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Written by James M. Tate / 1/02/2026 / No comments / anne francis , earl holliman , fifties , jack kelly , james drury , leslie nielsen , richard anderson , robert dix , science-fiction , walter pidgeon , warren stevens

ANNE FRANCIS & LESLIE NIELSEN IN THE CLASSIC 'FORBIDDEN PLANET'

<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/AVvXsEjMNSBv-fVfTZKWvAQNvPDopAW_0ZdNq2kLhLM1VT_pEfp9UFI7A_WiH9W4Z0K4AvAcGKU0E73m0kJPl6jsL0BVlnblhyphenhyphen58PJnycOSKL5hIc-P4Z14Vr_thOuGXS70GxMECbbGv8IEGRfRSRQCRR_lRs8UWAfjrmilsnGzITKEV_DcUgHxGopzUKhm-Aefi/s802/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-02%20at%208.34.00%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMNSBv-fVfTZKWvAQNvPDopAW_0ZdNq2kLhLM1VT_pEfp9UFI7A_WiH9W4Z0K4AvAcGKU0E73m0kJPl6jsL0BVlnblhyphenhyphen58PJnycOSKL5hIc-P4Z14Vr_thOuGXS70GxMECbbGv8IEGRfRSRQCRR_lRs8UWAfjrmilsnGzITKEV_DcUgHxGopzUKhm-Aefi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-01-02%20at%208.34.00%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The 1950's science-fiction classic FORBIDDEN PLANET not only influenced the use of beaming people for STAR TREK, also including a crew of human explorers slowly learning that their investigative situation is dire, even deadly, but Disney's THE BLACK HOLE is basically a remake... Both involving an old scientist and a giant sidekick robot... who remained on the titular planet, once inhabited by brilliant aliens: while his entire crew vanished on the way home, providing the search/mission for Leslie Nielson's spaceship to explore the same place that he's warned not to land on...

anne francis, earl holliman, fifties, jack kelly, james drury, leslie nielsen, richard anderson, robert dix, science-fiction, walter pidgeon, warren stevens

ANNE FRANCIS & LESLIE NIELSEN IN THE CLASSIC 'FORBIDDEN PLANET'

Title: FORBIDDEN PLANET Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 The 1950's science-fiction classic FORBIDDEN PLANET not only influenced the use of bea...

TECHNICOLOR 'HIGH SIERRA' REMAKE 'I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES'

<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/AVvXsEjKd88bCz7XOEsSgqNp9evoaY6TSHkFnMWj_A58qh7l_5xNWFytCSLYrHIaf3Z2o7yNQ8zD4LrUPtpNvfOWrdkdmqibkhwuoddj0_A6lCGoKlA25KJk33FBBl2XYg6wBrfnKo14yXXkm4m9ud22uLzVdL2siy6ECzr8qk5QCHJ65qfvReGrtASFPDIg5w/s1409/AVvXsEjGmTMwGvvI4oMjcY7lvRAUg0iR5L-iuIIccMUHnLfgf9IKMmpw9mFUu6QkR3yuHF_l5z6HABbMclWlgkgJXkVxMX3kjctX384lIP9K98z4uLck4wPg02Pgqo1FCYAI--QZBf_z7w4UF06sgDA7lGvRNCMmY1-uw8MpDoy8Q0VJSXAj7DMd6x0VmDLRmA=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKd88bCz7XOEsSgqNp9evoaY6TSHkFnMWj_A58qh7l_5xNWFytCSLYrHIaf3Z2o7yNQ8zD4LrUPtpNvfOWrdkdmqibkhwuoddj0_A6lCGoKlA25KJk33FBBl2XYg6wBrfnKo14yXXkm4m9ud22uLzVdL2siy6ECzr8qk5QCHJ65qfvReGrtASFPDIg5w/s16000/AVvXsEjGmTMwGvvI4oMjcY7lvRAUg0iR5L-iuIIccMUHnLfgf9IKMmpw9mFUu6QkR3yuHF_l5z6HABbMclWlgkgJXkVxMX3kjctX384lIP9K98z4uLck4wPg02Pgqo1FCYAI--QZBf_z7w4UF06sgDA7lGvRNCMmY1-uw8MpDoy8Q0VJSXAj7DMd6x0VmDLRmA=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>It's strange that I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES, the 1955 practically scene-for-scene remake of the Humphrey Bogart noir classic HIGH SIERRA, didn't keep the same title since they moved that mountainous backdrop even closer to the characters, where most of the dialogue-backed action takes place... A fishing retreat with Jack Palance in Bogart's shoes, fresh out of prison with a job to knock off a plush hotel full of jewelry; and like Bogart he isn't very thrilled with the gang he's in charge of...

dennis hopper, earl holliman, fifties, film noir or melodrama, heist, jack palance, lee marvin, lon chaney jr., lori nelson, perry lopez, remake, richard davalos, shelley winters, warner archives

TECHNICOLOR 'HIGH SIERRA' REMAKE 'I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES'

Title: I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2 It's strange that I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES, the 1955 practically scene-for-scene...

CORNEL WILDE, JEAN WALLACE & RICHARD CONTE 'THE BIG COMBO'

<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/AVvXsEgTpIgO3K_l-NKvyT5ZDDZpnpGOeuuvBozAAQRAGtwhhmOMUZhnK0A-nUV5VdLz4iHgN6mscddhJhdcCgL_3lxtGwrKfhw4Z7zwDUMYpy-WON5SFiY6Umcjqt167U2XndvD0XSDRylfhXAryZTm0gVAWwdbFOZ4cX-EKqQPdkL4rE2MEV6jUjrx0Yx6FbbQ/s2062/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-07%20at%2011.22.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="2062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTpIgO3K_l-NKvyT5ZDDZpnpGOeuuvBozAAQRAGtwhhmOMUZhnK0A-nUV5VdLz4iHgN6mscddhJhdcCgL_3lxtGwrKfhw4Z7zwDUMYpy-WON5SFiY6Umcjqt167U2XndvD0XSDRylfhXAryZTm0gVAWwdbFOZ4cX-EKqQPdkL4rE2MEV6jUjrx0Yx6FbbQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-07%20at%2011.22.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Conte & Cornel Wilde in THE BIG COMBO Year: 1955 Rates: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Given a dollar for every time Richard Conte's big time gangster says he makes more money than idealist cop Cornel Wilde, you'd be richer than Conte's Mr. Brown, a kingpin with an Achilles Heel shown right off the bat: his reluctant and guilt-ridden, suicidal moll, Jean Wallace, Who becomes more of a wishbone between Wilde and Conte, and it's a gritty, sleazy, jazz-soaked time reaching a conclusion that becomes more  unpredictable with another dame in the mix... And low-rent showgirl Helene Stanton has more femme fatale attitude despite being the cop's girl, "used like a glove when he's cold" and, with Wallace's Susan spitefully in love with her first love Conte, things get pretty chilly in this late Noir that, like many, recalls the sparse 1930's gangster style over the sinfully lavish programmers of the 40's...

cop, cornel wilde, earl holliman, film noir or melodrama, helen walker, helene stanton, jazz score, jean wallace, lee van cleef, richard conte

CORNEL WILDE, JEAN WALLACE & RICHARD CONTE 'THE BIG COMBO'

Richard Conte & Cornel Wilde in THE BIG COMBO Year: 1955 Rates: **** Given a dollar for every time Richard Conte's big time gangster...

BURT REYNOLDS STARS/DIRECTS THE NEO NOIR 'SHARKY'S MACHINE'

<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/AVvXsEhlc58prpFJfj1m4HHqFvC25yNzqmXicU58scAaXWvcKg_mJY3MQtDHuefuDGxQBxgLjwFgBieOo2GbhxfTKZ4CvQNeWsObyc1SWLsvHCnl3cO8HZxIGGtHkGZnBEzMxeMyCIUbP1trrxHl5k6dKYMl64QwXWiaLUthfoZFU04OS8JJcRFeyyPS07CfNWhf/s1976/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-14%20at%202.25.54%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="1976" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlc58prpFJfj1m4HHqFvC25yNzqmXicU58scAaXWvcKg_mJY3MQtDHuefuDGxQBxgLjwFgBieOo2GbhxfTKZ4CvQNeWsObyc1SWLsvHCnl3cO8HZxIGGtHkGZnBEzMxeMyCIUbP1trrxHl5k6dKYMl64QwXWiaLUthfoZFU04OS8JJcRFeyyPS07CfNWhf/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-14%20at%202.25.54%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: SHARKY'S MACHINE Year: 1981 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Although Burt Reynolds' box office rival Clint Eastwood deemed SHARKY'S MACHINE "Dirty Harry in Georgia," it's actually a spiritual remake of the film noir LAURA where a cop falls for a mysterious woman who was supposedly murdered by a killer using a shotgun at her apartment door — but turns out being another dame entirely...And before all that, Reynolds goes from a risky narc officer... whose opening drug deal turns into a solid city shootout... to one of several vice squad members in the shabby and neglected police headquarters-basement; and their first gig busting whores at a political rally with the two coolest characters, not including Burt, also the director... and with a skin-diver's cut instead of his usual distracting toupee, he hasn't been this legit since DELIVERANCE...

action, bernie casey, brian keith, burt reynolds, charles durning, cop, earl holliman, eighties, henry silva, jazz-score, neo noir, rachel ward, vice, vittorio gassman

BURT REYNOLDS STARS/DIRECTS THE NEO NOIR 'SHARKY'S MACHINE'

Title: SHARKY'S MACHINE Year: 1981 Rating: **** Although Burt Reynolds' box office rival Clint Eastwood deemed SHARKY'S MACHINE ...

JACK PALANCE IN THE NOIR REMAKE 'I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES'

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HIGH SIERRA is a great book that became an even greater film: With Raoul Walsh's tight direction from an adapted screenplay by Humphrey Bogart's (soon to be) most famous collaborator, John Huston, the iconic MALTESE FALCON, KEY LARGO and TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE star was finally, after playing villains in George Raft and James Cagney vehicles (Walsh directed THE ROARING TWENTIES), turned into a bonafide Hollywood A-lister, whose heavies would become anti-heroes thereafter... 
 
Although, just like John Wayne in his career-catapult, STAGECOACH, Bogie takes second-billing to a dame in tough and determined Ida Lupido... 
 
Which doesn't occur in the 1955 remake as Shelley Winters is far more vulnerable and passive, and, while not as pretty, does fit the role – had some knockout bombshell co-starred opposite Jack Palance as Roy Earle, he wouldn't be so initially dead-set on getting rid of her... That is, asking her to split from the woodsy fishing lake locale where four men, including himself, are poised to rob safe-kept jewels in a luxurious hotel not far away...

earl holliman, fifties, film noir or melodrama, heist, jack palance, jazz-score, lee marvin, perry lopez, remake, shelley winters