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Rope Of Sand
“If you were going to catch a man what would you use as bait?” Hal Wallis’ production Rope Of Sand (1949) finds Burt Lancaster out for vengeance and diamonds in… Read more »
“If you were going to catch a man what would you use as bait?” Hal Wallis’ production Rope Of Sand (1949) finds Burt Lancaster out for vengeance and diamonds in… Read more »
Mitchell Leisen directed Hold Back The Dawn (1941) from a screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. Famously the director and screenwriters didn’t get along. However, the resulting film from… Read more »
Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) is a struggling painter whose career is going nowhere until he meets a mysterious young woman named Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones). Jennie seems to move through… Read more »
There are two moments in Otto Preminger’s film Daisy Kenyon (1947) when the music of David Raksin swells only to be cut short abruptly. This music begins non-diegetically to underscore… Read more »
The Man Who Came To Dinner (1944) sees Monty Woolley reprising the title role that he originated on Broadway in the play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Woolley… Read more »
After building a reputation with a series of artful B-Movies, Jacques Tourneur was given a lavish budget by RKO to make the iconic Film Noir picture Out Of The Past… Read more »
Film Noir is as celebrated and fetishized as it is misunderstood. The films considered Film Noir were only so labeled well after the fact in order to create a canon… Read more »
Broadway Melody Of 1940 (1940) was the fourth and final film in MGM’s loosely connected franchise of backstage musical comedies. Production of the film was overseen by Jack Cummings, who… Read more »
Star In The Night (1945) is a two-reel short film produced by Warner Bros. and written by Saul Elkins. The film retells the New Testament story of the Nativity in… Read more »
After having been shipwrecked for seven years Ellen Arden’s (Irene Dunne) husband Nick Arden (Gary Grant) has had her declared legally dead so that he can marry Miss Bianca Bates… Read more »