ROBERT MITCHUM & WILLIAM BENDIX IN 'MACAO' W/ JANE RUSSELL

<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/AVvXsEi3P5vRvhcQOu__FkLV8X7n3iHImu5O1TCjNz0_xc4yEgCxU6PEKmXnSKUg066RWBhxoo0vcaMEKRWcXA6uZo9xcH8Tytu4533dA0APFmC0JnRxC7tzAQLfnVup6yY5CVshGVuLiwNp-itdYiCr6zTUlI39ZLspnC-3bcx7s77zOReaA6GSMLEoheyuNivZ/s1666/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3P5vRvhcQOu__FkLV8X7n3iHImu5O1TCjNz0_xc4yEgCxU6PEKmXnSKUg066RWBhxoo0vcaMEKRWcXA6uZo9xcH8Tytu4533dA0APFmC0JnRxC7tzAQLfnVup6yY5CVshGVuLiwNp-itdYiCr6zTUlI39ZLspnC-3bcx7s77zOReaA6GSMLEoheyuNivZ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO owner Howard Hughes's in-house starlet Jane Russell, and both mostly taking place on a large boat...<br><br>There it's Mexico and here it's the titular Asian sampan-filled location of MACAO, which is mostly viewed through a vast number of rear projected shots as Mitchum meets fellow lonesome-traveler William Bendix, his co-star from THE BIG STEAL, while Russell... again a lounge singer... is involved with a nightclub's seedy yet sophisticated owner...</p><p><span></span></p>

brad dexter, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gloria grahame, howard hughes, jane russell, robert mitchum, thomas gomez, william bendix

ROBERT MITCHUM & WILLIAM BENDIX IN 'MACAO' W/ JANE RUSSELL

Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2 Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO own...

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

<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/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;"><u>Title: THE BIG HEAT Shown: Glenn Ford Year: 1953 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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... </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>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...</p><p><span></span></p>

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...

STANLEY BAKER AND LAURENCE HARVEY IN 'THE GOOD DIE YOUNG'

<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/AVvXsEjzcd_c4F9CJaJ2_H1tWJw3WMOxk5XpK8YGM8QFzB0phnTIc8Wa9KLd8VSI8OuAoihlWWnxBEsmROZlPCF4FWjnszYTjTo1nZuQpRuqFoXF9GAWGvESenNXOXNj9aSnzFRcXIGn6Cl7-NSYRpqeOGpoDJfNQW1opK2fjN89peUCoC1TdOv2bnUedQSJYw/s925/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-06%20at%2012.54.25%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="925" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzcd_c4F9CJaJ2_H1tWJw3WMOxk5XpK8YGM8QFzB0phnTIc8Wa9KLd8VSI8OuAoihlWWnxBEsmROZlPCF4FWjnszYTjTo1nZuQpRuqFoXF9GAWGvESenNXOXNj9aSnzFRcXIGn6Cl7-NSYRpqeOGpoDJfNQW1opK2fjN89peUCoC1TdOv2bnUedQSJYw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-06%20at%2012.54.25%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GOOD DIE YOUNG Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Lewis Gilbert's London-set Noir/Melodrama would lack some of the Melodrama without the two Americans countering the two Englishmen: although Stanley Baker's working-class boxer does get theatrical outside the ring, and, staring with four men in a car, guns drawn, about to commit a robbery, we experience backstories of each... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>John Ireland's a broke, whiny GI married to cheating movie star Gloria Grahame — a mismatched couple to begin with — while Richard Basehart has pregnant Joan Collins and a clingy mother-in-law, attempting suicide when <i>they</i> attempt flying back overseas: So one American needs airfare while the other needs a divorce... making both weak candidates for crime, saving the best for last... </p><p><span></span></p>

boxing, british, british film noir/melodrama, fifties, gloria grahame, heist, joan collins, john ireland, laurence harvey, lewis gilbert, margaret leighton, richard basehart, romance, stanley baker

STANLEY BAKER AND LAURENCE HARVEY IN 'THE GOOD DIE YOUNG'

Title: THE GOOD DIE YOUNG Year: 1954 Rating: ***1/2 Lewis Gilbert's London-set Noir/Melodrama would lack some of the Melodrama without t...

SUE LYON IN 'TAROT' AKA 'THE MAGICIAN' WITH FERNANDO REY

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNaMeTObpLc744-OMdDO1qfbh7RuRxBO9igBzZFAlYud0J73jGPtVC98YvCOngQMctQ8UVWn8JnEixNaZ5F4tXJ5uyYm8GIlT0dCzdLA5_r-cFiQO2vYcU2mzAJk21AmTj6zMYPiBvphM8/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-09-05%252Bat%252B6.04.07%252BAM%252B2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNaMeTObpLc744-OMdDO1qfbh7RuRxBO9igBzZFAlYud0J73jGPtVC98YvCOngQMctQ8UVWn8JnEixNaZ5F4tXJ5uyYm8GIlT0dCzdLA5_r-cFiQO2vYcU2mzAJk21AmTj6zMYPiBvphM8/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-09-05%252Bat%252B6.04.07%252BAM%252B2.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sue Lyon in TAROT aka AUTOPSY aka GAME OF MURDER from 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Fernando Rey, the suave actor best known for THE FRENCH CONNECTION as the resilient drug lord taking a busman’s holiday in New York City, gets mixed up with LOLITA herself, Sue Lyon, who, over a decade since her star-making role in the Stanley Kubrick classic, had a sexy weathered look with cheap blue eyeliner, glazed/glossy eyes and a personal penchant for dirt bikes...<br> <br> Albeit completely befitting a dusty exploitation from Spain titled TAROT, also known as THE MAGICIAN, ANGELA or AUTOPSY... you choose... Beginning with a semi-psychedelic opening credit sequence related to the film’s title: a collage of those spooky cards, including Death on a Horse, than can foresee the future no matter how bleak…<br>

con man, exploitation, fernando rey, gloria grahame, import, jazz score, neo noir, seventies, sue lyon, thriller

SUE LYON IN 'TAROT' AKA 'THE MAGICIAN' WITH FERNANDO REY

Sue Lyon in TAROT aka AUTOPSY aka GAME OF MURDER from 1973 Fernando Rey, the suave actor best known for THE FRENCH CONNECTION as the re...