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Written by James M. Tate / 11/08/2022 / No comments / dana andrews , ensemble , fifties , film noir or melodrama , fritz lang , howard duff , ida lupino , rhonda fleming , sally forrest , serial killer , thomas mitchell , thriller , vincent price

FRITZ LANG DIRECTING DANA ANDREWS 'WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'

<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj05KOdd2289pTyLxt7moyYh-uGbFIRge14RxXraKFvfL9phUmTXRS2LjGzg8nn-pblpfnFCWK83DNVECw16__Mlh7M4oKXNTOpz7maY0jQVuXly6n-Ctja6djxAO1L12vKhD_ygoHiDU9MD9kVCbl_hlLTVgMZFKadjBi0Gpo0CYJ1uLD5V0CIgFZiUw=s1082" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1082" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj05KOdd2289pTyLxt7moyYh-uGbFIRge14RxXraKFvfL9phUmTXRS2LjGzg8nn-pblpfnFCWK83DNVECw16__Mlh7M4oKXNTOpz7maY0jQVuXly6n-Ctja6djxAO1L12vKhD_ygoHiDU9MD9kVCbl_hlLTVgMZFKadjBi0Gpo0CYJ1uLD5V0CIgFZiUw=w400-h300" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Imagine Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane inheriting a news outlet instead of a goldmine to buy one, and there you have Vincent Price's not so kind Walter Kyne, who, after his powerful but honest father dies, takes over Kyne Enterprises — with a familiar "K" symbol ala CITIZEN KANE — and sets the employees against each other...<br>
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The winner must name a violent serial killer killing single women, making WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS part Film Noir and occasional Horror... </p><p></p><p>And it needs more of the latter from perhaps having too much of the first, character-wise: the overcrowded Kyne Corporation office ensemble includes whiskey-drinking career-newsroom chief Thomas Mitchell; sharp/flirtatious wire-service runner George Saunders; beyond flirtatious one-woman-womanizer James Craig; and star Andrews, surprisingly the least interesting character as the central newscaster... Although his scenes collaborating with token cop Howard Duff from THE NAKED CITY makes for worthy B&W crime scene Noir elements while a young, gnarly-looking John Barrymore Jr. takes the villain role albeit lacking motivation save the usual mommy issues: and even that's not really clarified...</p><span></span>

dana andrews, ensemble, fifties, film noir or melodrama, fritz lang, howard duff, ida lupino, rhonda fleming, sally forrest, serial killer, thomas mitchell, thriller, vincent price

FRITZ LANG DIRECTING DANA ANDREWS 'WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS'

Title: WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 Imagine Orson Welles's Charles Foster Kane inheriting a news outlet instead of a ...

CHARLTON HESTON & NICOLE MAUREY IN 'SECRET OF THE INCAS'

<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/AVvXsEhaXnZhmlvK4jWqs3DeajjCltVwRC40yeSeU_M-79C47dcQiTyuddaSIFKAsUsNMWdhFweyUITVWUC2TLLi4L8Rgi9OCUHB-Y4N97yZ1LTelKaE6McQspiaUR5rrxstJC5XC50SR2qJYp68KwublmZUSP9q8G0X0THCluQwwIR9_MthoPUOPfhvSQMI-w=s1111" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="1111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaXnZhmlvK4jWqs3DeajjCltVwRC40yeSeU_M-79C47dcQiTyuddaSIFKAsUsNMWdhFweyUITVWUC2TLLi4L8Rgi9OCUHB-Y4N97yZ1LTelKaE6McQspiaUR5rrxstJC5XC50SR2qJYp68KwublmZUSP9q8G0X0THCluQwwIR9_MthoPUOPfhvSQMI-w=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1953 Rates: **1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table>Jerry Hopper's cult film <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/secret-of-incas_17.html">SECRET OF THE INCAS</a> is already established to have inspired not only the iconic Harrison Ford as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/05/raiders-of-lost-ark.html">Indiana Jones</a> outfit including leather jacket and fedora, but both get reminded how attractive they are... girl student eyelids there and smitten lady tourists Marion Ross and Glenda Farrell here... </p><p></p><p></p><p>More importantly, each adventurous hero... paired with an equally rogue dame... piece together an incomplete curio to find out exactly where the archeological treasure is, and <i>that's</i> the SECRET...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, charlton heston, glenda farrell, jerry hopper, nicole maurey, thomas mitchell, treasure, yma sumec

CHARLTON HESTON & NICOLE MAUREY IN 'SECRET OF THE INCAS'

Year: 1953 Rates: **1/2 Jerry Hopper's cult film SECRET OF THE INCAS is already established to have inspired not only the iconic Harris...

JEAN GABIN IN 'MOONTIDE' WITH THOMAS MITCHELL & IDA LUPINO

<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/AVvXsEhTl53tWYDQMwFQdb9s9sMxvgG5LTNN95Vx4HtLFgqobzNu35O0rkRZeRngKbz-gaEHEFdqMKOLALOuP9iEoXONc419C2ssIP7KdPL3F_50JLBV2aoG8CoPtgKopN4yKJHjHUY_f9lvHorV53-qbTmdfS24J23RUnYBMPvB5R-8OFqU_DO9pyhs08qHpw/s1292/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-21%20at%203.46.39%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTl53tWYDQMwFQdb9s9sMxvgG5LTNN95Vx4HtLFgqobzNu35O0rkRZeRngKbz-gaEHEFdqMKOLALOuP9iEoXONc419C2ssIP7KdPL3F_50JLBV2aoG8CoPtgKopN4yKJHjHUY_f9lvHorV53-qbTmdfS24J23RUnYBMPvB5R-8OFqU_DO9pyhs08qHpw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-21%20at%203.46.39%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE Year: 1942 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Begins with an intentionally surreal barroom scene with the 
headless body of pouting-lipped barfly Penny Raymond, her head speaking a few feet away 
as tough and talkative Jean Gabin reaches for a beer, talking to a torso... </p><p></p><p>This during a night of blackout drinking; after which
 he feels falsely responsible for a murder heard about the next day... of a man he'd hazily fought the night before... and
 there's a twist...</p><span></span>

claude rains, film noir or melodrama, forties, helene reynolds, jean gabin, jerome cowan, robin raymond, romance, thomas mitchell

JEAN GABIN IN 'MOONTIDE' WITH THOMAS MITCHELL & IDA LUPINO

Jean Gabin in MOONTIDE Year: 1942 Rating: ***1/2 Begins with an intentionally surreal barroom scene with the headless body of pouting-lippe...

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