Backfire (1950): Vincent Sherman’s Film Noir, Starring Edmond O’Brien, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Viveca Lindfors
Vincent Sherman directed Backfire a crime film noir, starring Edmond O’Brien, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Viveca Lindfors, and Dane Clark.
Death in Hollywood: Chandler, Jeff–Back Injury (Malpractice), Died at 42
He died on June 17, 1961. The cause was a blood infection complicated by pneumonia.
Guy-Blache, Alice: Pioneering Filmmaker
There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man, and there is no reason she cannot master every technicality of the art–Alice Guy-Blache
World Is Not Enough, The (1999): Bond No. 19, Michael Apted Directs Pierce Brosnan
The World Is Not Enough is the 19th film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as MI6 agent James Bond.
La Main du diable (The Devil’s Hand) (aka Carnival of Sinners): Maurice Tourneur Horror Noir, Starring Pierre Fresnay
Maurice Tourneur directed La Main du diable (“The Devil’s Hand”), a French horror film, starring Pierre Fresnay as struggling artist who acquires a supernatural talisman. Guests at isolated hotel, cut off by avalanche, are surprised when Roland Brissot, a man missing his left hand, shows up with only small casket. When he asks the innkeeper […]
P.J. (aka New Face in Hell): Guillermin’s Detective Thriller, Starring George Peppard (Homophobia, Gay-Bashing)
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Three Sailors and a Girl (1954): Del Ruth’s B-Musical, Starring Jane Powell and Gordon MacRae
From Our Archives Roy Del Ruth directed Three Sailors and a Girl, a Technicolor musical made by Warner. It was directed by and written by Devery Freeman and Roland Kibbee, based on the George S. Kaufman play “The Butter and Egg Man.” Ray Heindorf was the musical director, with orchestrations by Gus Levene, and vocal […]
Licence to Kill (1989): Bond No. 16, Starring Timothy Dalton
Licence to Kill is the sixteenth in the James Bond series, and the second (and last) to star British actor Timothy Dalton.
On the Job: The Missing 8: Sprawling, Gripping Thriller About Filipino Corruption
Erik Matti’s three-and-a-half-hour thriller, On the Job: The Missing 8, is the prolific Filipino director’s Venice-competing sequel to the 2013 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title On the Job.
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Film as Subversive Art: Tribute to Amos Vogel A Retrospective by the Austrian Film
In New York City, his new home, Vogel became one of the world’s most influential film curators: first as the founder of the Cinema 16 film society (1947-63), and later as the co-founder of the New York Film Festival (1963-68).