Soon Bannion finds himself marked for death and his family in mortal danger. Released: 1953 Directed by: Fritz Lang Also ranks #5 on The Best '50s Cop Movies, Ranked Also ranks #14 on The 200+ Best Movies of 1953 Also ranks #17 on The Greatest Classic Noir Movies, Ranked 23 Kiss Me...
Among the most enduring and long-influential genres of film,noiris one of the most important film sub-categories in the history of the medium. While the genre's heyday has long passed, its influence over the development of the artistic medium and repeated resurgence over the course of time ...
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s easy to discount the femme fatale as a defamatory archetype for women, these characters helped make female sexuality more commonplace in movie theaters, challenging the traditional gender roles of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. More than that, they gave actresses active parts in the movies and ...
Film criticism also shifted in the 40s and 50s to include more artful analysis of movies (suggestion: read some of the early 1940s film criticism from novelistJames Ageewhen he started atTimein 1942; Agee was hugely influential to our big American critics of the 60s onward—like theCahierswri...
I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies. —Boti Bliss 1 Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman mi...
We stick with the cops all the way through. Neither the script nor the visuals suggest themes of alienation, anxiety or social sickness. Although we are always told in these proto-CSI police procedural movies that the science lab work is authentic, the clues followed here are more believable ...
There are tons of these noir(-ish) crime movies where someone infiltrates a crime ring in order to bust it from the inside out. This one's above-average. Within the confines of the Production Code it does all it can to make Tucker's business as seedy and lowlife as possible, by ...
James M. Cain was a novelist whose violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond
techniques (James Wong Howe's atmospheric cinematography), psychological profiling (the introduction of female psychiatrist, Dr. Silla (Rosemary DeCamp), who tries to analyze Mason's character), and a not-so-subtle subtext about male-female relationships.” - Jeff Stafford (Turner Classic Movies) ...