![]() Because the best-laid plans - even the most meticulous - always have a habit of going awry. Regardless, it’s one of the finest heist films of all-time. It’s early Stanley Kubrick so some might find it a stark contrast to his later works. True to form, Lee Marvin plays an incorrigible heavy. We soon find out the good guys aren’t always untarnished nor the noir dames (Gloria Grahame) always the villains. What Fritz Lang does is boil it over with newfound vindictiveness. It’s a cops and robbers procedural with Glenn Ford as the straight-arrow family man going against the local mob. Although mostly forgotten today, John Dall and Peggy Cummins do a fine rendition as a latter-day incarnation of Bonnie and Clyde The Big Heat (1953) It tells the tale of a romance-fueled crime spree with verve and violent passion. Lewis’s Gun Crazy an exercise in inventive economy. Enjoy! Gun Crazy (1950)ī movies form the backbone of this often down and dirty genre. True, gumshoes and femme fatales were never cut-and-dry. With the new decade came new progressions in realism, location shooting, and heightened character psychology.Īs Paul Schrader wrote, the noir hero started to “go bananas.” What remained were graft, corruption, and the depravity of the human heart. We follow up last week’s guide to classic film noir of the 1940s by continuing into the 1950s with 4 more entries. ![]()
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