The House on 92nd Street, 1945. Directed by Henry Hathaway and stars William Eythe and Lloyd Nolan.
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One of these oddities that were liked more in the day than now.
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The House on 92nd Street, 1945. Directed by Henry Hathaway and stars William Eythe and Lloyd Nolan.
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One of these oddities that were liked more in the day than now.
Pickup Alley, 1957(aka Interpol). Directed by John Gilling and starring Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano and Sid James.
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This is the new master from Arrow Academy. A rarely seen British film noir filmed in B&W cinemascope by Ted Moore.
British 50's singer Yana has a slot in it too. she was quite famous once.
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One, Two, Three, 1961. It was directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play Egy, kettő, három by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" Ninotchka, a 1939 film co-written by Wilder. The comedy features James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin, Howard St. John, and others. It would be Cagney's last film appearance until Ragtime in 1981, 20 years later.
Cagney thouroughly disliked Buchholz and wanted to thump him.;)
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Wilder was filming in Berlin the morning the Berlin Wall went up, forcing the crew to move to Munich. During principal photography, Wilder received a call from Joan Crawford, recently appointed to the board of directors of Pepsi-Cola following her husband Alfred Steele's death. In response to Crawford's protests over the use of the Coca-Cola brand in the film, Wilder scattered some references to Pepsi, including the final scene.
When the movie opened, it came with a spoken preface by Cagney, added by Wilder:
On Sunday, August 13th, 1961, the eyes of America were on the nation's capital, where Roger Maris was hitting home runs #44 and 45 against the Senators. On that same day, without any warning, the East German Communists sealed off the border between East and West Berlin. I only mention this to show the kind of people we're dealing with—real shifty.
This is the Eureka remastered Bluray/
Classic film that.. Cagney was superb, as were most of cast tbh. Buchholz stood out as the poorest actor alas.
War film with a difference now and, 'Heaven Knows Mr Allison', 1957. Directed by John Huston and stars Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum.
Cinematography by Oswald Morris.
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The Marines provided troops for the invasion climax. Six Japanese living in Brazil played some of the leading Japanese characters, while Chinese from the laundries and restaurants of Trinidad and Tobago filled out the rest of the Japanese soldiers.
Kerr was nominated for an Academy Award for her role.
Sullivan's Travels, 1941. It was written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.
Sullivan's Travels received disparate critical reception: The New York Times described it as "the most brilliant picture yet this year", praising Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 1941. But The Hollywood Reporter said that it lacked the "down to earth quality and sincerity which made [Sturges's] other three pictures of 1941 – The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, and Christmas in July – "a joy to behold".
Over time, the film's reputation has improved tremendously. Media historian Hal Erickson classified it as a "classic", "one of the finest movies about movies ever made" and a "masterpiece".[3] In 1990, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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"The HD master for Sullivan's Travels was created from a 35mm dupe negative by Universal Digital Services and delivered by Hollywood Classics. Additional picture and audio restoration work was carried out using a combination of software tools and techniques at Deluxe Digital - EMEA, London.
Film restoration supervisor: James White.
Film restoration for Deluxe Production: Mark Bonnici, Graham Jones, Tom Barrett, Clayton Baker.
Special Thanks: Peter Schade, NBC Universal."
The high-definition transfer has been struck from a pre-existing master and rather predictably there are some sporadic fluctuations. To be perfectly clear, there are portions of the film that look quite good, with image depth in particular being far superior when one compares the Blu-ray release with the R1 DVD release Criterion produced back in 2001 ..
Ths is the Arrow Academy Bluray.
Scarlett Street, 1945. It was directed by Fritz Lang and stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea.
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Local authorities in three cities (New York, Milwaukee, and Atlanta) banned Scarlet Street early in 1946 because of its dark plot and themes.
The film was based on the French novel La Chienne (literally The Bitch) by Georges de La Fouchardičre, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne (1931) by director Jean Renoir.
Go back a year and same cast and director for a very similar film.. The Woman In The Window, 1944.
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One of first film noir and some say it was the film that caused the term to be used.
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The Westerner, 1940. directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport.
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The film is remembered for Walter Brennan's performance as Judge Roy Bean for which he won his record-setting third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946. William Wyler again as director.. starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell.
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The Film won seven Academy Awards. The Best Years of Our Lives was also a massive commercial success and one of the top of the whole decade.
Despite his Oscar-nominated performance, Harold Russell(who had lost both hands during the war) was not a professional actor. As the Academy Board of Governors considered him a long shot to win, they gave him an Academy Honorary Award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance". When Russell in fact won Best Supporting Actor, there was an enthusiastic response. He is the only actor to have received two Academy Awards for the same performance.