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âThere was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbandsâ necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.â
- Raymond Chandler, Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories
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The interesting thing about the virgin and whore dichotomy in Fallen Angel (1945), represented by Alice Faye and Linda Darnell respectively, is that neither woman is truly defined by their label. Both women defy the dichotomy because of their amazing strength of character.
Darnellâs Stella has been around the block so much she is weary, and will only invest in a relationship that will get her truly what she wants because she knows her worth. Fayeâs June could quite easily be seen as a doormat, but she is just as ruthless as Stella.
The person who comes out of this worse, who predicates and plots and schemes but doesnât have any true courage, is Dana Andrewsâ Eric. He needs to rely on two steely women to define him.
Which makes it, to me, rather more of female empowerment movie than youâd think.
See what you think. You can find it on YouTube.
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Carole Landis setting the cat amongst the pigeons between Betty Grable and Victor Mature before fate takes a hand in 1941âs I Wake Up Screaming (aka Hot Spot).
#filmnoir oldhollywood 1940shollywood movies victormature bettygrable carolelandis#film#movies#vintage movies#film noir
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According to Tobe Hooper, the makeup on Reggie Nalder in âSalemâs Lot would constantly fall off, as well as the fake nails and dentures, and the contact lenses would go sideways.The contact lenses could only be worn for 15 minutes at a time before they had to be removed.
The old school dedication to the craft always gets my heart racing
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A rather underwhelming sequel for anyone seeking the dark menace at the heart of the original movie. Simone Simon is radiant again here as Irena, but her positioning as a fairy godmother figure to the child of her former husband is a strange, not altogether convincing, offering.
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I really wish there had been scope for the vibe of the whole movie to be seen through to the end. The sense of menace is wonderful and builds and builds throughout. Fontaine is nervy. Grant is malevolent. The end is a wasted opportunity. Still very much worth watching.
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Used my summer leave to write an 18,000 word horror novella. Finished the first draft this morning
Iâll be sitting on it now for a few months until bringing it back out for edits around Christmas.
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The relationship at the heart of Double Indemnity is the bromance between Keyes and Walter, not the one between Phyllis and Walter.
Itâs comical for the most part, with Keyes always being short of a match to light his cheap cigar, and his pontificating on âMargie who drinks from the bottleâ. But when it turns profound, itâs heartbreaking. There is genuine love there, the kind of love Walter will never find in the ice cold heart of Phyllis Dietrichson.
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John Garfield with Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Garfield was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951. He refused to name names and because of that, his career was effectively ended. He died of a heart attack in 1952 at the age of 39.
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Billy Wilder had no fucks to give when Louis B Mayer savaged Sunset Boulevard at an execâs screening just before the movie came out.
âYouâve disgraced the industry that made you and fed youâ ranted Mayer.
âFuck youâ said Wilder
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The most delicious slice of technicolour noir from 1956. Robert Wagner taking a chance on playing against type as an utter wrong âun plotting against his pregnant girlfriend. Just wonderful.
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Film scholar David Hogan wrote: "In a psychosexual sense, William Castleâs Homicidal (1961) was perhaps the most distressing Hollywood film until William Friedkin's numbing and misunderstood Cruisingâ.
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Canât stop the hurt inside/when love and hate collide
The beginning and the end
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54 years ago today, on a hot August night, a gang of drugged up misfits working on the orders of Charles Manson entered the home of Sharon Tate Polanski and murdered everyone in the house. Sharon was eight months pregnant.
She was a gentle soul. She loved animals and her family adored her. She was looking forward to the birth of her baby who she had already named Paul after her father. Her husband Roman Polanski was in London working on his latest movie.
The Manson murders sent Hollywood into lockdown. Guns were bought. Gates were locked. Trust was low. The swinging sixties were effectively brought to a close.
Please take a moment today to remember Sharon and her friends - Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger and Wojciech Frykowski
Please also remember Steven Parent, and the other Manson victims Rosemary and Leno LaBianca and Gary Hinman
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This little cow and her lack of redeemable qualities are a testament to Ann Blythâs ability as an actress to put across James M Cainâs toxic creation. Joan Crawford and Blyth as Veda in Mildred Pierce (1945).
#film#literature#movies#vintage movies#critical thinking#classic books#film noir#books#reading#english literature
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I choose to remember her in her year of joy. Marilyn in Manhattan with everything at her feet.
She almost made it.
Our Marilyn, died this day in 1962.
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âI donât think you understand Bigelow. Youâve been murderedâ
In 2004, D.O.A (1949) was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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