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Yes. The man in the clown suit was an oddball high point.

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Jacques Tourneur's crisp thriller Berlin Express presents occupied Germany in miniature. Every nation associated with Allied-occupied Germany is represented by the film's characters — the...

Thanks, Gordon! This was one of the films shown at Noir City 3 in Chicago last year, and it was a real treat to see a crisp print on the big screen.

Someday I'd like to see a DVD/Blu-ray set of...

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William Castle is best remembered as the P.T. Barnum of schlock cinema. Castle was a director, producer, and huckster who sold his flicks to the public with brilliant gimmicks. Anyone who...

I don't know, but it's a lot ... just thinking of noirs there's Shockproof, D.O.A. (1950), M (1951), I, the Jury (1953). And of course plenty of other memorable films ... Chinatown, Blade Runner, The...

It was a toss-up. I found a nice scan of a different lobby card from the film, but I really hated the design, so I went with this one, even though it's a little beat-up looking.

It does. This movie starts strong, and keeps going for awhile before it falls apart. Sirk knew how to make a movie look great, that's for sure...

Loophole was one of the films shown at Noir City 3, and Alan K. Rode pointed out that the house at the end was the same one featured in Kiss Me Deadly.

The print they showed was a crisp, sharp,...

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Real-life married couples can have strange chemistry when they appear together in a film. For every Bogie and Bacall there's also a Cruise and Kidman. Just because two actors want to tie the...

The neo-noir Suture (1993) uses the plastic surgery angle in some fascinating and unexpectedly weird ways.


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I have never seen Marlowe, but I'll try to remember that title. I have a friend who's trying to watch every movie based on a Chandler novel, so I'll mention that to him the next time I talk to him. I...

Hi, Alberto. I know you from Goodreads, don't I?

Also, these are two seriously great flicks. What did you think of Crime Wave?

The Great Silence is one of my favorite Italian westerns of all time, and easily my favorite film from Sergio Corbucci. Its score, by Morricone, is so haunting and beautiful.

I always tell people...

Thanks for all the reviews. When I saw a preview for this in the theater I thought two things: "January dump" and "wait until it hits DVD." This thread has really confirmed that, so I'll probably...

Does it make sense to put B&W films in the running against color films? They just seem like two different art forms to me, in the same way that silent films are different from sound films. Not...

Thanks, Steve-O!

Also, I just realized that the YouTube video I'd originally put at the end is gone now, so I've replaced it with a working link that shows Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave...

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Fritz Lang's Secret Beyond the Door takes the perennially popular Gothic theme, "Someone is trying to kill me, and I think it may be my husband," throws in a liberal dose of psychological...

Very cool. I never saw Stallone's version, and while I like Stallone, all those shots of him in the preview with his helmet off made me realize that the film would probably be very different from the...

Is it only Australian posters that have the "Not Suitable for Children" stamp? I feel as if I've also seen a "Suitable Only for Exhibition to Adults" stamp in exactly the same font, size, and...

I think the tropes and values of the western have migrated into other genres. TV shows like Justified and Sons of Anarchy feel like westerns even though they ostensibly take place in the modern era....

I like the cover for Bury Me Deep. When was it published? It looks very ... early '80s?

Is The Bridge a remake of the Canadian cop show of the same name? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278016/

I recently saw another movie featuring a hep cat in a zoot suit ... On Our Merry Way (1948). It's a series of loosely connected vignettes. In one, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart play musicians who...

I have a generally low opinion of Bollywood movies, but I really enjoyed the original Zanjeer. Great polyester wardrobe, great nightmare/dream sequences, crazy action ... not bad.

Speaking of "Dead Reckoning," does anyone know why Bogie constantly calls Liz Scott "Mike" in that film? Was that ever explained?