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Written by James M. Tate / 12/04/2025 / No comments / dan duryea , dewey robinson , fifties , gambling , helena carter , jack lambert , john mcintire , lloyd gough , rod cameron , western , yvonne de carlo

HELENA CARTER, YVONNE DE CARLO & DAN DURYEA IN 'RIVER LADY'

<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/AVvXsEiEoExOXLtTvQva-k3ovGIBhAT0uJXmot1UGtLANQv9veSuFOj9mi2giJcv4Y9ZT2O-IYzJsX1vXRJ23m-wmLNR1f5AOXDhGeO_EI5LvjQKLIJAW6eCiazQDQ8Amqo9OOucJRaY_omTttCvOpblsgynA-pUU3JZ5_jdrDnrQWHyXl0fOb900iQ3B-4CzetF/s1738/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoExOXLtTvQva-k3ovGIBhAT0uJXmot1UGtLANQv9veSuFOj9mi2giJcv4Y9ZT2O-IYzJsX1vXRJ23m-wmLNR1f5AOXDhGeO_EI5LvjQKLIJAW6eCiazQDQ8Amqo9OOucJRaY_omTttCvOpblsgynA-pUU3JZ5_jdrDnrQWHyXl0fOb900iQ3B-4CzetF/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea in RIVER LADY 1948 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>In the James Cagney film noir KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, full-lipped, 
flirtatious beauty Helena Carter was who Cagney was interested in even 
though he had a woman at home... while the opposite occurs here as her 
rich girl character's smitten with (and is quickly married to) gentle giant 
workingman Rod Cameron, despite his attraction to first-billed beauty 
Yvonne De Carlo... Who owns the titular RIVER LADY river boat, personally
managed by her scoundrel gambler cohort Dan Duryea... after giving Rod Cameron full
 control of a fledgling lumber mill: the main story that should
 have been secondary given Duryea's usual penchant for villains, needing far more screen-time throughout an otherwise semi-effective Technicolor Western/Romance/Melodrama.

dan duryea, dewey robinson, fifties, gambling, helena carter, jack lambert, john mcintire, lloyd gough, rod cameron, western, yvonne de carlo

HELENA CARTER, YVONNE DE CARLO & DAN DURYEA IN 'RIVER LADY'

Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea in RIVER LADY 1948 Rating: ***1/2 In the James Cagney film noir KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, full-lipped, flirtati...

KATHRYN GRANT & RICHARD KILEY GAMBLE 'THE PHENIX CITY STORY'

<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/AVvXsEjlCwPOMBqtWnJhwUNPet-hYLMWYaqauez3P0WJUN9SK9ewYB0KI4w3tZtj6X3N8kCNblTAh0G75x4DWBKWa2F472Qr_ugZDIDLNw7KFtE48hafUhxQrckJfi38jzkzrW4uDVSFKf2pGfhtILC7uE2PqhgLqG9IlUbDU0AN5LLKOhoNbhU8LZVNogtHemup/s902/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCwPOMBqtWnJhwUNPet-hYLMWYaqauez3P0WJUN9SK9ewYB0KI4w3tZtj6X3N8kCNblTAh0G75x4DWBKWa2F472Qr_ugZDIDLNw7KFtE48hafUhxQrckJfi38jzkzrW4uDVSFKf2pGfhtILC7uE2PqhgLqG9IlUbDU0AN5LLKOhoNbhU8LZVNogtHemup/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE PHENIX CITY STORY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Since the entire first act of the film noir docudrama THE PHENIX CITY STORY consists of interviews with actual citizens recalling when one seedy downtown street of vice and gambling ruled the otherwise peaceful and rural titular Alabama town, when the second act rolls in, we get right to dirty business... With actors now, beginning with good girl Kathyrn Grant dealing the central casino's marked cards to losing-streak boyfriend Biff McGuire... at which point everything's literally on the table since the joint's not only wholly dishonest, but bare-knuckle dangerous...

biff mcguire, docudrama, edward andrews, expose, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gambling, jean carson, john larch, john mcintire, kathryn grant, meg myles, mobster, phil karlson, richard kiley

KATHRYN GRANT & RICHARD KILEY GAMBLE 'THE PHENIX CITY STORY'

Title: THE PHENIX CITY STORY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 Since the entire first act of the film noir docudrama THE PHENIX CITY STORY consists ...

LAWRENCE TIERNEY VILLAINIZES 'NAKED CITY: ONE TO GET LOST'

<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/AVvXsEjChIATj1cBKqk0FKdmJBg1XyqhC03M-mEhmUEeGOufq-bc_IxYD9X7qEyeU_jVQD5wgjBFBFXx_1DNmnbudliKXmC2QXNMurmMSODoRYSTFlGe9wj2Xa2DSrPh2L6t7Foq5UCj1T9V9XDn0HRKi_5VGuX8XRg3FIh9kMtqDG0_owNu-go3NU1OdO1BRMVy/s2058/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-29%20at%205.05.08%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="2058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChIATj1cBKqk0FKdmJBg1XyqhC03M-mEhmUEeGOufq-bc_IxYD9X7qEyeU_jVQD5wgjBFBFXx_1DNmnbudliKXmC2QXNMurmMSODoRYSTFlGe9wj2Xa2DSrPh2L6t7Foq5UCj1T9V9XDn0HRKi_5VGuX8XRg3FIh9kMtqDG0_owNu-go3NU1OdO1BRMVy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-29%20at%205.05.08%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lawrence Tierney in Naked City: One To Get Lost Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>By the late 1950's, Lawrence Tierney, who was an RKO leading man ten years earlier, turned up mostly on television... and it was in-between his infamous drunken brawls that had ruined his career and, ironically, made those villainous small-screen guest spots a reality...But he's always good, like this episode of NAKED CITY titled ONE TO GET LOST in which mild-mannered businessman (and another former RKO contract actor) Kent Smith has cheated on his wife with a loose lover who turns up dead and, hours before, said admitted to be dating an elevator operator...

fifties, film noir or melodrama, harry bellaver, james francsiscus, jeanette nolan, john mcintire, kent smith, lawrence tierney, TV

LAWRENCE TIERNEY VILLAINIZES 'NAKED CITY: ONE TO GET LOST'

Lawrence Tierney in Naked City: One To Get Lost Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 By the late 1950's, Lawrence Tierney, who was an RKO leading m...

LEX BARKER, MALA POWERS & LEO GORDON 'THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN'

<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/AVvXsEi8kag3IvxoGjSCD6PWefbfb766MyLBaZ7fEhSmQAPGwEMFmSBxGYZJ5it9GxujVl92gyBmk_w9T-VF-wt_Z-5L3Rab5noRadFyqFYmMGxbdq3JHZgHBv7BIdbWd6g_i-us2kPoaGNkTfj5HWC8169R3HP8dKdxH4j7yZOFjueunAtltRu4NERsQiSt8mng/s2448/1%202%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1460" data-original-width="2448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8kag3IvxoGjSCD6PWefbfb766MyLBaZ7fEhSmQAPGwEMFmSBxGYZJ5it9GxujVl92gyBmk_w9T-VF-wt_Z-5L3Rab5noRadFyqFYmMGxbdq3JHZgHBv7BIdbWd6g_i-us2kPoaGNkTfj5HWC8169R3HP8dKdxH4j7yZOFjueunAtltRu4NERsQiSt8mng/s16000/1%202%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lex Barker & Leo Gordon in THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Any movie about mining for gold will eventually include double-crossing con artists, and THE YELLOW MOUNTAIN starts right off with honest hero Lex Barker punching his former backstabbing friend in the office of a saloon that's the central location: until they venture into the titular mine with two different names on the claims...There's the shifty fella Barker fought with in charming, unpredictable Howard Duff, with his eyes on the gorgeous daughter of unlucky lifelong gambling miner William Demarest, a kind of passive version of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/bogartgold.html">Walter Huston</a>...