Showing posts with label Fred F. Sears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fred F. Sears. Show all posts

The Werewolf (1956)

The Werewolf (1956) is a seminal crossover lycanthrope amnesia and mad scientist nuclear threat horror from the film noir period, ultimately playing in the wilds but using darkened noir corners in a complementary manner while being to the appeal of the newer false fact teenage or juvenile younger moderate thriller hunter body transformation crowd of the 1950s.

The Werewolf (1956) yes, this is one of the odd mid noir early non horror kind of tragic costume wilderness wandering gunshot redneck get the mob with a raving wildfire of burning torches.

Miami Exposé (1956)

Miami Exposé (1956) is a crummy cop Miami based swamp wrangling political conniving over legalised gambling in Florida bribery and murder and faked death airboat and Cadillac bright white light cruiser film noir with first rate desk to camera footage and decent moments of driving and aerial scenery around the fastest growing city in America, decade after decade, the city that was never a town and the tropical miracle that is Miami.

Fred F. Sears, a director tethered to Columbia Pictures and the watchful eye of producer Sam Katzman, carved out a career from the frayed cloth of low-budget filmmaking. His oeuvre, stitched together from an array of genres including science fiction, juvenile delinquency, and war-time tales, finds a peculiar resonance within the crime genre. 

The Miami Story (1954)



The Miami Story (1954)
is a Kefauver hearings inspired city-titled Florida noir tale of mobsters, massive hidden television cameras, an informant and murder suspect who come out of hiding to boss the police about, and roving cameras which film the streets of Miami as automobiles carry mooks, thugs and suspects from location to location.

The Miami Story (1954) is a delight of cheap and effective film noir from the most unconvincing period of the style, when black and white denoted cost-savings and often meant that the stock and trade shadows of noir were consigned to the cutting room floor, in order to create a brighter and whiter screen of action, better suited to the television.