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Written by James M. Tate / 1/16/2025 / No comments / andre morell , fifties , hammer films , hammer noir , lizabeth scott , melodrama , paul henreid , romance , russel napier , terence fisher , thriller

LIZABETH SCOTT AND PAUL HENREID IN HAMMER'S 'STOLEN FACE'

<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/AVvXsEinsujolPhpg8ZjniWjkhfmaYu1C8bciT0MQUqjeJD7jgsPEd3n0Ezert8DQ1Nur-cgD4Q7Sf_Di8coohaNtPE2hrDUubFHhyphenhyphenpLhcJQV6jNVtQQABg7V2YI9qO6j35oYsmd4lZLmtkIm7FvRfn621CT3vY-I1VVUR-GVLj7roOm4Jo18fnq_3dov6Sk3Fup/s1842/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-16%20at%204.23.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1258" data-original-width="1842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinsujolPhpg8ZjniWjkhfmaYu1C8bciT0MQUqjeJD7jgsPEd3n0Ezert8DQ1Nur-cgD4Q7Sf_Di8coohaNtPE2hrDUubFHhyphenhyphenpLhcJQV6jNVtQQABg7V2YI9qO6j35oYsmd4lZLmtkIm7FvRfn621CT3vY-I1VVUR-GVLj7roOm4Jo18fnq_3dov6Sk3Fup/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-16%20at%204.23.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: Stolen Face Year: 1952 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>Passive CASABLANCA French actor Paul Henreid's cheated on again, here in Hammer's noirish-drama STOLEN FACE, describing how Henreid, a plastic surgeon, made a badly scarred female career-criminal look exactly like the beautiful (and surreptitiously engaged) sophisticated pianist he fell for during the first half, resembling more of a Douglas Sirk melodrama than the intended crime-thriller by Hammer's future stock auteur Terence Fisher...Enter American import Lizabeth Scott, who turned to England what she couldn't find in America, having portrayed both good and bad girls in stateside noir films, and here she plays both... despite only the original classic pianist character baring her own famously sultry low voice, which would have fit better than dubbing the original pre-surgery Mary Mackenzie for consistency (which wouldn't matter given the initial far-fetched premise)...

andre morell, fifties, hammer films, hammer noir, lizabeth scott, melodrama, paul henreid, romance, russel napier, terence fisher, thriller

LIZABETH SCOTT AND PAUL HENREID IN HAMMER'S 'STOLEN FACE'

Title: Stolen Face Year: 1952 Rating: *** Passive CASABLANCA French actor Paul Henreid's cheated on again, here in Hammer's noirish-...

ROBERT MITCHUM, WILLIAM TALMAN & ROBERT RYAN IN '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/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;">Title: THE RACKET 1951 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>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...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.

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...

MICHAEL CAINE & MIKE HODGES FOLLOW 'GET CARTER' WITH 'PULP'

<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/AVvXsEie4UxP1V-aP27RqHpg19-8ePOJk0dWIYROkzCP5rF6sYXu3vImYg4x-jGBg8u-Bh-CVpZjcEaHogGVJu_Uq37inR81ODBLCQ2znPdvLH7qUaS3xKIAH5mBbtnrsHu2R79xG9jPKePlpnLk-KyQXHmwtLvyEZtYpKyH07a2U5vOqC0pKdmAKCLuqa3h2vcC/s1954/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-14%20at%207.16.01%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="1954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie4UxP1V-aP27RqHpg19-8ePOJk0dWIYROkzCP5rF6sYXu3vImYg4x-jGBg8u-Bh-CVpZjcEaHogGVJu_Uq37inR81ODBLCQ2znPdvLH7qUaS3xKIAH5mBbtnrsHu2R79xG9jPKePlpnLk-KyQXHmwtLvyEZtYpKyH07a2U5vOqC0pKdmAKCLuqa3h2vcC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-14%20at%207.16.01%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Caine gets fiction in PULP Year: 1972 Rates: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Director Mike Hodges and his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a> anti-hero Michael Caine found the perfect antidote in PULP, a dark comedy in which a deliberately bad "gangster fiction" novelist becomes part of his own style of flimsy storytelling while narrating along in the usual Gumshoe fashion... Then landing a plot/purpose after a random and eclectic forty-minutes of anticipation for a has-been actor that Caine's slippery scribbler will ghostwrite an autobiography for...

al lettieri, amerigo tot, british neo noir, british new wave, cult, dark comedy, lionel stander, lizabeth scott, michael caine, mickey rooney, mike hodges, neo noir, seventies, thriller

MICHAEL CAINE & MIKE HODGES FOLLOW 'GET CARTER' WITH 'PULP'

Michael Caine gets fiction in PULP Year: 1972 Rates: ** * * Director Mike Hodges and his GET CARTER anti-hero Michael Caine found the perfe...

STEVE COCHRAN & LIZABETH SCOTT IN VAL GUEST'S 'THE WEAPON'

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british film noir, drama, fifties, george cole, herbert marshall, jon whiteley, lizabeth scott, mystery, nicole maurey, sally anne field, steve cochran, thriller, val guest, war

STEVE COCHRAN & LIZABETH SCOTT IN VAL GUEST'S 'THE WEAPON'

Title: THE WEAPON Pictured: Steve Cochran and George Cole Year: 1957 Rating: **** Post War British a decade past, hence the genuine bombed-o...

MATURE & SCOTT HAVING A BALL IN TOURNEUR'S 'EASY LIVING'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year of Release: 1949</td></tr>
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A kind of Sports Noir given that the three main stars and director were staples of that particular mostly black-and-white, dark and shadowy genre... 
 
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And maybe Jacques Tourneur fans, expecting another CAT PEOPLE or OUT OF THE PAST were letdown, surprised or both that their man... 
 
Who usually thrived on dark subject matters or lavish, energetic Westerns, was behind a seemingly mundane picture about a quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams almost past his prime. But there's a lining in any and every cinematic rainbow if you admire a director enough to find their signature gold in an otherwise vacant mine — thanks especially to Tourneur, who helped a project that might've been a completely dull programmer instead of an entertaining, time-filling programmer that, though taking about fifteen minutes to take shape, flows together smoothly...