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Thoughts on Out of the Past

By Rick, on September 18th, 2008 |

What is it about gas stations in 1940s films noir? In Robert Siodmak’s The Killers, the Swede (Burt Lancaster) is working at a gas station in a bucolic little town when his past catches up with him, and in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past its the same thing. Former P.I. Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) [...]

Thoughts in the Night

By Rick, on September 11th, 2008 |

I caught up with The Night of the Hunter over on the indispensable Turner Classic Movies. Directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters, it has become a classic, some say a noir classic, although it’s only stylistically a noir; what it really is has been the subject of some debate.

A psychopathic [...]