I’ve had a recent fascination with #RobertRyan. Can’t get enough of his films where he is almost always despicable, while in real life he was a liberal activist—I guess that’s acting. Watching The Wild Bunch (1969) today. #acting #OldHollywood

I’ve had a recent fascination with #RobertRyan. Can’t get enough of his films where he is almost always despicable, while in real life he was a liberal activist—I guess that’s acting. Watching The Wild Bunch (1969) today. #acting #OldHollywood

I’ve had a recent fascination with #RobertRyan. Can’t get enough of his films where he is almost always despicable, while in real life he was a liberal activist—I guess that’s acting. Watching The Wild Bunch (1969) today. #acting #OldHollywood

Despite Robert Ryan as Nemo, plus wild costume design, “Captain Nemo and the Underwater City” (1969) doesn’t have much to offer, alas.

#Hollywood #RobertRyan

#AccaddeOggi nel 1973 muore 63enne l'attore #RobertRyan una faccia da duro che si oppose al maccartismo. Nel 1952 seduce Barbara Stanwyck ne #LaConfessioneDellaSignoraDoyle https://is.gd/jBK5Rf

75 years ago:
Berlin Express (US)
Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
1948-05-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42286
#BerlinExpress #JacquesTourneur #MerleOberon #RobertRyan #PaulLukas #RKO #Movies

70 years ago:
City Beneath the Sea (US)
Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.
1953-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/49327
#CityBeneaththeSea #BuddBoetticher #RobertRyan #AnthonyQuinn #SuzanBall #Film

74 years ago:
The Set-Up (US)
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
1949-03-29
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/17218
#TheSetUp #RobertWise #RobertRyan #AudreyTotter #GeorgeTobias #RKO #Film

56 years ago:
The Busy Body (US)
Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.
1967-03-12
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/29510
#TheBusyBody #SidCaesar #RobertRyan #AnneBaxter #Paramount #Movies

"The Naked Spur" 1953

Staring Jimmy Stewart, Robert Ryan and Janet Leigh.

Robert Ryan is a fugitive on the run. Janet Leigh is his sidekick and the daughter of his dead friend.

Jimmy Stewart aims to capture the fugitive and claim the reward. Two other men glom onto the pursuit and he reluctantly tolerates their company.

#TheNakedSpur #NakedSpur #JamesStewart #JimmyStewart #JanetLeigh #RobertRyan #RalphMeeker #MillardMitchell #ClassicFilm #Western #1953 #AnthonyMann

https://archive.org/details/ThNkSpr1953

74 years ago:
Caught (US)
It was Leonora Eames' childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband - he is power mad and insane! Since he will not grant her a divorce, she leaves her life of luxury on Long Isla...
1949-02-17
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/43397
#Caught #JamesMason #BarbaraBelGeddes #RobertRyan #MGM #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

The self-righteous anger and violence has been a staple pathos for the Western genre. This tough male victimhood is as privileged and outdated as white supremacy movement that is rampant in this country. One can't deny that America is built on violence but no one wants to admit it. All highly regarded Westerns follow pretty much the same pathos - The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, etc. #AndredeToth's Day of the Outlaw is no exception but it makes a hero out of #RobertRyan's Blaise, a gruffy rancher without ever firing a gun. So kudos for that. Day of the Outlaw concerns a band of outlaws rolling into a small town headed by principled Bruhn who’s dying from bullet wounds. Sensing Bruhn’s death will destroy the town by thirsty & lusty bandits, Blaise decides to not to be blasé and lure them into the mountains to their deaths. It’s one of the best westerns I’ve seen. #TinaLouise is a real beaut. Snowcapped vista also accentuates the harshness of the American west. #western

Hard hitting daylight noir setting is just a backdrop for a Nick Ray drama about loneliness. He is skillful setting Wilson up from the beginning as a family-less man on the brink of losing his soul. Ray knew back then, that the loneliness is a universal condition that affects everyone - a cop, screenwriter, disaffected youth... #OnDangerousGround is a subtle & quietly moving film except for the ending which succumbs to cliché. This is how I would've ended the film:
EXT. CAR - DAY
Wilson is speeding down the snow swept, empty highway. After a while, from the bird's eye view, we see his car slowly coming to a halt. Wilson sits there in the car for the longest time. Then he slowly gets out & closes the car door. It’s a barren wintry landscape. We pan three sixty and stop back at Wilson's face. His face conveys quiet determination. Cut to wide:
Wilson standing alone in the snow swept highway.
Eleanor Rigby starts to play & the credits roll.
THE END #robertryan #idalupino #filmnoir

3 things about Jean Renoir's THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH The Woman on the Beach [1947]

1. "Peg, you're so beautiful. So beautiful outside, so rotten inside."
2. The only thing he saves from the fire is his typewriter.
3. Coat of a ghost.

#3things #movies #FilmNoir #JeanRenoir #RobertRyan

3 things about Jean Renoir's THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH The Woman on the Beach [1947]

1. "Peg, you're so beautiful. So beautiful outside, so rotten inside."
2. The only thing he saves from the fire is his typewriter.
3. Coat of a ghost.

#3things #movies #FilmNoir #JeanRenoir #RobertRyan

Robert Ryan et Anita Ekberg dans une publicité tournée pour "Back from Eternity", 1956.

#50s #50sfashion
#50smakeup #50sstyle #1950s
#1950sstyle #1950sfashion #oldhollywood
#vintage #vintagestyle #vintageclothing
#vintagefashion #vintagehollywood
#history #retro #oldschool
#vintagebeauty #retrogirl #art #singer #actrices #actor #hollywood #star #70s #80s #girl #pinup #robertryan

With a cool title sequence, rapid cuts, zoom-ins, extreme closeups, jazzy score and old New York scenery, there are a lot to love in Odds Against Tomorrow. It patiently spends 2/3rd of the film on the characters before the heist. #HarryBelafonte is mesmerizing as a conflicted anti-hero, so is #RobertRyan in his aging grizzly man persona. #GloriaGrahame shows up as saucy next door neighbor of Slater (Ryan) and their scene together is deliciously explosive. #robertwise #filmnoir

Robert Wise creates a smoke-filled, sleazy, unglamorous, two-bit boxing noir. Shot memorably by Milton Krasner, realistic fight scenes are crazy intense- no wonder Scorsese is a big fan of this. There’s joy and misery in meatballs battling it out where paying spectators chant "KILL HIM!" Ryan, looking like a hero from Bellows' painting, slogs through a hellish fight, then being subjected to the fury of the gang. Just how much of this can a man take? A great tight noir. #robertryan #filmnoir

#RobertWise creates a smoke-filled, sleazy, unglamorous, two-bit boxing noir. Amazingly shot by Milton Krasner. Unstylized fight scenes are crazy intense, no wonder Scorsese is a big fan. There’s joy and misery of seeing fellow meatballs battling it out, where paying spectators chant "KILL HIM!" #RobertRyan slogs through a hellish fight, then being subject to the fury of the gang. Just how much of this can a man take? A great tight noir. #thesetup #filmnoir #georgebellows

Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan in “Beware, My Lovely” (1952). This is a noirish thriller, set at Christmastime, which Lupino helped produce for her own company The Filmakers. She even briefly filled in for first-time director Harry Horner when his wife fell ill

#ClassicFilm #OldMovies #IdaLupino #RobertRyan #FilmNoir