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The Face of Fear (1971 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 23, 2019
US / 74 minutes / color / QM, CBS Dir: George McCowan Pr: Adrian Samish, Arthur Fellows Scr: Edward Hume Story: Sally (1967) by E.V. Cunningham Cine: Ben Colman Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Ashley, Dane Clark, Roy Poole, Charles Dierkop, Burr DeBenning, Regis Cordic, Fred Sadoff, read more
book: Broadway Virgin (1931) by Lois Bull
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 21, 2019
We were recently moving a piece of furniture that hadn’t been moved in a very long time and discovered inside it a stash of extremely old books. Quite why we’d put the books there was a mystery. Even more of a mystery was why we’d kept some of the books at all: yes, a copy of Marg read more
Die Vierte Macht (2012)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 20, 2019
Germany / 117 minutes / color with bw flashbacks / UFA Cinema, Seven Pictures, UPI Dir: Dennis Gansel Pr: Nina Maag, Thomas Peter Friedl, Nico Hofmann Scr: Dennis Gansel, Florian Schumacher Cine: Daniel Gottschalk Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Kasia Smutniak, Max Riemelt, Mark Ivanir, Yevgenij Sitochin, R read more
book: The Shadow Collector’s Apprentice (2012) by Amy Gordon
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 19, 2019
I came across this book in a catalogue when I was looking for B.A. Shapiro’s The Collector’s Apprentice. The blurb reminded me of F.E. Higgins’s The Black Book of Secrets, a novel that I adored a few years back. What larks, I thought: I’ll give this a try. Well, this isnR read more
book: Blueprint for Murder (1948) by Roger Bax
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 18, 2019
A crime novel that really falls into three parts yet by whose end I felt as if everything had been pulled together very satisfactorily. One carp: This is billed as an “Inspector James Mystery” yet there’s actually very little detection involved in the tale. Essentially, James (who read more
book: The Blue Movie Murders (1972) by Edward Hoch, writing as Ellery Queen
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 17, 2019
Toward the end of the Ellery Queen franchise there appeared three novels featuring Mike McCall, special investigator for the governor of an (I think) unnamed state. This was the third of them (as I realized from internal clues and then a check of copyright dates; for some reason I’d thought i read more
Fright (1956)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 16, 2019
US / 78 minutes / bw / Planet Filmplays, Exploitation Productions, Budd Rogers Releasing Corporation Dir & Pr: W. Lee Wilder Scr: Myles Wilder Cine: J. Burgi Contner Cast: Nancy Malone, Eric Fleming, Dean L. Almquist, Frank Marth, Humphrey Davis, Elizabeth Watts, Walter Klavun, Amelia Conley, To read more
book: Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997) by Christopher Moore
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 16, 2019
At his best — as in novels like Fluke, Lamb and Noir — Christopher Moore is close to being our finest living humorous writer. Even his lesser novels, of which this is one, offer good entertainment. Underqualified pilot Tucker Case loses his job flying for the boss of a cosmetics corpor read more
book: The Art Forger (2012) by B.A. Shapiro
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 12, 2019
The cover of The Art Forger is filled with enconia such as that it’s “a clever, twisty novel about art, authenticity, love, and betrayal” and “a provocative meditation on what we value most,” that it “will . . . leave you with a new appreciation of how paintings read more
Fortress (1985 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 12, 2019
Australia / 88 minutes / color / Crawford, HBO, UIP Dir: Arch Nicholson Pr: Raymond Menmuir Scr: Everett De Roche Story: Fortress (1980) by Gabrielle Lord Cine: David Connell Cast: Rachel Ward, Sean Garlick, Rebecca Rigg, Robin Mason, Marc Gray, Beth Buchanan, Asher Keddie, Bradley Meehan, Anna Craw read more
book: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (2005) by Lauren Willig
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 9, 2019
Since the last novel I read (Martha Cooley’s The Archivist) was pretty intense, I decided I needed to tackle next a piece of froth, which led me to The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. Q: Is The Secret History of the Pink Carnation froth?
A: You bet.
Q: Absolute froth?
A: Frothier than t read more
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 9, 2019
vt In Disguise; vt Night Train
UK / 95 minutes / bw / Twentieth Century, MGM Dir: Carol Reed Pr: Edward Black Scr: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder Story: Gordon Wellesley Cine: Otto Kanturek Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul von Hernried (i.e., Paul Henreid), Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ja read more
book: The Archivist (1998) by Martha Cooley
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 7, 2019
A novel that initially enthralled me through the beautiful clarity of its writing and then through the patterns of parallels in its network of a plot; even so, I was hardly prepared for the emotional devastation of its finale. Matt, in his mid-60s, is a senior archivist in the library of an unnamed read more
Lady Scarface (1941)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 6, 2019
US / 66 minutes / bw / RKO Dir: Frank Woodruff Pr: Cliff Reid Scr: Arnaud D’Usseau, Richard Collins Cine: Nicholas Musuraca Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Judith Anderson, Frances Neal, Mildred Coles, Eric Blore, Marc Lawrence, Damian O’Flynn, Andrew Tombes, Marion Martin, Rand Brooks, Arthur Shields, read more
o/t: leisure reading during February 2019
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 3, 2019
Again, a moderate haul for the month; there was an abandonment in the mix as well. For much of February it seemed to me as if I were having somewhat mediocre luck with my selections but, looking back, that was a false impression: there were quite a few goodies and no real stinkers—nothing poor at read more
Mystery Road (2013)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 2, 2019
Australia / 121 minutes / color / Bunya, Mystery Road, Screen Australia, ABC Dir & Scr & Cine: Ivan Sen Pr: David Jowsey Cast: Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jack Thompson, Tony Barry, Robert Mammone, Tasma Walton, Damian Walshe-Howling, David Field, Bruce Spence, Jack Charles, read more
Step Down to Terror (1958)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 2, 2019
US / 76 minutes / bw / Universal International Dir: Harry Keller Pr: Joseph Gershenson Scr: Mel Dinelli, Czenzi Ormonde, Chris Cooper (i.e., Sy Gomberg) Story: Gordon McDonell Cine: Russell Metty Cast: Colleen Miller, Charles Drake, Rod Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson, Jocelyn Brando, Alan Dexter, Rick read more
book: Bunny Lake is Missing (1957) by Evelyn Piper
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Feb 28, 2019
Although the critics were in general less than impressed by it, I much enjoyed Otto Preminger’s 1965 creepy psychological thriller BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, with Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, Keir Dulleia, Martita Hunt, Noel Coward and all. I’m not sure why I’ve left it so long to read more
book: Woman with a Blue Pencil (2015) by Gordon McAlpine
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Feb 28, 2019
Japanese-American art prof and amateur PI Sam Sumida is watching the new movie called The Maltese Falcon at his local LA fleapit one night — the night before, although he doesn’t yet know this, the Pearl Harbor attack — when the film breaks. Moments later, when the image is restor read more
Shakespeare’s Diaries: A Very British Adventure (2016)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Feb 27, 2019
UK / 82 minutes / color / Steven Cutts, Bad Eden, Animus Dir: Charis Orchard Pr: Lee “Wozy” Warren, Charis Orchard, Ben Richards Scr: Steven Cutts Cine: Tansy Simpson Cast: Sophie Tergeist, Malcolm Modele, Peter Lewis Stevens, Dixie Arnold, Georgia Annable, Jack Harrison, Elliot Berry, Charlie Hunte read more