The Specialty of the House
No, I haven’t decided to transform this place into a restaurant review site. The “house” I’m referring to here is the Hollywood studio, and the question is which one, or ones, we are most partial to....
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FIVE TALL TALES: BUDD BOETTICHER & RANDOLPH SCOTT AT COLUMBIA, 1957-1960 THE TALL T (1957) DECISION AT SUNDOWN (1957) BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE (1958) RIDE LONESOME (1959) COMANCHE STATION (1960)...
View ArticleI Walk Alone – coming soon
A recent viewing and post on Kiss the Blood Off My Hands reminded me that the only major Burt Lancaster noir title still unavailable in a decent edition was 1948’s I Walk Alone. Happily though, Kino...
View ArticleComing Soon – something a little different…
Yes, things have been a little quiet here of late, mainly due to a rather packed work schedule and other tedious matters. Hopefully, I’ll get back to at least semi-regular posting when things feel a...
View Article#446: Spoiler Warning 8 – Halfway House (1936) by Ellery Queen — The...
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our respects to the detective fiction novel Halfway House (1936) written by Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay under their Ellery Queen nom de plume. As...
View ArticleBlu News – More Lang on the way!
I’m delighted to see listings appearing online for a new Blu-ray/DVD combo release for Fritz Lang’s 1954 film Human Desire. I reckon this is an underrated movie and am pleased to see UK boutique label...
View ArticleBlu News – More Prime Noir
One of the great names among film noir directors has to be Robert Siodmak, a man who made a series of hugely impressive pieces of dark cinema throughout the 1940s. The first of those stylish and...
View ArticleSome info on a Sam Fuller movie sought…
A brief request here. Someone just contacted me in relation to Sam Fuller’s feature debut I Shot Jesse James, which I wrote about over a decade ago, to see if I could help. What it amounts to is this –...
View ArticleBlu News – Blood on the Moon
A welcome bit of news just came to my attention so I thought it might be nice to pass it on here. Robert Wise’s noir-tinged western Blood on the Moon (which I wrote about here a good few years ago) has...
View ArticleHannah Lee
Today, we have another guest post from the pen of regular contributor Gordon Gates. This occasion sees him casting an eye over a rare and little seen western from the 1950s....
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