Noir Beach Shack ♬

A poster of the noir film Crime Wave.

Rewatch: CRIME WAVE (1954), a gritty, 74-minute B-noir with a taut script, rapid pace, superb performances and perfect on-location filming in L.A.

Three prison escapees rob a gas station, kill a cop and force an ex-con-gone-straight into …
#FilmSky #noir #FilmNoir #MovieSky #thriller
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It's hard to pick a favorite Ida Lupino #FilmNoir because I like all of them, but a lesser known one is Private Hell 36 (1954) ~ directed by Don Siegel...

Ida Lupino. #WomenInNoir
A legend in front of and behind the camera, she's a #filmnoir force that credits singer, director, writer, and producer to her resume. During her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed 8.

What's your favorite?

Robert Mitchum's gas station in #FilmNoir Out of the Past (1947)

Charles McGraw and Jacqueline White in the Narrow Margin

#NowWatching a favorite Charles McGraw #filmnoir, #TheNarrowMargin. It's worth noting that costar Jacqueline White is still with us at age 103.

Monday

One of the greats. In a Lonely Place, Ride the Pink Horse, and The Expendable Man secure her place, not just in crime but literature.

THE SO BLUE MARBLE was a revelation. So damn good.

Celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth with #WomenInNoir with Dorothy Hughes, crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote 14 novels, primarily crime/hardboiled & #filmnoir styles like The Fallen Sparrow ('42) In a Lonely Place ('47), & Ride the Pink Horse ('46).

"The New York World's Fair? That means we're in ... "

"1939. We came back, but we didn't come back far enough."

#S2E18

Twilight Zone's "The Odyssey of Flight 33"

We hope you're ready for an absolute knockout, as today's Oscar goes...a few rounds! 🥊

Our #31DaysOfOscar lineup tonight has us squaring up on stories with high stakes fights, starting with Humphrey Bogart in THE HARDER THEY FALL ('56) at 8pm ET.

Monday

Chester Morris may have a “Blind Spot” (19457) when it comes to finding a murder. As an alcoholic writer, he’s not sure what happened to a publisher who ends up dead after a meeting. Steven Geray is a writer who tries to help. So does secretary Constance Dowling. Columbia. #FilmNoir

Anthony Uzarowski’s Lauren Bacall:The Queen of Cool book has just landed! #FilmNoir

Winding down the weekend...

"To the wee ones ... the little folk called man ... it's a marvelous adventure, a voyage to another planet."

Check out the rest of Serling's original closing narration for "To Serve Man," which he had rewritten entirely by the time the episode was filmed.

#Season3Episode24

#NoirAlley will not be back until March 21st...

#FilmNoir #TCMParty

Sunday

*Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945) #FilmNoir

Throughout the month of March, I’ll be featuring #WomenInNoir to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth and showcasing the many talents of our favorite #filmnoir dames in the industry. I hope you’ll join and add to the conversation! 📽️

Railroad Train represents a passenger train running out of view at the right edge of the canvas, red tail lights gleaming on the last car. The smoke plume streaming across the upper half of the composition, the slight left-to-right downgrade of the tracks, and the windblown wheat field all serve to underscore the impression of movement.

Railroad Train by Edward Hopper, 1908

Celebrating #botd for Director, Producer, and Screenwriter, Ben Hecht. His list of movies is long and notable, spanning many genres and including some classic #filmnoir.

Do you have a favorite?
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1949 Thieves' Highway, dir. Jules Dassin, and starring Richard Conte and Lee J Cobb.
#NowWatching #FilmSky #MovieSky #filmnoir

#mood

Humphrey Bogart in Jungapeo, Mexico while filming The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

John Coltrane

“Aisha”

Album “Ole Coltrane”

McCoy Tyner-Piano/Composer
Freddie Hubbard-Trumpet
Eric Dolphy-Alto Sax
Elvin Jones-Drums
youtu.be/wi7X-7QDyfE?...
#Jazz #JazzSky #Music #MusicSky #NowPlaying

Scarlett Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)
DoP: Milton Krasner
#FilmNoir #FilmSky

#BOTD Joan Bennett

A week of hanging out with Bogie and Bacall..

#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched

Friday is that you?
Dick Powell stars in #filmnoir To the Ends of the Earth (1948) directed by Robert Stevenson. The film opened on February 12, 1948, and was the number-one film at the US box office for the week.

Happy Friday. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

*Joan Bennett in Scarlet Street (1945) Directed by Fritz Lang
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#BornOnThisDay the great #FIlmNoir star (and so much more) Joan Bennett (1910 - 1990). #BOTD