Rare Films

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

2012-05-17T23:41:00.000-07:00

Writers: Jonathan Latimer (screenplay), Mindret Lord (original story)

Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter and Thomas Mitchell

Genres: Mystery | Drama | Thriller

Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his town of the gangsters infesting it. so as to be even a lot of economical in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. someday he meets an odd, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to assist him to realize his finish. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of straightforward cash, straightforward sex with an alluring young girl and also the promise of straightforward success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician however a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to point out him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who may be "Old Nick" , that's to mention Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man once more.

Ray Milland managed to try and do one thing that few critics were ever willing to admire him for. He was a decent wanting man of Welsh (not English) ancestry, who might play members of the English higher category. however he was continuously willing to stretch to a small degree quite different similar actors. For one factor, he might play villains. Even in his early career he was frequently solid as a weakling or a gigolo (as in "We're Not Dressing"). He was willing to experiment with comic roles further as straight drama. The result was that from 1942 to 1951 or therefore Milland was a Hollywood star. He played the leads in films as numerous as "Reap the Wild Wind", "The Major and therefore the Minor", "The Ministry of Fear", "The massive Clock", "The Lost Weekend", "Golden Earings", and "Alias Nick Beal". whereas a number of his films were comedies (such as "The Major and therefore the Minor" and "Skylark") quite variety were dramas or maybe melodramas. and a few of his characters skirt the sting of acceptable behavior. he's a person who has simply been released for committing a mercy killing of his wife in "The Ministry of Fear". though he's essentially innocent, he's a flirtatious kind in "The massive Clock". Even in Wilder's "The Major and therefore the Minor" there's an instant when Milland, smiling at the thought of what a true "knockout" "Sue-sue Applegate" (actually grown-up Ginger Rogers) is, suddenly gets a very pained look in his face - he doesn't like that he is thinking lascivious thoughts a few kid.

His deserved "Oscar" for "The Lost Weekend" is another example of this dark aspect - he's speculated to be a author, however he's a poseur with a heavy drinking drawback. In fact, he contemplates suicide at the conclusion of the film, solely to be stopped by Jane Wyman.

In "Alias Nick Beal" he played his most sinister half (except probably Tony Wendice in "Dial "M" For Murder"). Here he played Satan, and he's in total management of the sport throughout of the movie - the sport being politics and power over folks. On one level, if one forgets the supernatural components, "Alias Nick Beal" is nearly as good an abject lesson within the back space deals of yankee politics because the comedies "The Senator Was Indiscreet" or Preston Sturges' "The nice McGinty". Only here, with violent death thrown in, the seediness of it all becomes a lot of apparent. probably the most effective moment is when the honest, and largely honorable, Thomas Mitchell is forced to shake hands with Fred Clark, the foremost notorious political boss within the state. On the opposite level is that the serious conceive to keep some non secular allegory in, with folks like George Macready (here during a rare sensible guy part) noting that Beal resembles an ancient image of the Devil, which "Los islas de las almas perditas" where Beal comes from suggests that, "The Island of Lost Souls". faith will play a vital role within the film, as well as it's completion.

Leslie Halliwell created the observation that once this film none of the celebs ever did further once more. this can be not true. Milland did play the evil Tony Wendice, and Macready went on to the mad French general in "Paths of Glory". however a lot of necessary, Milland kept showing his ability to stretch within the remaining decades of his life. Besides writing his fascinating autobiography "Wide Eyed in Babylon", he directed many films, he appeared in many televisions series (one of the few stars who didn't concern the new medium - and he was rewarded here too, for within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties he was still showing whereas several contemporaries retired). Finally he capped his career because the snobbish father in "Love Story". really his career is an example of simply what are often accomplished if an individual isn't ashamed to jettison useless or outdated personalities for brand new ones.

Address Unknown (1944)

2012-05-17T00:27:00.000-07:00

Director: William Cameron Menzies

Writers: Herbert Dalmas (screenplay), Kressmann Taylor (screenplay), and 1 more credit »

Stars: Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsky and Paul Lukas

Genres: Drama

Address Unknown (1944) is a drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies based on Kathrine Taylor's novel Address Unknown (1938). The film tells the story of two families caught up in the rise of Nazism in Germany prior to the start of World War II.
Shot in a film noir style, the film contains many elements of suspense and irony reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock.^{[citation needed]} Cinematographer (Rudolph Maté) employed shadows, shapes and camera angles to create the imagery. One notable scene shows Martin Schulz (Paul Lucas) descending a staircase awaiting his arrest by the Gestapo, while behind him the shadow of a web-like criss-cross of window panes shows him being caught in his own web of deceit.

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This little film received Academy Award nominations for art direction and score, and that i need to surprise how it escaped a nomination for cinematography still, as a result of this story doesn't have a good deal of action in it. Instead, a lot of is claimed through the vivid score and therefore the masterful cinematography that renders the shadows that the Nazis forged typically a lot of menacing that the Nazis themselves.

Not commercially offered as way as i do know, this can be a movie that deserves rediscovery. The story opens on a celebration between 2 friends and partners in San Francisco. Martin Schulz (Paul Lukas) is returning to his home country of Germany at the side of his wife and 4 of his 5 sons. His partner, Max Eisenstein (Morris Carnovsky), can meanwhile keep their art gallery moving into San Francisco at the side of Martin's son, Heinrich. Max's daughter, Griselle, is additionally planning to Germany to hunt out a career as an actress. Heinrich and Griselle are in love, however have determined to delay wedding so Griselle will pursue her career.

Once in Germany, Martin gets swept up into the building Nazi movement when he's befriended and flattered by the silver-tongued Baron von Friesche, who eventually convinces him that he ought to stop all communication along with his ex Max as a result of he's Jewish. When the Nazis come back when Max's daughter Griselle after they learn she is Jewish, Martin stands by and will nothing to assist her, permitting his previous friend's daughter to perish at their hands and on his doorstep. However, a society like the Nazi's that's designed on purity of opinion and constant suspicion will typically be cleverly manipulated to be an instrument of revenge. Thus, by means that of a really straightforward arrange executed by somebody within the U.S., Martin soon finds himself isolated and underneath suspicion of espionage - a prisoner in his own residence still of his own imagination of what's going to come back next.

I highly suggest this film because it remains relevant nowadays, particularly from a psychological standpoint of how totalitarian movements begin out by preying on the desperation of the numerous and therefore the self-importance of a number of.

Abby (1974)

2012-05-17T00:11:00.001-07:00

Director: William Girdler

Writers: William Girdler (story), Gordon Cornell Layne (screenplay), and 1 more credit »

Stars: Carol Speed, William Marshall and Terry Carter

Genres: Horror

A possession film about a marriage counselor who becomes possessed by a Demon of Sexuality, when her father in law, an Exorcist, freed it while in Africa. He returns home, along with his son and a policeman to perform an African Exorcism on her.

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Though I knew there have been some DVD copies around, i suppose I ought to thank YouTube for finally having the ability to observe this movie since that is where I discovered it. Having seen it, I will see why Warner Brothers sued and won their lawsuit against yankee International for blatantly copying WB's hit The Exorcist. Sure, the variations are that one concerned lady|a lady} kid and also the alternative a grown woman however they each have shaking furniture and demonic possession during which they each say terribly vulgar things involving sex. Okay, with that out of the method, let me say what i feel of it. i assumed it had been hilarious whenever the title character played by Carol Speed had-through the voice of Bob Holt-said all those blatantly provocative remarks to varied folks however at that time, I managed to conjointly notice some real scares and thrills. Both Ms. Speed and William Marshall as Bishop Garnet Williams who tries to urge the demon out of her give nice presence in their scenes along. however the supporting players of Terry Carter (Rev. Emmett Williams, Abby's husband and Garnet's son), Austin Stoker (Abby's brother Det. Cass Potter), and particularly Juanita Moore (Miranda "Momma" Potter) conjointly hold their own against them. If there is one issue I even have a beef with, it is the print I watched. maybe as a result of that lawsuit, no one's bothered to revive it. therefore the one I saw looked washed out. Still, the thereforeund wasn't dangerous so that is a and. Really, all i am going to say now's if you get the prospect to observe Abby, select it! P.S. How fascinating that once not sharing a scene within the Mack, Ms. Speed and Ms. Moore played daughter and mother during this. And nice to listen to Carol's writing and singing skills with the song "My Soul could be a Witness".

Vu du pont (1962) AKA A View from the Bridge

2012-05-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Arthur Miller (play), Norman Rosten (screenplay)

Stars: Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel and Maureen Stapleton

Genres: Drama

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they need raised from childhood. Into his house come back 2 brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented however unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.

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This play by Arthur Miller was filmed by Sidney Lumet in France, however why? Lumet brings us the gritty and dark world of immigrant longshoreman Eddie Carbone (Raf Vallone) and his family ... wife Maureen Stapleton and her niece Carol Lawrence. Carbone is concerned in illegally bringing 2 Italians (cousins of Stapleton) into the US and obtaining them jobs on the wharfs of latest York town. however one thing goes terribly wrong when the younger man (Jean Sorel) starts to induce concerned with Lawrence and Carbone's jealousy and lust for the lady return to the surface.

All the most characters live in a very tiny and squalid apartment, the proper setting for the pent up lust and anger that fuels the actions of the characters. The additional Carbone lusts for the lady, the additional he despises the young Italian and his "foreign" ways in which, hinting at his homosexuality as a result of he's blond and likes to sing.

Vallone is excellent because the volatile and treacherous Eddie Carbone who finally is consumed by his raging passions. Stapleton is solid because the aggrieved wife who remains loyal when she slowly begins to grasp her husband's actions. Jean Sorel is terrific because the young Italian as is Raymond Pellegrin as his older brother.

The real surprise here is Carol Lawrence as young Catherine. usually thought of a musical performer (WEST aspect STORY), she turns in a tremendous performance the innocent lady who finally comes aged.

Co-stars embody Morris Carnovsky because the compassionate lawyer, Vincent Gardenia because the grocer, Harvey Lembeck, Frank Campanella, and Mickey Knox as co-workers.

A Talk with Hitchcock (1964)

2012-05-13T08:54:00.000-07:00

Director: Fletcher Markle

Stars: Fletcher Markle, Joan Harrison and Alfred Hitchcock

Genres: Documentary

This 1964, interview of Alfred Hitchcock was a part of the CBC tv series Telescope with host-director Fletcher Markle. it had been conducted throughout or immediately when the filming of Marnie and additionally contains fascinating stories and comments from Alfred Hitchcock and his associates Norman Lloyd, Joan Harrison and Bernard Herrmann. There are clips from and through the creating of many Hitchcock movies. whereas a number of the recollections are a part of Hitch's customary interview material others are distinctive.

A Mormon Maid (1917)

2012-05-13T08:28:00.000-07:00

Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Writers: Charles Sarver, Paul West (story)

Stars: Mae Murray, Frank Borzage and Hobart Bosworth

Genres: Drama | History

This silent melodrama is ready against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young lady, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They be part of the wagon train. Dora is pursued by 2 men, one a recent convert, the opposite a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder needs her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter should take into account her own future and also the man she loves. one amongst Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was supposed by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama regarding the products and evils of Mormonism, however nowadays it's usually thought of pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

Exciting, visually impressive silent melodrama

Report from Cinesation 2006: A MORMON MAID (****) Mae Murray and fogeys are taken in when an Indian attack by a Mormon community co-led by a lustful Noah Beery, who has eyes on creating Mae the fifth or sixth Mrs. Beery. during a long career that included the likes of the nice Ziegfeld and Esther Williams, Robert Z. Leonard was never accused of an far more than personal vogue. however even he had enough ability and instinct to require full advantage of the visual opportunities provided by a military of ominously hooded spiritual zealots, lined up at the hours of darkness in gleaming white, or marching in lockstep with a defenseless young lady as their prisoner.

The Variety review quoted within the program guide inexplicably suggests that a brief running time kept this 1917 film from achieving all it may. To fashionable eyes it is the indisputable fact that it races along at such a ferocious clip that's its greatest strength, beside the effective use of visuals that build the spiritual zealots additional ominous and convincing villains than the standard rake lusting when the virginal heroine. In fact, for a modification, the massive strapping father is the maximum amount a victim attempting to safeguard his chastity because the lady is, since he is ordered, to his horror, to require a second wife-- a sequence you haven't seen before during a silent movie, and one that is played for all it's value.

A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967)

2012-05-12T07:57:00.002-07:00

Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards

Writer: Peter Bryan (original screenplay)

Stars: Barrie Ingham, Peter Blythe and John Arnatt

Genres: Adventure

Robin, a young Norman nobleman, is falsely accused by his cousin of murdering another cousin. His accuser is really in league with the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham to seize management of the family lands, that Robin would inherit. Forced to escape into nearby Sherwood Forest, Robin begins to assemble a band of rebels to fight against his scheming cousin and also the evil sheriff.

My Favorite Robin Hood Movie

I like several others bear in mind seeing this on HBO within the early 80s repeatedly. i used to be ready to procure a replica at a later date (You will get this title from Amazon.com for those longing for a copy) and located it simply as enjoyable as I did once I was younger.

Like most Robin Hood movies you have got to require it with a grain of salt. In some places the acting could be a very little over the highest, a number of the combat feats are unbelievable and everything is extremely black and white however this is often what Robin Hood is all regarding. I honestly get pleasure from this version way more than any others that return to mind. i assumed that each one the actors were o.k. solid and that i like that they're all Englishmen thus no unhealthy accents to be found. The settings are good and one in every of the simplest things regarding the film as is that the costuming. What i feel i really like most regarding this film is that the scale. This story's fight the parable is Robin because the adopted son of a minor Norman lord who is in conflict w/ his cousin who wrongly inherits his father's title and lands and is in league w/ the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. Prince John is nowhere to be found though he's mentioned. In all truth i feel that a minor lord w/ the assistance of the Sheriff is over enough for any cluster of outlaws to face.

If you're a lover of the Robin Hood mythos i feel you may do way worse than finding out this glorious fight this widespread tale.

A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)

2012-05-10T19:17:00.001-07:00

Director: Don Chaffey

Writer: Robert Hamer

Stars: Leo McKern, Janet Munro and Maxine Audley

Genres: Comedy

Goofy British black comedy stars McKern as a nutty-but-evil professor who discovers a poison that drives victims into hysterics and then kills them without a trace.

Originally intending to use the poison for the good of mankind, McKern snaps when university politics threaten his experiments, and he begins to bump off his enemies with the poison.

Eventually McKern's well-endowed girl friend and lab assistant, Munro, begins to suspect that she's next on his list and threatens to expose him unless he divorces his wife and marries her.

McKern laughs at her attempt to have him arrested because the poison leaves no trace, and he defiantly lights up a cigarette to wait for the cops to come.

He too realizes too late that he's just smoked a poisoned cigarette.

A poised and sophisticated comedy written by one of the most stylish screenwriters and directors in the Ealing stable, Robert Hamer, just before he died, and directed by Don Chaffey, noted for his saucy comedies and adults-only pictures.

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A Curious Hybrid

"A Jolly unhealthy Fellow" follows the exploits of a cynical middle-aged don (Leo McKern) at an Oxbridge-like university. A scientist, with a cold-bloodedly rationalist outlook, he's at odds together with his different dons, a set of fusty classicists who read him as an outsider. An accidental discovery by his dim-witted lab assistant (Dinsdale Landen) provides him with the means that to neutralise people who stand within the manner of the educational preferment he seeks. His long-suffering however loving wife (Maxine Audley) tries to overlook his philanderings, not least his liaison with a fairly young feminine analysis assistant (Janet Munro).

The film may be a curious hybrid. created at the terribly begin of the swinging 60s, it's nevertheless paying homage to the sooner Ealing films, of that it's a late example, not least "Kind Hearts and Coronets". There are, however, fleeting modern references (to Cliff Richard - many months later it might are The Beatles), and Janet Munro, in an adulterous seaside assignation, appearance each in. the proto-dolly bird as she strolls along the sea-front, arm-in-arm together with her ageing lover.

With a distinguished supporting solid that features Dennis value (as an particularly pompous fellow academic), "A Jolly unhealthy Fellow" is promptly an amusing and disturbing black comedy. Fans of John Barry can get pleasure from the very good soundtrack, that includes Alan Haven on organ, that stylistically prefigures that of "The Knack".

A Christmas Memory (21 Dec. 1966)

2012-05-10T10:18:00.000-07:00

Director: Frank Perry

Writer: Truman Capote, and 1 more credit

Stars: Geraldine Page, Donnie Melvin and Lavinia Cassels

Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical

"A Christmas Memory" is about a young boy, referred to as "Buddy," and his older cousin, who is unnamed in the story but is called Sook in later adaptations. The boy is the narrator, and his older cousin — who is eccentric and childlike — is his best friend. They live in a house with other relatives, who are authoritative and stern, and have a dog named Queenie.

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Home is where my Friend is
As good as everybody says! Beautiful-poignant-a Gem. it's therefore true that this could be shown once more and once more throughout vacation time--so that the final public will treasure it's stunning, heartfelt simplicity--its charm, its delight at life. Frank and Eleanor Perry had directed another gems right around this time--"David and Lisa" and "Last Summer" terribly different--but with the way at trying therefore terribly near the characters, progressing to the terribly core of their beings--examining their hurts, their yearnings. The fragile/strong Sook and also the fragile/strong childhood Capote are joined at the hip--they are portrayed with loving detail by the nice Geraldine Page and a teen named Donnie Melvin. This nearly appears to anticipate "Harold and Maude" where there are equal amounts of knowing laughter, profound statements said off the cuff by Sook and Maude, that resonate therefore deeply, tenderness, and heartbreaking unhappiness as life and inevitability, the march of your time and also the inexorable presence of death asserting that "all goodies should return to an end". however in dreams and reminiscences, those goodies live on--and this long-forgotten masterpiece deserves to be one among those. The music score is by Meyer Kupferman, who I really had the nice pleasure of knowing. He was a good bear of a person, a revered up to date composer, clarinetist and teacher. I solely distinguished that he wrote the attractive, colourful film score whereas recently watching a DVD I purchased from Amazon. (Expensive--probably as a result of it's therefore rare--but price its weight in gold). currently I therefore want I had known that he was the composer of this beautiful, touching film score--I want I may have talked to Mr. Kupferman concerning his expertise putting this on ink attractive score! however instead, like this fragile film of a short, treasured Christmas Memory, it'll stay an elusive dream. The folks die, life moves on--but the art, the magic, the memory lives on.

A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

2012-05-10T09:53:00.000-07:00

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Writer: Andrew L. Stone

Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters and Gary Merrill

Genres: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller

Two orphans, Polly and Doug, live with their stepmother Lynne; Polly collapses with identical mystery symptoms that killed her father. The kids' visiting uncle, Whitney Cameron, is warned that the symptoms match strychnine poisoning, however that poisoners are seldom detected and barely convicted. positive enough, no case may be created against the plain suspect; thus what will Whitney do to save lots of ensuing victim?

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Pretty, And Not-So-Pretty Poison

Most of this movie could be a "did-she-or-didn't-she-do it?" story. 2 relations are poisoned and it's just like the mother, "Lynne Cameron" (Jean Peters) is that the killer, however it's arduous to prove. because the film goes on, one has a lot of and a lot of doubts whether or not she did it. maybe the innocent-sounding "Uncle Cam" (Joseph Cotten) is that the killer. Hmmmm.....which one is it? Was it the gorgeous Peters or Cotten?

For most of the short movie, it had been entertaining. It began to tug a little within the last third however the film, since it's short, ought to keep your interest enough to search out out who's the killer and the way she-or-he did it.

I accept as true with those posters who felt the ending was a little disappointing. i used to be probing for one thing slightly a lot of clever than was presented.

I'd additionally liked to possess seen a lot of scenes with the 2 supporting actors: Catherine McLeod and Gary Merrill. each actors were fascinating. McLeod played "Maggie Sargent," the primary character in here to suspect foul play when a child's death. Merrill played her husband, "Fred." He additionally was "Cam's" lawyer.

McLeod is deceptively good-looking and that i would like I may see a lot of things she did, however her IMDb resume indicates she mainly acted on tv within the Nineteen Fifties.

Overall, this is often positively price one viewing. it's sometimes price seeing the horny Peters in her prime before she went into retirement some years later. She did four films in 1953 and 3 a lot of consequent year, many of them being smart film noirs ("Pickup On South Street" and "Niagara.")

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

2012-05-10T08:41:00.001-07:00

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writers: Philip MacDonald (novel), Nigel Balchin (screenplay)

Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles and Cecil Parker

Genres: Mystery | Thriller

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears a part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to search out a kidnapped kid. When he gets no facilitate from the police, he along side his butler, and his ex fiancée, conceive to track down the crooks.

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Minor Masterpiece; Relentless Beautiful Noir Mystery Achievement

This I assert may be a minor masterpiece of film-making, that has long been underestimated by critics however never by fans. Its images, I suggest, burn themselves into the mind where different cinematic tales soon pale and are forgotten. to say simply many scenes, the film presents a blind playwright describing the read of the Thames to the fiancé he left behind, a stunning nanny who is not quite what she looks enjoying another nanny or maybe not, a sightless man guiding a lost man through a fog, an equivalent man discovering that a building's front is not there and a battle within the darkness between a murderer and victim. The script, custom-made from a tense Philip MacDonald novel by Nigel Balchin, was created into what I say is an expensive-looking and relentlessly lovely film by veteran director Henry Hathway. Henry Ephron created, and each component was realized seemingly by flawless ability, from understated music by Leigh Harline to the cinematography by Milton R. Krasne, to the art direction by Lyle Wheeler and Maurice Ransford, to the outstanding set decorations by Walter M. Scott and Fay Babock and costumes by Travilla. Add famed Ben Nye as makeup artist and therefore the nice Helen Turpin as hair stylist and it'd be exhausting for this film to own gone something however terribly right. The forged is headed by beautiful young Vera Miles because the love interest and Van Johnson looming one thing terribly fine because the blind playwright, Philip Hannon. Maurice Denham plays a befuddled police Inspector, and Cecil Parker tries exhausting as Hannon's assistant. Patricia Laffan has her best role since Quo Vadis because the mysterious Miss MacDonald, stealing each scene she is in. different actors showing to advantage embrace inside this strongly-made and taut fictional noir mystery Liam Redmond, Isobel Elsom, spirited Estelle Winwood, Martin Benson, Natalie Norwick, and Terence de Marney. On the grounds of pace, intelligence of dialog and sheer memorability alone, this is often a prime Hundred film, and therefore the father to several stories starring blind protagonists from TV's "Longstreet" to "Wait till Dark". There had been films a couple of blind central character before; however this Technicolor, enticing and exciting film was the project that brought the concept of such films to the minds of producers and viewers alike as none before had done. The mystery i feel is a noteworthy one, the characters believable from 1st to last, and therefore the extraordinary work by Patricia Laffan and Vera Miles raise the film so much on top of its competitors' best. it's clearly far better than "in the warmth of the Night", the obsessive "Vertigo" or maybe "Key Largo". And its manufacturers accomplish its power while not striving consciously to attain it. Were it not for "Rear Window", the film may be thought of the simplest 50's noir of all. i like to recommend it unreservedly.

Rare Films

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

Director: John Farrow

Writers: Jonathan Latimer (screenplay), Mindret Lord (original story)

Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter and Thomas Mitchell

Genres: Mystery | Drama | Thriller

Address Unknown (1944)

Director: William Cameron Menzies

Writers: Herbert Dalmas (screenplay), Kressmann Taylor (screenplay), and 1 more credit »

Stars: Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsky and Paul Lukas

Genres: Drama

Abby (1974)

Director: William Girdler

Writers: William Girdler (story), Gordon Cornell Layne (screenplay), and 1 more credit »

Stars: Carol Speed, William Marshall and Terry Carter

Genres: Horror

A possession film about a marriage counselor who becomes possessed by a Demon of Sexuality, when her father in law, an Exorcist, freed it while in Africa. He returns home, along with his son and a policeman to perform an African Exorcism on her.

Vu du pont (1962) AKA A View from the Bridge

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Arthur Miller (play), Norman Rosten (screenplay)

Stars: Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel and Maureen Stapleton

Genres: Drama

A Talk with Hitchcock (1964)

Director: Fletcher Markle

Stars: Fletcher Markle, Joan Harrison and Alfred Hitchcock

Genres: Documentary

A Mormon Maid (1917)

Director: Robert Z. Leonard

Writers: Charles Sarver, Paul West (story)

Stars: Mae Murray, Frank Borzage and Hobart Bosworth

Genres: Drama | History

Exciting, visually impressive silent melodrama

A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967)

Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards

Writer: Peter Bryan (original screenplay)

Stars: Barrie Ingham, Peter Blythe and John Arnatt

Genres: Adventure

A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)

Director: Don Chaffey

Writer: Robert Hamer

Stars: Leo McKern, Janet Munro and Maxine Audley

Genres: Comedy

A Christmas Memory (21 Dec. 1966)

Director: Frank Perry

Writer: Truman Capote, and 1 more credit

Stars: Geraldine Page, Donnie Melvin and Lavinia Cassels

Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical

A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

Director: Andrew L. Stone

Writer: Andrew L. Stone

Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters and Gary Merrill

Genres: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller

Pretty, And Not-So-Pretty Poison

23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writers: Philip MacDonald (novel), Nigel Balchin (screenplay)

Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles and Cecil Parker

Genres: Mystery | Thriller

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears a part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to search out a kidnapped kid. When he gets no facilitate from the police, he along side his butler, and his ex fiancée, conceive to track down the crooks.

Minor Masterpiece; Relentless Beautiful Noir Mystery Achievement