Tagged: film noir

July 10, 2023

Monday Movie: Ride the Pink Horse, by David Bax

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Ride the Pink Horse originally ran as a home video review. From the first moments, it’s clear that Robert Montgomery’s Ride the Pink Horse will not quite be...

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June 26, 2023

Monday Movie: Too Late for Tears, by David Bax

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Too Late for Tears originally ran as a home video review. Byron Haskin’s Too Late for Tears is a recently restored noir that packs more surprises than just...

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April 27, 2022

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part Three, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Three William Dieterle’s (again!) Portrait of Jennie has the distinction of being quite possibly the weirdest-ass movie I’ve ever seen at a TCM Classic Film Festival. Granted, the bar’s not set all that high...

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April 26, 2022

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part Two, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Two After The Letter, here comes another movie with a Max Steiner score (not the last of the festival for me, either), Michael Curtiz‘ Angels with Dirty Faces. A crime picture with James Cagney...

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April 25, 2022

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part One, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part One It’s going to be hard to resist the temptation to turn every reaction to every movie I saw at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival into a gleeful celebration of the fact that...

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April 18, 2022

Monday Movie: Road House, by David Bax

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as part of our TCM Classic Film Festival 2019 coverage. Decidely more of an A-picture noir from the same year is Jean Negulesco’s Road House. Every...

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May 31, 2021

Criterion Prediction #268: The Sniper, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Sniper Year: 1952 Director: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Arthur Franz, Marie Windsor, Adolphe Menjou, Gerald Mohr Synopsis: Eddie Miller takes to the rooftops and high-rise windows to exact compulsory killings of women with his sniper rifle. His warped sexual...

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May 12, 2021

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Three, by David Bax

For a long time, I had very little interest in seeing Bullitt, a movie I snobbishly thought of as a Steve McQueen vanity project, something he reverse engineered from the idea for a car chase scene. I softened my stance...

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May 11, 2021

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Two, by David Bax

1947’s T-Men is one of a flurry of propaganda movies made in the 1940s and 50s with the cooperation of various law enforcement agencies. Like 1949’s Trapped, this one’s about treasury agents tracking counterfeiters. Other examples include 1954’s Down Three...