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Name your top 25 films noirs. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? I thought it would be a breeze. A piece of cake. A walk in the park. But, no. To whittle my favorites down to 25, I had to leave off so many films that I love – it was agonizing! Anyway, I managed to get through it, and here – in no particular read more

It’s about that time . . . time for some more of those awesome film noir lines. Dig in! “Perhaps you don’t realize. It’s painful being killed – a piece of metal sliding into your body, finding its way to your heart. It takes a while to die, too. Sometimes a long while.” – read more

One of my favorite things about Noirvember is shining the spotlight on those films noirs that are not necessarily well-known, but are certainly worthy of your time. Today’s post focuses on two Columbia Pictures features from the 1950s that will put you on the edge of your seat and keep you the read more

Are you ready for some trivia? Dive in! RKO was on the verge of bankruptcy when it signed aging crooner Dick Powell to make a series of musicals. Powell agreed on one condition: that he could play a straight dramatic role first. This agreement led to his casting as Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet read more

Today’s Noirvember post is offered in conjunction with Blogathon & the Beast, a blog event hosted by the Classic Movie Blog Association that focuses on characters who are “caught in a struggle with their primal inclinations.” For my entry in the blogathon, I’m taking a look at the “beasts& read more

For today’s Noirvember post, I thought I’d try something different and, hopefully, a little fun. Here’s a quiz with titles of film noir features, but with one word missing from each. To play, just fill in the missing word. The answers can be found by scrolling past the poster of La read more

It’s become somewhat of a tradition for me during Noirvember to comb through my copies of Confidential magazine for stories on noir vets. Luckily, I added another issue to my collection this past year, so here I go again! If you’re unfamiliar with Confidential, it was a notorious gossip magazine read more

During a recent session of the weekly movie meetup group I’m in, we got on the topic of classic movie stars who’d changed their birth names. It was a practice that was not uncommon – Doris Kappelhoff became Doris Day, Alice Jean Leppert became Alice Faye, and so on. Happened all the time. Today’s read more

For some, actor Vince Edwards is best known as the title character on TV’s Ben Casey, which ran for five years on ABC in the 1960s. Others remember him as Maj. Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil’s Brigade, starring William Holden and Cliff Robertson. But I know him for his standout perform read more

There are noirs that I like. There are noirs that I love. And then there are the noirs that I’ve seen the most. Today’s Noirvember post is looking at the top three noirs that I’ve seen more often than any others – the ones that I watch over and over again, the ones that I can turn on at any read more

I can’t get enough of what I like to call “Dame Name” noirs – Mildred Pierce, Laura, Nora Prentiss and, of course, Gilda. And you know what else I can’t get enough of? TRIVIA! So, in today’s Noirvember post, I’m combining these two loves of mine, taking a deep dive into Gilda, and coming read more

How many times have you been watching a noir and spotted a actor that you’ve seen before, but you don’t know his name? In fact, you’ve never heard his name – but that face! You know that face! Today’s Noirvember post is taking a look at one of these actors, and putting a name – Barry Kelley read more

If you love film noir – and, of course, you do! – then I know you love those awesome lines that the characters toss off like so much confetti. Some of my favorite lines are the memorable threats and put-downs, and that’s the focus of today’s Noirvember post. Enjoy! “Joe, the man has reason read more

It’s November 1st, y’all, and you know what that means: it’s the start of Noirvember! The brainchild of Marya Gates, who now blogs via her Substack newslettter, Noirvember is a month-long celebration of all things noir. And here at Shadows and Satin, I celebrate by posting every day of the month. read more

Noirvember is just around the corner (buckle up, y’all!), but TCM is going pre-Code nutty on the first day of the noir season! That’s right – on November 1st, you can settle in front of your television (or tablet, phone, or whatever you watch moving pictures on) and catch a full day of eight back-to read more

I have mixed feelings about Fallen Angel, a 20th Century Fox noir released in 1945 and directed by Otto Preminger. The story centers on Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews) a down-on-his-luck slickster who winds up in a small California town where he falls for Stella (Linda Darnell), an alluring waitress at read more

TCM is always overflowing with horror films during October, which normally makes it no small feat for me to select my film noir and pre-Code selections for the 10th month of the year. Let me tell you – I didn’t have a problem in that area this year. Shadowy Pick: The Night of the Hunter (1955 read more

I was fascinated with It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) long, long before I ever saw it. I came across a picture of the film’s poster on the Internet, was immediately drawn to it, and printed out a copy, where it decorated my work cubicle for several years. That was in the mid-2000s. I didn’t get read more

Every year, I look forward with great anticipation to the announcement of the Summer Classic Movie Book Challenge, the brainchild of Raquel Stecher over at the Out of the Past blog. This event was made for people like me who love buying classic movie-themed books, but never seem to get around to rea read more

After enjoying an absolutely stellar Summer Under the Stars on TCM, it was a delight to see that September’s line-up is chock-full of first-rate pre-Code and film noir features. Here are my picks for the month. Shadowy Pick: Frisco Jenny (1932) As much as I love this feature, I was gobsmacked to rea read more