Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

Great accidents happen once in a while that leave us saying thank God for accidents. The Killer’s starring Burt Lancaster plucked fresh from Broadway (in his motion picture debut) and Ava Gardner is just such a film.
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This 1946 classic from Universal Pictures was almost made with different lead actors. The role of Kitty Collins […]

A private detective is being set up to take a murder rap. he is being framed and the only one who believes him and the only one he can trust is his secretary. This is the premise for Dark Corner, a nice little noir from 20th Century Fox. What is also nice about this picture […]

One of the greatest cold war pictures. However this one almost strikes a balance, there is evil in both ideologies. Sure, commies are a bad and ruthless bunch but so can the mother of a much decorated war hero be as well. After the much despised by his troops Captain Raymond Shaw returns from […]

During the war, World War two that is, Dick Powell shed his Busby Berkley young male lead sheen and got butch and manly. The transformation seemed to happen overnight. Playing Philip Marlow certainly helped create his new image. No more shuffling off to Buffalo.
This is an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Farewell […]

This was a huge favorite at the store. It is also a noir classic complete with a hero that lives by a code. The under used and severly under rated Charles McGraw stars as a Los Angeles homicide detective who is sent to Chicago to pick up a witness to a mob killing. […]

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 […]

Not only is High Sierra a great picture it is a landmark Bogart picture. He is not playing a smarmy second banana in a Cagney film, he is coming into his own. He proves without a doubt that he can carry a picture effortlessly. This movie was written by John Huston and it was […]

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