Tagged: richard fleischer
Richard Fleischer’s Trapped–out now on Blu-ray from Flicker Alley–begins in unorthodox fashion for a film noir. A mini-documentary explains to us the purpose of the United States Department of the Treasury, specifically its agents, known collectively as the Secret Service...
Noir isn’t just the genre trappings we’re constantly sold; long shadows and dangerous ladies and hardened men. It’s something that digs into the soul and the body and the way we try to live with and apart one another. It’s...
There are surprisingly few movies about Leopold and Loeb, the 1920s Chicago rich kids who murdered a teenage boy just to prove to themselves that they were smart enough to get away with it. The jaw-dropping cold-bloodedness of the crime...
