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Written by James M. Tate / 6/22/2026 / No comments / 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'

<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;">Year: 1950 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>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... 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...

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...

WILLIAM HOLDEN AND SUSAN OLSEN RETURN FOR 'UNION STATION'

<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/AVvXsEgAHyVOoxw-UNHcmXVZzqI7cZR_rl71egXcgdQu5CqImLPDgxGPVg_Dx0LSC_qEqVul9m7OTyxJDMuNSxdnekNo34Cnh4nGmGvR_AZKHwYnhDhEW9g_ONISfQm9MlXp9xhMcFSIaTNrGcX8VgXFMx1KJcXLbwMwDfw2lakrvxYdUU3CDPHS6amiT9MvR6w-/s1936/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-19%20at%201.11.41%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="1936" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHyVOoxw-UNHcmXVZzqI7cZR_rl71egXcgdQu5CqImLPDgxGPVg_Dx0LSC_qEqVul9m7OTyxJDMuNSxdnekNo34Cnh4nGmGvR_AZKHwYnhDhEW9g_ONISfQm9MlXp9xhMcFSIaTNrGcX8VgXFMx1KJcXLbwMwDfw2lakrvxYdUU3CDPHS6amiT9MvR6w-/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-19%20at%201.11.41%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan Olsen and William Holden in UNION STATION Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Cinematographer of THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI turned DOA director Rudolph Maté's UNION STATION begins with a kind of Alfred Hitchcock premise of an innocent young lady who witnesses something wrong about a train passenger headed to the titular UNION STATION, that becomes central to not only a kidnapping thriller-plot, but provides the procedural location instead of a crowded police headquarters like most film noirs of this semi-hardboiled fashion... Reunited with SUNSET BOULEVARD good girl Susan Olsen has STATION detective William Holden playing it safely gruff while bordering on kindhearted, so a potential romance can lurk underneath...

action, allene roberts, barry fitzgerald, cop, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jan sterling, rudolph maté', susan olsen, thriller, train, william holden

WILLIAM HOLDEN AND SUSAN OLSEN RETURN FOR 'UNION STATION'

Susan Olsen and William Holden in UNION STATION Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 Cinematographer of THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI turned DOA director Rudo...

HUMPHREY BOGART AND ROD STEIGER IN 'THE HARDER THEY FALL'

<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/AVvXsEgqlJgbzXIQuGEIvIbtWWbx3v2_yOGzeBYuOXySAX4bSHge4wjY8Nat5ILFGCWydR4srtQF89B1ijuLzFBjNwh31YWcOMxcqUnUu5oROi_VK4pbIrpRPiGCqv4PS7gitDNfO6BqcQC43AzCVP2v2WJqSrti1vCb2l2KRR-T9uXZnBpDcgtricd9wmXqKF7t/s971/first.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="971" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqlJgbzXIQuGEIvIbtWWbx3v2_yOGzeBYuOXySAX4bSHge4wjY8Nat5ILFGCWydR4srtQF89B1ijuLzFBjNwh31YWcOMxcqUnUu5oROi_VK4pbIrpRPiGCqv4PS7gitDNfO6BqcQC43AzCVP2v2WJqSrti1vCb2l2KRR-T9uXZnBpDcgtricd9wmXqKF7t/s16000/first.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>The legendary Humphrey Bogart's last movie, during the mid-1950's when the big message could become more important than the characters, which is the opposite of ON THE WATERFRONT that Mark Robson's extremely bias boxing scandal-expose THE HARDER THEY FALL attempts the suspenseful, brawny big city edginess of... armed gangsters ruling over muscular everymen... but in a passive, mainstream fashion...A shame since the boxing sequences — where has-been sports-writer Bogart and his seedy promoter boss Rod Steiger have ringside seats — are filmed with brutal realism... both men making sure the opponents of their mediocre giant upstart take the same kind of fall that could have made Marlon Brando a contender....

boxing, expose, felice orlandi, fifties, humphrey bogart, jan sterling, marian carr, mark robson, melodrama, nehemiah persoff, rod steiger, sport

HUMPHREY BOGART AND ROD STEIGER IN 'THE HARDER THEY FALL'

Title: ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: **** The legendary Humphrey Bogart's last movie, during the mid-1950's when the big message could bec...

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