Edward G Robinson (center) talking to FBI Director J Edgar Hoover on set of THE LAST GANGSTER (1937). Also pictured (L-R) are director Edward Ludwig, Lionel Stander, and Hoover's deputy, Clyde Tolson
NOIR CITY D.C. returns to its home at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, October 13 -26 with 25 films from the heart of Hollywood's noir movement, 1948. The festival includes a selection of titles featured earlier this year at NOIR CITY flagship festival in Oakland, California. In addition, NOIR CITY D.C. features three films not screened in Oakland: Gordon Douglas's Atomic espionage tale Walk a Crooked Mile; Edgar G. Ulmer's rarely screened tale of avarice Ruthless; and Fred Zinnemann's revenge noir Act of Violence.
FNF president Eddie Muller will introduce screenings on the festival's opening weekend, Oct. 13–15. Muller's latest books, Eddie Muller's Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir and Kid Noir: Kitty Feral and the Case of the Marshmallow Monkey," will be available for sale and signing.
Foster Hirsch, FNF board member and author of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television will introduce screenings Oct. 20–22.
The lineup also includes three films starring Edward G. Robinson highlighting his remarkable range. In Irving Reis' All My Sons (based on the play by Arthur Miller) Robinson plays a small-town factory owner whose son (Burt Lancaster) suspects may have been responsible for the crime that his business partner was convicted of. In John Huston's Key Largo, he plays one of his most iconic roles, Johnny Rocco, an exiled mobster who has snuck in to the U.S. to complete the deal that will allow him to return to his former glory. Finally, he plays a tormented psychic who tries to save the life of the daughter of his onetime fiancé and the manger of their mind reading act in john Farrow's Night has a Thousand Eyes, based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich.
Schedule and tickets are available at the AFI's NOIR CITY festival page. NOIR CITY passes ($200) can be purchased here.
OK. So. Seven Thieves. (SPOILERS for a noir from 1960 ahead!)
Rod Steiger has been brought to France by Edward G Robinson to be a part of a Casino Heist.
Eli showing off his ankles in those sandals is sending me. Also, the fact that he’s sort of mean-mugging at Rod Steiger is fitting, if you know about Duck, You Sucker, but that won’t be for another 7 or so years…
So Rod is in charge of things. They agree. EGR brought him in and they all look to EGR…
Ok if he looked at me like this, I’d let him keep on his sandals:
He has to play a German baron as part of the heist. He’s in a wheelchair, hamming it up with a decent accent. They do a rehearsal night but…
He has to take a cyanide pill that will make him LOOK dead for an hour or so. And he’s freaked out.
Well…
He freaks out…
So EGR injects him instead…
And they strap him into the wheelchair until he comes to. They hide the money under him also 😆
Movie has a decent ending, but I was mostly watching for Eli (whose characters name is Pancho! 😜)
He’s so tiny that they pick him up and move him around easily, conscious or not.
Worth the 3.99 rental on Amazon. No oceans 11, but that doesn’t have Eli Wallach in sandals…