Remembering Ray :: Baby Gorilla Reared by Girl Becomes Powder-Keg Pet of Society! (October, 1949)

 

 

 

 

 
“I’m another snowball. Willis H. O’Brien started the snowball, then I picked it up, then ILM picked it up and now the computer generation is picking it up. Where it will end, I don’t know.”

Ray Harryhausen
(1920-2013)

Mighty Joe Young (1949) Argosy Pictures :: RKO Radio Pictures / EP: John Ford / P: Merian C. Cooper / D: Ernest B. Schoedsack / W: Ruth Rose, Merian C. Cooper / C: J. Roy Hunt / E: Ted Cheesman / M: Roy Webb / S: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley

Close-Up (1948) Harry Brandt Productions :: Eagle-Lion Films / P: Frank Satenstein / AP: Robert L. Joseph / D: Jack Donohue / W: John Bright, James Poe, Martin Rackin, Max Wilk / C: William Miller / E: Robert Klager / M: Jerome Moross / S: Alan Baxter, Virginia Gilmore, Richard Kollmar, Loring Smith, Phillip Huston

For the Love of Film Noir :: His Lips Demand Kisses, His Brain Cries MURDER! (August, 1947)

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) RKO Radio Pictures / EP: Sid Rogell / P: Herman Schlom / D: Felix E. Feist / W: Felix E. Feist, Robert C. DuSoe (novel) / C: J. Roy Hunt / E: Robert Swink / M: Paul Sawtell / S: Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford, Marian Carr

For the Love of Film Noir :: Terror and Tenderness! (June, 1947)

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Stranger (1946) International Pictures :: The Haig Corporation :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Sam Spiegel / D: Orson Welles / W: Anthony Veiller, Victor Trivas, Decla Dunning / C: Russell Metty / E: Ernest J. Nims / M: Bronislau Kaper / S: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Martha Wentworth

For the Love of Film Noir :: A Strange, Sinister, Secret Story (June, 1947)

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Locket (1946) RKO Radio Pictures / EP: Jack J. Gross / P: Bert Granet / D: John Brahm / W: Sheridan Gibney / C: Nicholas Musuraca / E: J.R. Whittredge / M: Roy Webb / S: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum, Gene Raymond, Sharyn Moffett, Ricardo Cortez

For the Love of Film Noir :: Murder Makes Strange Partners! (April, 1947)

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

Crack-Up (1946) RKO Radio Pictures / P: Jack J. Gross / D: Irving Reis / W: John Paxton, Ben Bengal, Ray Spencer, Fredric Brown (story) / C: Robert De Grasse / E: Frederic Knudtson / M: Leigh Harline / S: Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins, Wallace Ford

For the Love of Film Noir :: Don’t Kill the Thrill … No One Seated Last Five Minutes of the Picture (March, 1946)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Poster campaign for The Spiral Staircase at the Archive.

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Spiral Staircase (1945) Dore Schary Productions :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Dore Schary / D: Robert Siodmak / W: Mel Dinelli, Ethel Lina White (novel) / C: Nicholas Musuraca / E: Harry Gerstad, Harry Marker / M: Roy Webb / S: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming, Gordon Oliver, Elsa Lanchester

For the Love of Film Noir :: Two-Fisted. Hard-Boiled. Terrific. Meet the New Dick Powell! (August, 1945)

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Second run ads for Murder, My Sweet at the Morgue.

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

Murder, My Sweet (1944) RKO Radio Pictures / EP: Sid Rogell / P: Adrian Scott / D: Edward Dmytryk / W: John Paxton, Raymond Chandler (novel) / C: Harry J. Wild / E: Joseph Noriega / M: Roy Webb / S: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki

For the Love of Film Noir :: A Hard-Boiled Guy in the Toils of Terror! (May, 1944)

 

 

 

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Fallen Sparrow (1943) RKO Radio Pictures / P: Robert Fellows / D: Richard Wallace / W: Warren Duff, Dorothy B. Hughes (novel) / C: Nicholas Musuraca / E: Robert Wise / M: Roy Webb / S: John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak, Patricia Morison, Martha O’Driscol, Hugh Beaumont

For the Love of Film Noir :: SHOCKING! SPOOKY! CREEPY! It Will Sends Chills Down Your Spine! (December, 1943)

 

 

 

This post is part of my rehash and continuation of the For the Love of Film Noir Blogathon originally held back in February of 2011. Thus and so, we will be heading down the rain-soaked streets and neon-drenched back alleys of Noirville again for the entire month of March. And along with all the old material migrating over from the old site, we’ll also be scattering around a lot of new stuff as well. Also of note, we’ll be posting them in chronological order to show how the genre evolved and progressed from the 1940′s through the late ’50s. And as an added bonus, I’ll be posting some vintage adverts to stuff I’ve always associated with the genre — cigarettes, booze and fashionable ladies.

The Seventh Victim (1943) RKO Radio Pictures / P: Val Lewton / D: Mark Robson / W: Charles O’Neal, DeWitt Bodeen / C: Nicholas Musuraca / E: John Lockert / M: Roy Webb / S: Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Hugh Beaumont, Evelyn Brent

A Rebel’s Hate, A Woman’s Undying Love! (August, 1957)

 

 

 

 

 

 
I first saw Samuel Fuller’s Run of the Arrow under the alternate title, The Last Bullet, on the late-late show many moons ago. Kind of a nastier, edgier version of Dances with Wolves (that final massacre is just brutal), this was my introduction to both Fuller and Rod Steiger and it needs to be seen by a lot more folks.

Run of the Arrow (1957) Globe Enterprises :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Samuel Fuller / D: Samuel Fuller / W: Samuel Fuller / C: Joseph F. Biroc / E: Gene Fowler Jr. / M: Victor Young / S: Rod Steiger, Sara Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker, Jay C. Flippen, Olive Carey, Charles Bronson