Showing posts with label Hemingway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hemingway. Show all posts

The Killers (1964)

The Killers (1964) is a television-style flashback color Hemingway remake sports motor racing and murder femme fatal and gangster heist fallout and violence against a blind woman Don Siegel almost un- or non-credible cool brutal crime action film noir that is barely a film noir insofar as the noir is far from the habitual armoire of typical style motifs, but is called a film noir nonetheless, with oddly no night time scenes at all, not that excludes it from the film noir category, it is in the style that this nonnoirness nor nihilist nemesis, nor nausea-inducing net of failed morality, but it's crass instead, normal narrative, neatly non-noir, and with the star Lee Marvin and the stars Angie Dickinson, John Cassavettes, and President Ronlad Reagan.

To Have and Have Not (1944)

To Have and Have Not (1944) is a Hemingway adaptation Howard Hawks Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall romaticn war adventure noir classic romance Hoagy Carmihcael historic appearance American expatriate French resistance volatile and memorably quotable 40s freelancing fisherman classic of the silver screen whistling and Casablance Part Two "was you ever bit by a dead bee" hot chemistry deriviate to the point of strange mini classic of the era, with Sheldon Leonard, Walter Surovy, Marcel Dalio, Walter Sande, Dan Seymour, and Paul Marion.