The Film Noir Thread! Gats, dames, and cheap hooch welcome.

[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

Watched Satan Thumbs A Ride yesterday.

Awesome movie, lives up to the hype.

[Richard--W a straight arrow Find all posts View Profile Close Richard--W]

Henri-Georges Clouzot's L'Assassin habite au 21 (The Murderer Lives at 21, 1942) gets the hi-def treatment from Masters of Cinema March 18. One can't get enough Clouzot on blu-ray. No mention if its region-locked:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MURDERER-LAS...I38BKWI3TAASSG

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

News via the BAN forums - Olive is releasing HELL'S HALF ACRE and RUTHLESS in March (no specific date yet).

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Nice. I've seen and enjoyed Ruthless and haven't seen (but want to see) Hell's Half Acre. The more Elsa Lanchester the better!

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I've never seen either one, Ian and they both sound pretty interesting. HELL'S HALF ACRE will give us more Evelyn Keyes, one of my favorite femme fatales (THE PROWLER, THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK, 99 RIVER SREET, JOHNNY O'CLOCK) and Marie Windsor is in it too! RUTHLESS sounds swell too, and cad par excllence Zachary Scott is the star. Nobody does smug superiority better. I see Sydney Greenstreet and Martha (hubba hubba) Vickers are in it as well. March is starting to look pretty good to me.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Ruthless is up in its entirety on Youtube in 7 parts if you want to try before you buy, but you'd probably enjoy it and the quality of the streaming version is nothing to write home about. But here's the first part if you're interested:

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Thanks, I'm pretty sure I'll get both of these.

[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

An interesting series of noirs on tonight on TCM: Tomorrow is Another Day, Breaking Point, The Prowler.

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Panic In The Streets is up for pre-order on Blu-ray from Fox with a 3/26/13 release date here.

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That's one (PANIC IN THE STREETS) that I can pass on BD. It's pretty good but the dvd will do me fine. THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK is a better film on the subject imo.

[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

Evelyn Keyes was amazing in 99 RIVER STREET and THE PROWLER, I'm definitely interested in checking out more of her noirs.

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Check out this appreciation of THE FALLEN SPARROW (1943) with John Garfield at this excellent blog:

http://livius1.wordpress.com/2013/01...allen-sparrow/

[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

I have the novel by Dorothy Hughes but haven't read it yet, the film could be pretty different, In a Lonely Place is very different whereas Ride the Pink Horse is quite faithful.

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More Olive noir news courtesy of the BAN forums - Olive will release BDs of CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS and CHAMPION in April (no specific date yet). Amazing times we live in, with terrific noirs hitting BD on a regular basis. I love the cover for CITY, so detailed!

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Olive are really doing some fine work with the oddball noir titles lately, glad to see more in the pipeline.