Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 7, 2013

Larry Nelson gets thirty years in a big boy cell after he accidentally snuffs a reform school guard. But fifteen years later, he’s a rehab poster boy: educated, good-looking, trained in the prison infirmary, the pride of inmates and staff alike. Best of all, his parole just came through. It...   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on March 13, 2013

IT’S EASY TO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE LIVES OF THE A-LISTERS. They have biographers and publicists. They’re the subject of countless scholarly books and magazine articles. Cagney, Bogart, Lancaster, Mitchum? No problem. It’s more difficult with a guy like Mark Stevens, who nev   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on February 23, 2013

This is the first ever issue of 1955’s Exposed magazine, which promises “All the facts…all the names” for the price of a quarter. The articles are great: a late-night divorce photographer and his “nude sinners,” a bunco scam involving that infamous Marilyn calenda   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on February 11, 2013

In the 1952 film The Steel Trap, a dissatisfied and bored Jim Osborne (Joseph Cotten) passes the hours dreaming up ways to embezzle from the bank where he has, for the past eleven years, toiled himself into a life of restless humdrum. Soon daydreams morph into actual preparation, and Jim...   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on January 17, 2013

Los Angeles Union Station has been called the “last of the great railway stations built in the United States.” With its signature clock tower, tiled arches, and cavernous lobby, the station is one of downtown’s most recognizable structures. It opened during the summer of 1939, crow   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on December 24, 2012

Hi all! By request, here’s a repost of the classic science fiction poster countdown with all 50 posters in a single edition. I chose sci-fi instead of horror because of the genre’s prominence during the mid-century period. With that in mind, I confined my selections to films released f   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on December 1, 2012

Welcome back! Let’s put this countdown on ice! 15. Heat (1995) Were it not for those long shadows, this would have fallen far back in the countdown. Clearly this is a ‘big faces’ poster if ever there was one, but I’ve been drawn to posters that find a novel way...   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on September 22, 2012

NEW COUNTDOWN TIME! Where Danger Lives is back with a new film poster countdown — this time around the subject is NEO-NOIR! Unlike the classic film noir period, which lasted less than two decades, neo-noir has been part of the cinematic landscape for fifty years. So don’t be surprise   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on September 14, 2012

Don’t jump off that building! It’s time for another gossip-laden scandal sheet post! Dig on Whisper magazine from November 1955. This month’s issue offers up a buffet of oddities, from the lurid love lives of Jimmy Durante and Terry “More!” Moore, to cautionary tales a   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on August 10, 2012

Take it easy. If you’re innocent you’ve got no worries. Yeah? Well, I am innocent. I got plenty of worries. Allied Artists’ Loophole is one of the numerous exercises in “it could happen to you” storytelling that surfaced in the noir films of the McCarthy era. Wi   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on June 17, 2012

Note: I typically confine myself to mid-century crime films here, but due to the spectacular rarity of this film, and to its status as an Academy Award nominee, I’m going to post first here at Where Danger Lives and will follow at Cin-Eater in a few weeks. (And hey, this...   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 29, 2012

It’s scandal sheet time! This time out it’s Confidential from September 1954, with stories about the woes of Van, the sheets of Zsa Zsa, and the moppets of Margarita. As an added bonus, Ellroy himself would dig on this story about the hypo-fueled hepcats of Jazz. Keep it cool and...   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on May 7, 2012

Hey Cats and Kittens, with Mother’s Day coming up I thought I’d honor one of Tinseltown’s very best with one of our patented poster galleries. So here is Joan Crawford in all of her noir and noir-ish glory. All images hi-res, cleaned-up, and ready for downloading. And take note: no   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on April 9, 2012

It’s fitting that so many of the movies Edward G. Robinson made after he parted ways with Warner Bros. were film noirs: persecuted by red-baiters, alienated from the film community, and fated to a terribly unhappy home, Robinson’s personal life had taken on the dimensions of a real-life   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on March 2, 2012

Back today with another batch of French posters for classic American crime and film noir movies. Again, most of these are in the French Grande size, 47" x 63", a truly spectacular format! If you enjoy the posters, please consider following the blog. To view the first batch, click here....   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on February 16, 2012

Most people believe Alan Ladd committed suicide, but the details surrounding his death are so convoluted no one can be sure what really happened. History is often guilty of erring on the side of sensationalism — but in Ladd’s case suicide is the logical assumption. In 1962 he was found...   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on January 30, 2012

I’ll admit I’m cheating a little by essaying Transatlantic here, but the film’s final few moments — a gun-in-hand, cat-and-mouse chase over the catwalks and up and down the ladders of the steamy bowels of an ocean liner — is as vividly expressionistic as anything you&#8   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on January 16, 2012

“You’re a very paradoxical young man.” Shops closing early! There’s a killer thief on the loose in the Chinatown section of San Francisco, and the cops are hot on his trail. That’s a bare bones plot description if ever there was one, yet it jibes well with Chinatown   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on December 29, 2011

Jail was on everyone’s mind in the fifties. During the war years, prison populations in the United States had been greatly reduced while inmates were paroled into the armed services. Yet in the years immediately afterwards crime rates spiked, heavily taxing the federal prison system as well as   read more

Where Danger Lives Posted by Mark on December 12, 2011

Happy holidays! Here are a dozen French posters for various American crime / noir films — a few from my very own walls! These are all French Grande size, or 47" x 63", a few featuring poster art by the extraordinary Boris Grisson and Rene Peron. These are all cleaned...   read more