Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 19, 2014

US / 62 minutes / bw / RKO Dir: Lew Landers Pr: Cliff Reid Scr: Lionel Houser, Harry Segall, Ron Ferguson Story: William Joyce Cowan Cine: Nicholas Musuraca Cast: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frances Mercer, Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Lane, Jack Arnold, Walter Miller, Frank M. Thomas   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 18, 2014

Five more entries added to this exciting countdown: 61. The Quiet Man (1952) 60. A Place in the Sun (1951) 59. The Philadelphia Story (1940) 58. The Earrings of Madame de… (1953) 57. Lady and the Tramp – Lady in Movieland (a video essay) That last one is a real ...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 17, 2014

Another great roundup of reviews/articles posted around the intertubes concerning “forgotten” movies and TV items, many of which are of noirish interest. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 16, 2014

vt The Lady and the Hooligan Russia / 43 minutes / bw silent / Neptun Dir: Yevgeni Slavinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky Scr: Vladimir Mayakovsky Story: La Maestrina degli Operai (1895; vt The Workers’ Young Schoolmistress) by Edmondo De Amicis Cine: Yevgeni Slavinsky Cast: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleks   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 12, 2014

US / 58 minutes / bw / Hoffberg Dir: E. Mason Hopper Pr: Ralph M. Like Scr: Edward T. Lowe Cine: Jules Cronjager Cast: Blanche Mahaffey, John Darrow, Raymond Hatton, Edmund Breese, Myrtle Stedman, Gwen Lee, Henry B. Walthall, Alec B. Francis, Matthew Betz, Jack Grey, Ben Hall, Harry Strang....   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 11, 2014

The exceptional Wonders in the Dark series of essays continues with five new entries. Two of them are by me, as luck would have it, but the other three are jolly good: 68. Moonstruck (1987) 65. Out of the Past (1947) 64. The Awful Truth (1937) 63. La Boheme 62....   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 9, 2014

US / 99 minutes / bw / Denver/Goines, Kuboa Dir & Story: Pablo D’Stair Pr: Lisette Goines, Denver Alexander Scr: Pablo D’Stair, Goodloe Byron Cine: Paul VanBrocklin (i.e., Pablo D’Stair) Cast: Carlyle Edwards (i.e., Pablo D’Stair), Helen Bonaparte, Goodloe Byron. Directo   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 8, 2014

=== One of the best and best known of all films noirs, this obviously has a fairly substantial entry in my Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir. However, when Sam Juliano of the great Wonders in the Dark website offered me the chance to write about it in greater depth and...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 8, 2014

== One of the delights about contributing a few essays to the Wonders in the Dark Romantic Movie Countdown is that in a couple of instances I’ve been pushed well outside my comfort zone. Nowhere is this more true than with the screwball comedy The Awful Truth. I mean, this...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 5, 2014

vt U-Boat 29 UK / 79 minutes / bw / Harefield, London Film, Columbia Dir: Michael Powell Pr: Irving Asher, Alexander Korda (uncredited) Scr: Emeric Pressburger, Roland Pertwee Story: The Spy in Black (1917) by J. Storer Clouston Cine: Bernard Browne Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 4, 2014

Five more fine movies discussed by various contributors as the race to the Numero Uno spot continues . . . #71 Somewhere in Time #70 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) #69 The Clock (1945) — a very hasty last-minute offering by moi #68 Say Anything #68 Le Quai des Brumes...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 3, 2014

US / 66 minutes / bw / Paramount Dir: Irvin Kershner Pr & Scr: Andrew J. Fenady Story: Gordon Hunt, Al Burton Cine: Wallace Kelley Cast: Steven Marlo, Luana Patten, Tom Selden, James Chandler, Ed Nelson, Dan Sheridan, Marjorie Stapp, Miles Stephens, Edward Schaaf, Joan Granville, Raymond Guth, C   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 2, 2014

===The Wonders in the Dark Romantic Movies Countdown continues. There was a panic last night when a contributor dropped out at the last moment, and, in a fit of stupidity, I said I’d cover. Finding our dusty copy of the movie (thank you, some forgotten yard sale) took the first...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on July 1, 2014

Go here for yet another useful roundup of reviews of and articles about (usually) obscure movies and other a/v, lovingly compiled by Todd Mason. Yes quite a diverse round-up again! Nice to see you have two in this lineup! :) I get Todd’s weekly movie-review updates through the RARA-AVIS mail   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on June 28, 2014

Five new essays on five more great romantic movies: 76. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 75. Man’s Castle (1933) 74. The Fountain (2006) 73. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 72. The Way We Were :) Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on June 28, 2014

vt Man Missing US / 73 minutes / bw / Harvard, UA Dir: Edward L. Cahn Pr: Robert E. Kent Scr: Orville H. Hampton Cine: Gilbert Warrenton Cast: Craig Hill, Elaine Edwards, Grant Richards, Willis Bouchey, Ken Mayer, Shep Sanders, John Apone, Brad Trumbull, Jack Mann, Max Mellinger, John Clarke,...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on June 25, 2014

vt Rebound UK / 61 minutes / bw / Independent Artists, Anglo–Amalgamated Dir: Sidney Hayers Pr: Bernard Coote Scr: Peter Barnes Story: “A Toy for Jiffy” (1956; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine) by Roy Vickers Cine: Phil Grindrod Cast: Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton, Jill Browne, John Pau   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on June 24, 2014

In this week’s bumper roundup of movie articles/reviews from the intertubes, the one that stuck out for me was a truly spiffy essay by Megan Abbott on Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. I can still remember that feeling of how completely bowled over I was when I first saw...   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on June 21, 2014

UK / 10.5 minutes / bw / Fat Fish Dir & Cine: Alexander Hemming Pr: Lizzie Ross Scr: Portishead Cast: Geoff Barrow, Tim Bishop, Beth Gibbons, Dave MacDonald, Richard Newell, Adrian Utley. The assassin (Geoff Barrow) readies himself. From the opening credits: In 1994 we conceived and made &#8220   read more

Noirish Posted by John Grant on June 20, 2014

This week has seen another five entries in this admirably ambitious series. Here they go: #81. Beautiful Thing (1996) #80. Two for the Road (1967) — no essay, alas, but some evocative images #79. The Artist (2011) #78. On Dangerous Ground (1952) — essay by me, as earlier linked #77....   read more