Posts Tagged ‘ Jules Dassin ’

Brute Force

Nov 6th, 2008 | By Rick | Category: Classic Cinema, Reviews

Brute Force is very much a product of that time right after World War II when the world was reeling from the revelations of Nazi atrocities — when we had just discovered the depths to which our fellow human beings can go.



One in Eight Million

Sep 25th, 2008 | By Rick | Category: Classic Cinema, Reviews

In Jules Dassin’s The Naked City, Barry Fitzgerald is so over-the-top, cloyingly Irish I want to hit him.  He stops just short of drinking green beer and saying “faith and begorrah.”  I am surprised that the Irish Anti-defamation league (is there really such a thing?) doesn’t have a big black mark next to the movie.
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Paint it Noir

Aug 9th, 2008 | By Rick | Category: Analysis and Comment

In 1951, Edward Dmytryk got out of prison after serving a number of months for contempt of Congress. Dmytryk had directed a couple of decent noirs — Crossfire and Murder, My Sweet — before getting himself crosswise with the House Committee on Un-Aamerican Activities (HUAC) as part of the “Hollywood Ten”. He was in [...]