I recently had the privilege of several extended conversations with director Arnold Laven who was the script supervisor on HE RAN ALL THE WAY. He said that the fireworks on and off screen between Garfield and Shelley Winters livened the entire shoot of HRATW. Re: Alvin M. Josephy Jr. He became one o...

It's amazing this thing even got past the Motion Picture Code in the first place; it's chock full of the types of offending notions that were still taboo in the mid-50s . Perhaps, but remember that Code major domo, Joseph I. Breen finally hung up his blue pencil in 1954. With television entering ad...

Here's a story that I archived about BIG HOUSE U.S.A.: "George (son of Aubrey) Schenck recently told me about an incident that took place during the making of his dad's production, BIG HOUSE, U.S.A, where he got to see Bronson channel his inner Ward Cleaver. The story goes that George and fello...

This is one of my favorite Crawford films. The story, liberally borrowed from the life and times of Bugsy Siegel girlfriend and mob courier, Virginia Hill does emulate Joan's climb up the show biz from the most humble of beginnings -as noted by Mr. Arkadin. In addition to the attributes of "Dam...

Columbia is coming out with a film noir set under the auspices of the Film Foundation sometime in 2009. Julia Ross is a neat little film. It was recently screened at UCLA as part of a tribute to the Columbia femme fatales, "Tall Drinks of Water" was the title of the program. Miss Foch, a f...

Another Guzik quote pccurred after he was subpoenaed when the Kefauver Organized Crime committee hearings left New York and went to Chicago. Jake told the local newspaper and television reporters that he wanted to avoid being on television the same way Frank Costello did during the Committee's telev...

The Art of Noir- Eddie Muller

Dark City- Eddie Muller

The Noir Style- Silver and Orsini

I felt he was a prissy little prat who hadn't matured one jot since he made the darn movie and I am not surprised if I learn one day that Gene wanted to really let him drown. Well, there's a calm, nuanced statement that puts Darryl Hickman's remarks about Gene Tierney and LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN in pro...

Moxie, are there any chances that this Preminger film might be issued on dvd in the near future--or are there too many legal/technical problems tying it up in limbo somehow? I don't know anything definitive about The 13th Letter , but if Fox keeps putting out film noir DVD's, they will eventually g...

The Thirteenth Letter (1951) was screened at an Otto Preminger retro at the Egyptian Theatre back in January of this year. I watched a good condition 16mm print several years ago in San Francisco. Helmed by Preminger at the end of his Fox tenure, it is an interesting film in the noir style and as Mo...

Chris,

Thanks. Definitely an noirudite group here at the SSOF.

Alan

Here are the first ten....in no particular order:

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And the next five... in no particular order:

Out of the Past
Pitfall
The Breaking Point
The Setup
Night and The City

Nick Ray helmed some distinctive films that are among my favorites: IN A LONELY PLACE, THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, ON DANGEROUS GROUND, THE LUSTY MEN come to mind. His personal life was a slow-motion train wreck, but what is interesting about Ray as a director is that he struck several of his actors as bein...

He was really the last man standing in the Dark City; hated to see him go. I admire Richard Widmark not only for his acting, but for how he lived his own life by his own rules with integrity. A colleague interviewed him at his home in Connecticut. After a long day, Widmark insisted on driving my fri...

Ollie, Including the actual participants in this latest Fox Film Noir series- I was directly involved in a couple of the special features on this set- was certainly not due to a lack of effort by a number of hard-working folks. Using Black Widow (1954) as an example, Skip Homeier and Virginia Leith ...