Tag: FILM NOIR
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Film noir gunsel’s mountain hideout
FROM BIG SCREEN TO TROUT STREAM Character actor Elisha Cook Jr. He was a small man with worried eyes who played two-bit gunsels and losers in film noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s. In all, he acted in 21 films noir, more than any other actor or actress, in a career that began in 1930 and lasted…
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The wild life of Diana Fluck
England’s Marilyn Monroe She was born Diana Fluck. Not the best name for a girl who wanted to be a movie star. As she herself said: “They asked me to change my name. I suppose they thought that if Diana Fluck was in lights and one of the lights blew.” Diana Dors clawed her way…
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New Film Noir Classic
Liam Neeson is Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler’s famous L.A. private eye. ‘Los Angeles… a city of dirty little secrets.’
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Classic film noir ‘The Third Man’ — and that much debated ending
The 1949 film noir ‘The Third Man’ ends with one of the most brutally unromantic scenes in movie history.
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“Is this the end of Rico?”
That’s how he wants to go out — shot down like Johnny Rocco and “Mad Dog” Roy Earle and Cody Jarrett (“Top of the the world, Ma, top of the world!”)
Mary Saves the Day 