Once in 50 Years Suspense Like This! (May, 1958)

 

 

 

 

 
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Edward Small Productions :: United Artists / EP: Edward Small / P: Arthur Hornblow Jr. / D: Billy Wilder / W: Lawrence B. Marcus, Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz, Agatha Christie (novel) / C: Russell Harlan / E: Daniel Mandell / M: Matty Malneck / S: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O’Connor

Valerie (1957) Hal R. Makelim Productions :: United Artists / P: Hal R. Makelim / D: Gerd Oswald / W: Laurence Heath, Emmett Murphy / C: Ernest Laszlo / E: David Bretherton / M: Albert Glasser / S: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker, John Wengraf

Drama, Real and Ruthless, Tender and Terrifying! (November, 1950)

 

 

 

 

 
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Paramount Pictures / P: Charles Brackett / D: Billy Wilder / W: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr. / C: John F. Seitz / E: Arthur P. Schmidt / M: Franz Waxman / S: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Jack Webb

For the Love of Film Noir :: From the Novel You Whispered About… (February, 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 Lost Weekend (1945) Paramount Pictures / P: Charles Brackett / D: Billy Wilder / W: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Charles R. Jackson (novel) / C: John F. Seitz / E: Doane Harrison, Lee Hall / M: Miklós Rózsa / S: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Lillian Fontaine

For the Love of Film Noir :: An Unholy Love, an Almost Perfect Crime, and They Tried to Kiss Away a Murder! (August, 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.

Double Indemnity (1944) Paramount Pictures / EP: Buddy G. DeSylva / P: Joseph Sistrom / D: Billy Wilder / W: Raymond Chandler, Billy Wilder, James M. Cain (novel) / C: John Seitz / E: Doane Harrison / M: Miklós Rózsa / S: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr

You’ll Simply Fall Apart with Laughter (December, 1960)

 

 

 

 

 

 
The Apartment (1960) The Mirisch Company :: United Artists / P: Billy Wilder / AP: I.A.L. Diamond, Doane Harrison / D: Billy Wilder / W: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond / C: Joseph LaShelle / E: Daniel Mandell / M: Adolph Deutsch / S: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Naomi Stevens