T-Men (Anthony Mann, 1947)
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, Charles McGraw, Mary Meade, Jane Randolph, June Lockhart, Art Smith, Herbert Heyes, Jack Overman, John Wengraf, Jim Bannon, William Malten. Screenplay: John C. Higgins. Cinematography: John Alton. Art direction: Edward C. Jewell. Film editing: Fred Allen. Music: Paul Sawtell.
With its tough-guy cast, suspenseful screenplay, and superb noir-and-white cinematography by John Alton, T-Men is only slightly hindered by efforts to sell itself as a ripped-from-the-headlines True Story. It has a heavy-handed opener featuring the real head of the Treasury Department's investigative division, Elmer Lincoln Irey, selling us on the idea that the IRS is really our friend, and an ongoing voiceover narrative by the actor Reed Hadley that provides exposition we mostly don't need -- it could easily have been integrated into the dialogue. These flaws aside, the film has real grit as it follows T-man Dennis O'Brien (Dennis O'Keefe) and his partner Tony Genaro (Alfred Ryder) in their investigation of a counterfeiting scheme, encountering the usual menacing thugs and hard-bitten dames. Neither of the good guys has it easy, getting beat up and shot as they sleuth through the seamy side of '40s Los Angeles. Alton's camera gives us expressionistic angles and sinister shadows as it explores some well-chosen locations from Chinatown to a Turkish bath to the waterfront.
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2022: Gloria Sevilla, attrice filippina. Il primo marito fu l’attore Mat Ranillo Jr., vedova sposò l’attore e regista Amado Cortez. Era madre delle attrici Suzette Ranillo e Lilibeth Ranillo, dell’attore Mat Ranillo III e del cantante-compositore Dandin Ranillo. (n.1932)
2021: Felix Silla, Felix Anthony Silla, nato Felice Antonio Silla, attore, stuntman e circense italiano naturalizzato…
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Bad movie I have John Wayne Triple Feature It has True Grit 1969, The Cowboys 1972 and The Searchers 1956
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Teaser Trailer
"After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice's name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem." (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stars Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice), Winona Ryder (Lydia Deetz), Catherine O'Hara (Delia Deetz), Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe. Tim Burton directs from a screenplay by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. The story is by Gough, Millar, and Seth Grahame-Smith. Danny Elfman is onboard as composer.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hits theaters on September 6, 2024.
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How to Make an American Quilt (1995) dir. by Jocelyn Moorhouse
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"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" Trailer Screencaps
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"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" (Beterböcek Beterböcek) (Afiş ve Official Teaser)
Tim Burton’un 1988 yapımı “Beetlejuice” filminin merakla beklenen devamı “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Beterböcek Beterböcek) un ilk afişi ve resmi teaserı yayınlandı.
Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice), Winona Ryder (Lydia Deetz) ve Catherine O’Hara’nın ilk filmdeki rolleriyle yer alacağı “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”de Justin Theroux (Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, The Leftovers), Monica Bellucci…
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On June 9, 2022, North Hollywood was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Germany.
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Not With My Wife, You Don't (1966)
Not With My Wife, You Don't by #NormanPanama starring #TonyCurtis, #VirnaLisi and #GeorgeCScott, "a charmer of a film but it runs far too long and drags in its final third"
NORMAN PANAMA
Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5
USA, 1966. Fernwood Productions, Reynard Productions. Story by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, Screenplay by Norman Panama, Larry Gelbart, Peter Barnes. Cinematography by Charles Lang. Produced by Norman Panama. Music by John Williams. Production Design by Edward Carrere. Costume Design by Edith Head. Film Editing by Aaron Stell.
Norman Panama struggles to…
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"hands rough as if
they had walked
with water when it
first resolved to rain"
Another poem of mine over on the tide rises, the tide falls, a journal publishing poems that resonate with the Longfellow poem of the same name (accompanied by a Ryder painting of Jonah I think captures the vibe; now that I think of it, he has a lot of chiaroscuro nautical stuff with pretty pronounced and grainy light/dark divides that suit this poem)
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16 aprile … ricordiamo …
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2022: Gloria Sevilla, attrice filippina. Venne considerata la “regina dei film Visayan” per la sua eredità di interpretazioni sullo schermo nei film realizzati da Visayan nelle Filippine durante gli anni ’50 e ’60. Rimase attiva anche nella televisione filippina. Il primo marito di Gloria fu l’attore Mat Ranillo Jr., morto in un incidente aereo nel 1969. Insieme ebbero cinque figli.…
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