Hi Dolores!
It's great to see you here!
-Dewey

Re: FACE OF ANOTHER.

Hi Mr. Ark - Have never seen FACE OF ANOTHER. I take it it's available on DVD. If so I will track it down! Thanks for tip!

Hi Judith - Glad you had an opportunity to see THE KILLING this a.m. And while you might not have been completely knocked out by it, it's a movie that definitely benefits from multiple viewings. The intricate (and at the time fairly revolutionary for American movies) method Kubrick utilized to unrav...

Yes, Miss Fleming was used to maximum effect in OUT OF THE PAST. Frankly, I can't think of another film of hers where she was better used. I seem to associate her with costume pictures and swashbuckling romances which I'm really not all that crazy about. But her breathless allure in OUT OF THE PAST ...

Back in the late 50s and early 60s when the Private Eye was king on network television, any number of slick dicks ruled the roost. Some even qualify for consideration as examples of "TV Noir." Among my own personal favorites were JOHNNY STACCATO, brilliantly played by John Cassavetes for o...

Yes, I would agree that it is not in the upper echelons (definitely superior to Murder My Sweet), but it most certainly had its share of intriguing moments. Great camera work and a nice twist involving Johnny's buddy Charlie. And the women were great! Always nice to catch a classy noir film on TCM t...

Ken - Another great director of noir films I would add to that list is JACQUES TOURNEUR. While his noir output is not as voluminous as any number of other directors mentioned, the ones he's resposnible for are immensely pleasurable: OUT OF THE PAST, THE LEOPARD MAN, BERLIN EXPRESS, NIGHTFALL, THE FE...

So...did anyone out there watch Dick Powell in JOHNNY O'CLOCK last night? And if so, how'dja like it?

Even though I much prefer Bela Lugosi to Boris Karloff (I actually enjoy them both, but Bela really moves me), I tend to like the Frankenstein films better than the Dracula films overall. At least the Universal ones. The pacing of the original Dracula is a little ponderous at times (no fault of Bela...

As with so many folks, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY bores me silly. I was 21 when I saw it on the big Cinerama screen in downtown Detroit and I couldn't wait for it to be over. The pretentiousness of it all was a bit unbearable for me and I longed to be back in my own living room watching INVASION OF THE B...

Finally got around to watching THE BIG SHOT, which I taped the other evening. It's hard to come to grips with the fact that all these years have gone by without my ever seeing it. I always seem to confuse it with some other Bogart film ("San Quentin") and, to complicate matters, it hardly ...

Finest director of noir films? FRITZ LANG. FURY (1936) (pre-noir) YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (1937) (pre-noir) MINISTRY OF FEAR (1944) WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944) SCARLET STREET (1945) CLASH BY NIGHT (1952) THE BIG HEAT (1953) THE BLUE GARDENIA (1953) HUMAN DESIRE (1954) BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956) WHIL...

Hi Judith - Yes, The Zanti Misfits was the one I was trying to think of when I rattled off my list of favorite OUTER LIMITS episodes. The series was not nearly as consistently cool as TZ, but, as you pointed out, it definitely had its share of moments. Another show from the same period (late 50s - e...

Seeing certain films in the theater back in the 50s had a huge impact on me as a kid. The first film that really scared me out of my wits was THEM! the sci-fi horror shocker with James Whitmore and James Arness. The early scenes on the desert, especially after nightfall when the two cops investigate...

Wow, July has some incredible and rare noir nuggets for the fanatic connoisseur: the 1937 French masterpiece Le Quai de Brumes (Sun July 1) is a smoky blueprint of American noir to be; 711 OCEAN DRIVE (Fri July 6) with punchy Edmond O'Brien and that great climax at Hoover Dam; BIG HOUSE USA (Sat Jul...