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Too Late For Tears (1949)
A bag filled with money is a classic object and inciting incident in film noir, never an opportunity but a source of fatalistic consequences. So it goes in Too Late For Tears (1949) when a married couple (Lizabeth Scott and Arthur Kennedy) are driving down a lonely stretch of road when another car throws in… Read.
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Woman On The Run (1950)
Woman On The Run (1950) is an effective and underrated film noir that’s under 80 minutes and has made me a fan of main star Ann Sheridan (who was also a silent co-producer on it). When her husband (Ross Elliott) witnesses a murder while walking their dog, he reports it to the police but gets… Read.
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Wuthering Heights (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939) is another classic film on the list of movies from Danny Peary’s Cult Movies 2 book that I had not seen before. I read Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights in high school and always had a fondness for it, maybe it was the gothic vibes and the element of revenge, more than likely… Read.
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Salt Of The Earth (1954)
There are many different reasons why a movie is a ‘cult movie’. I haven’t read Danny Peary’s write up of the film Salt Of The Earth (1954) in his book Cult Movies 2. I presume it has to do with the fact that it was pulled from release and difficult to see for a long… Read.
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Blood Feast (1963)
Herschell Gordon Lewis is a name I’ve often heard about but never really been keen to explore; the archetypal still from one of his 1960s-era movies in my mind’s eye is a leering sadist at a table where a nubile woman is submerged in shiny guts and paint-thick blood. Much like Troma cinema, I’m happy… Read.
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