Archive for July, 2007
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Thriller/Suspense| No Comments »This is THE text book film noir. It is the standard by which all others were made and measured up to. I know that this is a bold statement and borderline crazy but all “film noirs” leading up to this picture are funneled into this picture. The femme fatal in the extreme […]
Flamingo
Tawdry| No Comments »This was a Movie Place favorite. It is tawdry with a capital T. It has every thing a good soap opera should have: sex, corruption, blackmail, suicide and murder. The only thing missing is drug use. It is no wonder that it was the basis for the 80’s prime time soap opera.
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Film Noir| No Comments »I know that this is a long post but I do not want to cut it. Back in the mid late 1980’s when I first began working at Movie Place,we had a customer who knew of my longtime obsession with Robert Mitchum. Nothing wrong with that. This customer had also been the […]
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Romance| No Comments »One day in the early 1940’s, Howard Hawks’ wife was looking through a magazine when she came across an advertisement that featured a striking young woman. She shows him the picture and the ball starts rolling. Just before this event, Ernest Hemingway had a bet with Mr. Hawks. The bet was that […]
Dark
Drama| No Comments »Dark Passage was another constant in the Movie Place rotation of what was on the screen. It has a murder, a prison break out, a slightly insane back alley plastic surgeon, an incredibly villainous woman and a love story all rolled into one great 106 minute picture. It has everything one could possibly […]
