#FilmNoir attracted some of cinema’s greatest filmmakers, including Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder and John Huston, as well as others who came to specialise in the genre, Edward Dmytryk, Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger and Don Siegel. independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
#1. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) "Based on James M. Cain's novel, script Wilder and Raymond Chandler."
"It was a hot afternoon, I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?"
#15. Laura (also 1944) "Laura is found murdered. The detective in charge of the case is entranced by her portrait, above her fireplace."
"You better watch out McPherson, you'll end up in a psychiatric ward. I don't think they ever had a patient who fell in love with a corpse."
#10. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956) "Small time crooks plan a heist, last time, a one off, millions of dollars, race-track robbery."
"You got a great big $ sign where most dames have a heart. You'll have lots of money, George will have lots of money, so just play it safe."
#14. The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
"Adaption of a Hemingway short story of an insurance investigator piecing together the mystery an ex-boxer Burt Lancaster (his film debut). In flashback, we find out. And, a smouldering Ava Gardner has a lot to do with Lancaster’s demise."
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
"A WW2 veteran, and wrongly convicted, an ex-con, is trying to go straight as a delivery driver, but is framed in a $million armored car robbery. Beaten by police to confess, released, he follows the trail of the real culprits to clear his name."
Too Late For Tears (1949) Dir. Byron Haskin #FilmNoir
"Jane (Lizabeth Scott), and Alan Palmer (Arthur Kennedy), have a bagful of cash thrown into their open top car on a lonely highway. Alan plans on turning it in to the police but Jane has very different ideas." With Dan Duryea
Rififi (Du rififi chez les hommesa) 1955
French #filmnoir directed by US blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin. Stars Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, and Jules Dassin.
"Four ex-cons plan an almost impossible, perfect crime, the burglary of an exclusive jewellery shop."
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#BOTD 1953 – 2015 James Horner, 61, (Plane Crash), US composer.
OscarNom: Aliens (1987) * Glory (Golden Globe nom) * Somewhere Out There (American Tail) * Field of Dreams * Apollo 13 * Braveheart * Titanic (and Song - Oscar) * Beautiful Mind * House of Sand + Fog * Avatar (2009)
A white officer, Robert Shaw, faces opposition from his fellow officers, and ire from enemy soldiers for leading a battalion of black soldiers of 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in Civil War.
Glory (1989 Golden Globe nom)
#BOTD 1953 – James Horner, Aged 61, (Plane Crash), US composer. (d. 2015)
Other Films: The Lady in Red (1979) * The Dresser * Gorky Park * Cocoon 1/2 * The Name of the Rose * Hocus Pocus * The Perfect Storm * Enemy at the Gates * Troy * Apocalypto * Magnificent Seven (2016)
He moved to US to escape Nazis, wrote one Hollywood screenplay (Fritz Lang, Hangmen Also Die 1943), came under investigation by HUAC, testified, then left for East Germany, before being deported.
Life of Galileo * Mother Courage + Her Children * Good Person of Szechwan * Caucasian Chalk Circle * Mr Puntila + his Man Matti * Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
(1929 based John Gay's Beggar's [Threepenny] Opera)
"Brecht’s testimony is legendary. Asked did he write “Forward We’ve Not Forgotten” (from his play Decision), read in English translation, he responds, “No, I wrote a German poem, but that is very different from this thing,” provoking laughter in audience."
His job in advertising, as copy writer and as designer, he said later, was his "first step toward cinema." He read that Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky, was opening a studio in London, and in 1919, he was hired.
Blackmail * Juno and Paycock * Murder! * Skin Game * Mary * Rich and Strange * Number Seventeen * Waltzes from Vienna * Man Who Knew Too Much * Secret Agent * Sabotage * Young and Innocent * Lady Vanishes * Jamaica Inn
#BOTD 1931 – 2018 William Goldman, Age 90, US author, playwright, screenwriter.
Oscars screenplays Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969) All the President's Men (1976) Screenplays: Masquerade (1965) Harper * Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid * The Hot Rock * Stepford Wives (1975)
#BOTD 1931 – 2018 William Goldman, Age 90, US author, playwright, screenwriter
Screenplays The Great Waldo Pepper * Marathon Man (his novel) All the President's Men * A Bridge Too Far * Magic (his novel) * Heat (his novel) * The Princess Bride (his novel) Misery * A Few Good Men
#BOTD 1931 – 2018 William Goldman, US, author, screenwriter.
"Corky, a failed magician, adopts a new ventriloquist act with his caustic dummy, 'Fats'. He's a success and lined up for a TV show, but his anxiety over a medical cause him to flee to his old hometown."
To Have and Have Not (1944 age 19) * Confidential Agent * Two Guys from Milwaukee * The Big Sleep * Dark Passage * Key Largo * Young Man with a Horn
#OTD 2014 – Lauren Bacall, US actress, singer (b. 1924)
You don't have to say anything, you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle ...
... you know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips together - and blow.
To Have and Have Not (1944)
#OTD 2014 – Lauren Bacall, Aged 89, US model, actress, and singer (b. 1924)
How to Marry a Millionaire * Woman's World * The Cobweb * Blood Alley * Written on Wind * Designing Woman * Gift of Love * North West Frontier * Shock Treatment * Sex and Single Girl * Harper
She made her film debut in 1916, in Sweet Kitty Bellairs, age 3 years old. The Sheik (1921) Kismet (1930) Platinum Blonde * House of Rothschild * Clive of India * Call of the Wild * Suez * Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Along Came Jones * The Stranger * The Farmer's Daughter (Oscar) * Rachel and Stranger * Bishop's Wife * Accused * Mother is a Freshman * Key to City * Cause for Alarm * It Happens Every Thursday (1953 final film, aged 40)
"A war crimes investigator (Edward G Robinson) tracks down a high-ranking SS fugitive (Orson Welles) who is hiding his identity as a teacher in Connecticut, about to marry the daughter of a Supreme Court Judge." The Stranger (1946)