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1 day ago · July 5, 2024 Admin. In the shadowy world of 1946 film noir, Ava Gardner’s electrifying entrance as Kitty Collins in Robert Siodmak’s “The Killers” didn’t just illuminate the screen – it set it ablaze. Gardner’s portrayal of Kitty, the epitome of femme fatale allure, not only catapulted her into Hollywood stardom but rewrote the ...
2 days ago · Robert Zemeckis's Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) develops a noir plot set in 1940s Los Angeles around a host of cartoon characters. "Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man." Robert De Niro as neo-noir antihero Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)
2 days ago · Like “Out of the Past”, “The Killers”, directed by Robert Siodmak, is a practical example of a noir film, characterized by its distinctive cinematic style, conventions, and iconography. The film is in many ways characterized by its symbolic elements that contribute to its noir
3 days ago · Custer of the West is a 1967 American Western film directed by Robert Siodmak. It tells a highly fictionalised version of the life and death of George Armstrong Custer. It starred Robert Shaw as Custer, Robert Ryan, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter and Mary Ure.
5 days ago · It is often argued that film noir’s style and sensibility had predecessors in German Expressionism (émigré directors from Germany, including Fritz Lang (The Big Heat, 1953) and Robert Siodmak (The Spiral Staircase, 1945), were among the key directors of classic Hollywood films noirs) and also the Poetic Realism of 1930s French films such as ...
3 days ago · Custer of the West is a 1967 American Western film directed by Robert Siodmak. It tells a highly fictionalised version of the life and death of George Armstrong Custer. It starred Robert Shaw as Custer, Robert Ryan, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey Hunter and Mary Ure.
4 days ago · In Harold’s play, Old Times, Reed’s Odd Man Out is referenced whereas Harold later admitted to Michael Billington that his first play, The Birthday Party was influenced by The Killers (1946) Robert Siodmak’s film noir. Harold’s passion for film was infectious.
