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When style beats the pants off of story
Among the many fascinating and, in this case, amazing things about The Maltese Falcon is that it was the first film for Sydney Greenstreet who was 62 years old at the time. Can you imagine any actor today getting a … Read more
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Directed by John Huston Has any movie ever produced as many imitations, and such an array of imitations, as The Maltese Falcon? * The movie itself has been imitated both in live action and animation. The characters have been imitated … Read more
Film noir doesn’t always mean good: Dark Passage
It’s Day 6 of For the Love of Film (Noir) — don’t forget to donate here or use the button on the right. And if you are interested in boatloads of great links to musings on film noir and its … Read more
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Now, Voyager (1942)
Directed by Irving Rapper Here’s a movie that caught me by surprise. It’s another one of those films I went into with little or no expectations. In fact, if anything, I expected it to be a dud. (I had seen … Read more
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Directed by Vincent Sherman I can’t help wondering how this movie might have appealed to us today if the movie Gilda simply didn’t exist. Every review of Affair in Trinidad begins with a reference to the earlier film that first … Read more
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Directed by Michael Curtiz Apparently film legend Joan Crawford’s star didn’t always sparkle. At one point, her career was in something of a funk, presumably the result of having made a series of films that didn’t register with the public. … Read more
Dark Passage: a waste of Bogie and Bacall?
I just did some housecleaning on Piddleville. I more or less cleaned up some code and design on a few reviews that were in a very old Piddleville format. While doing so, I came across a few Bogie and Bacall … Read more
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