Susan Lenox (1931) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Robert Z. Leonard / D: Robert Z. Leonard / W: Leon Gordon, Zelda Sears, Wanda Tuchock, David Graham Phillips (novel) / C: William H. Daniels / E: Margaret Booth / M: William Axt / S: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Alan Hale
Is it really film noir? I say, close enough!
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.
Juke Girl (1942) Warner Bros. Pictures / EP: Hal B. Wallis / P: Jack Saper, Jerry Wald / D: Curtis Bernhardt / W: Theodore Pratt, Kenneth Gamet, A.I. Bezzerides / C: Bert Glennon / E: Warren Low / M: Adolph Deutsch / S: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Willie Best
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.
They Drive By Night (1940) Warner Bros. Pictures :: A First National Picture / P: Hal B. Wallis / AP: Mark Hellinger / D: Raoul Walsh / W: Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, A.I. Bezzerides (novel) / C: Arthur Edeson / E: Thomas Richards / M: Adolph Deutsch / S: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Gale Page, Alan Hale, George Tobias
Hey, look! Another phantasmically fantastic Friday the 13th Movie Marathon! I kinda always dug Herb Strock’s poor man’s Quatermass movie, The Crawling Hand, but I’m hard pressed to explain exactly why. It’s like the look on people’s faces after they tell you pigs are smart and you ask them what’s the smartest thing a pig’s ever done in their presence. (That’s me shrugging right now. Anyhoo…) Next, having seen and gawked my way through The Slime People I think it’s safe to say the secret to fending off these slimy, subterranean invaders is some Pepto-Bismol as it sounds like they’re all suffering from a bad case of Montezuma’s Revenge. And though I could baffle you with some bullcrit, to be truthful, I had never even heard of Lesley Salander’s The Vampire’s Ghost before but now have an incredible itch to track it down and see a Republic Pictures version of a Val Lewton creeper.
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