Showing posts with label Dogs of Noir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dogs of Noir. Show all posts

Seven Days To Noon (1950)

Seven Days To Noon (1950) is a Boulting Brothers British catastrophe-based ultimatum and race against time reactionary post-war civic nuclear threat mad as in mentally unwell and in emotional crisis scientist film noir melodrama with Trümmerfilm shades and overtones of existential crisis and a cast of many, and a movie which pioneers the empty streets of the apocalypse look with Olive Sloane, Barry Jones and and André Morell.

The detonation of horror and conscience finds a singular locus in SEVEN DAYS TO NOON (1950), a work of distinct cinematic and political resonance. Released in the cautious and threadbare atmosphere of post-war Britain, the film disrupts the boundaries of genre, tonally ambiguous and ideologically riven.

Eyes In The Night (1942)

Eyes In The Night (1942) is a crime and detection sleuthing espionage spy noir directed by Fred Zinnemann which features Edward Arnold as blind detective Mac MacLain, and the dog Frida, as the dog Friday.

Oddball, unusual and earnest, Eyes in the Night (1942) doesn't suffer as many of its cheapo contemporaries do from dud scripting and the ill-effects of bum-row production values.

This celluloid endeavor, which inaugurated an ill-fated B-movie detective series, featured the venerable Edward Arnold in the role of a sightless sleuth, and although the public’s tepid reception precluded the realization of subsequent instalments, super oddity and noir make good companions and this blind sleuth endeavour has a lot to say.