Rita Hayworth is the Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai ?Directed by Orson Welles??Written by Sherwood King, Orson Welles? The review: Orson Welles does an Irish accent and takes the noir film to a bunch of sunny locals for an [...]
Don’t Avoid Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour
Detour ?Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer??Written by Martin Goldsmith? The review: There are three reasons to watch this film and the least of the reasons is that it’s 68 minutes, so it won’t take much [...]
A Bunch of Men Talk about Laura in Laura
Laura ?Directed by Otto Preminger??Written by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Renhardt? The review: Dana Andrews* is our hard-boiled detective investigating the murder of Laura [...]
This Gun for Hire Has A Lot of Elements.
This Gun for Hire ?Directed by Frank Tuttle??Written by Albert Maltz, W.R. Burnett? The review: Well this is a delightful mishmash of oddities.* Alan Ladd plays it tough as Raven, who has no room [...]
Special Film Noir Delivery: The Letter
The Letter ?Directed by William Wyler??Written by Howard Koch? The review: From the first dramatic scene to the last, this movie is plenty of fun.* Bette Davis is both flip and overwhelmed as a [...]
Rebecca 1940: Tune in for the Atmosphere
Rebecca (1940) Directed by Alfred HitchcockWritten by Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison The review: Rebecca has the usual problems one runs into with a film older than my [...]
Best films by decade watched in 2018
Top movies watched in 2018 from individual decades I like some structure to my movie watching. But only some. I’ve got a scratch-off movie poster* that had me chasing some old classics in [...]
On the Town: Good Dancing, Great Costumes
The review: Since they don’t make movies like Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly’s On the Town anymore, this movie gets a pass on a lot of things.* But it does have great musical numbers*** and [...]
