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1865.Confderate Captain Lafe Barstow(Errol Flynn)and a small group of soildiers(Guinn Big Boy Williams,Dickie Jones,Rush Williams,Sheb Wooley,Slim Pickens,etc)are out West to meet up with Cole Smith(Howard Petrie)a cocky underground leader.The plan is to stir up outlaws,rustlers,and the Confederate underground.
After meeting Smith Lafe takes an instant dislike to him,but Smith sneers knowing that hes the key to making the plan work.Lafe,under orders from Robert E Lee has no choce but to go along with Smith.
Indians attack a stagecoach,but the passengers are rescued by Lafe and his men.The two survivors,Joanna Carter(Patrice Wymore)and the driver Gil Craige(Chubby Johnson)are brought to the mountain where the soildiers are hiding.
Lafe finds that Joanna is engaged to Union LT(Scott Forbes)stationed not far away.When the LT comes looking for Joanna,he and his men are captured by the Confederates.
Time is running out when the indians are planning to attack the mountain.
This was Errols last Western and he plays the part of Lafe Barstow remarkably well.This was also Errols last film with constant sidekick,pal,and later one of Errols pallbearers,Guinn Big Boy Williams.
Patrice Wymore later became MRS Flynn.
Great Western.
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England,Shortly after WW2.Bill Saunders(Burt Lancaster)an ex GI and POW gets into a fight with a pub owner and accidently kills him.After a narrow escape with the police,Bill stumbles into an apartment owned by Jane Wharton(Joan Fontaine)a nurse at the local hospital.In spite of the situation,Jane and Bill fall in love.
Bill takes Jane to the races and runs into Harry Carter(Robert Newton)a smoth talking drug dealer who was in the pub the night of the killing.Bill brushes him off and tells him hes wrong.
Jane gets Bill a job driving a truck with drugs needed by the hospital.Again Harry runs into Bill and the gangster tells him he will forget the night in the pub if Bill will let his men hijack the truck.
This is one underated Film Noir.
Good scene when Bill takes Jane to the zoo and he sees the caged wild animals, which reminds him of the two years he spent in the German POW camp.
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I meant Dorothy Malone,not Ruth Roman.
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Two gunmen,Bud(John Cliff)and Cole(Fred Coby)ride into town to kill exlawman,Billy Reynolds(Dale Robertson)for sending their older brother Jessie Gorman(Stephen MCNally)to prison.Jessies mistress,Abby Nixon(Virginia Mayo)rides into town and tries to warn Billy,but he believes in fighting his own battles.In the shoot out Bud and Cole are killed.
Billy is sentenced to prison for the killing and is sent to the same pen as Jesse,a brutal killer slowly going insane.Billy meets the head guard(Jay C Flippen)who has a grudge against him .The warden(Robert Keith)is on Billys side and feels hes getting a raw deal.
Abby is sent to the prison for a robbery and has a plan for a breakout with Jesse and Billy.Jesse also has a plan for a mass escape turning the brutal convicts on a helpless nearby town.
Very Underated Western.
Keep an eye out for Paul Fix(Bit)
Edited by: ERROL23 on Apr 28, 2012 8:35 PM
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Philadelphia Shortly after WW2.Hiding from the police, mysterious MR Murdock(Humphrey Bogart)comes to a Catholic church where he meets Father Logan(James Bell)an ex WW2 chaplin.Murdock wants the priest to hear his story.A few days before Captain Rip Murdock and SGT Johnny Drake(William Prince)have special orders to report to Washington DC.They find that Johnny is to get the Congessional Medal Of Honor.Johnny wants no part of it and vanishes.A few days later Johnny is murdered.Rip decides to look into it.He finds that Johnny was once involved in a murder involving wealthy Dusty Chandler(Lizabeth Scott)who Johnny was once engaged to.A bartender,Louie(George Chandler)testified against Johnny and is now working for local mobster,Martinelli(Moris Carnovsky),Rip goes out to the club where he finds Louie has a letter written by Johnny to Rip.
Rip meets Dusty and they fall in love.Martinelli orders Dusty to play roulette where she loses a large sum of money.Rip helps her get even much to Martinellis anger.Martinelli fixes Rip and Dustys drinks and when Rip wakes up he finds the body of Louie with him.
This my favorite Bogart Film.Nobody was better at Noir than Bogie.
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Im sorry,I meant Dorothy Malone.
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Louise Ginglebusher(Deanna Durbin)comes to the big city to make her fortune.She stops at a cheap restraunt owned by Wechsberg(William Bendix)and both become friends.Playing Cupid,the owner introduces Louise to George Prescott(Tom Drake)a poor but honest lawyer.
Wechsberg takes Louise to a party where she sings Granada and meets J Conrad Nelson(Adolph Menjou)a tycoon who tells Louise he can put her on top.Louise is suspicious of his true motives and tells him shes married to George.
Louise and George go on a date and fall in love,but trouble starts when George,Wechsberg,and Conrad find Loise is lying.
Very funny scene when William Bendix tries to sell Deanna a turkey sandwich with Russian dressing and tells her the problems he has selling turkey sandwiches and its cost.
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After a mob killing,Caesar(Jack Overman)a stupid hood working for gangster Hap Richie(Douglas Kennedy)is picked up and held by the police.Richie calls his lawyer,Walter Colby(Zachary Scott)to get Caesr out.Walter is sick of the rackets and has contempt for Richie and his prize gunman,Roper(Elisha Cook JR).The only reason why he stays is he wants to raise enough money to marry showgirl,Flaxy Martin(Virginia Mayo)Walter thinks Flaxy is in love with him,but behind his back shes having an affair with Richie.
Walter and Flaxy hire drug addict,Peggy Farrar(Helen Westcott)to get into court and say Caesar was with her the night of the killing.The plan works and Caesar goes free,but Peggy wants more money.Hap orders Caesar to get rid of her.
Flaxy is picked up for Peggys murder,but to get her off,Walter takes the blame hoping he will get off with his lawyer tricks.In a double cross by Richie,Walter is convicted and sent to prison.Walter finding Flaxy was nothing but a two faced tramp is mad at the world.
On his way to prison with a detective(Douglas Fowley)Walter escapes and is injured.Good girl,Nora Carson(Ruth Roman)takes Walter home and fixes him up,but soon Roper tracks them down.
This is one Great Noir which will keep you on the edge of your seat.Zachary is cast as the good guy for a change.Virginia Mayo has star billing,but its Zacks show.
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Brad Collins(Robert Ryan)is the luckiest guy in the world.Hes married to pretty Nan(Loraine Day)his brother in law,Don(John Agar)thinks hes the greatest and hes a high ranking foreman on a dock.
Trouble starts when Christine Norman(Janis Carter)Brads exmistress,a high paid model and leading communist comes back into his life.When Christine finds that Brad is married she angrily tells the party boss,Vanning(Thomas Gomez) an oily,arrogant,sadist,that Brad was once part of the party and was involved in a union murder.
Brad is approached by Vanning and he tells Brad hes still in the party and must go along or else.
Trouble starts on the docks and Brads best friend and Union head,Jim Travers(Richard Rober)asks him for help,but Brad is helpless.More trouble starts when Don and Christine start having an affair much to Nans anger.
They changed the original silly title,I Married A Communist.
Great Noirish Nail Biter.
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1865 Four exconfederate soildiers,Britt Canfield(Randolph Scott)and his three brothers Terry(Jerome Courtland),Tom(Peter M Thompson)and Clint(John Archer)ride into a small town where they get into a fight with drunken Union soildiers.In self defense one of the Union soildiers is killed by the Canfields.After a chase,they get away.
Britt comes across a half built railroad where he meets one of the owners,Judith Chandler(Janis Carter)Britt and Judith fall in love and Britts hired as a foreman.
The others want no part of the railroad and join outlaws lead by Cole Sanders(Roy Roberts)Britt has his problems with his brothers,with Judith who lost a relative to Confederates during the war,and a wanted poster for the shooting of the drunken Union soildier is posted.
Pretty Good Western.
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Tommy Woodry(Bobby Driscoll)is a little boy whos always telling tall tales.His parents,Mary(Barbra Hale)and Ed(Arthur Kennedy)are trying in vain to break him of it.
One night Tommy looks in the window of the Kellersons(Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) the people who live upstair,and see them murder a sailor and steal his money.Tommy tells his folks who laugh it off thinking its another one of his stories and warn him to stop.Tommy goes to the police who also laugh it off thinking hes reading too many comics.
When his mother finds out she makes Tommy say hes sorry to the Kellersons,who of course believe his story.
This is one great Film Noir.
DONT MISS.
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You talk like a gentleman,but gents dont go asking girls for money.
Joan Bennett to Walter Pidgeon
Man Hunt
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Bavaria July 1939 English.big game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike(Walter Pidgeon)who has hunted all game tries to find out if its possible to kill Adolph Hitler.Thorndike has Hitler in the site of an empty rifle,pulls the trigger,laughs and turns to go.Having second thoughts and knowing that sooner or later Germany will go to war with England decides to rid the world of the tyrant.Getting Hitler in his site once again,he loads the rifle,but is jumped by an SS man.
Thorndike meets Major Smith(George Sanders)a high ranking nazi who tells the hunter,after meeting with Hitler he can return to England if he will sign that the English government consented to the plan.Shocked,Thorndike refuses and is beaten by SS men.When the hunter still refuses hes taken back to where he planned the shooting on a high ledge.Thorndike is pushed over and left for dead.
A branch saves Thorndikes life and he makes it to the harbor where an English ship is getting ready to sail for home.Thorndike makes it aboard and is hiden by Vaner(Roddy McDowall)the cabinboy.
Once in England Thorndike thinks hes safe,but a mysteriuus MR Jones(John Caradine)and a gang of nazi thugs are waiting.Thorndike hides out in a flat and meets Jerry Stokes(Joan Bennett)a street walker who helps Thorndike get to his brother Lord Gerard(Frederick Worlock)and his wife,Alice(Heather Thatcher)
Thorndike and Jerry fall in love,but soon they find Major Smith is in England and Thorndike decides the best thing to do is to get out of the country.Jerry is the contact between him and his brother,but Smith traces Jerry.
Once in Africa Thorndike again feels hes safe,but Major Smith is waiting for him and being out of touch for awhile,Thorndike finds out from Smith that Germany invaded Poland and WW2 is in full swing.
Great Noir Thriller.DONT MISS.Directed by Fritz Lang.
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Broadway,1919.Lulu Belle(Dorothy Lamour)a big time showgirl, and her husband to be,Harry Randolph(Otto Kruger)a middle aged tycoon are shot by an unknown party.
The police round up a group of suspects,Mark Brady(Albert Dekker)once a rich gambler,now a broke nighclub owner who wanted Lulu Belle to star in his club,but was turned down.George Davis(George Montgomery)an exconvict who is in love with her.Lulu Belles best friend(Glenda Farrel),Randolphs wife(Charlotte Wynters)and Butch Cooper(Greg McClure)once a big time rich fighter,but now a cripple who lost an eye in a fight over Lulu Belle.
A great Who Done It.
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Lawman Vance(Randolph Scott)is about to retire and marry widow, Made Allen(Jacqueline White)daughter of banker,John Pettst(George Gabby Hayes)
Trouble starts when the most notorious outlaws,Billy The Kid,The Daltons,The Youngers,etc led by Bill Doolin(Robert Armstong)get together and start a major crime wave.The worst of the gang is Sundance(Robert Ryan)a sadistic murderer.Part of the gang is pretty Cheyenne(Ann Jeffreys)
When the gang rob the local bank,Cheyenne is wounded and seperated from the others.She comes to Vances home where he fixes her up and tries to tell her thats no kind of life for a pretty gal.Taking her in,Vance is ambused by the gang and Cheyenne rejoins them.Feeling Vance is right and slowly falling for him,Cheyenne decides to quit and give herself up.
Vance is glad to see Cheyenne is getting smart and helps get her a job much to the anger of Madge.
Soon trouble starts when Doolin,Sundance,and the others start a series of holdups,bank robberies,and killings.
This is one great Western.My only gripe was Vances decision on which girl he decided to marry.I was hoping hed pick the other one.
Great fight scene at the end between Randolph Scott and Robert Ryan.
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An honest longshoreman,Solly Pitts(Mickey Shaughnessy)is badly shot up by a professional killer,Cockeye Cook(Joseph Downing)and two hoods.After the shooting,Sollys wife Madge(Jan Sterling)finds Solly and he tells her,Cookeye and two of his meatballs did it.The killers were hired by Al Dahike(Walter Matthau)head of a mobbed up union.
A crime investigator,William Keating(Richard Egan)is sicken by it all and wants to stop the beatings,abuse,and murders going on.Problem is,the workers think hes another mob stooge.William gets Sollys best friend Benty(Harry Bellaver)and Midget(Nick Dennis)to help him put Cookeye and his hoods into the chair and rid the waterfront of Dahike.
Knowing he hasent much time to live Solly also goes along with William.
Angry,Dahike sends death treats to Williams wife(Julie Adams)and Madge.To make matters worse,the lawyer for Cockeye is John Jacob Master(Dan Duryea)who never loses a case.
Edited by: ERROL23 on Apr 20, 2012 8:50 PM
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Two treasury agents Dennis OBrien(Dennis OKeefe)and Tony Genaro(Alfred Ryder)are assigned to stop a brutal couterfeit mob flooding the country with bad money.To get into the gang Dennis changes his name to Vannie Harrigan and Tonys to Tony Galvani,the last of a mob long broken up.
They get a lead when they meets The Schemer(Wallace Ford)a shifty crook.Through the Schemer they meet Moxie(Charles McGraw)a cunning brutal hood.Moxie takes Vannie to meet the go between,Shiv Triano(John Wengraf)who needs the consent of MR Big,an unknown mobster.
Things are going well until Tony meets his real wife Mary(June Lockhart)who has no idea hes on on assignment.The Schemer,whos along with Tony, begins to suspect something.
Keep an eye out for Keefe Brasselle(Bit)
Another Anthony Mann Film Noir Classic.
Edited by: ERROL23 on Apr 18, 2012 8:55 PM
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Frankie Madison(Burt Lancaster)is out of the pen after doing twenty years.Hes met by an old friend Dave(Wendell Corey)a bookeeper for mobster,Noll Dink Turner(Kirk Douglas)Frankie and Noll were partners during Prohibition and he believes Noll and he are still partners in a club the gangster owns.Noll has no intention of having anything more to do with Frankie.Frankie comes to the club that night and shifty,twofaced Noll welcomes him.Noll introduces Frankie to Kay Lawrence(Lizebeth Scott)the clubs star singer and they both fall in love.
Trouble starts when Frankie is told hes got no part of the club.Frankie reminds Noll of their partnership and the time he did.Noll laughs it off.
Frankie gets a small gang together led by Nick Polestro(Marc Lawrence)an Ex bootlegger,with plans to take over the club,but it gets them nowhere.Frankie is beten badly by Nolls henchman,Dan(Mike Mazurki)Sicken by it all,Dave reminds Noll of a Bset of books the gangster has.Angry,Noll has Dave killed by Skinner(Mickey Knox)a cheap gunman and the blame is put on Frankie.
Great Noir and Gangster Film.
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England,Turn Of The Century.Lady Brandon(Heather Thatcher)has five wards.Beau(Donald OConnor)John(Billy Cook)Digby(Martin Spellman)Isobel(Ann Gillis)and Augustus(David Holt)The lady owns a saphire,The Blue Water.
20 years go by,John(Ray Milland)is in love with Isobel(Susan Hayward)Beau(Gary Cooper)and Digby(Robert Preston)dont know what to do with their lives and Augustus(G P Huntley JR)is a pesty grouch with little feelings for the others.
Lady Brandon calls them all into the study to show them the Blue Water,but the lights go out.When the lights go on,the Blue Water vanishes.All suspect Augustus,but he or Isobel are not who took it.Lady Brandon trusts them to return it.
During the night,Beau leaves and goes off to join the French Foreign Legion.John and Digby follow where they all reunite in the Middle East where the Legion is trying to put down an Arab revolt.In charge is SGT Markoff(Brian Donlevy)a cruel,sadist,but an excellent soildier.Markoff finds out through a spy(J Carroll Naish)that one of the brothers has a valuble diamond.
All are sent to a fort in the desert.When the LT(Harvey Stephens)the officer in charge dies,,Markoff takes over much to everyones anger and a mutiny soon starts under Schwartz(Albert Dekker)the leader.The revolt ends when Arabs attack the fort once more,putting Markoff in charge.
DONT MISS.A True Classic.
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Johnny Eager(Robert Taylor)an excon is the friendly neighborhood taxi driver,but known to few hes New Yorks top crime czar.His plan is to open a dog track,but its being blocked by DA John Benson Farrell(Edward Arnold)
Farrell daughter,Liz(Lana Turner)meets Johnny and she falls for him,but Johnny only pretends to love her.One of Johnnys gunmen,Julio(Paul Stewart)attacks Johnny with a knife,but Liz shoots him to save Johnnys life.Liz is shook up over the incident and Johnny sends her home.Julio is very much alive and the whole thing is rigged to get Farrell to lift his ban on Johnnys track.Having no choice,Farrell agrees.
Johnny friend,Jeff Hartnett(Van Heflin)is disgusted by it all and feels for Liz who believes she really murdered Julio.
TNT Taylor and Turner.What a Film.
Van Heflin won his Oscar as Johnnys drunken friend.
Edited by: ERROL23 on Apr 15, 2012 8:17 PM
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Frank Bigelow(Edmond OBrien)has a small buisness as an accountant.Hes planning to go to San Francisco on vacation.His secratary,Paula Gibson(Pamela Gibson)and true love wants to go to,but Frank refuses feeling he wants to make sure Paula is who he wants to settle down with,
In San Francisco Paula calls and tells him a strange MR Phillips wants to get in touch with him,but Frank tells her Phillips has to wait until he returns.Going out on the town,Frank is slipped a drink in a bar by a mysterious man who quickly vanishes.
The next day Frank is not feeling good and goes to a doctor for an examination.The doctor to Franks shock tells him hes been poisned with Luminious Toxin and has days to live.
Paula gets in touch with Frank and tells him Phillips too is murdered.Frank finds Phillips is from LA and flies out there.He meets an odd cast of characters,Miss Phillips(Lynn Baggett)the dead mand widow,Miss Foster(Bevery Garland)Phillips secratary,Halliday(William Ching)the dead mans partner,,Stanley(Henry Hurt)the dead mans brother,a gangster,Majak(Luther Adler) his insane son,Chester(Neville Brand)and a trashy model,Maria(Laurette Lurz)who was using Phillips.
Franks time is running out and he must find his killer.
Film Noir Classic.DONT MISS.
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A stagecoach not far from the town of Payneville is held up and several people are shot by Monte Jarrad(Dan Duryea)a sadistic outlaw.Into town rides tenderfoot Melody Jones(Gary Cooper)and his sideckick George(William Demarest)Everyone sees MJ on Melodys saddle and think its Monte and run in terror.Melody thinks their all crazy and laughs it off.
Melody meets Montes mistress,Cherry(Lorreta Young)who,of course knows hes not the outlaw,but she has plans for Melody.
Pretty Good Western.
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Walter Williams(Brian Donlevy)is the worlds luckiest guy.A rich buisnessman married to beautiful Irene(Helen Walker)Walter doesnt know Irene secretly despises him and is in love with small time hoodlum,Jim Torrence(Tony Barrett)
Walter must go away on a buisness trip and Irene asks him to take Jim along who Walter never met and believes Irene when she tells him Jims her cousin.The evil Jim plans to kill Walter by hitting him with a wrench while they are fixing a flat tire.Jim hits Walter while gleefully saying,This is from Irene and me,sucker.In the getaway Jim runs into a gas truck.
Walter comes around and wanders into a small town badly injured.After getting medical help he angrily thinks back of Jim and Irene.Not knowing what to do Walter remains in the town where he meets gas station owner and WW2 widow,Marsha Peters(Ella Raines)and they both fall in love.After reading the papers the police believe Walter was the one killed in the car and Irene is put on trial for murder.Its up to Walter to save her.
Great Film.DONT MISS.
Also in cast,Anna May Wong as Walters loyal maid and Charles Coburn as ace police detective.
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Out of the pen after doing five years is Lopold Kroner(Fritz Leiber)who once was a partner with Andrew Colby(Vincent Price)now wealthy owner of Colby Enterprises.Andrew has no intention of helping Leopold or his daughter,Martha(Maria Palmer)Lawyer,Bob Reagan(Edmond OBrien)comes into Andrews office representing a small street vendor whos cart was ruined by Andrews careless driving.Andrew decides to hire Bob as a bodyguard with a plan of getting rid of Leopold.An old friend of Bobs,LT Damico(William Bendix)frowns on it all.
Bob falls for Andrews mistress,Noel(Ella Raines)much to the anger of the two faced buisnessman.Andrew has a plan of getting rid of Leopold and Bob.
Film Noir at its Very Best.
Gun Crazy(1950)
in Film Noir--Gangster
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Barton Tare(Russ Tamblyn)is a young boy whos hobby is guns.Barton steals one from a hardware store and is caught by the police.After doing time in a reform school and serving in WW2,Barton(John Dall)returns home where his sister,Ruby(Anabel Shaw)and his two friends Dave(Nedrick Young)and Clyde(Harry Lewis)welcome him back.
They take Barton to the circus where Barton meets Annie Starr(Peggy Cummings)a crackshot and her jealous manager,Packet(Berry Kroeger)Packet offers $500. to anyone that can beat her.Barton not only wins the contest,but Annie.Annie is a spoiled tart who wants money at all costs.Barton and Annie go out on a major crime wave,much to the shock of Ruby,Dave,and Clyde.
Co titled,Deadly Is The Female.