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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 13 2011, 06:21 PM (220 Views) | |
| rodney | Apr 13 2011, 06:21 PM Post #1 |
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Whenever you put a DVD in that you don't know much about, and you see that it's a PRC release, you kind of lower your expectations. At least I do. But once in awhile, you stumble across a film like Railroaded, and you are reminded of why you started watching films like this in the first place. A beautician runs a bookie operation out of her back office (naturally) and she and her boyfriend get the idea to hold it up and get all of the take instead of just the cut that she usually gets. But there are complications here (again, naturally) when Duke's partner and a cop get shot. In the end, just before he dies, his partner pins the blame on an innocent laundromat truck operator. His sister, the lovely Sheila Ryan believes in his innocence, and sets out to prove it, while slowly swaying the opinion of Sgt. Mickey Ferguson (Hugh Beaumont). There's more to the story, but if you haven't seen it, I don't want to give it away. I loved this movie. Tightly scriped, beautifully shot (it was directed by Anthony Mann) and easily one of the best B films I've seen in a long, long while. I don't know a ton about Noir, so I'm probably late to the party coming to this movie, but if you haven't seen it, I urge you to do so. It's on DVD from KINO (though I recorded my copy from TCM six or seven years ago). |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Apr 13 2011, 08:02 PM Post #2 |
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I love it too. As a general rule you can't go wrong with Anthony Mann. He made lots of entertaining noirs, but his very best movies are historical. I recommend The Tall Target, The Black Book and all the Jimmy Stewart westerns. He was a thinker, and what he thought about is why things are the way they are today. He's one of the greatest directors IMO -- he never wasted time fighting the studio system, but worked with things as they were and made great movies. Beware the ones he made during the war though -- he hadn't hit his stride yet. |
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