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Written by James M. Tate / 5/12/2024 / No comments / alexander scourby , andy williams , cop , fifties , film noir or melodrama , fritz lang , glenn ford , gloria grahame , jeanette nolan , jocelyn brando , john crawford , lee marvin , peter whitney , revenge , willis bouchey

GLENN FORD, LEE MARVIN & GLORIA GRAHAME IN 'THE BIG HEAT'

<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/AVvXsEjb-lFXZTduUiqdF3fnGWYpfG_u63EdvKtR7Vmj_MS_ONhkDvg4DfUb6h9IrdovA5yfUxlm86laqp11_eGUY93Vt2N1EUokLg0L7DEt5NINtNz_TeXaXOP2nPZD4t9Rh1Xw5TVaLsECx3ieGN1xWIlVIQjecCpmDU4UZMYhtYe890zHULsu_vLenLtALnyC/s968/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-lFXZTduUiqdF3fnGWYpfG_u63EdvKtR7Vmj_MS_ONhkDvg4DfUb6h9IrdovA5yfUxlm86laqp11_eGUY93Vt2N1EUokLg0L7DEt5NINtNz_TeXaXOP2nPZD4t9Rh1Xw5TVaLsECx3ieGN1xWIlVIQjecCpmDU4UZMYhtYe890zHULsu_vLenLtALnyC/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE BIG HEAT Shown: Glenn Ford Year: 1953 Rating: *****</td></tr></tbody></table>On posters for Fritz Lang's classic film noir THE BIG HEAT there's what looks like an impassioned couple raging with sensuality in Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame, which is misleading since neither care about each other within most of the story, and yet, perhaps no other actor and actress have ultimately shared so much energy and chemistry on screen... She's the beautiful, animated moll of chief gangster's thug Vince, played by Lee Marvin, who, before his days of tough anti-heroes, played neurotic, borderline sociopath hoods: and literally sizzles here as the title becomes too real for scene-stealing Graham, getting scalding coffee thrown on her face, punishment for having visited Ford's hidden cove apartment behind his back...

alexander scourby, andy williams, cop, fifties, film noir or melodrama, fritz lang, glenn ford, gloria grahame, jeanette nolan, jocelyn brando, john crawford, lee marvin, peter whitney, revenge, willis bouchey

GLENN FORD, LEE MARVIN & GLORIA GRAHAME IN 'THE BIG HEAT'

Title: THE BIG HEAT Shown: Glenn Ford Year: 1953 Rating: ***** On posters for Fritz Lang's classic film noir THE BIG HEAT there's wh...

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY DEFECT IN 'THE IRON CURTAIN'

<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/AVvXsEjNwjuzN9LFGZnmJc9JFmzn2zN5YpVwyiK7kD02cc5fat09xOHGHdPzy3L1A4driJF2-U-YhDGh-u9ZNaoyRgVp7eNA4sS28Ikxz055wdaub4QzmuKI2XZKgOXZRTrYAgwRl4gMNMGzyyLB_5SY2A7Jf6YvQ2d2sOFUKl3hLq-WtdHHbWaxmS22mtT_-vhZ/s1538/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-18%20at%202.56.45%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="1538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNwjuzN9LFGZnmJc9JFmzn2zN5YpVwyiK7kD02cc5fat09xOHGHdPzy3L1A4driJF2-U-YhDGh-u9ZNaoyRgVp7eNA4sS28Ikxz055wdaub4QzmuKI2XZKgOXZRTrYAgwRl4gMNMGzyyLB_5SY2A7Jf6YvQ2d2sOFUKl3hLq-WtdHHbWaxmS22mtT_-vhZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-18%20at%202.56.45%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dana Andrews in THE IRON CURTAIN Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Between the famous Otto Preminger Film Noir <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/Loir.html">LAURA</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/05/WTSends.html">WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS</a> and almost a decade past TOBACCO ROAD is the sublime pair-up of Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney under the direction of William A. Wellman in a Cold War Thriller at the rudimentary stages of that very thing... Taking place during and right after The Second World War, and was released only three years after the war ended, based on the "true story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko, posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, 1943... to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada," where Dana Andrews takes a reverse risk since nothing's worse than an American actor badly attempting a foreign accent, especially one as thick as Russian...

berry kroeger, biopic, cold war, dana andrews, espionage, film noir or melodrama, gene tierney, june havoc, peter whitney, thriller, war

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY DEFECT IN 'THE IRON CURTAIN'

Dana Andrews in THE IRON CURTAIN Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 Between the famous Otto Preminger Film Noir LAURA and WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS ...

SAM PECKINPAH MELLOWS FOR 'THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE'

<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/AVvXsEhdADWBwZ2r1y894IwKiJnYkEcB7J1sKpHEI2A1YQ9PfaE-HR0el9xy9GmzgOvFdxgmU3ka4tMyMALEnPMIHKI74MbbzfCr0R_VYC78f2PsrDpJUXwPOqewcZNVGnYAL86Zjx79xYTqUtjMNg9ipe1Q4BJLqkwLdqMyXJib3bBCntnqpeivsorFYLkZtg/s1880/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1880" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdADWBwZ2r1y894IwKiJnYkEcB7J1sKpHEI2A1YQ9PfaE-HR0el9xy9GmzgOvFdxgmU3ka4tMyMALEnPMIHKI74MbbzfCr0R_VYC78f2PsrDpJUXwPOqewcZNVGnYAL86Zjx79xYTqUtjMNg9ipe1Q4BJLqkwLdqMyXJib3bBCntnqpeivsorFYLkZtg/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Written in memory of L.Q. Jones Title: The Ballad of Cable Hogue Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>After making the Western to end all Westerns, THE WILD BUNCH, director Sam Peckinpah traded deadly gunfights with light romance and sped-up-camera-hijinks while THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE still remains a genuine Western, but more of a breezy, escapist fable and with somewhat of a TV-movie cadence... Starring Jason Robards as the titular aimless, desert-dwelling hobo who, right off the bat, is double-crossed by two lowlife outlaws, providing Peckinpah-stable actors Strother Martin and especially L.Q. Jones the only roles that fit into the auteur's recent-past and limited future of gritty exploitation cinema...

david warner, jason robards, l.q. jones, peter whitney, r.g. armstrong, romance, sam peckinpah, seventies, stella stevens, strother martin, vaughn taylor, western

SAM PECKINPAH MELLOWS FOR 'THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE'

Written in memory of L.Q. Jones Title: The Ballad of Cable Hogue Year: 1970 Rating: ***1/2 After making the Western to end all Westerns, THE...

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