{"id":1787,"date":"2011-12-28T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T21:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2011-12-28T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T21:07:53","slug":"film-noir-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1787","title":{"rendered":"Film Noir Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs promised here are some interesting film noir finds on Netflix.\u00c2\u00a0 Union Station<\/em>, a kidnapping story starring William Holden and Nancy Olson. This was made immediately after Sunset Blvd.<\/em> and both of these actors appear in that film as well. I guess they got along. Station<\/em> is directed by Rudolph Mate’. He directed the original D.O.A. <\/em>and was a cameraman on such classics as Carl Dreyers Passion Of Joan D’Arc<\/em>. This film is definitely worth checking out, it’s even got Barry Fitzgerald reprising his quaint Irish detective role from Naked City<\/em>. And it’s shot at the beautiful Los Angeles Union Station.<\/p>\n

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Cry Danger, <\/em>you get Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming and a host of great noir character actors, shot in some amazing 50’s L.A. locations, including a trailer park within view of City Hall! Pretty cool. Robert Parrish’s directorial debut. Shot by the always good Joe Biroc, he was Aldritch’s cameraman for a lot of films.<\/p>\n

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\n5 Steps to Danger<\/em> OK, this is by no stretch of the imagination a great movie, maybe not even a good movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Made fast and cheap, the things it has going for it are as follows: Sterling Hayden, Ruth Roman, driving around the desert in a 50’s Packard convertible! That is cool\u00c2\u00a0 as hell. If you like these actors, check it out.<\/p>\n

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The Killer Is Loose<\/em>, an interesting film by Budd Boetticher , Wendell Corey plays a sort of nerd serial killer, maybe the first one in Cinema. Joseph Cotten is the cop that put him away, killing Corey’s wife in the process so now “Foggy” wants revenge. A weird flick but worth checking out.<\/p>\n

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Plunder Road<\/em>, Hubert Cornfield’s excellent gold heist movie.<\/p>\n

More to come. Same Bat time, same Bat channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised here are some interesting film noir finds on Netflix.\u00c2\u00a0 Union Station, a kidnapping story starring William Holden and Nancy Olson. This was made immediately after Sunset Blvd. and both of these actors appear in that film as well. I guess they got along. Station is directed by Rudolph Mate’. He directed the original […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}