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Re: [bomp] Re: stealth noir




--- Moparlary@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 4/8/2005 5:12:35 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,  
> owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com writes:
> 
> 
> I'd  consider "The Man With The Golden Arm" to be
> borderline noir,
> especially  considering that Preminger did direct
> quite
> a few noir
> films. I've never  seen "Hatful of Rain" - I'd heard
> that was Tony Francisiosa (spelling?))'s  fave of
> all
> the roles he ever did. Funny, considering all the
> dope
> films  I've seen (including some REALLY obscure
> ones,
> like a Mexican silent drug  exploitation film from
> 1926
> called "The Iron Fist"), I've somehow missed  that
> one.
> 
> 
> 
> I's also nominate "Sweet Smell of Success" for it's
> seamy underbelly  of the 
> entertianment column biz vibe, great performances
> and wonderful balack  and 
> white scenes of late 1950's Manhattan. oh yeah, and
> the cars...

Plus that's the movie that inspired Andrew Loog Oldham
to be a press agent.


		
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