His Kind of Woman is a film noir from 1951 that stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in lead roles, with Vincent Price, Raymond Burr, Tom Holt and Charles McGraw part of a strong supporting cast. Even though John Farrow is given credit for directing the picture, Richard Fleisher directed all the re-shoots and re-casting…
Mystery Street Blu-ray review
Screen legend Ricardo Montalban (Fantasy Island, The Naked Gun, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn) was a Mexican and American actor who had an amazing career in film and television. Along the way, earlier in his career before achieving stardom, he was the lead in a couple of classic film noirs. One noir that…
Side Street Blu-ray review
There’s nothing like a story of a man who steals money so he, his wife and child can have a better life but then feels completely conflicted about it! In Anthony Mann’s Film Noir Side Street is such a film about your average American committing a crime and later regretting it! The movie was shot…
Underworld Beauty [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
Miyamoto (Michitarô Mizushima) is fresh from a stint in prison due to a diamond heist. After collecting the hidden diamonds from the heist, he tells his yakuza boss Oyane (Shinsuke Ashida) that the profits from the diamonds are going to his old partner Mihara (Tôru Abe) who was crippled in the heist to get them….
Nora Prentiss Blu-ray review
Nora Prentiss is a film Noir about a man who has become weary with his all too routine married life. The boredom of staleness of his lifestyle leads him to falling in love with another woman, the title character, and it proves to be the costliest thing he has ever done. Directed by Vincent Sherman…
Conflict Blu-ray review
Screen legend Sydney Greenstreet and the iconic Humphrey Bogart appeared together in five films. Only one of those films had Bogart playing a villainous role, with Greenstreet playing a noble character and that film is the classic Warner Brothers Film Noir, Curtis Bernhardt’s Conflict. In addition to being a Film Noir, Conflict it is also…
The Lady from Shanghai UHD review
Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai is an American film noir produced, directed by and stars the iconic Welles. The 1947 movie also stars screen legend Rita Hayworth (who he was married to at the time), Everett Sloane and Glenn Anders. The movie is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by…
Victims of Sin [Criterion Collection] Blu-ray Review
Ninón Sevilla is Violeta, a vivacious dancer, or rumbera, at Cabaret Changó but is soon plagued with mistreatment and assault at the hands of the suave but ruthless pimp Rudolfo. To make matters worse, Violeta loses her job at the cabaret when she rescues a baby from a trash can and brings it into work…
The Facts of Murder – Blu-ray Review (Radiance Films)
Two crimes occur in an old apartment building in Rome just a few days apart. The first, a suspicious robbery of a bachelor and the second, the brutal stabbing of the woman living just next door. Inspector Ingravallo (Pietro Germi) is called in to solve both cases and his tough, no-nonsense approach immediately begins to…
The Turning Point Blu-ray review
For the longest time, I have wanted to see The Turning Point, mainly due to the cast and that it’s a film Noir / crime drama, a genre that I enjoy. The movie stars a pair of screen legends William Holden, Edmond O’Brien, and the lovely Alexis Smith. William Dieterle directed this 1952 film. The…