Imagine marrying a woman who is the daughter of someone you threw under the bus when you were in a jam. That’s what we have here in the 1948 classic, All My Sons. The film is a suspenseful noir drama directed by Irving Reis, and starring a pair of screen icons in Edward G. Robinson…
Apache Blu-ray review
Burt Lancaster is one of the great American actors and had a brilliant career starring in Film Noirs, dramas, Westerns and comedy. He had great range as an actor. Perhaps his greatest ‘range’ was in the 1954 Western film Apache where he plays an Apache Indian! The film was based on the novel Broncho Apache…
Blu-ray Review – Brute Force/The Naked City (Criterion)
Odd to admit this, but it was my love of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville that lead me to find Jules Dassin. I remember trying to find anything that resembled Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge in the wake of seeing those in my early 20’s and finding Dassin’s Rififi in the process (I’m not…
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands Blu-ray review
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a Film Noir crime drama about a former solider Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster, Criss Cross, Scorpio) who is living in England and finds himself in a web because of a murder. Saunders accidently kills a man at a bar with one punch, runs away from the authorities, and…