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Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« on: November 22, 2011, 01:56:38 AM »
This is for the wife, and will not interfere with finishing my Directors of Shame or Mike Leigh Marathon. Nor will it delay my Kurosawa/Truffaut/Ray marathon. This should take most of 2012 to complete.
Anything we see this month I will post in Noir-vember. After that I will post reviews in "Write about the last movie you watched". This thread is to keep track of the list plus any further discussion.

99 River Street (Phil Karlson, 1953)
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, 1948)
Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1952)
Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer, 1950)
The Big Clock (John Farrow, 1948)
The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)
The Big Steal (Don Siegel, 1949)
Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961)
Boomerang! (Elia Kazan, 1947)
The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz, 1950)
Brute Force (Jules Dassin, 1947)
The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, 1957)
The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1946)
Cornered (Edward Dmytryk, 1945)
The Crimson Kimono (Sam Fuller, 1959)
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, 1949)
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947)
Cry Vengeance (Mark Stevens, 1954)
Dark Waters (Andre De Toth, 1944)
Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, 1947)
Detective Story (William Wyler, 1951)
Don’t Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker, 1952)
The Enforcer (Bretaigne Windust, 1951)
Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, 1945)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
Gilda (Charles Vidor, 1946)
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1949)
The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson, 1956)
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953)
Human Desire (Fritz Lang, 1954)
I Walk Alone (Byron Haskin, 1947)
Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, 1952)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Gordon Douglas, 1950)
The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1948)
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, 1945)
The Letter (William Wyler, 1940)
The Lineup (Don Siegel, 1958)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang, 1944)
Murder By Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958)
My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945)
Mystery Street (John Sturges, 1950)
The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948)
The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, 1950)
Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953)
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947)
Nocturne (Edwin L. Marin, 1946)
No Man of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen, 1950)
Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, 1959)
Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, 1950)
Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Plunder Road (Hubert Cornfield, 1957)
Pushover (Richard Quine, 1954)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948)
Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson, 1952)
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (Robert Siodmak, 1945)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, 1946)
The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946)
Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, 1940)
Sudden Fear (David Miller, 1952)
The Suspect (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh, 1940)
They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
T-Men (Anthony Mann, 1947)
Too Late For Tears (Byron Haskin, 1949)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Peter Godfrey, 1947)
Union Station (Rudolph Maté, 1950)
The Web (Michael Gordon, 1947)
When Strangers Marry (William Castle, 1944)
Without Warning! (Arnold Laven, 1952)
Witness to Murder (Roy Rowland, 1954)
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944)
Woman on the Run (Norman Foster, 1950)
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937)
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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2011, 07:26:11 AM »
Wow - that is quite the undertaking, 1SO!  I look forward to following along.
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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2011, 08:30:46 AM »
Oh man that's a good list.

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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2011, 11:04:29 AM »
This is for the wife, and will not interfere with finishing my Directors of Shame or Mike Leigh Marathon. Nor will it delay my Kurosawa/Truffaut/Ray marathon. This should take most of 2012 to complete.

Anything we see this month I will post in Noir-vember. After that I will post reviews in "Write about the last movie you watched". This thread is to keep track of the list plus any further discussion.


Brute Force (Jules Dassin, 1947)
Don’t Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker, 1952)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948)
Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, 1959)
These I especially like (Anne Bancroft singing in Don't Bother still makes my head spin). I would add The Killers & Crossfire if you haven't already seen them.
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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2011, 11:18:15 AM »
I've seen the 1946 The Killers, but I don't think I've seen the 1964 remake with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. Added Crossfire.

A lot of the same directors keep popping up.

4 from Jules Dassin
4 from Edward Dmytryk
3 from Phil Karlson
3 from Fritz Lang
3 from Anthony Mann
3 from Robert Siodmak
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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2011, 03:07:23 PM »
That's 5 great directors and Edward Dmytryk!
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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2011, 11:57:53 PM »
I'm going to have to bump this from time to time so it doesn't vanish to page 2 before I'm done.

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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2011, 09:16:27 AM »
Have you seen Night and the City yet?
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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2011, 09:41:18 AM »

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Re: Mr. and Mrs. 1SO Noir Marathon
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2011, 09:47:19 AM »
Have you seen Night and the City yet?

Yes. It's an unpopular opinion.

I missed that review. And I have to agree with verbALs assessment a couple of posts down from yours. After you finish this marathon, or at least at the halfway point, you should give it another chance. After a good dosage of noir, you may see it and Widmark's performance in a different light. Plus, it's worth it just to watch Googie Withers and Francis L. Sullivan play off each other.
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