Second Run Showcase :: Most Tremendous Motion Picture Ever! Original Roadshow Version! Intact — Complete! (April, 1959)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When You Double-Cross a Double-Crosser… (April, 1949)

 

 

 

 

 
Criss Cross (1949) Universal International Pictures :: Universal Pictures / P: Michael Kraike / D: Robert Siodmak / W: Daniel Fuchs, Don Tracy (novel) / C: Franz Planer / E: Ted J. Kent / M: Miklós Rózsa / S: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Richard Long

Stalk ‘n’ SlashCinema :: Terror So Sudden There is No Time To Scream! (June, 1980)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Thanks to a prolonged production history, Silent Scream, being almost two years in the making, technically, predates most of its true Stalk ‘n’ Slash brethren — and some would claim it isn’t even a slasher at all. Eh, they might have a point; but I think there are enough elements present in the film to qualify. And I’d go into greater detail as to why or why not but this movie is about one of dozen or so aborted extended reviews that I have actual delusions of finishing someday. For now, I’ll just say I like the movie quite a bit, but the actual production, I think, proves far more interesting than the finished product.
 

 
Silent Scream (1980) Denny Harris Inc. :: American Cinema Releasing / EP: Denny Harris, Joan Harris / P: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat / AP: Leslie Zurla / D: Denny Harris / W: Ken Wheat, Jim Wheat, Wallace C. Bennett / C: Michael D. Murphy, David Shore / E: Edward Salier / M: Roger Kellaway / S: Rebecca Balding, Barbara Steele, Yvonne De Carlo, Brad Rearden, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber

For the Love of Film Noir :: EXPLODING with Ruthless Fury! (November, 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.

Brute Force (1947) Mark Hellinger Productions :: Universal International Pictures / P: Mark Hellinger / AP: Jules Buck / D: Jules Dassin / W: Richard Brooks, Robert Patterson / C: William H. Daniels / E: Edward Curtiss / M: Miklós Rózsa / S: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Sam Levene

Jungle Flight (1947) Pine-Thomas Productions :: Paramount Pictures / P: William H. Pine, William C. Thomas / D: Sam Newfield / W: Whitman Chambers, David Lang / C: Jack Greenhalgh / E: Howard A. Smith / M: Darrell Calker / S: Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Douglas Fowley, Duncan Renaldo