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Too Late for Tears

By movieMoll on June 2, 2009

When a bag full of cash drops — literally — into her lap, Jane Palmer (Lizabeth Scott) is hellbent on hanging on to it, no matter who gets hurt. Her husband Alan (Arthur Kennedy) is a sap, and Danny Fuller (Dan Duryea) the thug who claims the money is rightfully his is slimy. However, Lizabeth [...]

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Too Late for Tears

By GroovyMovieGuy on June 2, 2009

What do we learn from film noir? Crime and greed don’t pay — especially when there’s a dame involved.
Ill-gotten gains, even though innocently acquired, bring turmoil into the life of Alan Palmer (Arthur Kennedy) and his wife Jane (Lizabeth Scott). A shady character Danny (Dan Duryea), Alan’s sister Cathy (Kristine Miller) and the mysterious Don [...]

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Detour

By movieMoll on March 27, 2009

Never pick up hitchhikers. Al Roberts (Tom Neal) learns this lesson the hard way. Waving his thumb, Al hits the road from New York to California to reunite with his girlfriend. He thinks he’s in the home stretch when he gets picked up by a guy named Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald) who says he’s going [...]

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Detour

By GroovyMovieGuy on March 27, 2009

Dark, gritty, noir. That’s all the good things I can say about this movie.
For some reason “Detour” has developed a cult following. Beats me why.
Everyone makes mistakes — and sometimes they are big ones — but most of us stop at some point. Our leading man makes mistakes, big mistakes, and keeps piling more on. [...]

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He Walked by Night

By movieMoll on March 25, 2009

The title sounded like this was going to be a vampire or werewolf movie. It’s actually a police procedural done in pseudo-documentary style, with a behind-the-scenes look at the infancy of CSI. Basehart, who walks by day as well as by night, does good job as cold, calculating criminal with no qualms about killing cops. [...]

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Laura

By movieMoll on March 23, 2009

Sometimes a movie brings all its elements together perfectly — the cast, the performances, the story, the dialogue, the direction, the lighting, the music, the photography. Film noir classic “Laura” is such a movie. Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) begins to fall in love with Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) as he investigates her murder and [...]

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