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.
Tags: Brute Force, Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Jules Dassin
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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.
There, [...]
Tags: Barry Fitzgerald, Jules Dassin, The Naked City
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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 [...]
Tags: Blacklist, Jules Dassin
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