d4doome · @d4doome
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950), John Huston’s faithful and excellent adaptation of W.R. Burnett’s great novel. An excellent film noir about a heist. Fine performance by Sterling Hayden. Marilyn Monroe has a bit part.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-asphalt-jungle-1950.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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W.R. Burnett's High Sierra, a great noir novel by a great writer. A bank robber just out of jail gets mixed up in a heist with a bunch of amateurs and a girl. He used to be a big shot. Now he's tired and fatalistic. The book packs a real punch.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2023/05/wr-burnetts-high-sierra.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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MGM's The Beast of the City (1932), most hard-edged and violent of all 30s gangster movies. Based on a W. R. Burnett story. Walter Huston is chilling as the obsessed cop. Jean Harlow, unconstrained by the Production Code, sizzles as a bad girl.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-beast-of-city-1932.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Nathan Juran's Law and Order, a 1953 remake of the extraordinarily dark 1932 western of the same name, based on the W.R. Burnett novel Saint Johnson.
With Ronald Reagan in the role played by Walter Huston in the '32 film. The '53 version is OK but nowhere near as good as the original.
You should never remake a truly great movie.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/01/law-and-order-1953-remake.html
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