For the Love of Film Noir :: A Tough Dame with a Soft Heart Meets a Dreamer with a Gun! (March, 1941)

 

 

 

 

 

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.

High Sierra (1941) Warner Bros. Pictures / EP: Hal B. Wallis / P: Mark Hellinger / D: Raoul Walsh / W: John Huston, W.R. Burnett (novel) / C: Tony Gaudio / E: Jack Killifer / M: Adolph Deutsch / S: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Willie Best

So Brutally Frank! So Shocking! So True! It Sears the Screen with its Life Shattering Story (March, 1944)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
None Shall Escape (1944) Columbia Pictures / P: Samuel Bischoff / AP: Burt Kelly / D: André De Toth / W: Lester Cole, Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than / C: Lee Garmes / E: Charles Nelson / M: Ernst Toch / S: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf, Ruth Nelson

For the Love of Ida Lupino :: A Tough Dame with a Soft Heart Meets a Dreamer with a Gun! (March, 1941)

 

 

 

 

Please note the billing. Yay, Ida!

 
This post was one of my meager contributions to The Ida Lupino Blogathon (2011) hosted by The Miss Ida Lupino fan page, a well-worth-your-while shrine to one of my favorite actresses that is sadly no longer with us. Still, my Ida love knows no bounds, and I hope you will enjoy this humble retrospective. Thanks!
 

 
High Sierra (1941) Warner Bros. Pictures / EP: Hal B. Wallis / P: Mark Hellinger / D: Raoul Walsh / W: John Huston, W.R. Burnett (novel) / C: Tony Gaudio / E: Jack Killifer / M: Adolph Deutsch / S: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Willie Best

For the Love of Hitchcock :: No Doubt About It, See it From the Beginning (April, 1943)

 
“What does he do?”
 

“Oh, he’s just in business, you know, the way men are.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.

 

I’m participating. Are you?

 
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Skirball Productions :: Universal Pictures / P: Jack H. Skirball / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville, Gordon McDonell (story) / C: Joseph A. Valentine / E: Milton Carruth / M: Dimitri Tiomkin / S: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford