4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 14, 2023

I had no prior knowledge of what Sudden Fear was about, and I was relatively taken aback to see a film set during a stage rehearsal. You have your lead actor in the middle of a passionate soliloquy. This is Jack Palance getting a go at a more substantial role....   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on November 4, 2021

Today’s Noirvember post shines the spotlight on one bad-ass sister, Irene Neves in Sudden Fear (1952). WHAT’S SUDDEN FEAR ABOUT? Successful playwright and San Francisco heiress Myra Hudson (Joan Crawford) meets actor Lester Blaine (Jack Palance) and marries him after a whirlwind romance. Their marri   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on November 9, 2020

Sudden Fear (1952) holds a special place in my heart. First of all, it stars my girl Joan Crawford. Secondly, it’s one of the first noirs I ever saw on the big screen. It was at Chicago’s Music Box Theater, and as I sat there in the dark, I was...   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on November 28, 2014

Everybody knows about those larger-than-life femme fatales in those famous, blockbuster noirs: dames like Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity. Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past. Kitty Collins in The Killers. Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Sure, we’re all familiar with these twisted   read more

Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on July 8, 2012

Lester turns on the charm when he encounters Myra on the train. Myra’s play opens to rave reviews about a month later – with another actor in the starring role – and we meet up with her as she is boarding a train for a triumphant return to her home...   read more

MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on December 27, 2011

Sudden Fear (1952) What would be more shocking: Discovering the man you just married and are mad about doesn’t love you and is having an affair or that he wants to kill you for your money? I had a hard time deciphering which of these circumstances, which come hurtling at...   read more