The CinemaScope Blogathon :: Monroe Tames Mitchum in God’s Last Outpost! (May, 1954)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This post is part of ClassicBecky’s Brain Food and Wide Screen World’s CinemaScope Blogathon. Be sure click on over and check out all the other wonderful entries. And be sure to check out all the other CinemaScope ads already posted with this handy linkage.

River of No Return (1954) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Stanley Rubin / D: Otto Preminger / W: Frank Fenton, Louis Lantz / C: Joseph LaShelle / E: Louis R. Loeffler / M: Cyril J. Mockridge / S: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig, Douglas Spencer

Is THIS a License for Murder? (October, 1950)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) 20th Century Fox / P: Otto Preminger / AP: Frank P. Rosenberg / D: Otto Preminger / W: Ben Hecht, Victor Trivas, Frank P. Rosenberg, Robert E. Kent, William L. Stuart (novel) / C: Joseph LaShelle / E: Louis Loeffler / M: Cyril Mockridge / S: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Karl Malden, Gary Merrill

Second Run Showcase :: Can a Woman Commit a Sin When She is HYPNOTIZED? (April, 1951)

 

 

 
Though hamstrung a bit by the hypnotic hookum the villain uses to dupe our heroine into a murder frame-up, with the way director Otto Preminger paints her into a corner in Whirlpool, I wasn’t sure they were going to get the lovely Gene Tierney out of this airtight mess let alone how — but I encourage you all to find out for yourselves just how they do. Props to Charles Bickford as the well-seasoned detective in charge and Jose Ferrer’s despicable David Korvo belongs in the Film Noir Villain Hall of Fame.
 

For the Love of Film Noir :: Men Were Ready to Die for Her Smile, to Kill for Her Kiss! (February, 1945)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Love that first ad. If you just give it a quick glance, you probably missed the shotgun and the hand holding the stock and the finger on the trigger!
 

Other Points of Interest:

Film review of Laura at the Brewery.

Poster campaign for Laura 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.

Laura (1944) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / P: Otto Preminger / D: Otto Preminger / W: Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Vera Caspary (novel) / C: Joseph LaShelle / E: Louis R. Loeffler / M: David Raksin / S: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams

Now Showing :: August, 1965

 

 

All Sensationalism Left Intact!! (September, 1959)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Carlyle Productions :: Columbia Pictures / P: Otto Preminger / D: Otto Preminger / W: Wendell Mayes, Robert Traver (novel) / C: Sam Leavitt / E: Louis R. Loeffler / M: Duke Ellington / S: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, George C. Scott, Arthur O’Connell, Eve Arden, Joseph N. Welch