ALAD LADD, SUSAN GORDON & CAROLYN JONES 'THE MAN IN THE NET'

<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/AVvXsEi7p2Yri8YomHVFZhSkmBwXSQ5dzilM9txxqaAQyvpYXSUGhE7iWY9LEQj3zGdbXAdqQP9p-jMovPteoywkGCiyCPRobK0TDflH0UOyi7Kvz5IgXeFSQps66T6SuZM6hwHFEof0PBwMflSLYNhOlbeJ2T_G5essAsR1KKI6YRIAFJ6i9a1TJDapESl3qKKo/s1190/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-06%20at%2012.03.27%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="1190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7p2Yri8YomHVFZhSkmBwXSQ5dzilM9txxqaAQyvpYXSUGhE7iWY9LEQj3zGdbXAdqQP9p-jMovPteoywkGCiyCPRobK0TDflH0UOyi7Kvz5IgXeFSQps66T6SuZM6hwHFEof0PBwMflSLYNhOlbeJ2T_G5essAsR1KKI6YRIAFJ6i9a1TJDapESl3qKKo/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-08-06%20at%2012.03.27%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Charles McGraw, Edward Binns & Alan Ladd pictured from THE MAN IN THE NET Year: 1959 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By 1959, Film Noir had ended, but not officially since it was never an official genre or a categorized style of films... at least not yet... that is, the French had yet to coin the Dark Film into the term that would grow throughout the years... but the template that makes these kind of dark crime melodramas still remained, and in Michael Curtiz's A MAN IN A NET, two of the most specific and popular tropes are well at hand...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>First off, the Wrong Man aspect as an aged, sluggish, loser artist Alan Ladd (looking as if he had a facelift to resemble a miniature Robert Mitchum) as the only logical culprit to have killed his boozing/cheating, no-good wife... and the second aspect's just been mentioned, and in that, Carolyn Jones, on the verge of THE ADDAMS FAMILY and having been in a handful of noirs ranging from THE BIG HEAT to SHIELD FOR MURDER, is the best thing going...</p><p><span></span></p>

alan ladd, carolyn jones, charles mcgraw, diane brewster, edward binns, fifties, michael mcgreevy, mystery, neo noir, susan gordon, wrong man

ALAD LADD, SUSAN GORDON & CAROLYN JONES 'THE MAN IN THE NET'

Charles McGraw, Edward Binns & Alan Ladd pictured from THE MAN IN THE NET Year: 1959 Rating: ** By 1959, Film Noir had ended, but not of...

STEVE COCHRAN AND LEO GORDON IN 'QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS'

<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/a/AVvXsEhuO-05-tqXLorPJpYdZKFU6ZR6vOXehzPhGuTiAAbIZo9rqkPSbOWkVi3-k6ywrVaZu8ynx4-F_w5ASsfWcXJt8hvxfhcj4Kd_rcFbtIQq7Y-paMeClTddx0ruXG76fjIouf9HicBrhsMmtnS554Y-Jn_AtSssY8SK7Fzu-W6GMY3H4fujzmii_ca5DA=s843" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="843" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuO-05-tqXLorPJpYdZKFU6ZR6vOXehzPhGuTiAAbIZo9rqkPSbOWkVi3-k6ywrVaZu8ynx4-F_w5ASsfWcXJt8hvxfhcj4Kd_rcFbtIQq7Y-paMeClTddx0ruXG76fjIouf9HicBrhsMmtnS554Y-Jn_AtSssY8SK7Fzu-W6GMY3H4fujzmii_ca5DA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Underrated <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/12/WhiteHeat.html">WHITE HEAT</a> actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/steve%20cochran">Steve Cochran</a> plays a smooth gent sent to trick a small town of Northerners, unaware they're soon to be attacked by the titular gang of redneck roughnecks: mercenary thugs (albeit celebrated in a handful of films and literature) that were useful cutthroats for the Rebels against the Yankees... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><p> Peacetime scoundrels can make reliable warriors, and at the helm here is tough guy character actor <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/12/block11.html">Leo Gordon</a>...  But with such a square-jawed, muscular mug and formidable disposition equaling some of the great all-time celluloid heavies, he doesn't get enough scenes for his vicious persona to be exploited like it should be...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, civil war, diane brewster, fifties, gale robbins, kim charney, leo gordon, steve cochran, warner archives, western

STEVE COCHRAN AND LEO GORDON IN 'QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS'

Title: QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Underrated WHITE HEAT actor Steve Cochran plays a smooth gent sent to trick a sma...

MARK DANA AND ZIVA RODANN STARRING IN 'PHARAOH'S CURSE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFqFXKpWo9TLY08l-Zce_mWC4DzGJ8B2WEM0yOJSOydUa4cGZFRdFCXAN7S3sokskriFRnkVrDjonnyTcVGLxhqxGKlaCKR_AYiOhzHvxdV1oWDy6HOVYTCDvRjx-vIDkfMkPKz7ZVhpWf/s812/Screen+Shot+2021-04-21+at+12.04.16+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="812" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFqFXKpWo9TLY08l-Zce_mWC4DzGJ8B2WEM0yOJSOydUa4cGZFRdFCXAN7S3sokskriFRnkVrDjonnyTcVGLxhqxGKlaCKR_AYiOhzHvxdV1oWDy6HOVYTCDvRjx-vIDkfMkPKz7ZVhpWf/w400-h266/Screen+Shot+2021-04-21+at+12.04.16+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ziva Rodann in Pharaoh's Curse Year: 1957 Rates: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Infamously shot in six days, mostly in Death Valley, the Bel Air Production PHARAOH'S CURSE stars their next years' <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/Hot-Cars.html">HOT CARS</a> villain Mark Dana... </p><p>Here in the square-jawed lead, awkwardly juggling a British and American accent while subtly romancing a greedy archeologist's wife, Diane Brewster, during the initial twenty-minute trek through the desert where gorgeous Israeli bombshell Ziva Rodann appears with the usual "turn back or die" warning...</p><p></p><p>But none heed her call, as the journey winds up at a pharaoh's tomb, which is actually a pretty neat-looking set full of secret doors and shadowy corridors, but the body count deaths from a <i>cursed</i> local, morphed into an ancient unbandaged mummy, sucking the blood of horses and humans, trudges along as clumsily as the monster... A shame since the rudimentary aura is spooky enough, making this CURSE a let-down of ungodly proportions... but the ladies are great to look at. It's a b-movie after all. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, bel air productions, body count, cult, diane brewster, exploitation, fifties, horror, mark dana, thriller, ziva rodann

MARK DANA AND ZIVA RODANN STARRING IN 'PHARAOH'S CURSE'

Ziva Rodann in Pharaoh's Curse Year: 1957 Rates: **1/2 Infamously shot in six days, mostly in Death Valley, the Bel Air Production PHARA...