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Il Cittadino si rebella/ Street Law (Enzo. G. Castellari, 1974).

Italian Poliziotteschi films of the 70s are a protest against existing conditions of existence. The literal translation of Il cittradino si rebella is A CITIZEN REBELS. The government is corrupt, the police is corrupt, the judges are corrupt; the bourgeois benefit from the system and are mostly inured from its worst effects. The average person makes do, bends the law, tries to scratch a living…

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#Enzo G. Castellari #Franco Nero #Il Cittadino si rebella #Poliziotteschi #Street Law

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High Crime/ La polizia incrimina la legge assolve (Enzo G. Castellari, 1973)

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#Bullitt #Enzo G. Castellari #Fernando Ray #Franco Nero #High Crime #La polizzia incrimina la legge assolve #The French Connection #Trans

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GANG WAR IN MILAN / MILANO ROVENTE (Umbeto Lenzi, 1973)

Umberto Lenzi’s GANG WAR IN MILAN / MILANO ROVENTE is neither as visually exciting as the Enzo G. Castellari Poliziotteschis; nor as socially conscious and emotionally affecting as the Damiano Damianis. It is, however, exciting pulp; beautifully plotted, crudely characterised, efficient, accessible, with lots of sex and gore. It’s about a Sicilian immigrant, Salvatore Cangemi (Antonio Sabàto)…

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#Antonio Sabato #Gang War in Milan #Milano Rovente #Poliziotteschi #Umberto Lenzi

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THE ROAD TO SHAME (Des femmes disparaissent, 1959);

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#Èdouard Molinaro #Back to the Wall #French crime #noir #Robert Hossein #The Road to Shame #Witness in the City

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KEOMA (Enzo G. Castellari, 1976)

I’m continuing with my Castellari kick, this time with Keoma, a western shot in Italy. It has one of the most visually stunning opening scenes I can remember: a lone soldier (Franco Nero as Keoma), looking like a bedraggled Jesus, return home from the Civil War only to encounter death in the figure of an old woman who reminds him/ tells us that she’d sought him out before when his homestead was…

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#De Angelis #Enzo G. Castellari #Franco Nero #Spaghetti Western #Woody Strode

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The HEROIN BUSTERS/ LA VIA DELLA DROGA (Enzo, G. Castellari, 1977)

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#David Hemmings #Enzo G. Castellari #Fabio Testi #La via della droga #Poliziotteschi #The Heroin Busters #Zooms

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IL GRANDE RACKET/ THE BIG RACKET (Enzo G. Castellari, 1976)

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#Enzo G. Castellari #Fabio Testi #Il grande racket #Marcelo Maclocchi #Poliziotteschi #The Big Racket #Vincent Gardenia

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THE BRIDE WORE BLACK/ La Mariée était en noir (François Truffaut, 1968)

Saw Truffaut’s THE BRIDE WORE BLACK yesterday, a clear homage to Hitchcock in many ways but without any of the visual precision or flair one would normally expect of either filmmaker. I’m puzzled by this film. It’s a very enjoyable watch — according to Truffaut, an exercise in plot based on a novel by Cornell Woollrich — and it definitely works on that level. Plus, there’s Jeanne Moreau,…

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#Bernard Herrman #Cornell Woolrich #François Truffaut #Jeanne Moreau #Pierre Cardin #Raoul Coutard #The Bride Wore Black

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The Mob (Robert Parrish, 1951)

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#Broderick Crawford #Charles Bronson #Columbia Noir 2 #Ernest Borgnine #Joseph Walker #Richard Kiley #Robert Parrish #The Mob

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THE WEB (Michael Gordon, 1947)

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#Edmond O&039;Brien #Ella Raines #Michael Gordon #noir #The Web #Viincent Price #William Bendix

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Abandoned (Joseph M. Newman, 1949)

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#Abandoned #Billy Daniels #Dennis O&039;Keefe #Gale Storm #Jeff Chandler #Joseph M Newman #Marjorie Rambeau #Raymond Burr

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NAKED ALIBI (Jerry Hopper, 1954)

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#Ace in The Hole #border towns #Gene Barry #Gloria Grahame #Jo Anne Greer #Naked Aliby #noir #Steling Hayden #Tijuana

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Larceny (George Sherman, 1948)

Joan Caulfield gets an Orry-Kelly wardrobe but Shelley Winters gets all the best lines…and the reviews. When Winters was doing the rounds of talk shows in the 80s, hawking her biography and commenting on what a sex bomb she’d been in her films…I don’t think I quite believed her. Sure, she flashed a couple of pictures but I’d known her my whole life as…well, other people. But here she is in…

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#Dan Duryea #Joan Caulfied #John Payne #Larceny #noir #Shelley Winters #Vimeo

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DEPORTED (Robert Siodmak 1950)

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#Deported #Jeff Chandler #Lucky Luciano #Märtá Toren #Robert Siodmak #Universal Noir 1

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Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958).

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#Ben Casey #Irving Lerner #Lucien Ballard #Murder by Contract #Perry Botkin #Vince Edwards

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Tight Spot (Phil Karlson, 1955)

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#Brian Keith #Edward G. Robinson #Ginger Rogers #Lorne Green #noir #Phil Karlson #Tight Spot

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An Act of Murder (Michael Gordon, 1948)

An example of the fluidity of noir as a term. ACT OF MURDER is a domestic melodrama which would have been marketed as a ‘serious’ film on difficult moral and ethical issues: is mercy killing acceptable even if a dear one is terminal and in unbearable pain? Should intentions be a consideration when applying the law, by whom and to what extent? It’s the themes and the ‘seriousness’ of treatment…

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#An Act of Muder #Courtroom drama #Edmond O&039;Brien #Florence Eldridge #Fredric March #Geraldine Brooks #melodrama #Michael Gordon #noir