Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Underworld U.S.A. originally ran as part of our TCM Classic Film Festival 2021 coverage. Samuel Fuller’s Underworld U.S.A. really stresses the world part of the title, building from its opening...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Street of No Return originally ran as a Criterion prediction. We open on a street scene at night, dozens of men thumping on one another; it’s...
Title: Street of No Return Director: Samuel Fuller Year: 1989 Cast: Keith Carradine, Valentina Vargas, Bill Duke, Andrea Ferreol, Bernard Fresson Synopsis: Michael (Carradine), a destitute loner, recounts his glamourous past as a pop star whose rise to fame is taken...
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...
Title: Park Row Year: 1952 Director: Samuel Fuller Cast: Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Bela Kovacs, Tina Pine, Herbert Heyes Synopsis: It’s 1886 and New York’s newspaper district has become a small warzone between an idealistic self-made publisher, Phineas Mitchell (Evans),...