The Film Noir Foundation puts across more impressive rescues in concert with the UCLA Film and Television Archive: a pair of independently-produced noirs released by Monogram in 1947, modest of budget but firmly rooted in the noir style. The Guilty is a Cornell Woolrich ‘ironic twist’ mini mystery involving troublemaking twins and a soldier suffering from Ptsd. High Tide is a hardboiled corruption tale starring the king of smart-talking newsmen, Lee Tracy. Especially rewarding disc extras give us long-form visual essays on Cornell Woolrich, actor Tracy, producer Jack Wrather and the ‘international’ director John Reinhardt.
The Guilty + High Tide
Blu-ray + DVD
Flicker Alley
1947 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 71 + 72 min. / Street Date June 10, 2022 / Available from Flicker Alley / 39.95
Starring: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, Wally Cassell; Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw.
Shared Credits:
Cinematography: Henry Sharp
Original Music: Rudy Schrager
Screenplays by Robert Presnell Sr.
Produced by Jack Wrather
Directed...
The Guilty + High Tide
Blu-ray + DVD
Flicker Alley
1947 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 71 + 72 min. / Street Date June 10, 2022 / Available from Flicker Alley / 39.95
Starring: Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey, Wally Cassell; Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop, Anabel Shaw.
Shared Credits:
Cinematography: Henry Sharp
Original Music: Rudy Schrager
Screenplays by Robert Presnell Sr.
Produced by Jack Wrather
Directed...
- 6/7/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Marcus Belgrave (1936-2015) - Trumpet Player. Legend of the Detroit jazz scene, he can be seen in the documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown. He died on May 24. (Nyt) Michael Blake (1945-2015) - Screenwriter. He won an Oscar for adapting his own novel into the script for Dances With Wolves (see below). He died on May 2. (THR) Wally Cassell (1912-2015) - Actor. He starred in movies of the '40s and '50s, including White Heat and Story of...
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- 6/3/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
In today's roundup, we catch up with remembrances of costume designer Julie Harris, who worked with Richard Lester on his Beatles movies, A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and won an Oscar for her work on John Schlesinger’s Darling (1965); Anne Meara, remembered for her comedic turns with Jerry Stiller and as the mother of Ben Stiller; director Prashant Bhargava; photographer Mary Ellen Mark; noir actor Wally Cassell; Mildred Pierce star John Compton; Betsy Palmer, known to most as the mother of Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th movies; Gill Dennis, co-writer of the screenplay for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line; and composer Robert Drasnin. » - David Hudson...
- 6/2/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup, we catch up with remembrances of costume designer Julie Harris, who worked with Richard Lester on his Beatles movies, A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and won an Oscar for her work on John Schlesinger’s Darling (1965); Anne Meara, remembered for her comedic turns with Jerry Stiller and as the mother of Ben Stiller; director Prashant Bhargava; photographer Mary Ellen Mark; noir actor Wally Cassell; Mildred Pierce star John Compton; Betsy Palmer, known to most as the mother of Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th movies; Gill Dennis, co-writer of the screenplay for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line; and composer Robert Drasnin. » - David Hudson...
- 6/2/2015
- Keyframe
Mickey Rooney movie schedule (Pt): TCM on August 13 See previous post: “Mickey Rooney Movies: Music and Murder.” Photo: Mickey Rooney ca. 1940. 3:00 Am Death On The Diamond (1934). Director: Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Mickey Rooney. Bw-71 mins. 4:15 Am A Midsummer Night’S Dream (1935). Director: Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle. Cast: James Cagney, Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown, Victor Jory, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh, Grant Mitchell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dewey Robinson, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Treacher, Otis Harlan, Helen Westcott, Fred Sale, Billy Barty, Rags Ragland. Bw-143 mins. 6:45 Am A Family Affair (1936). Director: George B. Seitz. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden. Bw-69 mins. 8:00 Am Boys Town (1938). Director: Norman Taurog. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris, Addison Richards, Minor Watson, Jonathan Hale,...
- 8/13/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Joan Fontaine movies: ‘This Above All,’ ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ (photo: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine in ‘Suspicion’ publicity image) (See previous post: “Joan Fontaine Today.”) Also tonight on Turner Classic Movies, Joan Fontaine can be seen in today’s lone TCM premiere, the flag-waving 20th Century Fox release The Above All (1942), with Fontaine as an aristocratic (but socially conscious) English Rose named Prudence Cathaway (Fontaine was born to British parents in Japan) and Fox’s top male star, Tyrone Power, as her Awol romantic interest. This Above All was directed by Anatole Litvak, who would guide Olivia de Havilland in the major box-office hit The Snake Pit (1948), which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nod. In Max Ophüls’ darkly romantic Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), Fontaine delivers not only what is probably the greatest performance of her career, but also one of the greatest movie performances ever. Letter from an Unknown Woman...
- 8/6/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Fans of Robert Redford, Marlon Brando, John Wayne and Jason Robards rejoice! Altitude Films are releasing Seven classic films between May 27th and June 10th and to celebrate we are offering you the chance to win them all.
Two lucky winners will each receive a bundle of classic movies including a copy of The Fugitive Kind, The Hot Rock, Arabian Nights, Desiree, The Story of GI Joe, The St Valentines Massacre and McLintock!
Here’s the rundown on the films included in this fantastic classic bundle…
Arabian Nights (1942)
Filmed in glorious Technicolor and nominated for four Academy Awards®, Arabian Nights is an action-packed adventure classic.
Starring Jon Hall and Maria Montez, Arabian Nights is a grand tale of intrigue and romance. Haroun-Al-Raschid, the Caliph of Bagdad and his half-brother Kamar are in an epic battle, competing for the throne and for the affections of a beautiful dancer, Scheherazade.
Pre-order your copy now here.
Two lucky winners will each receive a bundle of classic movies including a copy of The Fugitive Kind, The Hot Rock, Arabian Nights, Desiree, The Story of GI Joe, The St Valentines Massacre and McLintock!
Here’s the rundown on the films included in this fantastic classic bundle…
Arabian Nights (1942)
Filmed in glorious Technicolor and nominated for four Academy Awards®, Arabian Nights is an action-packed adventure classic.
Starring Jon Hall and Maria Montez, Arabian Nights is a grand tale of intrigue and romance. Haroun-Al-Raschid, the Caliph of Bagdad and his half-brother Kamar are in an epic battle, competing for the throne and for the affections of a beautiful dancer, Scheherazade.
Pre-order your copy now here.
- 5/29/2013
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
To celebrate the release of The Story of GI Joe on June 3rd, we are offering you the chance to win one of three copies of the DVD.
Based on the columns of war correspondent Ernie Pyle, The Story of GI Joe is a gripping World War II drama often considered the single most realistic Hollywood war film of the 1940s.
Directed by William Wellman (A Star is Born), GI Joe is based on Ernie Pyle’s (Burgess Meredith’s) experiences with an Army infantry unit during the invasion of Italy.
Pyle befriends several of the soldiers, including commanding officer Bill Walker (Robert Mitchum), family man Sgt. Warnicki (Freddie Steele) and would-be romeo Pvt. Dondaro (Wally Cassell) and reports on the everyday trials and tribulations of the humble foot soldier.
Featuring the breakthrough performance from Robert Mitchum, The Story Of GI Joe received four Oscar® nominations including Best Supporting Actor,...
Based on the columns of war correspondent Ernie Pyle, The Story of GI Joe is a gripping World War II drama often considered the single most realistic Hollywood war film of the 1940s.
Directed by William Wellman (A Star is Born), GI Joe is based on Ernie Pyle’s (Burgess Meredith’s) experiences with an Army infantry unit during the invasion of Italy.
Pyle befriends several of the soldiers, including commanding officer Bill Walker (Robert Mitchum), family man Sgt. Warnicki (Freddie Steele) and would-be romeo Pvt. Dondaro (Wally Cassell) and reports on the everyday trials and tribulations of the humble foot soldier.
Featuring the breakthrough performance from Robert Mitchum, The Story Of GI Joe received four Oscar® nominations including Best Supporting Actor,...
- 5/15/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Article by Dana Jung
In 1959 director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M) released one of his last works, a two-part film known as The Indian Epic. The films (The Tiger Of Eschnapur and its sequel The Indian Tomb, both available on DVD but currently out of print) were part adventure and part travelogue. Today, these films are remembered (if at all) for two things: their incredible location photography, and the erotic dances of star Debra Paget. The scenes with a barely-clad Paget writhing seductively were considered so sexy at the time that the films received a write-up in Playboy magazine. But just five years earlier, as a 20th Century Fox contract player, Paget had played basically the same role (complete with dancing!) of an exotic beauty caught up in political turmoil. The film was the 1954 Fox B-picture Princess Of The Nile, which is sadly Not available on DVD.
The movie opens with...
In 1959 director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M) released one of his last works, a two-part film known as The Indian Epic. The films (The Tiger Of Eschnapur and its sequel The Indian Tomb, both available on DVD but currently out of print) were part adventure and part travelogue. Today, these films are remembered (if at all) for two things: their incredible location photography, and the erotic dances of star Debra Paget. The scenes with a barely-clad Paget writhing seductively were considered so sexy at the time that the films received a write-up in Playboy magazine. But just five years earlier, as a 20th Century Fox contract player, Paget had played basically the same role (complete with dancing!) of an exotic beauty caught up in political turmoil. The film was the 1954 Fox B-picture Princess Of The Nile, which is sadly Not available on DVD.
The movie opens with...
- 1/13/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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