy. It stars Lew Ayres as Lin Vanner, Teresa Wright as Ellen Tevlin Vanner, Victor Jory as    Father Gomez, Jacqueline White as Luana Ware, Jimmy Hunt   as Mike Tevlin, Barry Kelley as Earl C. Mahoney, and Duncan Renaldo (the Cisco Kid) as Carlos

The basic story is Vanner an oil company man gets a hunch and goes after a suspect in an oil company payroll robbery that Mahoney, who was guarding the money, says they passed on the rails just before the motorized railcar was attacked. Vanner takes off on a hunch on horseback to a pass through the mountains, he comes upon Sam Tevlin and orders him to throw up his hands Tevlin who has hurt his right arm yells out that he can't but Vanner can't make out what he yelled and shoots him, wounding him seriously. Tevlin denies having anything to do with the robbery that he was heading back to his ranch, wife and son,  and explains that he couldn't put his hand up because of his wound. Vanner feels disgusted with himself and puts Tevlin on his horse and leads him back to the oil company office, there Mahoney interrogates Teviln roughlyand he dies from his wounds.

Vanner quits the company and accompanies the body of Tevlin to is home town where he meets an old friend Carlos. Ellen Tevlin now with no husband puts an add in the paper for a ranch foreman and Vanner applies. He gets along good with the family until Ellen finds a newspaper clipping about Vanner taking Tevlin and she blames him for his death. Eventually they reconcile, and Vanner decides to clear Tevlin's name and go after the real robber of the payroll.

Its not a great print on the DVD but its worth renting from Netflix, 8/10 for the atmosphere alone.

Finally caught up with this myself. I'm not sure it's a noir, but Selby does list it. It's coming to blu in January, hopefully from a freshly scanned print.

[dave jenkins]

Deported coming to blu. But is it even a noir? https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=29054

Not a noir, but worth a watch: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-ray_review_159/deported_blu-ray.htm

[dave jenkins]

https://trailersfromhell.com/kino-noir-times-four/

Erickson has the right take on Marina Berti, too.

[drinkanddestroy]

Eddie Muller showed the Jap movie Cruel Gun Story (1964) on Noir Alley

intro  https://youtu.be/uoGTIb20yjs

outro  https://youtu.be/TMQkmChA0f8

[drinkanddestroy]

2022 schedule on Noir Alley

JANUARY

1 Repeat Performance
8 Nightmare Alley
15 The Mob
22 Over-Exposed
29 Quai des Orfevres

FEBRUARY

5 The Turning Point
12 Side Street
26 Cast a Dark Shadow


Nothing in March, presumably due to 31 Day of Oscar programming



APRIL

2 Pitfall
9 Bob le flambeur
16 Night and the City
23 The Window
30 Johnny Angel


MAY

7 No Man of Her Own
14 The Killer is Loose
21 My Name is Julia Ross
28 Bad Day at Black Rock

JUNE

4 Out of the Past
11 The Guilty
18 Thieves' Highway
25 Down Three Dark Streets


JULY

2 The Strange One
9 High Tide
16 Scarlet Street
23 5 Against the House
30 Raw Deal

[dave jenkins]

https://www.flickeralley.com/classic-movies-2/#!/The-Guilty-High-Tide/p/442246038/category=20414531
Been wanting to see High Tide for a good half-decade or so . . .

[dave jenkins]

Savant linked to this today. Looks like a pretty good resource: https://crimefilmhub.com/

[dave jenkins]

https://trailersfromhell.com/shakedown-1950/

Ordered!

[CrimeFilmHub]

Savant linked to this today. Looks like a pretty good resource: https://crimefilmhub.com/

Thank you for mentioning the site Dave, I'm glad you find it useful and I hope you continue to do so. Just a note to anyone reading that the site is in its infancy, in fact I?ve not yet worked on the site design to have it looking and working in a more user-friendly fashion. That?s to come very soon, along with other posts outside of the daily updates, but for now I want to make sure I?m consistent with those posts.

Thanks again and best wishes,
David (Crime Film Hub, and long time fan of Sergio Leone...)

[dave jenkins]

Writings on noir by Imogen Sara Smith:
https://www.criterion.com/current/series/dark-passages

[drinkanddestroy]

forgot to post these Eddie Muller intros/outros from a few months ago:

Noir Alley did a Halloween special double feature: Cat People and The Leopard Man

intro to Cat People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihfGeRDPpRQ

outro to Cat People & intro to The Leopard Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu-75nuXMuE

outro to The Leopard Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x-Zh2yi3XQ

[dave jenkins]

The House of Black Crush strikes again: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film10/blu-ray_review_155/double_indemnity_4K_UHD.htm