Flick Review < Dead Reckoning | John Cromwell (1947)
Captain Warren 'Rip' Murdock: I hated every part of her but I couldn't figure her out yet. I wanted to...
Film Noir
Flick Review < My Name Is Julia Ross | Joseph H. Lewis (1945)
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) Director: Joseph H. Lewis Writers: Muriel Roy Bolton (screenplay), Anthony Gilbert (novel) Stars: Nina...
The Book & the Movie: Brighton Rock | Graham Greene, 1938 / John Boulting, 1947
"A man always has a different name for strangers." “A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and...
The Book and the Movie: The Killers (1927) | Ernest Hemingway | Robert Siodmak (1946) / Andrei Tarkovsky (1956) / Don Siegel (1964)
Robert Siodmak, The Killers, 1946 Stars: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien Charles McGraw and William Conrad in/are The Killers...
The Book & the Movie: Double Indemnity (1943) | James M. Cain / Billy Wilder (1944)
James M. Cain, Double Indemnity, 1945, cover by Paul Stahr Double Indemnity (1943), first published in...
Flick Review < The Woman in the Window | Fritz Lang, 1944
Dr. Michael Barkstane: We've decided she's our dream girl just from that picture. Richard Wanley: Is it yours? Alice Reed:...
The Book & the Movie: Leave Her to Heaven (1944) / Ben Ames Williams | John M. Stahl (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Director: John M. Stahl Writers: Jo Swerling (screenplay), Ben Ames Williams (novel) Stars: Gene Tierney,...
Flick Review < Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis (1950)
“Come on, Bart, let’s finish it the way we started it: on the level.” Deadly Is The Female aka Gun...
Flick Review < Detour (1945) / Edgar G. Ulmer
Al Roberts: How far you goin'? Vera: How far YOU goin'? Al Roberts: That took me by surprise, and I turned around...
Flick Review < Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)Director: Alexander Mackendrick The screenplay was written by Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman and Mackendrick from the novelette...