VIRGINIA FIELD BARRING MARSHALL THOMPSON IN 'DIAL 1119'

<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/AVvXsEj7m5zQb7_jCKGFjQrL0VuwkgWdpZg9FPQ8NyVG2eYbNDeovTN2Y5MtERIfvgThnARMjadUvKYkFYamw2asBSMZpDqgRxoE3xu1LvfJtE9zrjXYdZPyBX1mIcpZvWV6g6Cvt3orBKMQZSctHsJ5Vy53iSt6Jtu-FzOCP37z8SqwOmrL8LbGIJJdZLwA1WJ_/s2110/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-29%20at%2012.02.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="2110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7m5zQb7_jCKGFjQrL0VuwkgWdpZg9FPQ8NyVG2eYbNDeovTN2Y5MtERIfvgThnARMjadUvKYkFYamw2asBSMZpDqgRxoE3xu1LvfJtE9zrjXYdZPyBX1mIcpZvWV6g6Cvt3orBKMQZSctHsJ5Vy53iSt6Jtu-FzOCP37z8SqwOmrL8LbGIJJdZLwA1WJ_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-29%20at%2012.02.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marshall Thompson and Virginia Field in DIAL 1119 Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A kind of expository TIME OF YOUR LIFE barroom-of-eclectic-characters stage play combined with any hostage thriller, DIAL 1119 stars Marshall Thompson as a troubled young man who you can't insult or compliment without possibly getting shot and killed...<br><br>The tavern-dwellers include world-weary workaday bartender William Conrad; a stressed young married man waiting for a telephone call from his birthing wife; a cranky newspaperman; floozy Virginia Field, having perfectly aged from her 1930's heyday into an older yet still alluring hustler; and a creepy older businessman calling twenty-something beauty Andrea King his niece while trying to seduce her...</p><p><span></span></p>

andrea king, fifties, film noir or melodrama, hostage, marshall thompson, sam levene, thriller, virginia field, william conrad

VIRGINIA FIELD BARRING MARSHALL THOMPSON IN 'DIAL 1119'

Marshall Thompson and Virginia Field in DIAL 1119 Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 A kind of expository TIME OF YOUR LIFE barroom-of-eclectic-chara...

BURT LANCASTER IN JULES DASSIN'S PRISON NOIR 'BRUTE FORCE'

<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/AVvXsEjHRBqJqswGhk0aIR9hsvanxgrcYFAo_1SzFWrFCRr3iMWvZMBURYul4TqPY5Q5VQC6gGcNtr8WD2VLFWV7NiC8cTNVvlY2nZMjuAMtfy38ggt3PfyxdI0_jECJOXDs8PfgvszTSYHUVudFevYFdDfEvBIKgKUxMZd4B8cbwPi9sqjLyv04HX39PDR3zqyA/s2186/111%203%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="2186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRBqJqswGhk0aIR9hsvanxgrcYFAo_1SzFWrFCRr3iMWvZMBURYul4TqPY5Q5VQC6gGcNtr8WD2VLFWV7NiC8cTNVvlY2nZMjuAMtfy38ggt3PfyxdI0_jECJOXDs8PfgvszTSYHUVudFevYFdDfEvBIKgKUxMZd4B8cbwPi9sqjLyv04HX39PDR3zqyA/s16000/111%203%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>BRUTE FORCE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Jules Dassin basically made his own post-war World War II picture, only set in an American hoosegow with prisoners as proverbial soldiers and an obvious Nazi representation in Hume Cronyn, who, as chief guard eyeing the warden spot, not only runs the place like a sadistic, tyrannical dictator, but mentally and physically tortures inmates while listening to Wagner... </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>Actually, BRUTE FORCE is a fairly effective prison noir/expose, bathed in rich B&W cinematography and splendid matte-painted backdrops, centered on desperate men stuck in a doomed purgatory: yet there are a few exterior flashbacks involving dames that, either sassy or sympathetic, landed these fellas into their current predicament... </p><span></span>

anita colby, ann blyth, burt lancaster, film noir or melodrama, howard duff, howland chamberlain, hume cronyn, jack overman, jeff corey, john hoyt, jules dassin, prison, sam levene, yvonne de carlo

BURT LANCASTER IN JULES DASSIN'S PRISON NOIR 'BRUTE FORCE'

BRUTE FORCE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 Director Jules Dassin basically made his own post-war World War II picture, only set in an American ho...

ANTHONY QUINN IN 'A DREAM OF KINGS' WITH INGER STEVENS

<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/a/AVvXsEhw58c88w9PcfOG5TFNUMQfXzqai_vWjmndxuIIQBlTTNP0m7BAYh9QudYoGDcDYrLg2JCA3rmUG07giBiyQ0lW1EKmMh9lFhBrLx4zfEzcrIGwdEcN3jLLuji8MuD9rNEBtDBg7ZFTElkbfHa-2iz1l5HoymsipkQYDek_6CStOFWnPXNMLmqm-NGQtw=s1175" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhw58c88w9PcfOG5TFNUMQfXzqai_vWjmndxuIIQBlTTNP0m7BAYh9QudYoGDcDYrLg2JCA3rmUG07giBiyQ0lW1EKmMh9lFhBrLx4zfEzcrIGwdEcN3jLLuji8MuD9rNEBtDBg7ZFTElkbfHa-2iz1l5HoymsipkQYDek_6CStOFWnPXNMLmqm-NGQtw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: A DREAM OF KINGS Stars: Anthony Quinn Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In A DREAM OF KINGS, Anthony Quinn plays Leonidas Matsoukas, a ZORBA THE GREEK in late-1960's New York with smoggy industrial backdrops and absolutely no trace of the colorful counter-culture... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Despite being a hopeless gambler, roaming philanderer and with a dying son, he has the immense/intense zest for life Quinn was known for, making this a kind of Quinnspoitation and overall fairly entertaining...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony quinn, drama, gambling, inger stevens, irene pappas, melodrama, sam levene, sixties, warner archives

ANTHONY QUINN IN 'A DREAM OF KINGS' WITH INGER STEVENS

Title: A DREAM OF KINGS Stars: Anthony Quinn Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 In A DREAM OF KINGS, Anthony Quinn plays Leonidas Matsoukas, a ZORBA ...