Re: [bomp] Re: bomp-digesT stealth noir

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- 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...
>  
"Sweet Smell of Success" isn't even borderline. It's
noir ; made
towards the end of the noir era, but still noir. The
dialogue in
that film is AMAZING, too.....

Sexual orgies, homosexual or not, eliminate social tensions and should be encouraged. - Justice Vincent Scalia


		
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