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Noir Alley Ambassador

Beth Ann Gallagher
Anouncements, Film Festivals, Film Noir, Noir Alley Ambassador 2020, Noir City, Noir City 18
Jan 22, 2020
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Big news! Turner Classic Movies asked me to be a Noir Alley Ambassador at Noir City 18! Here’s what that means.

For the Love of Film (Noir) Blogathon: The Bookseller Babe in The Big Sleep (1946)

bethanngallagher
Available on DVD, Blogathons, Booksellers on Film, Dorothy Malone, Film Noir, Film Noir on DVD, Film Preservation
Feb 19, 2011
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Perhaps because I’ve worked as a bookseller, I’ve always felt a special affinity for Dorothy Malone‘s bookstore proprietress in The Big Sleep. In the film private detective Philip Marlowe investigates an increasingly confusing case that centers around a dysfunctional family. Clues keep leading him back to one blond sister or the other. The younger has gotten…

For the Love of Film (Noir): The Mechanical Man of CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS (1953)

bethanngallagher
Blogathons, Film Noir, Film Preservation, Out-of-Print-in-the-US, Unreleased to DVD
Feb 17, 2011
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John H. Auer‘s CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS is an odd hodgepodge of a film. It crosses noir with docudrama with the guardian angel film. Its villains, Hayes Stewart, Lydia Biddel, and Penrod Biddel, are far more compelling than the lead Johnny Kelly. He’s a cop dissatisfied with his life. His hardworking wife Kathy Kelly fears he’s distant due…

For the Love of Film (Noir): Christmas Holiday (1944)

bethanngallagher
Blogathons, Film Noir, Out-of-Print-in-the-US
Feb 14, 2011
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Any holiday can bring out the worst in people, but Christmas Holiday really isn’t about the supposedly joyous season. It’s a noir, so how can it be? A soldier’s Christmas leave provides the frame for the story. He”s just been jilted by his sweetheart, and he’s angry, so angry that he has to call upon…

For the Love of Film (Noir) Bloggers

It’s almost time for you to put on your reading glasses! In one week, the For the Love of Film (Noir) blogathon starts. From throughout the film blogosphere, writers are banding together for a great cause–to raise funds for film preservation. Every day more bloggers are answering the call to write about and raise funds…

Cause for Alarm!

Cause for Alarm! (1951)Directed by Tay GarnettWritten by Larry Marcus, Mel Dinelli, & Tom LewisStarring Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, & Bruce Cowling This film mixes camp and noir, so purists may not like it, but I enjoyed it. Loretta Young’s character Ellen Jones does everything wrong. She dotes over her sleazy husband even when he…

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