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Written by James M. Tate / 2/12/2024 / No comments / beverly garland , edmond o'brien , fifties , film noir or melodrama , hugh o'brian , jazz-score , laurette luez , luther adler , mystery , neville brand , race against time , rudolph maté' , thriller , virginia lee

EDMOND O'BRIEN RACES THROUGH THE CLASSIC FILM NOIR 'D.O.A.'

<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/AVvXsEjdDX4nhHupyCn_IlsmPtDOB0KyUkd8TQwt3HWQ8rFF9IyLMyS6F3yhfUDATt_gHV6xcFeraN7tUDvv0rsFwpeKfzd8PdcqE6RDrR-0ET3GeKIWJ2WTJ8PujA6DA7lRmsNukJnu3Jwg9EcnQhc_UgCPCSScnYcMplgsX1WLOxniwN8g9iFzNTX07lsl-iXa/s2076/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-22%20at%208.43.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1288" data-original-width="2076" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdDX4nhHupyCn_IlsmPtDOB0KyUkd8TQwt3HWQ8rFF9IyLMyS6F3yhfUDATt_gHV6xcFeraN7tUDvv0rsFwpeKfzd8PdcqE6RDrR-0ET3GeKIWJ2WTJ8PujA6DA7lRmsNukJnu3Jwg9EcnQhc_UgCPCSScnYcMplgsX1WLOxniwN8g9iFzNTX07lsl-iXa/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-22%20at%208.43.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: D.O.A. Year: 1959 Director: Rudolph Maté Stars: Edmond O'Brien Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>For one of the most literally deadly-serious film noirs ever made, when accountant Edmond O'Brien goes from his L. A. office to a San Francisco hotel for a vacation, there are cheesy wolf-whistles added whenever a beautiful woman walks by, starting at the lobby and then upstairs where a salesman convention rages — but for O'Brien's Frank Bigelow the good times don't roll very long... Although the rudimentary suarez is like a short film all its own, which is what distinguishes D. O. A. since it's really three pictures in one: the first peaking at a noisy jazz club where O'Brien's distracted by gorgeous and rich, blonde jazz-freak Virginia Lee while a hooded mystery man puts something in his drink, causing O'Brien to wake up feeling even worse than the hangover he'd have anyway...

beverly garland, edmond o'brien, fifties, film noir or melodrama, hugh o'brian, jazz-score, laurette luez, luther adler, mystery, neville brand, race against time, rudolph maté', thriller, virginia lee

EDMOND O'BRIEN RACES THROUGH THE CLASSIC FILM NOIR 'D.O.A.'

Title: D.O.A. Year: 1959 Director: Rudolph Maté Stars: Edmond O'Brien Rating: **** For one of the most literally deadly-serious film noi...

Written by James M. Tate / 6/16/2016 / No comments / barbara payton , fifties , film noir or melodrama , gangster , gordon douglas , helena carter , james cagney , luther adler , william frawley

JAMES CAGNEY BRUTAL FILM NOIR OF 'KISS TOMMORROW GOODBYE'

<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/a/AVvXsEixCWm1fcnIr9-AbUjFg6MQoDKY8HhbCU31_2n2jrAKmjEILl0PC6H4JfGVqtOGoKH5STrZPQxmmUe8ElxhV8OvjY4EzWZA5cgU5czTYpSexyNZfP1ly2tFDNtdzvtI74rPwqbqjCDMDgWzOtskkHdc_l9e-rhfrav1KToN_pWAKETTsBBHdnXzU1HgEQ=s785" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="785" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixCWm1fcnIr9-AbUjFg6MQoDKY8HhbCU31_2n2jrAKmjEILl0PC6H4JfGVqtOGoKH5STrZPQxmmUe8ElxhV8OvjY4EzWZA5cgU5czTYpSexyNZfP1ly2tFDNtdzvtI74rPwqbqjCDMDgWzOtskkHdc_l9e-rhfrav1KToN_pWAKETTsBBHdnXzU1HgEQ=w400-h219" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2 </td></tr></tbody></table>After the peak of James Cagney crime cinema, wildly popular during the programmers of the 1930's where his characters are crooked yet charming and fun... 
 Blasting off in PUBLIC ENEMY and ending the Depression Era as a much 
nicer though still lethal and established rum-runner in the Raoul Walsh 
semi-epic ROARING TWENTIES and as a more idealistic yet equally street savvy boxer in CITY FOR CONQUEST and then, following patriotic films during the 
Wartime 1940's, at the crest of that decade he was "Top of the World, 
Ma" in the prison classic WHITE HEAT, at which point, to move forward, 
he could only go underneath...

barbara payton, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gangster, gordon douglas, helena carter, james cagney, luther adler, william frawley

JAMES CAGNEY BRUTAL FILM NOIR OF 'KISS TOMMORROW GOODBYE'

Title: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2 After the peak of James Cagney crime cinema, wildly popular during the programmers of...

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