This excellent 1957 film from director Delmer Daves is a taut, austere western in the ‘High Noon’ mode but with a film noir sensibility.
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Dean Martin in ‘Kiss Me, Stupid’ on Amazon Prime
Billy Wilder was a master at sneaking sex into films like The Apartment and Irma la Douce in the years before the ratings system, but this is his most gleefully cynical and brash sex comedy Kiss Me, Stupid (1965) was so maligned on release it almost sunk Billy Wilder’s career. Dean Martin plays a parody […]
‘Jubal’ – Frontier Othello on VOD and Criterion Blu-ray/DVD
Delmer Daves was a Hollywood pro with a long career and an impressive filmography when he made Jubal (1956). A screenwriter turned director, Daves moved easily between all genres—war pictures, romances, westerns, Biblical epics, and a few noir-inflected dramas—and oddly enough found his biggest success in glossy melodrama A Summer Place, but I think he […]