4th of July All-Night Power Play!

 

 

 
May you all still have all your fingers on toes come the 5th.

Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: Bomb Shells, Sky Rockets, Fountains, Helicopters, the Duke, McQueen and Hope (July, 1964)

 

 

 

Happy 4th July to all of you from Scenes from the Morgue.

Looking for a Show to Blow Your Cool? (July, 1967)

 

 

 

Drive-In Mash-Up :: Mellow Movie Jam! One Night Only! Catch It! (July, 1978)

 

 

 
And here we have a virtual melting pot of softcore sleaze-o-rama from our friends at Group 1 International Distribution Organization Ltd. From Italy we have La liceale a/k/a The Teasers; and from Spain via West Germany we have La casa de las mil muñecas a/k/a House of a 1000 Pleasures (–with Vincent Price in the cast no less); and from the former Yugoslavia we have Nokaut a/k/a Rogue; and finally, a film of unknown origin called Girls In Trouble, which, according to the IMDB distribution list for Group 1 could be one of any half-dozen films. And together, we’ve got one helluva mellow movie jam for the 4th of July.

For the Love of Film Noir :: Save Your Lipstick, Girls. This Guy Plays for Keeps! (June, 1946)

 

 

 

 

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 Dark Corner (1946) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Fred Kohlmar / D: Henry Hathaway / W: Jay Dratler, Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Leo Rosten / C: Joseph MacDonald / E: J. Watson Webb / M: Cyril J. Mockridge / S: Mark Stevens, Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Kurt Kreuger, Cathy Downs

Four for the 4th :: You’ll Fracture Your Funny Bone when You Dig these Crazy Ghost-Busters! (July, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Scared Stiff (1953) Paramount Pictures / EP: Joseph H. Hazen / P: Hal B. Wallis / D: George Marshall / W: Herbert Baker, Walter DeLeon, Ed Simmons, Norman Lear, Paul Dickey (play), Charles W. Goddard (play) / C: Ernest Laszlo / E: Warren Low / M: Leith Stevens / S: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda, Dorothy Malone, Walter Ching

A Bang-Up Treat for the 4th of July! (June, 1958)

 

 

Four for the (Foxy) 4th :: She’ll Be Looking for You! (July, 1975)

 

 

 

Safe and Sane for Less! (June, 1958)

 

 

Four for the 4th :: A Rip-Roaring, Nerve-Shattering, Twisting and Teasing Parade of Feature Attractions! (July, 1972)