Anne Baxter is young woman who becomes the suspect in a lurid murder case in Fritz Lang’s 1953 film noir.
Tag: 1953
‘Pickup on South Street’ – Sam Fuller’s pickpocket noir on Criterion Channel
Richard Widmark gives his most feral performance as three-time loser who gets in the middle of a spy ring in this engaging 1953 film noir classic.
‘It Came From Outer Space’ – an alien visitation
Ominous title aside, this 1953 science fiction classic is one of the more optimistic movies about visitors from the stars, and in its way was an inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s ‘E.T.’
John Wayne is ‘Hondo’ in the classic Louis L’Amour western on Hulu and Paramount+
The leathery frontier drama costars Geraldine Page as a lonely homesteader left alone with her son in the midst of war between the Apaches and the Cavalry.
’99 River Street’ – Bare knuckle noir on Amazon Prime Video
Phil Karlson is, to my mind, to toughest of the film noir directors. Films like Kansas City Confidential and Phenix City Story give us heroes who get knocked around by life and come up for more. 99 River Street (1953), arguably Karlson’s greatest film and certainly his most beautifully brutal, is a film driven by […]
‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ – Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
Howard Hawks discovered one of the great female screen teams in bubbly gold digger Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and wry, unapologetically man-hungry Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), a musical take on the Jazz Age novel by screenwriting great Anita Loos. Lorelei and Dorothy are showgirls and best friends on a luxury […]
Blu-ray: Josef von Sternberg ‘s ‘Anatahan’ restored on Kino Classics
Inspired by the true story of Japanese sailors stranded on a deserted island during World War II, Anatahan (1953) was the final film completed by Josef von Sternberg. In a career where he was increasingly forced to compromise his style and sensibility, it marked his final hurrah: a film over which he had complete control. […]