For the Love of Film Noir :: When Trouble Starts, YOU Get Socked in the Jaw! (May, 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.

Lady in the Lake (1947) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: George Haight / D: Robert Montgomery / W: Steve Fisher, Raymond Chandler (novel) / C: Paul Vogel / E: Gene Ruggiero / M: David Snell / S: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames, Jayne Meadows, Morris Ankrum

For the Love of Film Noir :: Johnny’s Got a Date with a Killer! (May, 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.

Johnny O’Clock (1947) J.E.M. Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Edward G. Nealis, Jerry Giesler / AP: Milton Holmes / D: Robert Rossen / W: Robert Rossen, Milton Holmes / C: Burnett Guffey / E: Al Clark, Warren Low / M: George Duning / S: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew, Nina Foch, Thomas Gomez

For the Love of Film Noir :: Kiss or Kill … What Would He Rather do? (August, 1942)

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Poster campaign for This Gun for Hire 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.

This Gun for Hire (1942) Paramount Pictures / EP: Buddy G. DeSylva / AP: Richard Blumenthal / D: Frank Tuttle / W: Albert Maltz. W.R. Burnett, Graham Greene (novel) / C: John F. Seitz / E: Archie Marshek / M: David Buttolph / S: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Marc Lawrence

Entering the 3rd Dimension :: A White Hot Movie that Throws Every Savage Thrill in the Book Right at You! (November, 1953)

 

 

 

 

 

Best effort to extract above ad from the gutter:

 

 

 

 
After an old war-time buddy meets a violent end, a brutish, tough as nails detective is soon neck-deep in a violent vendetta to repay an old debt to said friend, who saved his life during the war, by tracking down his killer and making them pay! Okay, when I think on the adapted adventures of that hard-boiled dick Mike Hammer, probably the last person I think of is Biff Elliot. But, he was the first to portray Mickey Spillane’s iconic private-eye in a movie that, alas, has never been released to home video in any format. I know I’m curious to see it, as it’s one of the few onscreen appearances of Margaret Sheridan as Hammer’s trusted secretary, Velda; and another B-Movie fave in Peggie Castle, who portrays the conniving psycho-analyst, Charlotte Manning. And, for the record, as much as I love Ralph Meeker in Kiss Me Deadly, my all time favorite version of Mike Hammer was Darren McGavin’s take in the old Mike Hammer TV show, something else that desperately needs a release for home-viewing as soon as possible.

I the Jury (1953) Parklane Pictures Inc. :: United Artists / P: Victor Saville / D: Harry Essex / W: Harry Essex, Mickey Spillane (novel) / C: John Alton / E: Fredrick Y. Smith / M: Franz Waxman / S: Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Alan Reed, Margaret Sheridan

Thrilling Suprises, Crashing Climaxes, Jive and Romance (January, 1946)

 

 

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

Meet Miss Bobby Socks (1944) Columbia Pictures / P: Ted Richmond / D: Glenn Tryon / W: Muriel Roy Bolton / C: George Meehan / E: Jerome Thoms / M: George Duning / S: Bob Crosby, Lynn Merrick, Louise Erickson, Robert White, Howard Freeman

Unshakable, and Not to Be Believed. (July, 1969)

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

The Ballad of Ahab the Snake Man.

Salt & Pepper (1968) Chrislaw Productions-United Artists / D: Richard Donner / W: Michael Pertwee / C: Ken Higgins / P: Milton Ebbins / S: Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Michael Bates

Harper (1966) Warner Bros. / D: Jack Smight / W: William Goldman / C: Conrad Hall / P: Jerry Gershwin, Elliott Kastner / S: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Robert Wagner