Dewey, thanks. What you related about Stranger on the Third Floor is exactly what I find perplexing at times concerning the booking of vintage films. A print will be available for rental, is exhibited, and then when another programmer tries to book it later in the same year, the response is, "W...

A friend who knew Victor Mature told me this one: Mature and Jim Backus were appearing in Androcles and the Lion ( 1952) at RKO and walked across the street to Lucy's for lunch and libations. Both actors were in full Roman costume; armor, prop swords, ostrich feathers, etc. The hostess at Lucy's was...

...a greasy hoodlum type, I think that's an unfortunate choice of words particularly in reference to Victor Mature. Mature became typed to some extent as a hunk in sword and sandal epics during the 1950's, but he was a extremely underrated actor. Even though as Doc Holliday, he was tubercular, &quo...

We screened it at Noir City in San Francisco last year as part of a McGraw double feature with THE THREAT and it was very well received. Let me know what you think.

Thanks for the welcome and I hope you are correct about Stranger on the Third Floor on DVD. Another noteworthy Musuraca noir is Roadblock (1951) starring the redoubtable Charles McGraw.-a really overlooked film IMHO. I share your enthusiasm for Blood on the Moon; a great movie. If there is such a th...

I was heartened that TCM screened this film because apparently Warners no longer has a 35mm print available for theatrical exhibition. Stranger on the Third Floor is one of the early noirs or protonoir movies and the work of Boris Ingster and as already pointed out, lenser Nick Musuraca is extraordi...