JEFF HUNTER & DANA ANDREWS IN WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM'

<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/AVvXsEifJnk1uYRrv2R7CcEIl-djFMXPzYGtB6qJ-LqnnI1Mn6Lxp-aex6I19q_VWhV0ab-zaAW4Tbnx3rEPPRw027Do1x7MfKG6-fbolJBNrUynjz501BN2ZN7peKosn1JMMXSZL5Thi8CECdnhI3rHKiE97vnDZl6ny9YTC55xSs6MRbkAK7wuvYAtj6KLWWdv/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-19%20at%206.39.24%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifJnk1uYRrv2R7CcEIl-djFMXPzYGtB6qJ-LqnnI1Mn6Lxp-aex6I19q_VWhV0ab-zaAW4Tbnx3rEPPRw027Do1x7MfKG6-fbolJBNrUynjz501BN2ZN7peKosn1JMMXSZL5Thi8CECdnhI3rHKiE97vnDZl6ny9YTC55xSs6MRbkAK7wuvYAtj6KLWWdv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-19%20at%206.39.24%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BRAINSTORM Director: William Conrad Year: 1965 Rates: ****1/2 </u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1965, veteran actor Dana Andrews was busier acting than his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/citizen-cannon.html">BRAINSTORM</a> director William Conrad was directing: making three movies (including <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/filldonahue.html">MY BLOOD RUNS COLD</a>) the same year that Andrews appeared in eight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As characters ranging from cameos to leads, heroes to heavies... in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/citizen-cannon.html">BRAINSTORM</a> Dana's deep, smooth voice suited a corporate (space age computer) tycoon that winds-up in a love triangle after his sharpest employee saves the life of — before falling in love with — young trophy-wife Anne Francis...</p><p><span></span></p>

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JEFF HUNTER & DANA ANDREWS IN WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM'

Title: BRAINSTORM Director: William Conrad Year: 1965 Rates: ****1/2 In 1965, veteran actor Dana Andrews was busier acting than his BRAINSTO...

VINCE EDWARDS IN THE ATOMIC AGE LATE NOIR 'CITY OF FEAR'

<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/AVvXsEgRq11_qKGWT10RGc-cSrWfNR-21UOU8UbcMk2dKaDw-b-bzxeTft85zPOO7Nq7P0dfXgwsgT2EB7XvMXWxMpIxy1ty8v0_agZK9lwqfb7-bEsKO04WFFNP6njhQE-xAudSt-6iMcbjNLsTEhKC5cQ1aXLTiU6XZo-U6TxwViNBELmkodpU54ZnM6_ozmpg/s2572/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-05%20at%203.14.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="2572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRq11_qKGWT10RGc-cSrWfNR-21UOU8UbcMk2dKaDw-b-bzxeTft85zPOO7Nq7P0dfXgwsgT2EB7XvMXWxMpIxy1ty8v0_agZK9lwqfb7-bEsKO04WFFNP6njhQE-xAudSt-6iMcbjNLsTEhKC5cQ1aXLTiU6XZo-U6TxwViNBELmkodpU54ZnM6_ozmpg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-08-05%20at%203.14.28%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: CITY OF FEAR Stars: Vince Edwards, Steven Ritch Year: 1959 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An escaped convict, played by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/vince%20edwards">Vince Edwards</a>, steals a metal container of what he thinks is uncut heroin, but is really radioactive cobalt and, as he ventures through sparse Los Angeles, slowly dying in a kind of nuclear cautionary tale version of D. O.A., a cop (WHITE HEAT heat John Archer), a dame (Patricia Blair) and doctor (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/steven%20ritch">Steven Ritch</a> from PLUNDER ROAD) are after him... <br> <br>The edgy, stylized yet subtle nuance of CITY OF FEAR exceeds the somewhat sluggish pace when our ailing anti-hero, not on screen, is discussed by other cast members: a symbolic comparison to that lethal cobalt and the 1950's American male criminal... both are active, deadly...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

exploitation, fifties, film noir or melodrama, hit-man, irvine lerner, jazz score, john archer, kathie browne, kelly thorsden, patricia blair, road movie, steven ritch, vince edwards

VINCE EDWARDS IN THE ATOMIC AGE LATE NOIR 'CITY OF FEAR'

Title: CITY OF FEAR Stars: Vince Edwards, Steven Ritch Year: 1959 Rating: *** An escaped convict, played by Vince Edwards , steals a metal c...

NOIR TORPEDO VINCE EDWARDS KILLS IN 'MURDER BY CONTRACT'

<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/AVvXsEjFxZBVbwamw0ie4-PBPgev1C1uIATf_RWUWy4QeoYo4_ApjrE1MPxchz5h3BGXjptXfQO07mzwqWvK5P9x6sffEg-rpk9L8HBPheUmioNa43883V1N1we6CUY320YZgrKIzW-au5iRL-iZawRBtvZ6mQSCM-O9KBeS2W9W_M7Nm1iNANyae9vEtF_Q1Q/s1566/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxZBVbwamw0ie4-PBPgev1C1uIATf_RWUWy4QeoYo4_ApjrE1MPxchz5h3BGXjptXfQO07mzwqWvK5P9x6sffEg-rpk9L8HBPheUmioNa43883V1N1we6CUY320YZgrKIzW-au5iRL-iZawRBtvZ6mQSCM-O9KBeS2W9W_M7Nm1iNANyae9vEtF_Q1Q/s16000/3.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MURDER BY CONTRACT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Deliberately sparse and slow-paced, unpretentiously stylized film noir with a solitary jazz guitar played to a continuous phantom metronome, somewhat like THE THIRD MAN theme only more in the background of a picture whose main characters are, in a way, in the background...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Particularly Vince Edwards, one of the strangest, most eccentric cinematic hit men ever while taking his sweet time for a big job following a nifty montage of smaller gigs, ranging from a deadly barber shop to an undercover hospital visit... and always returning back to his shabby apartment room, stilted with hours of frigid meantime... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

body count, exploitation, fifties, film noir or melodrama, irvine lerner, jazz-score, kathie browne, pnillip pine, thriller, vince edwards

NOIR TORPEDO VINCE EDWARDS KILLS IN 'MURDER BY CONTRACT'

Title: MURDER BY CONTRACT Year: 1958 Rating: ***1/2 Deliberately sparse and slow-paced, unpretentiously stylized film noir with a solitary j...

WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM' AND 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

<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/AVvXsEj_zoZfSRNjZ8SnbFfH0rJ3ERA99wBxdz2qYCL8S0HOgWS-HaZ4F6kORKShSo2lA9KzC1f_9RKrsfVkmBBpcUDPQ4lCNKA6IuqpSbGrmh1KxonLs4fYWVc699wcJbjwtnP43PxuAXCOtdNqoTJe_6C8jr9Y0XJTNvJFsrEX5_RYWBESnuHsCbclyJtV-g/s1362/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%207.59.03%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1362" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_zoZfSRNjZ8SnbFfH0rJ3ERA99wBxdz2qYCL8S0HOgWS-HaZ4F6kORKShSo2lA9KzC1f_9RKrsfVkmBBpcUDPQ4lCNKA6IuqpSbGrmh1KxonLs4fYWVc699wcJbjwtnP43PxuAXCOtdNqoTJe_6C8jr9Y0XJTNvJFsrEX5_RYWBESnuHsCbclyJtV-g/w400-h269/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-27%20at%207.59.03%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad Directorial Double Feature from 1965</u></td></tr></tbody></table>From his sinister beginnings as one of the two title hitmen who cast an ominous shadow across a small<i> </i>town diner in THE KILLERS, taken from an Ernest Hemingway short story that only involves a single act of what became a three-act classic Film Noir: While igniting the career of Burt Lancaster, William Conrad was recognized as one of the two titular baddies in the beginning and end...<br> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br> A flipside to Orson Welles, including the rich, deep voice; overweight. And few people know that Conrad was also a director, and while not one of the greats, the big man was good, and efficiant given the b-movie scripts for a pair of low-budget thrillers, BRAINSTORM and MY BLOOD RUNS COLD, both made in 1965 and for director Conrad it was a busy year (especially given the fact he also directed the haunted house horror TWO ON A GUILLOTINE, not reviewed here, not very good)...  </div>

anne francis, dana andrews, drama, drive-in, jazz-score, jeffrey hunter, kathie browne, neo noir, nicolas coster, richard kiel, sixties, strother martin, thriller, troy donahue, viveca lindfors, william conrad

WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM' AND 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

William Conrad Directorial Double Feature from 1965 From his sinister beginnings as one of the two title hitmen who cast an ominous shadow ...