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Written by James M. Tate / 8/03/2025 / No comments / aldo ray , anne bancroft , brian keith , fifties , film noir or melodrama , frank albertson , jacques tourneur , james gregory , jocelyn brando , post-heist , rudy bond

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'NIGHTFALL' WITH ALDO RAY & BRIAN KEITH

<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/AVvXsEi5DeCqbm7JFtbWoUmj2s_OkDcvQFyY9Eu6ZlaxkTzZShc_p8nRu6Ylu8YKkQTTESQy9ktKRWjK_n8gt-ZC8SuuQVlNsnDqNhJTiSyjousUWLUUHpfdMq4fZ1g0_JytR0SLXzBsbq1FHith2Vsbn69_IlTRajh0Ih9B4B3hTrTHpAHbetSNn10oD11GG_k8/s1906/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1138" data-original-width="1906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5DeCqbm7JFtbWoUmj2s_OkDcvQFyY9Eu6ZlaxkTzZShc_p8nRu6Ylu8YKkQTTESQy9ktKRWjK_n8gt-ZC8SuuQVlNsnDqNhJTiSyjousUWLUUHpfdMq4fZ1g0_JytR0SLXzBsbq1FHith2Vsbn69_IlTRajh0Ih9B4B3hTrTHpAHbetSNn10oD11GG_k8/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: NIGHTFALL Director: Jacques Tourneur Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Perhaps one of the strangest film noirs anchored by a frame story, taking up an equal amount of time as flashbacks that Aldo Ray only half remembers: going fishing with a doctor, who's murdered by off-kilter assassin Rudy Bond under cold-blooded yet semi-charming alpha-male partner Brian Keith...<br><br>This backstory... about Ray being held captive-at-gunpoint by the two thugs who had just robbed a bank and are looking for a place to hide the money... occurs in the rural woods with beautiful mountainesque backdrops contrasting to the sparse B&W... being recalled near a dark/grainy oil-rig and, returning to the present time, in a smoky tavern under big city neon-lights, Ray's being seduced by model Anne Bancroft, just to be set up...</p><p><span></span></p>

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JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'NIGHTFALL' WITH ALDO RAY & BRIAN KEITH

Title: NIGHTFALL Director: Jacques Tourneur Year: 1956 Rating: *** Perhaps one of the strangest film noirs anchored by a frame story, taking...

MEL BROOKS PRESENTS DAVID LYNCH'S ICONIC 'THE ELEPHANT MAN'

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MEL BROOKS PRESENTS DAVID LYNCH'S ICONIC 'THE ELEPHANT MAN'

Anthony Hopkins in David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN Year: 1980 Rating: **** After the bleak B&W, nightmarishly bizarre ERASERHEAD, oth...

MEL BROOKS & ANNE BANCROFT REMAKE 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mel Brooks makes a Bust of Hitler SCORE: **1/2 Year: 1982</u></td></tr>
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Starts out decently enough, and surprisingly different for Mel Brooks to
 direct a remake: something that isn't a parody of a serious genre or a humorous take on historical events... <br>
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But 
then the set up, of a husband and wife who are famous stage performers 
in Poland who, when Hitler takes over, has to close up their theater, 
becomes an overlong skit involving Brooks and real-life wife Anne 
Bancroft, with the aid of a sad throwaway role by ANIMAL HOUSE star Tim Matheson as a love-struck soldier: The entire menagerie playing
 an elaborate scheme on the Nazis that gets way too complicated for it's
 own good in this remake of a Jack Benny 1940's vehicle (when ensemble comedies were the 
norm)... Not only do all the wires get tangled up within each other, 
there's way too many to begin with. And it's understandable turning the 
Nazis into complete buffoons, especially when spoofing them... but in 
doing so it takes away any valid threat, making it meaningless to have 
to trick or defeat them in the first place.<br>
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anne bancroft, comedy, mel brooks, nazi, remake, tim matheson, world war II

MEL BROOKS & ANNE BANCROFT REMAKE 'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'

Mel Brooks makes a Bust of Hitler SCORE: **1/2 Year: 1982 Starts out decently enough, and surprisingly different for Mel Brooks to dire...

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