ALAN LADD, VERONICA LAKE & LAIRD CREGAR 'THIS GUN FOR HIRE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAo-T0oe-HIl23CFiZfh2_blG5CpXSrIoH_MUFzht_LMkfIpWyt-AmWIpA_HLqaTjuHP6IvU6f0h64pO6J_a83nTGsIRPgwZZ4ofTD2aXRubKYR35EFBAAYfRJTTjF941Lq2EXlkxihXGExvKvWQPt_7wNLsUbB-KjKPfmupzn5NmEct6DWwdKY_JT8UAw/s1532/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-03%20at%2012.40.27%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAo-T0oe-HIl23CFiZfh2_blG5CpXSrIoH_MUFzht_LMkfIpWyt-AmWIpA_HLqaTjuHP6IvU6f0h64pO6J_a83nTGsIRPgwZZ4ofTD2aXRubKYR35EFBAAYfRJTTjF941Lq2EXlkxihXGExvKvWQPt_7wNLsUbB-KjKPfmupzn5NmEct6DWwdKY_JT8UAw/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-03%20at%2012.40.27%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1942 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Then-newcomer Alan Ladd's first and best collaboration with equally diminutive and great-looking Veronica Lake, in THIS GUN'S FOR HIRE he hardly speaks a word... the characterization of paid hit-man Philip Raven's etched upon a narrowed, coolly serious expression while he murders crooked targets while protecting a crippled girl and a kitten...<br><br>That alone providing what's a proto-noir ambiguous-criminal template for a bad guy's who's really not that bad... especially compared to genuine antagonist Laird Cregar's scene-stealing overweight middleman Willard Gates, an American traitor assisted by more creatively hands-on-ruthless Marc Lawrence...</p><p><span></span></p>

film noir or melodrama, forties, harry shannon, laird cregar, marc lawrence, pamela blake, robert preston, veronica lake

ALAN LADD, VERONICA LAKE & LAIRD CREGAR 'THIS GUN FOR HIRE'

Year: 1942 Rating: **** Then-newcomer Alan Ladd's first and best collaboration with equally diminutive and great-looking Veronica Lake, ...

JEAN GILLIE ALMOST REVIVING ROBERT ARMSTRONG IN 'DECOY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfejDn5wmjw9-4ifvwsXCeWGhVXOYudiUmRRwFEo5zlUqKjlb8FJhw665QTZIEnZvpeCcbNSisTPLICHADztLdlSMMYOYqD9kL4qVZ1RLT88f3KoH0HOxNkLFTnB89lksPxBSVlEGgnOPy4-_oc3nHZLbo2t_gdwj9H2EWAAL_w8FHIVQ2UsUOcb0DIRf/s1612/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-20%20at%2012.59.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfejDn5wmjw9-4ifvwsXCeWGhVXOYudiUmRRwFEo5zlUqKjlb8FJhw665QTZIEnZvpeCcbNSisTPLICHADztLdlSMMYOYqD9kL4qVZ1RLT88f3KoH0HOxNkLFTnB89lksPxBSVlEGgnOPy4-_oc3nHZLbo2t_gdwj9H2EWAAL_w8FHIVQ2UsUOcb0DIRf/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-20%20at%2012.59.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1946 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a kind of unwritten law in movies, that when a character gets extremely physically injured, and recovers, they most likely won't wind up dying later... since the audience already went through the ringer, their death would be both anticlimactic and tedious: which has never been truer than the bizarre film noir thriller DECOY that's equally science-fiction: involving a chemical that can bring someone back from being executed in the gas chamber...<br><br>An antidote that makes fourth-billed doctor Robert Hudley the male lead, despite two other fellas looking (and acting) too much alike: so weaselly crook Edward Norris and deceptively-tricky detective Sheldon Leonard really get in the way of who the ambiguously-driven doctor should have dealt with alone...</p><p><span></span></p>

edward norris, film noir or melodrama, forties, heist, herbert rudley, jean gillie, marjorie woodworth, robert armstrong, sheldon leonard

JEAN GILLIE ALMOST REVIVING ROBERT ARMSTRONG IN 'DECOY'

Year: 1946 Rating: **1/2 There's a kind of unwritten law in movies, that when a character gets extremely physically injured, and recover...

RICARDO MONTALBAN WITH BRUCE BENNETT IN 'MYSTERY STREET'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPxLjvir6Sq6o-SK6TtFlXAyg6AL1rdpHl7Zo5xOMnKwmBn9cTLtF2R8EwI7ghp96FLx_efNt822exRJePQntBGQTzP2KiYCEHDEnWFYmyUIyVIGTsN-PZ6j4eVMUfGFkQ28syTGj1bDxMqSFqs-WuKZJUSmOlU3kSD7YAzBg0xvaG8ozXHnRf1T2imPt/s2078/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-18%20at%201.15.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="2078" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPxLjvir6Sq6o-SK6TtFlXAyg6AL1rdpHl7Zo5xOMnKwmBn9cTLtF2R8EwI7ghp96FLx_efNt822exRJePQntBGQTzP2KiYCEHDEnWFYmyUIyVIGTsN-PZ6j4eVMUfGFkQ28syTGj1bDxMqSFqs-WuKZJUSmOlU3kSD7YAzBg0xvaG8ozXHnRf1T2imPt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-18%20at%201.15.28%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1950 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When debt-ridden Jan Sterling... in an apartment complex where lovely single ladies exist under the bickering rule of middle-aged Elsa Lanchester... walks down the stairs to make an enigmatic phone call, not only does MYSTERY STREET begin, but it could have been another movie entirely...<br><br>After Sterling meets up with drunken married Marshall Thompson, driving him through rural back-roads before stealing the car and getting murdered, what follows is tighter and meticulously by-the-book...</p><p><span></span></p>

besty blair, bruce bennett, cop, edmon ryan, elsa lanchester, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jan sterling, marshall thompson, ricardo montalban, sally forrest, wrong man

RICARDO MONTALBAN WITH BRUCE BENNETT IN 'MYSTERY STREET'

Year: 1950 Rating: **** When debt-ridden Jan Sterling... in an apartment complex where lovely single ladies exist under the bickering rule o...

ROBERT MITCHUM FOLLOWS JANE GREER THROUGH 'OUT OF THE PAST'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tZp-qryGySgdE4HxTTQEfZlFZ1ferJnbO1YzYzvx6CV07OCNII83pIuaGUN8GOCqw7geZbKxDYcUwbAUCLUh_EmOx9v0pRvMvQjJnWaak4jwHpjkZMzarMf45cPMFFC8AIN78y3aKUh8H_mh5H95lQ26fpH9oPBkF1nD1tcztHxJh2kvarmlFJmcvdE5/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-13%20at%2012.51.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1308" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tZp-qryGySgdE4HxTTQEfZlFZ1ferJnbO1YzYzvx6CV07OCNII83pIuaGUN8GOCqw7geZbKxDYcUwbAUCLUh_EmOx9v0pRvMvQjJnWaak4jwHpjkZMzarMf45cPMFFC8AIN78y3aKUh8H_mh5H95lQ26fpH9oPBkF1nD1tcztHxJh2kvarmlFJmcvdE5/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-13%20at%2012.51.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1948 Rating: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Robert Siodmak's multi-tier film noir THE KILLERS, city-dwelling crime boss Albert Dekker recognizes former crooked colleague Burt Lancaster working in a rural, woodsy-located gas station, pulling the handsome <i>femme-fatale-smitten</i> anti-hero back into danger throughout a series of expository flashbacks... </p><p></p><p>Exactly what ignites Jacques Tourneur's tour-de-force crime-melodrama OUT OF THE PAST, only it's towering goon Paul Valentine who finds Robert Mitchum, who is — unlike Lancaster — very much alive throughout... </p><p><span></span></p>

film noir or melodrama, forties, jacques tourneur, jane greer, kirk douglas, paul valentine, rhonda fleming, robert mitchum, steve brodie, virginia huston

ROBERT MITCHUM FOLLOWS JANE GREER THROUGH 'OUT OF THE PAST'

Year: 1948 Rating: ***1/2 In Robert Siodmak's multi-tier film noir THE KILLERS, city-dwelling crime boss Albert Dekker recognizes former...

ROBERT MITCHUM, JANE GREER & WILLIAM BENDIX 'THE BIG STEAL'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fcUyEfvqI1EwtS8me7iMjiKICH4cp6mAYgy1LiQmGPPR4uHIqtpGX9OGe38WnYMOQ_QBM310XuLI6eNtVi3URa7ru5aBA_HJ0sqCirSPzbkqk_X93eWO3FNogj3LFocvwTewMH4CTBKfdgLBSrZCvAuxdCgWWAhyphenhyphenGybAYmQoPDSrIMGE0drABk2wG5XB/s2070/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-12%20at%203.06.46%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="2070" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fcUyEfvqI1EwtS8me7iMjiKICH4cp6mAYgy1LiQmGPPR4uHIqtpGX9OGe38WnYMOQ_QBM310XuLI6eNtVi3URa7ru5aBA_HJ0sqCirSPzbkqk_X93eWO3FNogj3LFocvwTewMH4CTBKfdgLBSrZCvAuxdCgWWAhyphenhyphenGybAYmQoPDSrIMGE0drABk2wG5XB/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-12%20at%203.06.46%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1949 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one scene towards the end of director Don Siegel's THE BIG STEAL, Robert Mitchum and reunited OUT OF THE PAST starlet Jane Greer are pulled over in their Mexico-traipsing vehicle, and have some involving dialogue with some Spanish locales... and there's finally some chemistry between the two leads... <br><br>Otherwise it's more of an action crime caper that, while semi-decently flowing from one fast-paced scene to the next... and featuring William Bendix as a cop following Mitchum's cop... there's way too many distracting (and cheap-looking) rear-projected scenes during perpetual car chases... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, don siegel, film noir or melodrama, forties, howard hughes, jane greer, patric knowles, ramon navarro, robert mitchum, william bendix, wrong man

ROBERT MITCHUM, JANE GREER & WILLIAM BENDIX 'THE BIG STEAL'

Year: 1949 Rating: **1/2 In one scene towards the end of director Don Siegel's THE BIG STEAL, Robert Mitchum and reunited OUT OF THE PAS...

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s1486/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p>Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, and remade to center on a then-current anti-mafia-probe, it's no wonder that RKO's THE RACKET plays out so deliberately over-the-top, where Robert Ryan not only openly admits to being the head of an illegal/totally corrupt syndicate, but shoots and kills an honest lawman right inside a police station... with a cub reporter witness only inches away...<br /><br />In that, Ryan gets most of the praise for a performance that's more 1930's teeth-clenching gangbusters than subtle 1950's noir, which, for the lack of alleyway shadows and femme fatales, many claim this feature as being something other than... <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Which is an ongoing/never-ending debate on any b-crimer that isn't dreamily melodramatic the likes of OUT OF THE PAST... segwaying into the other Robert here in Robert Mitchum, the star of several Howard Hughes productions, where, on the heels of playing likable losers in THIS KIND OF WOMAN and THE BIG STEAL, this is his most solidly straightforward performance... <br /><br />As a police chief the syndicate moves around in order to never press permanent charges, and with scene-stealing/ideal-driven good cop William Talman by his side, Mitchum doesn't simply breeze around with his handsome slow-burn cool, but really fits the part with both feet planted firmly on the ground...  </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s1428/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The biggest problem (besides pretty Lizabeth Scott in a throwaway nightclub canary/dame role) is that everything's too up-front, particularly with Ryan's scrunched-up mug exploding into temper-tantrums.... <br /><br />In one reaction shot, Mitchum seems to intentionally smirk at Ryan's overacting: playing more of a head gangster's viciously lethal thug than any kind of realistic big boss, making THE RACKET more a good vs evil fable than either noir or your typical standard detective story. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s1110/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s1026/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ray Collins in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s1032/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s1080/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman and Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s1256/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s902/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s942/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s1186/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7UxVVnXQI7i6W-mvLFz8gWEksD8DCOuV5zEDcZ-7RI0ys9xwiw-Sv_0Tjm3u9ekxVaN_yfPZhS2GADO_gi35syshgC9_u_3qpzKAsKpYQ0DXTVEGPv-dzZn7j9V1v_kpeqkEVJ3zw-4uZ2fzmwsanpQEZ30EX7Z74ynzmC95JXBcMgB3ER0FvmMn006/s1312/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7UxVVnXQI7i6W-mvLFz8gWEksD8DCOuV5zEDcZ-7RI0ys9xwiw-Sv_0Tjm3u9ekxVaN_yfPZhS2GADO_gi35syshgC9_u_3qpzKAsKpYQ0DXTVEGPv-dzZn7j9V1v_kpeqkEVJ3zw-4uZ2fzmwsanpQEZ30EX7Z74ynzmC95JXBcMgB3ER0FvmMn006/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s1278/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lizabeth Scott and Robert Hutton in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s1830/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br />

fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, joyce mackenzie, mob, ray collins, robert mitchum, robert ryan, virginia huston, william conrad, william talman

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, an...

ROBERT MITCHUM SPIRALS THROUGH 'THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbetkBDhFGidKknrcudd38udOGnJSogt5GZn54Ggq72iN6C97-cenb7QZSpF7CX1IrMZF06oJRhTdNSy8xHgnj4gmLezpTDtYwYYaxsUP8-hhvPUKnrBGRmWi7MkmI_lTymQ0Yhht7EcDq3GxOlLEDEG3-aFp6JRnRjiwNJyKGF-sMLYufinFsraVNjBuh/s2102/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-08%20at%2010.40.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbetkBDhFGidKknrcudd38udOGnJSogt5GZn54Ggq72iN6C97-cenb7QZSpF7CX1IrMZF06oJRhTdNSy8xHgnj4gmLezpTDtYwYYaxsUP8-hhvPUKnrBGRmWi7MkmI_lTymQ0Yhht7EcDq3GxOlLEDEG3-aFp6JRnRjiwNJyKGF-sMLYufinFsraVNjBuh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-08%20at%2010.40.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Year: 1955 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The summary promises that Robert Mitchum plays a con-artist with a background of swindling women, specifically widows, and that he's also a self-professed preacher in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER... </p><p>Since that first type of villain is always sneakily two-faced and entertainingly unpredictable, when we catch a glimpse of Mitchum's convict Harry Powell talking to himself about how only God can set him free, any mystery's quickly lifted — we're experiencing a genuinely pathetic sociopath whose supposed charm is limited to how he'll broadly carry himself throughout an excruciatingly long 90-minutes...</p><span></span>

charles laughton, corey allen, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gloria castillo, peter graves, robert mitchum, shelley winters, thriller

ROBERT MITCHUM SPIRALS THROUGH 'THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER'

Title: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Year: 1955 Rating: ** The summary promises that Robert Mitchum plays a con-artist with a background of swindl...

ROBERT MITCHUM AND FAITH DOMERGUE IN 'WHERE DANGER LIVES'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91S1vpDvPPIZt5BJDqdsNE0y3ACG22LACv7ogGOe68BjJgdtEs9LcUIa1bSerPksR2pBOK6LIpPWXHwncxJ7u0-BoL1xyYJQ3IfYR0-jcuZ4E86GUxl8acLesxZs3mHyAt-yEue8Exr7YiNRKcw6PT4p246rtAijhz38yEZA0HT-5p5pat2C3L4R1WDrE/s1168/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-03%20at%203.04.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91S1vpDvPPIZt5BJDqdsNE0y3ACG22LACv7ogGOe68BjJgdtEs9LcUIa1bSerPksR2pBOK6LIpPWXHwncxJ7u0-BoL1xyYJQ3IfYR0-jcuZ4E86GUxl8acLesxZs3mHyAt-yEue8Exr7YiNRKcw6PT4p246rtAijhz38yEZA0HT-5p5pat2C3L4R1WDrE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-03%20at%203.04.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WHERE DANGER LIVES Year: 1950 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From HIS KIND OF WOMAN to THE BIG STEAL, Howard Hughes's RKO Pictures usually had Robert Mitchum on the run into Mexico wherein WHERE DANGER LIVES is the most lackluster, providing the sleepy-eyed sex symbol a role that didn't technically suit him at all...</p><p></p><p>As a doctor performing surgery on a little girl (Sherry Jackson), Mitchum's mile-high pompadour above the surgical mask is unintentionally hilarious... and yet his usual low-key performance somewhat carries him through the initial set-up where, after quickly falling in love with gorgeous yet troubled (and secretly suicidal) patient Faith Domergue, the usual noir-device of the old/rich husband being murdered by the young lover happens in an accidental flash...</p><p><span></span></p>

claude rains, faith domergue, fifties, film noir or melodrama, harry shannon, howard hughes, road movie, robert mitchum, sherry jackson

ROBERT MITCHUM AND FAITH DOMERGUE IN 'WHERE DANGER LIVES'

Title: WHERE DANGER LIVES Year: 1950 Rating: ** From HIS KIND OF WOMAN to THE BIG STEAL, Howard Hughes's RKO Pictures usually had Robert...

ROBERT MITCHUM & WILLIAM BENDIX IN 'MACAO' W/ JANE RUSSELL

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3P5vRvhcQOu__FkLV8X7n3iHImu5O1TCjNz0_xc4yEgCxU6PEKmXnSKUg066RWBhxoo0vcaMEKRWcXA6uZo9xcH8Tytu4533dA0APFmC0JnRxC7tzAQLfnVup6yY5CVshGVuLiwNp-itdYiCr6zTUlI39ZLspnC-3bcx7s77zOReaA6GSMLEoheyuNivZ/s1666/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3P5vRvhcQOu__FkLV8X7n3iHImu5O1TCjNz0_xc4yEgCxU6PEKmXnSKUg066RWBhxoo0vcaMEKRWcXA6uZo9xcH8Tytu4533dA0APFmC0JnRxC7tzAQLfnVup6yY5CVshGVuLiwNp-itdYiCr6zTUlI39ZLspnC-3bcx7s77zOReaA6GSMLEoheyuNivZ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO owner Howard Hughes's in-house starlet Jane Russell, and both mostly taking place on a large boat...<br><br>There it's Mexico and here it's the titular Asian sampan-filled location of MACAO, which is mostly viewed through a vast number of rear projected shots as Mitchum meets fellow lonesome-traveler William Bendix, his co-star from THE BIG STEAL, while Russell... again a lounge singer... is involved with a nightclub's seedy yet sophisticated owner...</p><p><span></span></p>

brad dexter, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gloria grahame, howard hughes, jane russell, robert mitchum, thomas gomez, william bendix

ROBERT MITCHUM & WILLIAM BENDIX IN 'MACAO' W/ JANE RUSSELL

Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2 Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO own...

ROBERT MITCHUM AND JANE RUSSELL IN 'HIS KIND OF WOMAN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJPrKLzaVooOX8W6aJEY0W-sq36IwpUnFOrgD7HQEdV6Cq9ebQpe-sItzEWyeRUUIKSYKNVatjTk9zXUWpjVi4PUUOCgzBkXhe7vi7qrLz_tziIrrILs6AKzZPw7mOP-VjyUx1ZwU8-vnaUgWAXwF2gaXRJq0C5fKFx5QsH2bboXKDvTQzHJxFjuOMNx/s2102/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJPrKLzaVooOX8W6aJEY0W-sq36IwpUnFOrgD7HQEdV6Cq9ebQpe-sItzEWyeRUUIKSYKNVatjTk9zXUWpjVi4PUUOCgzBkXhe7vi7qrLz_tziIrrILs6AKzZPw7mOP-VjyUx1ZwU8-vnaUgWAXwF2gaXRJq0C5fKFx5QsH2bboXKDvTQzHJxFjuOMNx/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in HIS KIND OF WOMAN Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Legendary eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, after buying RKO Pictures, exploited discovered leading lady Jane Russell's ample bosom in THE OUTLAW while, almost a decade later, he put even more time and money into Robert Mitchum's handsome, slow-burn cool for HIS KIND OF WOMAN...<br><br>Despite Russell's character being part of the title, she really has little to do here but hang around a plush Mexican resort where Mitchum's affable gambling loser is sent so that chief mobster Raymond Burr... who replaced original director John Farrow's original villain Lee Van Cleef followed by Robert Wilke... to be able to immigrate back to America... or something...<span></span></p>

anthony caruso, charles mcgraw, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, jane russell, paul frees, raymond burr, richard fleischer, robert mitchum, stacy harris, tim holt, vincent price

ROBERT MITCHUM AND JANE RUSSELL IN 'HIS KIND OF WOMAN'

Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in HIS KIND OF WOMAN Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Legendary eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, after buying R...

VIRGINIA FIELD BARRING MARSHALL THOMPSON IN 'DIAL 1119'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7m5zQb7_jCKGFjQrL0VuwkgWdpZg9FPQ8NyVG2eYbNDeovTN2Y5MtERIfvgThnARMjadUvKYkFYamw2asBSMZpDqgRxoE3xu1LvfJtE9zrjXYdZPyBX1mIcpZvWV6g6Cvt3orBKMQZSctHsJ5Vy53iSt6Jtu-FzOCP37z8SqwOmrL8LbGIJJdZLwA1WJ_/s2110/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-29%20at%2012.02.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="2110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7m5zQb7_jCKGFjQrL0VuwkgWdpZg9FPQ8NyVG2eYbNDeovTN2Y5MtERIfvgThnARMjadUvKYkFYamw2asBSMZpDqgRxoE3xu1LvfJtE9zrjXYdZPyBX1mIcpZvWV6g6Cvt3orBKMQZSctHsJ5Vy53iSt6Jtu-FzOCP37z8SqwOmrL8LbGIJJdZLwA1WJ_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-29%20at%2012.02.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marshall Thompson and Virginia Field in DIAL 1119 Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A kind of expository TIME OF YOUR LIFE barroom-of-eclectic-characters stage play combined with any hostage thriller, DIAL 1119 stars Marshall Thompson as a troubled young man who you can't insult or compliment without possibly getting shot and killed...<br><br>The tavern-dwellers include world-weary workaday bartender William Conrad; a stressed young married man waiting for a telephone call from his birthing wife; a cranky newspaperman; floozy Virginia Field, having perfectly aged from her 1930's heyday into an older yet still alluring hustler; and a creepy older businessman calling twenty-something beauty Andrea King his niece while trying to seduce her...</p><p><span></span></p>

andrea king, fifties, film noir or melodrama, hostage, marshall thompson, sam levene, thriller, virginia field, william conrad

VIRGINIA FIELD BARRING MARSHALL THOMPSON IN 'DIAL 1119'

Marshall Thompson and Virginia Field in DIAL 1119 Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 A kind of expository TIME OF YOUR LIFE barroom-of-eclectic-chara...

AUDREY TOTTER, RICHARD BASEHART & CYD CHARISSE IN 'TENSION'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLx2WjshVV94IxKn-JNceGoHr43zVWAjpoN3opKSPCFsjIwdMjGpXhpd11cP_AtdpfNTiAyFQm5MT0xvSxDfUyv1mIf1YwUN0qGqQJgijhSysddtTl4ovyrYbODWTnjaSYow1l6qllj6pl6BxeE6bnS-fFTevXmhmaw7qhvuDJIlYwXuU4YrqLpxDrIAAb/s2104/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLx2WjshVV94IxKn-JNceGoHr43zVWAjpoN3opKSPCFsjIwdMjGpXhpd11cP_AtdpfNTiAyFQm5MT0xvSxDfUyv1mIf1YwUN0qGqQJgijhSysddtTl4ovyrYbODWTnjaSYow1l6qllj6pl6BxeE6bnS-fFTevXmhmaw7qhvuDJIlYwXuU4YrqLpxDrIAAb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Audrey Totter in TENSION Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From low-budget film noir to big-budget spectaculars, in Golden Age Hollywood there are rarely not-perfect-looking actresses, like in the case of secondary/good girl Cyd Charisse, countering scene-stealing cheating fatale Audrey Totter in the murder mystery thriller TENSION, centering on the mousiest of mousy drug store clerks who Totter replaces with alpha-male Lloyd Gough...<br><br>It's impossible to believe that Richard Basehart would remain in the kind of vengefully lustful state of murdering his wife when, only hours after Totter splits, Charisse... looking like a brunette supermodel straight from a fashion magazine... appears instantly smitten outside a new bachelor pad: where he'd assumed a fake identity to surreptitiously off both his wife and her lover...<span></span></p>

audrey totter, barry sullivan, cyd charisse, fifties, film noir or melodrama, lloyd gough, richard basehart, william conrad, wrong man

AUDREY TOTTER, RICHARD BASEHART & CYD CHARISSE IN 'TENSION'

Audrey Totter in TENSION Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2 From low-budget film noir to big-budget spectaculars, in Golden Age Hollywood there are r...

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & ROBERT STERLING IN 'BUNCO SQUAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatUY2fMxDFxXdjdBTWfLmuVQWAJJoD-ZVTgAphVnU4pRDGaX7G9MfCkyyVRKiU-gUiXCJO13qkpV90oh0kt3La99yuwo-dcnNNG0JwIgDqgdPqXrwxbvSWkDhrPXZ_JO0zw9fAHuahQ5EG5f3V3kJnf5cE4XqSgBBpbZ8LYv1DAI3-d5Uw6zNfr8yalCp/s2106/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-27%20at%206.25.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatUY2fMxDFxXdjdBTWfLmuVQWAJJoD-ZVTgAphVnU4pRDGaX7G9MfCkyyVRKiU-gUiXCJO13qkpV90oh0kt3La99yuwo-dcnNNG0JwIgDqgdPqXrwxbvSWkDhrPXZ_JO0zw9fAHuahQ5EG5f3V3kJnf5cE4XqSgBBpbZ8LYv1DAI3-d5Uw6zNfr8yalCp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-27%20at%206.25.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marguerite Churchill and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sophisticated beauty Marguerite Churchill was an ingenue in the 1930's, classing up horror movies DRACULA'S DAUGHTER and THE WALKING DEAD... the latter featuring suave-villain actor Ricardo Cortez, who, in BUNCO SQUAD, cons the older yet still quite lovely Marguerite to get to her heiress boss: the primary long con despite SQUAD starting out with one of those documentary style narrations... <br><br>Starring handsome Robert Sterling partnered with square-jawed Douglas Fowley and in love with lovely actress Joan Dixon, a Gene Tierney lookalike that winds up undercover to bust what's an intriguing, uncomplicated seance scam that includes backstabbing deaths centered around new age spiritualism, before it was the media's personally-protected religion. </p><span></span>

crime, fifties, film noir or melodrama, joan dixon, marguerite churchill, ricardo cortez, robert sterling, undercover

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & ROBERT STERLING IN 'BUNCO SQUAD'

Marguerite Churchill and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 Sophisticated beauty Marguerite Churchill was an ingenue i...

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & NAN GREY VAMPS 'DRACULA'S DAUGHTER'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrLnrK8VKr5L1REji9CBBJu652_B-M6P_9ZfC1VgVcuVAr4NTcqA51ePQ0Cq0QFlEOpkWeDVtehAavPYoO_O7cQalG6U5NqR_hi9mIME4SbjmhcXpAJ3IAUY0Y7racmR1JfspRXyxlxd7kbS0ejU6XcJzCt-JCC-sfcqloiD88LrhORbYdZs_aLY377PtV/s1986/3333.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="1986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrLnrK8VKr5L1REji9CBBJu652_B-M6P_9ZfC1VgVcuVAr4NTcqA51ePQ0Cq0QFlEOpkWeDVtehAavPYoO_O7cQalG6U5NqR_hi9mIME4SbjmhcXpAJ3IAUY0Y7racmR1JfspRXyxlxd7kbS0ejU6XcJzCt-JCC-sfcqloiD88LrhORbYdZs_aLY377PtV/s16000/3333.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marguerite Churchill in DRACULA'S DAUGHTER Year: 1936 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While far from a great Universal DRACULA sequel, his DAUGHTER, played by classic square-jawed beauty Gloria Holden, has terrific chemistry... but not with the man she wishes to spend eternity with...<br><br>In that, Otto Kruger is entirely miscast as a droll psychologist who helps Holden's enigmatic Countess Marya Zaleska become... well... the twist is, she's only pretending to need his help... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

dracula, edward van sloan, gloria holden, hedda hopper, horror, irving pichel, marguerite churchill, nan grey, otto kruger, sequel, universal monster

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & NAN GREY VAMPS 'DRACULA'S DAUGHTER'

Marguerite Churchill in DRACULA'S DAUGHTER Year: 1936 Rating: *** While far from a great Universal DRACULA sequel, his DAUGHTER, played ...

BORIS KARLOFF & MARGUERITE CHURCHILL IN 'THE WALKING DEAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqIZDNsBF_0iGXOSVlx8Tr7LrPpmjmFTDiDJjKd_ci6yNGlJFwmyFDm8E-Fs2kmc_cabAqd-r9mc1bCBXMCa1Avg9wXU9KfuCmfdzhmMxznRH7WNI_cqE79s_IPsqb4koO6PnSCJAUGDQ5njfbNE8VtX-HgaEk9Z3P1r-adkfjgM6J8NBsb0qtXVC9c1g/s2106/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-26%20at%2010.08.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1396" data-original-width="2106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqIZDNsBF_0iGXOSVlx8Tr7LrPpmjmFTDiDJjKd_ci6yNGlJFwmyFDm8E-Fs2kmc_cabAqd-r9mc1bCBXMCa1Avg9wXU9KfuCmfdzhmMxznRH7WNI_cqE79s_IPsqb4koO6PnSCJAUGDQ5njfbNE8VtX-HgaEk9Z3P1r-adkfjgM6J8NBsb0qtXVC9c1g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-26%20at%2010.08.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Boris Karloff and Marguerite Churchill in THE WALKING DEAD </u><u>Year: 1936 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With all the ingredients of a 1930's Warner Brothers Gangster Flick including villain-actors Barton MacClane and Ricardo Cortez, here working in backrooms to set up murders and double-crosses to keep their crime syndicate from further courtroom bulwarks, the casting of Boris Karloff not only adds an element Universal Monster from his then-recent FRANKENSTEIN legacy, but after he's brought back to life from being falsely imprisoned and executed, scientist Edmund Gwenn actually utters the line, "He's Alive!" <br><br>This while surrounded by two somewhat innocuous but perfect-looking lab assistants: insanely gorgeous ingenue Marguerite Churchill and handsome boyfriend Warren Hull, both backing Karloff's John Elman, originally a meek and not very crime-savvy musician that the mobsters set-up/wrongfully accused of killing their own targeted judge... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

barton maclane, boris karloff, edmund gwenn, gangster, henry hull, horror, joe sawyer, marguerite churchill, michael curtiz, ricardo cortez, science-fiction, thirties

BORIS KARLOFF & MARGUERITE CHURCHILL IN 'THE WALKING DEAD'

Boris Karloff and Marguerite Churchill in THE WALKING DEAD Year: 1936 Rating: **** With all the ingredients of a 1930's Warner Brothers ...

INNER SANCTUM WITH LON CHANEY JR IN 'CALLING DR. DEATH'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzeMaQmaZWiWUUxLfaAq7jvj-5pldaw1K6QBlAyJDQA0N76M-3VbgAxfl87l61YYinLGEexWQi-rsgK5AtwN-25WuoFpvNjYKfyFfBZx0cbSVAjoxONO1jzlp6ttL7QE1ACWtVfnmwgb5d6h91cchae_VM7AdaanFFPaP5WQ1dYdKzaEgeao5xsyn-XVk/s1916/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-21%20at%201.48.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCzeMaQmaZWiWUUxLfaAq7jvj-5pldaw1K6QBlAyJDQA0N76M-3VbgAxfl87l61YYinLGEexWQi-rsgK5AtwN-25WuoFpvNjYKfyFfBZx0cbSVAjoxONO1jzlp6ttL7QE1ACWtVfnmwgb5d6h91cchae_VM7AdaanFFPaP5WQ1dYdKzaEgeao5xsyn-XVk/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-21%20at%201.48.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CALLING DR. DEATH Year: 1943 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Judging by the name alone, Universal's INNER SANCTUM movies seems perfect for a kind of horror/thriller that's not much different than their tightly-wound, atmospheric monster movies... <br><br>Including THE WOLF MAN starring Lon Chaney Jr himself, a clunky big lug of an actor who's horribly miscast here as a high-class shrink whose cheating wife (with a BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN hairstyle) gets mysteriously murdered... <br></p><p><span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span><span></span></span></span></p>

film noir or melodrama, inner sanctum, j. carrol naish, lon chaney jr., patricia morrison, ramsay ames, thriller, wrong man

INNER SANCTUM WITH LON CHANEY JR IN 'CALLING DR. DEATH'

Title: CALLING DR. DEATH Year: 1943 Rating: **1/2 Judging by the name alone, Universal's INNER SANCTUM movies seems perfect for a kind o...

PETER LORRE FINISHING WITH 'MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisWaJuaRrVDLVege1ncT83zISCan2zRrJy-oj5ro95O4BN9ZheQrgEMEXEoMlTn2a1z33ZDlfzxrPcqNTeyqwdAOzE3_uYq0QVPZ4pb9jlHQomuRID7SZbc64sqdc5rT663SjmXKyzqASkj8mcRDpWNpeHRjP6oGq40kiD9USsnBk-329goTYTvXdiQbfm/s1682/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-19%20at%204.02.21%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1046" data-original-width="1682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisWaJuaRrVDLVege1ncT83zISCan2zRrJy-oj5ro95O4BN9ZheQrgEMEXEoMlTn2a1z33ZDlfzxrPcqNTeyqwdAOzE3_uYq0QVPZ4pb9jlHQomuRID7SZbc64sqdc5rT663SjmXKyzqASkj8mcRDpWNpeHRjP6oGq40kiD9USsnBk-329goTYTvXdiQbfm/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-19%20at%204.02.21%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1938 Director: Norman Foster Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Norman Foster returned to direct the last of eight MR. MOTO movies starring Peter Lorre as a Chinese agent, who usually pretends to be a humble kind of cliche Asian servant type... <br><br>That's until showing his true colors as a resilient fighting machine.... initially a human target from various assassins after finding a prized treasure that he brings back to a San Fransisco museum...</p>

franchise, mr moto, norman foster, peter lorre, treasure, virginia field

PETER LORRE FINISHING WITH 'MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION'

Year: 1938 Director: Norman Foster Rating: *** Director Norman Foster returned to direct the last of eight MR. MOTO movies starring Peter Lo...

PETER LORRE & AMANDA DUFF IN 'MR. MOTO IN DANGER ISLAND'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVAbVxFdHzd-HzBXtfZqzZFavnNnXPfMwq27LfnxRBiRRwlXVOPpVkDo1258Ka6fwepIuw8nYrLUVQUJ_e1KyjpgMDJPCPDvysEKXRSwNVswttX0shP5igewzTDD50T0d9_2mDmh4xsQCh0s_1cLqnHdz8bJWALcHbEgr_LkqaehQEHtx30rXvBmB9cukL/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-19%20at%202.14.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1354" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVAbVxFdHzd-HzBXtfZqzZFavnNnXPfMwq27LfnxRBiRRwlXVOPpVkDo1258Ka6fwepIuw8nYrLUVQUJ_e1KyjpgMDJPCPDvysEKXRSwNVswttX0shP5igewzTDD50T0d9_2mDmh4xsQCh0s_1cLqnHdz8bJWALcHbEgr_LkqaehQEHtx30rXvBmB9cukL/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-19%20at%202.14.19%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1939 Rating: *1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The only two MR. MOTO programmers not directed by Norman Foster were meant to be part of the similar CHARLIE CHAN franchise: but DANGER ISLAND isn't as good as the MR. MOTO'S GAMBLE (where Ward Bond plays a defeated boxer while here he's a defeated wrestler), and there's no real decent use of the titular location, which is neither dangerous or interesting... <br><br>Seeming like what they are, studio backlots, and with Peter Lorre's Chinese Agent paired with a punchy fighter, there's none of the usual espionage or suspense, and all the remaining side-characters... including cute ingenue Amanda Duff who's father's a wrongfully accused military officer... seem part of different vehicles, not of them going anywhere, slowly. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

amanda duff, franchise, peter lorre, thirties, ward bond, warren hymer

PETER LORRE & AMANDA DUFF IN 'MR. MOTO IN DANGER ISLAND'

Year: 1939 Rating: *1/2 The only two MR. MOTO programmers not directed by Norman Foster were meant to be part of the similar CHARLIE CHAN fr...

PETER LORRE & VIRGINIA FIELD IN 'MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xpJw7-HNfqc_jpowHDjTTgHJ4tloyyPtdiRa0MofNeX2s50c3iqj8H3fVkSROC5SUAEcqWS9snlow3G8im3D_QI5JS7HjU8kG9OSRCe6L0sfrQDVzoUBHnXXYdHWSMR1HqQ8IY1P7mSo2YPpnR094_hIe6uGCW2nQZDkNeRZV8Ue0WPtDAG3tlmkq-M8/s1660/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-18%20at%2011.11.16%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xpJw7-HNfqc_jpowHDjTTgHJ4tloyyPtdiRa0MofNeX2s50c3iqj8H3fVkSROC5SUAEcqWS9snlow3G8im3D_QI5JS7HjU8kG9OSRCe6L0sfrQDVzoUBHnXXYdHWSMR1HqQ8IY1P7mSo2YPpnR094_hIe6uGCW2nQZDkNeRZV8Ue0WPtDAG3tlmkq-M8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-18%20at%2011.11.16%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia Field in MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING Year: 1938 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The best MR. MOTO film because LAST WARNING has the most intriguing villains and the coolest, darkest, murkiest locations: as the original MALTESE FALCON actor Sam Spade actor Ricardo Cortez covers as a ventriloquist, doing his dummy routine in a crowded Egyptian theater that includes dogs jumping through hoops, and a juggling clown...<br><br>Who turns out to be Peter Lorre's titular character in one of several disguises (while doing the kind of deliberately cliche Chinese servant imitation to trick the haughty whites): once backstage, he quickly figures out the other antagonist agents, including future British legend George Sanders with a twisty little mustache, and the most effective semi-moll in any MOTO vehicle...</p><p><span></span></p>

espionage, franchise, george sanders, joan carroll, john carradine, mr moto, norman foster, peter lorre, ricardo cortez, robert coote, thirties, virginia field

PETER LORRE & VIRGINIA FIELD IN 'MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING'

Virginia Field in MR. MOTO'S LAST WARNING Year: 1938 Rating: **** The best MR. MOTO film because LAST WARNING has the most intriguing vi...

PETER LORRE ESCAPES NORMAN FOSTER'S 'MYSTERIOUS MR. MOTO'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvZ50Q2fDyPm59-bI7XiDZg5xH9013HWxrRA1DekWmABJ53U3DifkRBAX6HkNfE7tnbgvwjaCr1m2vt5ifhdK9OPuc6lAg5oH5BTLjTf7taaLbpp6NrG6vMS0hDFm690TQbqGZAcTqXsF1KeitpdjTj45H2hqMk7nM8HYBTPh_7ZgnoB2HIAMGaGr3j-6/s1698/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-14%20at%2011.56.53%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvZ50Q2fDyPm59-bI7XiDZg5xH9013HWxrRA1DekWmABJ53U3DifkRBAX6HkNfE7tnbgvwjaCr1m2vt5ifhdK9OPuc6lAg5oH5BTLjTf7taaLbpp6NrG6vMS0hDFm690TQbqGZAcTqXsF1KeitpdjTj45H2hqMk7nM8HYBTPh_7ZgnoB2HIAMGaGr3j-6/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-14%20at%2011.56.53%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MYSTERIOUS MR MOTO Year: 1938 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After Norman Foster's lackluster Asian-set MR MOTO TAKES A CHANCE, the b-director springs forward with more action, right off the bat... as Moto and a French prisoner are escaping from Devil's Island...<br><br>Sadly, all this happens too fast, during and right after the opening credits... had MYSTERIOUS MR MOTO spent some time on the island before the escape, fleshing-out this fellow convict he'd later follow around to nab all his mobster cronies, it wouldn't feel like walking into a picture ten minutes late...</p><p><span></span></p>

england, espionage, franchise, harold huber, henry wilcoxon, leon ames, lotus long, mary maguire, mr moto, norman foster, peter lorre, thirties

PETER LORRE ESCAPES NORMAN FOSTER'S 'MYSTERIOUS MR. MOTO'

Title: MYSTERIOUS MR MOTO Year: 1938 Rating: *** After Norman Foster's lackluster Asian-set MR MOTO TAKES A CHANCE, the b-director sprin...

PETER LORRE & ROCHELLE HUDSON IN 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilrLSuVJ5oed-dg6ms4BeoymgjTLCMwBu6f-0IAiYXs2yO0WVD_YTlxMx1sqQtc_qo8yQihO9p-60TJL6sv4w0_-s9Jf0ZyxppPgr7a7HWSGHOM7m2OpcfgYpynMWYs2gc4lEdfSZKrcDYJWa8wuDdjQBQHoYee09fzUMDYTAl0xtioT-iRtfYSDPEMIVm/s1688/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-12%20at%203.29.34%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1688" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilrLSuVJ5oed-dg6ms4BeoymgjTLCMwBu6f-0IAiYXs2yO0WVD_YTlxMx1sqQtc_qo8yQihO9p-60TJL6sv4w0_-s9Jf0ZyxppPgr7a7HWSGHOM7m2OpcfgYpynMWYs2gc4lEdfSZKrcDYJWa8wuDdjQBQHoYee09fzUMDYTAl0xtioT-iRtfYSDPEMIVm/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-12%20at%203.29.34%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Lorre and Rochelle Hudson in ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN is "Women shuddering at his cruel caress" despite the fact only one woman, the wife of evil slave-master Peter Lorre, is on the titular island: and within their balmy plantation villa interior, he hardly touches or even speaks to her at all...<br><br>As classic beauty Rochelle Hudson quickly and understandably falls for handsome, dark-haired buried-lead Robert Wilcox, whose initial wrong-man story-line fits more into a deliberately-complicated film-noir beyond what's often mistaken as a horror flick (the plot heavily infused into Lawrence Tierney's jungle-traipsing <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/KOBK.html">KILL OR BE KILLED</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

forties, george e. stone, kenneth macdonald, peter lorre, prison, robert wilcox, rochelle hudson, thriller

PETER LORRE & ROCHELLE HUDSON IN 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN'

Peter Lorre and Rochelle Hudson in ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN Year: 1940 Rating: ***1/2 The pulpy tagline to the 1940 thriller ISLAND OF DOOMED ME...

PETER LORRE & ROCHELLE HUDSON IN 'MR. MOTO TAKES A CHANCE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAyMa2vs8sKypIuoVkYoV3XkkSHhliSZ5srj_0BMPWXR_9o-cLfZnJOFD6VrQbBDz-RGErB9zvduClIEdW-Ak2jbp0AtjBtoxjjPn1kh_0UW2PzCu_Y5v72ZAq3yqr9op_VWUFO22JvMdFA-u1GXtsg-XYsa5JPd4fzVEIvezITOGWHRtFUCSPyKheoGz/s1794/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="1794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAyMa2vs8sKypIuoVkYoV3XkkSHhliSZ5srj_0BMPWXR_9o-cLfZnJOFD6VrQbBDz-RGErB9zvduClIEdW-Ak2jbp0AtjBtoxjjPn1kh_0UW2PzCu_Y5v72ZAq3yqr9op_VWUFO22JvMdFA-u1GXtsg-XYsa5JPd4fzVEIvezITOGWHRtFUCSPyKheoGz/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rochelle Hudson in MR. MOTO TAKES A CHANCE Year: 1938 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A hybrid of Bette Davis and Fay Wray, gorgeous little b-starlet <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/11/isledoomed.html">Rochelle Hudson</a>, who crash-lands her cross-country plane into the jungle location near Siam, is the best thing going in the fourth overall MR. MOTO film, TAKES A CHANCE, which is the third directed by Norman Foster...<br><br>Back in an enigmatic locale after MR. MOTO'S GAMBLE takes on American boxing, Peter Lorre's titular character returns to disguise (as an ancient monk), secretly helping two token white guys... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, franchise, jungle, mr moto, norman foster, peter lorre, rochelle hudson, thirties

PETER LORRE & ROCHELLE HUDSON IN 'MR. MOTO TAKES A CHANCE'

Rochelle Hudson in MR. MOTO TAKES A CHANCE Year: 1938 Rating: **1/2 A hybrid of Bette Davis and Fay Wray, gorgeous little b-starlet Rochelle...

PETER LORRE IN NORMAN FOSTER'S FIRST TWO 'MR. MOTO' FILMS

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDYdZpyFR5-bc-p9L913fxBpqoM93pSIlJai_-Gu3B2riLbgibEfL7cE6wGd11hG6fTKEgVy4yneCu0-1jbCAnhfi2Uz77HbmkMjI6eSY9qpDBXiNsR9kqIcQ9TAK6ArdAOUoeATKNPDleBCPXS8vmdAP03UNmkvLQ4mTNaRNezNEcpp-b-4pofJFd60W/s1630/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-10%20at%201.17.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDYdZpyFR5-bc-p9L913fxBpqoM93pSIlJai_-Gu3B2riLbgibEfL7cE6wGd11hG6fTKEgVy4yneCu0-1jbCAnhfi2Uz77HbmkMjI6eSY9qpDBXiNsR9kqIcQ9TAK6ArdAOUoeATKNPDleBCPXS8vmdAP03UNmkvLQ4mTNaRNezNEcpp-b-4pofJFd60W/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-10%20at%201.17.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1937 cast: Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p><u>THINK FAST, MR. MOTO</u>: Peter Lorre is Mr. Moto, a Japanese secret agent who's both underrated and unappreciated... But he'll surprise you with a karate kick sending non-believers flying across the room.<br> <br> Here we begin with Moto in street peddler disguise, including a pointy beard and ragged clothing. He clumsily meanders into a store to sell a rug, and then a diamond, to an impatient proprietor who’s got a dead body semi-hidden in a wicker basket. This brings Moto on board a big ship where an important letter to a rich man’s son, Bob, has been stolen and replaced.<br> </p>

action, adventure, franchise, jayne regan, lotus long, mr moto, norman foster, peter lorre, sequel, sidney blackmer, spy, suspense, thirties, thriller, virginia field

PETER LORRE IN NORMAN FOSTER'S FIRST TWO 'MR. MOTO' FILMS

year: 1937 cast: Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck rating: ***1/2 THINK FAST, MR. MOTO : Peter Lorre is Mr. Moto, a Japanese secret a...

PETER LORRE IN 'MR. MOTTO'S GAMBLE' WITH DOUGLAS FOWLEY

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjef5umb5u2DRFwFj2Tgcgz-jYvAhWo3XaZsIMrmKltwsIGMW17vq2fPhnA5cJeIaTiEhXbWkORiJ8Wo1YbytJrTeu5kKYSNGZHEGKA5aVl1ipzacFE7IYW2Oq5JsBzfTCvXbwGNSQFdKErTEr_hgaxnMNFTy9eHI6tL1yuNWxvfkO-xIg5Y0TlBXe0Ixgf/s1898/0%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="1898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjef5umb5u2DRFwFj2Tgcgz-jYvAhWo3XaZsIMrmKltwsIGMW17vq2fPhnA5cJeIaTiEhXbWkORiJ8Wo1YbytJrTeu5kKYSNGZHEGKA5aVl1ipzacFE7IYW2Oq5JsBzfTCvXbwGNSQFdKErTEr_hgaxnMNFTy9eHI6tL1yuNWxvfkO-xIg5Y0TlBXe0Ixgf/s16000/0%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1938 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The third MR. MOTO film, which was a franchise starring Peter Lorre as a Chinese secret agent/crime-fighter, wasn't directed by Norman Foster, and had a noirish potboiler plot that was supposed to be inserted into a Charlie Chan picture, involving the always crooked and mysterious boxing syndicate...<br><br>Motto sporadically investigates a heavyweight contender's enigmatic death while teaching a class on crime, the case involves various thuggy gangsters straight from the previous decade including Douglas Fowley and George S. Stone, MR. MOTO'S GAMBLE is one of the more conventional MOTO programmers: despite the titular character seeming more like a special guest star throughout.  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

classic gangster, crime, douglas fowley, franchise, george e. stone, jayne regan, lynn bari, mr moto, peter lorre, thirties, ward bond

PETER LORRE IN 'MR. MOTTO'S GAMBLE' WITH DOUGLAS FOWLEY

Year: 1938 Rating: ***1/2 The third MR. MOTO film, which was a franchise starring Peter Lorre as a Chinese secret agent/crime-fighter, wasn...

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN SURVIVE 'THE THIRD MAN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6oCNiwVUAf2-1HtIaI1ebf2ckaOjHaWyP8XeW26P9n2pfT7QMoO8QYxiHeyOXQSea2H4tEkRneaZPBEuFiAKKfWh53RkElWHKZNxxtNtDbtaxLP5OOMtGcWwhrbc00EQpKidd19NIXPHJmjg7or83upEnlgt6RzpdzualfWAPimaV5WSkrkX_ZrYdVaR1/s2094/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%201.57.39%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2094" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6oCNiwVUAf2-1HtIaI1ebf2ckaOjHaWyP8XeW26P9n2pfT7QMoO8QYxiHeyOXQSea2H4tEkRneaZPBEuFiAKKfWh53RkElWHKZNxxtNtDbtaxLP5OOMtGcWwhrbc00EQpKidd19NIXPHJmjg7or83upEnlgt6RzpdzualfWAPimaV5WSkrkX_ZrYdVaR1/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%201.57.39%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jospeh Cotten and Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN Year: 1949 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's not really that big a deal that Orson Welles turns up over fifty-minutes into THE THIRD MAN, being that audiences awaited KING KONG for about the same period of time...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The term best describing Welles's Harry Lime is <i>anticipated antagonist,</i> and yet all his criminal activity is refuted by best friend Joseph Cotten as <i>cheap novelette</i> Western writer Holly Martins, and especially heartbroken stage-actress-girlfriend Alida Valli, who Cotten attempts subtly romancing... but can't compete with the ghost...</p><p><span></span></p>

alida valli, bernard lee, british film noir, carol reed, forties, joseph cotten, mystery, orson welles, thriller, trevor howard

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN SURVIVE 'THE THIRD MAN'

Jospeh Cotten and Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN Year: 1949 Rating: ***** It's not really that big a deal that Orson Welles turns up over...

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN IN 'JOURNEY INTO FEAR'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguor00zaLn8rcQF8pCjcOACGQEReXaWzBZ0a3V_jFZ9cSA8qu47pgYhL8pkxqcEX714-nQJw1MNqE8IcCpYP6qbz05xxau_EWS4eFsVKXdp15o9fBY9vTUh-fJ4tk6T7ogivvUpv7LPQ08b31Tyo_yMktiet64bAvcJLuj5rFi8KcSYPoKss0CRMgL8DCc/s1882/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%2011.00.48%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="1882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguor00zaLn8rcQF8pCjcOACGQEReXaWzBZ0a3V_jFZ9cSA8qu47pgYhL8pkxqcEX714-nQJw1MNqE8IcCpYP6qbz05xxau_EWS4eFsVKXdp15o9fBY9vTUh-fJ4tk6T7ogivvUpv7LPQ08b31Tyo_yMktiet64bAvcJLuj5rFi8KcSYPoKss0CRMgL8DCc/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-02%20at%2011.00.48%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in JOURNEY INTO FEAR Year: 1943 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An entertaining, lightweight crime yarn about a married and very passive arms dealer... who ironically has never fired a gun... stuck on a cargo ship where there lurks a clandestine Nazi out to kill him...<br> <br> Joseph Cotten stars as the hunted pawn who, having left loyal wife Ruth Warrick ashore, is reluctantly sent aboard with dancer Dolores Del Rio and meets various passengers including a Turkish tobacco dealer, a slick gambler and a German businessman. It's not hard figuring out who the main heavy is, but it doesn't matter...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

agnes moorehead, classic, delores del rio, everette sloane, film noir or melodrama, forties, hit-man, joseph cotten, mystery, nazi, norman foster, orson welles, ruth warrick, suspense

ORSON WELLES AND JOSEPH COTTEN IN 'JOURNEY INTO FEAR'

Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in JOURNEY INTO FEAR Year: 1943 Rating: **** An entertaining, lightweight crime yarn about a married and ver...

KAREN GREEN FROM 'ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN' TO 'WAGON TRAIN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdi0mkOQkOz9t6S-PY0fMd_wS0g-P5493CPiSUpSp7wNMm-HX9tX79ElhP4Pp1-ApJS3Bc4LewGxP4cOqO4x5vXrNcKy1kQzB4AJrwiwjUIFGoUyA042871yk4ErOP_PwkpZuQ6QtoImnaO-2B1vvwbZZYC1xX7ikaqBLaVEVMgYIj2spuSuizMi_HtDCH/s2102/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-01%20at%2010.53.09%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdi0mkOQkOz9t6S-PY0fMd_wS0g-P5493CPiSUpSp7wNMm-HX9tX79ElhP4Pp1-ApJS3Bc4LewGxP4cOqO4x5vXrNcKy1kQzB4AJrwiwjUIFGoUyA042871yk4ErOP_PwkpZuQ6QtoImnaO-2B1vvwbZZYC1xX7ikaqBLaVEVMgYIj2spuSuizMi_HtDCH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-01%20at%2010.53.09%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Karen Green from ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN Year: 1965 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Part zoo renovation propaganda, part children's film, ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN has a memorable yet misleading title: as that otherwise innocuous striped horse is only shown once, digging around a random suburban kitchen... <br><br>The most important wild animal belonging to DENNIS THE MENACE child actor Jay North: a mountain lion named Sunshine raised by his family in the woods... until their move to the city... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, andy devine, children, dorothy green, jay north, jim davis, joyce meadows, karen green, martin milner, sixties

KAREN GREEN FROM 'ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN' TO 'WAGON TRAIN'

Karen Green from ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN Year: 1965 Rating: *** Part zoo renovation propaganda, part children's film, ZEBRA IN THE KITCHEN ...

JOHN BROMFIELD, EVE MILLER & ROSEMARY STACK 'THE BIG BLUFF'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvSQZEWXIXQleOJPBGb0k-SgfyIHvfM0M91jaD9aaanKZ4JvaB0SLp5BQxQxc8NfpTtml-BMgAuowMbLtKC2VJEHEn2gMhZK21mnca4h9UA-sZ4fx0Qi70PtXs1PjurJ3PLagdSqJ_X3O5RdFeCcTJRrcEJhhT9Pzkp652kJYS_uf5OfNSFoeLPD3t1W2/s1612/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-24%20at%204.42.36%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvSQZEWXIXQleOJPBGb0k-SgfyIHvfM0M91jaD9aaanKZ4JvaB0SLp5BQxQxc8NfpTtml-BMgAuowMbLtKC2VJEHEn2gMhZK21mnca4h9UA-sZ4fx0Qi70PtXs1PjurJ3PLagdSqJ_X3O5RdFeCcTJRrcEJhhT9Pzkp652kJYS_uf5OfNSFoeLPD3t1W2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-24%20at%204.42.36%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield, Rosemary Stack and Max Palmer in THE BIG BLUFF Year: 1955 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the 1956 crime thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/HotCars.html">HOT CARS</a>, b-movie actor John Bromfield is perfect as a married used car salesman, who, with a sick child, is pushed into a stolen vehicle racket with no way out but his wits, and charm... <br><br>The year before, he starred in another noirish programmer, THE BIG BLUFF, only here he's given the kind of skinny mustache that makes you think of tying a girl to train tracks... making the overall performance too up-front and obvious, clashing with his usual natural under-acting style... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eve miller, fifties, film noir or melodrama, john bromfield, martha vickers, max palmer, robert hutton, rosemary stack, thriller

JOHN BROMFIELD, EVE MILLER & ROSEMARY STACK 'THE BIG BLUFF'

John Bromfield, Rosemary Stack and Max Palmer in THE BIG BLUFF Year: 1955 Rates: ***1/2 In the 1956 crime thriller HOT CARS , b-movie actor ...

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH JULIE LONDON IN 'CRIME AGAINST JOE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAdNr4YMc61lurgEKTtzUxdLNz2iWQnvzS0D3jxRNbVOx2yrz7pYONiaFLwO_C-UgH5VcmpDNnES9QbAf40LjMDiG3hkwcOqKG9oULriEJTj_llFnAFuLDsXO91XXPIAZKQI8-ETZLbuE2ihg2C-RazCv-RwbrBg2eihRYkTfVIfyIex_WYC3iXtUZeOY/s1282/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnAdNr4YMc61lurgEKTtzUxdLNz2iWQnvzS0D3jxRNbVOx2yrz7pYONiaFLwO_C-UgH5VcmpDNnES9QbAf40LjMDiG3hkwcOqKG9oULriEJTj_llFnAFuLDsXO91XXPIAZKQI8-ETZLbuE2ihg2C-RazCv-RwbrBg2eihRYkTfVIfyIex_WYC3iXtUZeOY/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield and Julie London in CRIME AGAINST JOE Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1956, handsome, muscular, square-jawed yet still somehow affable/relatable-everyman actor John Bromfield starred in three features by low-budget studio Bel Air Productions...<br><br>In their best remembered and best in quality, HOT CARS, he's a beguiled used car salesman reluctantly working for criminals; in THREE BAD SISTERS an idealistic pilot trying to save the only good sibling; and in CRIME AGAINST JOE the titular wrong-man character... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

bel air productions, film noir or melodrama, henry calvin, john bromfield, julie london, morgan jones, patricia blair, rhodes reason, thriller, wrong man

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH JULIE LONDON IN 'CRIME AGAINST JOE'

John Bromfield and Julie London in CRIME AGAINST JOE Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 In 1956, handsome, muscular, square-jawed yet still somehow a...

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH JOI LANSING & MARK DANA IN 'HOT CARS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_LsWqSvlHZ3mMNy_It7VRbV9mQiVfqp_TOch3lBGykJgeTLeDTHiPECB0Oi7NQMm6sFGlyCnoWHmmNnf8lIThihaP5DLPkNDnslZ5PiNrJ9TrffbgnlJwT0cgXvkTYk4ArmzQnOPbxUKeG16p2tVjiCWNqhvRo019yNikmaJ6pb0xcFk5EBiQCGQ1GBi/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-23%20at%203.55.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_LsWqSvlHZ3mMNy_It7VRbV9mQiVfqp_TOch3lBGykJgeTLeDTHiPECB0Oi7NQMm6sFGlyCnoWHmmNnf8lIThihaP5DLPkNDnslZ5PiNrJ9TrffbgnlJwT0cgXvkTYk4ArmzQnOPbxUKeG16p2tVjiCWNqhvRo019yNikmaJ6pb0xcFk5EBiQCGQ1GBi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-23%20at%203.55.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi Lansing, John Bromfield, Carol Shanno & Mark Dana in HOT CARS Year: 1956 Rates: ****</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Despite not making any Film Noir lists, HOT CARS is the epitome of the seedy side of crime cinema led by an otherwise honest guy who, in this case, is ironically a used car salesman in John Bromfield, married to the perfect suburban wife and father of a sick child: thus needing extra money, and quick...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet the best scenes occur in the first act when Bromfield's Nick can't catch a break, mainly from bullying boss Robert Osterloh, who both sophisticated desk-set villain Ralph Clanton and handsome killer henchman Mark Dano... eventually targeting token snoopy cop Dabs Greer... are initially a nice break from...</p><p><span></span></p>

bel air productions, carol shannon, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jazz-score, john bromfield, joi lansing, mark dana, paula hill, ralph clanton, robert osterloh, thriller

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH JOI LANSING & MARK DANA IN 'HOT CARS'

Joi Lansing, John Bromfield, Carol Shanno & Mark Dana in HOT CARS Year: 1956 Rates: **** * Despite not making any Film Noir lists, HOT C...

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH KATHLEEN HUGHES IN 'THREE BAD SISTERS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RQy15U1rVCwGortt3YqRaMvK1dC7DeJooVpdwURear6QCpnvZ1uzDYCvtxbGyDgb5HGOw1z6f9q3GYLtLY_GqajgHR1PGkV0hB49dd4Yn6ltfRh7gHV4tiPuZX3hynbQj8Noq2SFiEtwBRAa50fYsYSkrZkP1_6OpqHHJZ0aKBrCBgLGag4tSapaZ7RK/s1574/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-20%20at%208.18.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RQy15U1rVCwGortt3YqRaMvK1dC7DeJooVpdwURear6QCpnvZ1uzDYCvtxbGyDgb5HGOw1z6f9q3GYLtLY_GqajgHR1PGkV0hB49dd4Yn6ltfRh7gHV4tiPuZX3hynbQj8Noq2SFiEtwBRAa50fYsYSkrZkP1_6OpqHHJZ0aKBrCBgLGag4tSapaZ7RK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-20%20at%208.18.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THREE BAD SISTERS Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It seems impossible that a 1950's b-movie titled THREE BAD SISTERS wouldn't be totally fantastic, because all three actresses look... totally fantastic: and while technically it makes sense/and is realistic having them look similar, but the token femme fatale villain Kathleen Hughes and her sadistic harassment of lookalike blonde Sara Shane gets a bit confusing...</p><p></p><p>Shane has a pointier face, isn't as outright gorgeous but has the mousy-vulnerable thing down... as production studio <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/HotCars.html">Bel Air's HOT CARS star John Bromfield</a>, a small plane pilot involved in a crash that killed the three heirs' millionaire father, is instantly smitten... </p><p><span></span></p>

bel air productions, brett halsey, exploitation, fifties, film noir or melodrama, john bromfield, kathleen hughes, sara shane

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH KATHLEEN HUGHES IN 'THREE BAD SISTERS'

Title: THREE BAD SISTERS Year: 1956 Rating: *** It seems impossible that a 1950's b-movie titled THREE BAD SISTERS wouldn't be total...

BIFF ELLIOT ORIGINALLY HAMMERS PEGGIE CASTLE 'I, THE JURY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIL7HRkA-TrCJVtXN8yRbT7OoPTWKh_rZT_Z6ha-Ug7ZLcmhQ1Ozm2w3iRXx9TLeicSWFYrJz_Ajnbd8fJxegknLKKueawMiA_WHVQzQoQYcyxkcwQUTD5DQkfX8ULUpgogjq6k6vLhJWZSvoJ355mVi9XtE5gwEKaAl5l5Hqcr_poRBetWcDDxb3saOe/s1716/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-19%20at%203.35.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1716" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIL7HRkA-TrCJVtXN8yRbT7OoPTWKh_rZT_Z6ha-Ug7ZLcmhQ1Ozm2w3iRXx9TLeicSWFYrJz_Ajnbd8fJxegknLKKueawMiA_WHVQzQoQYcyxkcwQUTD5DQkfX8ULUpgogjq6k6vLhJWZSvoJ355mVi9XtE5gwEKaAl5l5Hqcr_poRBetWcDDxb3saOe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-19%20at%203.35.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peggie Castle and Biff Elliot in I, THE JURY Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The first Mike Hammer film was in 3D, and so the first Mike Hammer actor, Biff Elliot, had to practically burst through the screen... in every single scene, in fact, traipsing from location to location in the usual gumshoe fashion, questioning suspects from wealthy bookies to random hoods to a pair of gorgeous sisters to an eventual twist-ending gun-moll who needed more screen-time for that inevitable (and somewhat predictable) transition to matter...<br><br>Said to be inspired by the pretty psychologist fatale in NIGHTMARE ALLEY, future 99 RIVER STREET bad-girl blonde starlet Peggie Castle still visually shines next to Elliot's scrappy, duck-tailed Hammer whenever he doubles-back to her lavish home... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

3D, action, biff elliot, elijah cook jr., fifties, film noir or melodrama, gumshoe, mary anderson, mickey spillane, mike hammer, peggie castle, preston foster

BIFF ELLIOT ORIGINALLY HAMMERS PEGGIE CASTLE 'I, THE JURY'

Peggie Castle and Biff Elliot in I, THE JURY Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 The first Mike Hammer film was in 3D, and so the first Mike Hammer ac...