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Written by James M. Tate / 6/11/2026 / No comments / fifties , film noir or melodrama , howard hughes , joyce mackenzie , mob , ray collins , robert mitchum , robert ryan , virginia huston , william conrad , william talman

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

<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/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s1486/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p>Based
 on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, and remade to 
center on a then-current anti-mafia-probe, it's no wonder that RKO's THE
 RACKET plays out so deliberately over-the-top, where Robert Ryan not 
only openly admits to being the head of an illegal/totally corrupt 
syndicate, but shoots and kills an honest lawman right inside a police station... 
with a cub reporter witness only inches away...<br /><br />In that, Ryan gets 
most of the praise for a performance that's more 1930's teeth-clenching 
gangbusters than subtle 1950's noir, which, for the lack of alleyway 
shadows and femme fatales, many claim this feature as being something 
other than... <br /></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/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Which
 is an ongoing/never-ending debate on any b-crimer that isn't dreamily 
melodramatic the likes of OUT OF THE PAST... segwaying into the other 
Robert here in Robert Mitchum, the star of several Howard Hughes 
productions, where, on the heels of playing likable losers in THIS KIND 
OF WOMAN and THE BIG STEAL, this is his most solidly straightforward 
performance... <br /><br />As a police chief the syndicate moves around in 
order to never press permanent charges, and with scene-stealing/ideal-driven good cop William Talman by his side, Mitchum doesn't simply breeze around with his handsome slow-burn cool, but really fits the part with 
both feet planted firmly on the ground...  </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/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s1428/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The
 biggest problem (besides pretty Lizabeth Scott in a 
throwaway nightclub canary/dame role) is that everything's too up-front, particularly with Ryan's scrunched-up mug exploding into
temper-tantrums.... <br /><br />In one reaction shot, Mitchum 
seems to intentionally smirk at Ryan's overacting: playing more of a 
head gangster's viciously lethal thug than any kind of realistic big boss, making 
THE RACKET more a good vs evil fable than either noir or your typical standard 
detective story. <br /></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/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s1110/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s1026/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ray Collins in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s1032/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s1080/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman and Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s1256/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s902/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s942/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s1186/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s1278/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lizabeth Scott and Robert Hutton in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><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/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s1830/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br />

fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, joyce mackenzie, mob, ray collins, robert mitchum, robert ryan, virginia huston, william conrad, william talman

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, an...

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SAMUEL FULLER'S TOKYO-BASED FILM NOIR 'HOUSE OF BAMBOO'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEisAT4lYSn5oopgBCbIFGdXoVuGBY_f8NyHcDPSYLkzkHfB3lB03ti2qDijYVwjuhloNZF3d4N65oiNuZWcviyVdHnVkjoJZGpZmA1Fq4g28fXNsDj3Ag6-47nk9FuKQG5jG3P0val4y5-vgAZ-AOAY_EeiysNd-yrYHuLEB_HhkBJtbd6wu9uq2S7vCS2x/s1437/Screen%20Shot%202021-10-08%20at%2011.51.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1437" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAT4lYSn5oopgBCbIFGdXoVuGBY_f8NyHcDPSYLkzkHfB3lB03ti2qDijYVwjuhloNZF3d4N65oiNuZWcviyVdHnVkjoJZGpZmA1Fq4g28fXNsDj3Ag6-47nk9FuKQG5jG3P0val4y5-vgAZ-AOAY_EeiysNd-yrYHuLEB_HhkBJtbd6wu9uq2S7vCS2x/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202021-10-08%20at%2011.51.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cameron Mitchell's the boss's thug in HOUSE OF BAMBOO Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of Sam Fuller's greatest movies is a Noir remake set in Tokyo, and the 1948 FBI-propaganda THE STREET WITH NO NAME is the best cinematic venture J. Edgar Hoover was ever connected to and starring Mark Stevens as an agent going undercover, literally on Skid Row, first as a boxer and then joining a gang of gangsters more like crooks...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In HOUSE OF BAMBOO the head baddie's Robert Ryan, slowburn and professional, the polar opposite of Richard Widmark's signature tantrum-spouting hood. More a crooked businessman, he's cold to the bone yet eventually finds trust in seemingly wayward stranger-in-town Robert Stack...</p><p><span></span></p>

brad dexter, crime, deforest kelley, FBI, fifties, film noir or melodrama, heist, japanese-based, robert ryan, robert stack

SAMUEL FULLER'S TOKYO-BASED FILM NOIR 'HOUSE OF BAMBOO'

Cameron Mitchell's the boss's thug in HOUSE OF BAMBOO Year: 1955 Rating: **** One of Sam Fuller's greatest movies is a Noir rema...

ROBERT MITCHUM, WILLIAM TALMAN & ROBERT RYAN IN 'THE RACKET'

<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/AVvXsEiw9lQsYk5ktV0qMST88FxyNa-0jP9sZQ0Wk7arZ4I99NKwK_0b5x8SMEJnmrQnBlKFasVMbReRQ8216aLO4fj9jizU5kkqdU3u7KOlnaWE9USrpzyydPXnXnvl0pwsnoaSMOHZZygxl3Y9QpMqnt0j8OLuKiJGi0IdpyHoJGdZW2S40rSG4NvXuSC8iaE0/s2150/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-04%20at%208.05.05%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="2150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw9lQsYk5ktV0qMST88FxyNa-0jP9sZQ0Wk7arZ4I99NKwK_0b5x8SMEJnmrQnBlKFasVMbReRQ8216aLO4fj9jizU5kkqdU3u7KOlnaWE9USrpzyydPXnXnvl0pwsnoaSMOHZZygxl3Y9QpMqnt0j8OLuKiJGi0IdpyHoJGdZW2S40rSG4NvXuSC8iaE0/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-09-04%20at%208.05.05%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE RACKET 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While
 primarily focusing on the two leads, Robert Mitchum as a determined 
cop, McQuigg, and Robert Ryan as criminal kingpin Nick Scanlon (in 
cahoots with crooked politician Ray Collins), it's William Talman's 
heroic yet idealistically naïve , knee-jerk newbie police officer, ready to take on 
all things villainous, that really drives things along...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Bookending the 
literally explosive middle is an involving buildup, as nothing can touch
 Robert Ryan and his old-school way of running things. Then, during the 
last half, he realizes his particular kind of shady doesn't quite work 
in the world of ever-growing politics. But he's not going down easy, and
 it takes Mitchum's slowburn patience to wear him down. Throw in sexy 
Lizbeth Scott as the dame caught in the middle and you really have a pretty nifty crime-thriller. <br></p><span></span>

crime, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, lizabeth scott, robert mitchum, robert ryan, suspense, william talman

ROBERT MITCHUM, WILLIAM TALMAN & ROBERT RYAN IN 'THE RACKET'

Title: THE RACKET 1951 Rating: ***1/2 While primarily focusing on the two leads, Robert Mitchum as a determined cop, McQuigg, and Robert R...

ROBERT RYAN IN 'CITY BENEATH THE SEA' WITH ANTHONY QUINN

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjBWR0SPxlP7f7qJBmpDyyzMndffPtOPcW1nC7zxjpCjLHtI5X3VrLM8LAoOd2sx_0BP_ghvxiy6riIhcJuFbrP9-8x3TnhbU2WQCPX8xcI0zVrB3WgKnbhbxVkTNAMtcAsBabORp6feclpfrJqzXyG3845fpuX96ByAVi4awWXlAh8MBF2xNl6aNJ9Cnzg/s400/lf.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="400" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWR0SPxlP7f7qJBmpDyyzMndffPtOPcW1nC7zxjpCjLHtI5X3VrLM8LAoOd2sx_0BP_ghvxiy6riIhcJuFbrP9-8x3TnhbU2WQCPX8xcI0zVrB3WgKnbhbxVkTNAMtcAsBabORp6feclpfrJqzXyG3845fpuX96ByAVi4awWXlAh8MBF2xNl6aNJ9Cnzg/s320/lf.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1953 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A letdown for those who love movies about treasure hunters. Unfortunately,
 the main character, played by a stiff Robert Ryan, is so uptight, not 
only does he NOT go along with more energetic and assertive partner 
Anthony Quinn, to find gold on a sunken ship in a literal CITY BENEATH 
THE SEA from a volcano explosion hundreds of years ago...<br>

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to snake the booty first, just to teach his partner a lesson: A lesson 
is also taught to the audience, who must weather this bland 
fine-feathered friend who's also an extremely weak central hero, keeping
 this movie from being edgy, or entertaining... </p><p>And
 the two lovely ingenues are both gorgeous, and initially tough, 
independent and assertive, making their characters mean more than just 
looks and providing a built-in feeling of suspense within the 
anticipated romance...</p><p>One is the captain of a small boat (Mala Powers) 
and the other a calypso singer (Suzan Ball, Lucy O'Ball's cousin, who 
would of cancer die soon after)...</p><p>But without Ryan or Quinn 
having to do much at all, both ladies melt to their touch in such a 
pathetic way, without earning it beyond their looks. At one point, singer actually asks Quinn, "What are you thinking?" 
after they'd known each other ten minutes. Meanwhile, as a b-movie, the low budget is deliberate, and mostly works... including 
scenes of the boys trudging in heavy "Diver Dan" style underwater gear 
with matte painted backgrounds. The technicolor is great looking, and 
otherwise these are capable actors and actresses. But this oceanic 
thriller is devoid of thrills, and pretty much... sinks upon impact. </p><span></span>

action, adventure, anthony quinn, fifties, pulp, robert ryan, suzan ball, treasure

ROBERT RYAN IN 'CITY BENEATH THE SEA' WITH ANTHONY QUINN

Year: 1953 Rating: ** A letdown for those who love movies about treasure hunters. Unfortunately, the main character, played by a stiff Robe...

ROBERT RYAN VS RHONDA FLEMING & WILLIAM LUNDIGAN 'INFERNO'

<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/AVvXsEiCF0o2oZvs4kDhD34nDSPZl0wT7oyh3Ws2PKgwVEgRSy6o1S3Kl51WT2RECAnUpi0ZDLMVAjvj3-hcTtxAOWsgskLrF0LXQpcErDqTEOJjk6PuVzrzBv53V2lQMrfUceU6Z1PANoFf6T7GVtyfNzXFlnKI4j7VESAO-y74GqWmFlro9O-jkq2nvqREUPzK/s1552/NEWEST.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCF0o2oZvs4kDhD34nDSPZl0wT7oyh3Ws2PKgwVEgRSy6o1S3Kl51WT2RECAnUpi0ZDLMVAjvj3-hcTtxAOWsgskLrF0LXQpcErDqTEOJjk6PuVzrzBv53V2lQMrfUceU6Z1PANoFf6T7GVtyfNzXFlnKI4j7VESAO-y74GqWmFlro9O-jkq2nvqREUPzK/s16000/NEWEST.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for Ronda Fleming INFERNO Year: 1953 Rating: *** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Leading <i>and</i> character actor Robert Ryan is difficult to root for since he played contentedly bitter types who didn't want rooting for... but with INFERNO his rich-husband character gets so screwed-over by his wife and her lover, left in the scorching desert — with a broken leg — to trudge through rocky terrain before he's lunch for condors, there's no other option but to have complete sympathy, if anything else for the movie (and his dire situation) to conclude...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet the most intriguing scenes not only alleviate the halting, awkward tension but add a touch of paperback-pulpy and best yet, film noir/melodrama to the stranded-in-peril, fight-to-survive adventure...</p><p><span></span></p>

3D, action, adventure, desert, fifties, melodrama, rhonda fleming, robert ryan, rural, survival, thriller, william lundigan

ROBERT RYAN VS RHONDA FLEMING & WILLIAM LUNDIGAN 'INFERNO'

Poster for Ronda Fleming INFERNO Year: 1953 Rating: *** Leading and character actor Robert Ryan is difficult to root for since he played co...

ROBERT DUVALL & JOE DON BAKER STEAL FROM 'THE OUTFIT'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sheree North & Robert Duvall poster art YEAR: 1973 Rates: ***</u></td></tr>
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After serving two years in prison, a paroled bank robber learns his brother was killed (shown in the prologue) by 
the same mob that set him up. So he gets all kinds of revenge with the help of his former partner/sidekick while cranky gun moll Karen Black basically goes against the grain of the boys crashing various hot spots where the money's at (Sheree North would have fit this role better)...<br>
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The two main characters played by Robert 
Duvall and Joe Don Baker seem so protected by the gods, there's little urgency or suspense since nothing and no one can stop 
them... <br>
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Meanwhile, the targeted mobsters include Film Noir icons Timothy Carey and Robert Ryan, and THE OUTFIT has a Neo Noir template combined with a modern day Western's guns, guts and bravado. And about the only challenge is assassin Felice Orlandi, moving through night shadows after the small town boys do all their stealing and shooting in the daylight. Making this a kind of CLYDE AND CLYDE meets THE GETAWAY. <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nice and simple VHS for THE OUTFIT with Robert Duvall and Karen Black</u></td></tr>
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gangster, joe don baker, karen black, neo noir, road movie, robert duvall, robert ryan, seventies, sheree north, small town, timothy carey

ROBERT DUVALL & JOE DON BAKER STEAL FROM 'THE OUTFIT'

Sheree North & Robert Duvall poster art YEAR: 1973 Rates: *** After serving two years in prison, a paroled bank robber learns his br...

SAM FULLER TOKYO NOIR 'HOUSE OF BAMBOO' W/ ROBERT STACK

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ryan's on top of the world ma, in Toyko Year: 1952</u></td></tr>
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The writer of <span style="color: #0c343d;">HOUSE OF BAMBOO</span> is billed as Harry Kleiner; <i>additional dialogue</i> is credited to director Samuel Fuller... 
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Turns out Kleiner wrote 1946's THE STREET WITH NO NAME, and what's said to be "additional" could possibly refer to the entire script in remaking Kleiser's source material, but instead of that nameless American boulevard we journey to the gorgeous region of Tokyo (and other nearby locales) where the city and its backdrops are a character all its own, inhabited by these shady human "characters" who, whether armed with a pistol or not, get wonderfully lost in the maze-like backdrop...<br>
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This includes a wandering Robert Stack as Eddie Spanner, with a name so smooth and cool he's gotta be cool and crooked as hell. Bullying local stores out of small wads of cash, he's asking for... exactly what he gets in a scolding Robert Ryan, who winds up hiring the failed maverick as one of his own goons. Ryan's Sandy Dawson already has his heels dug so far into the post-War location there's no room for two people "running things," or even having a sole opinion. Leading the viewer into smoky backrooms and dingy apartments, where the gangsters plot their schemes.<br>
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And at first, from when he wanders in a criminal shrug off the boat to the real locale full of floating slums clashed with vivid and vibrant, beautiful colors, Stack really seems like a man on his own; but with that voice, even for those not familiar with the original, he's obviously snooping around for some reason... For the Military Police, actually... Sent by Noir stock actor Brad Dexter to find out who killed a local during a rushed prelude. Sure this is a spoiler but anyone familiar with the original sees it coming. Although it must be said, Stack does a pretty good job playing slimy and shady... while it lasts...<br>

cameron mitchell, color noir, deforest kelley, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gangster, robert ryan, robert stack, twilight time

SAM FULLER TOKYO NOIR 'HOUSE OF BAMBOO' W/ ROBERT STACK

Ryan's on top of the world ma, in Toyko Year: 1952 The writer of HOUSE OF BAMBOO is billed as Harry Kleiner; additional dialogue i...

ACT OF VIOLENCE HAS RELOCATED

film noir or melodrama, forties, janet leigh, mystery, robert ryan, suspense, van heflin

ACT OF VIOLENCE HAS RELOCATED

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Written by James M. Tate / 2/27/2011 / No comments / drifter , elmore leonard , leigh taylor-young , robert ryan , robert webber , sixties , van heflin

THE BIG BOUNCE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>year:</b> 1969 <b>cast:</b> Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin <b>rating:</b> ***</td></tr>
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Elmore Leonard said no film "got it right" until GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN, and that's after many of his books and stories were translated to the screen.<br />
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There are good and bad during that time, and this lies somewhere in-between. Ryan <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">O'Neal</span> is an unassuming drifter in a small Florida town. He's told to leave after bashing a local with a baseball bat, but stays for a job working a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">beach side</span> motel, where he "befriends" Lee Grant and gorgeous gold digger Leigh Taylor-Young: who's nothing but trouble in a Film <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Noir</span> kinda way.<br />
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The acting and story are fine (especially Taylor-Young), but the music... sounding like a kid's TV show  with lyrics narrating the film and characters... is the real problem, turning what could have been an intriguing melodrama into a bland, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">forgettable</span> one.

drifter, elmore leonard, leigh taylor-young, robert ryan, robert webber, sixties, van heflin