Heightened 2023 - Movies (Oct 2nd)
ClearMind 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Knox Goes Away 2023 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Hounds of War 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Sebastian 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Deadpool and Wolverine 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Strange Darling 2023 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Tim Dillon This Is Your Country 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
A Quiet Place Day One 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
The 430 Movie 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
The Curse of the Necklace 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
My Penguin Friend 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Speak No Evil 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Cassino in Ischia 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
MaXXXine 2024 - Movies (Oct 1st)
Cabrini 2024 - Movies (Sep 30th)
Latency 2024 - Movies (Sep 30th)
Cobweb 2023 - Movies (Sep 30th)
The Great Escaper 2023 - Movies (Sep 30th)
Lee 2023 - Movies (Sep 30th)
Teaches of Peaches 2024 - Movies (Sep 30th)
Exposed- Naked Crimes - (Oct 2nd)
Road Rage - (Oct 2nd)
Windy City Rehab - (Oct 2nd)
Welcome to Plathville - (Oct 2nd)
The Good Stuff with Mary Berg - (Oct 2nd)
Tell Me Lies - (Oct 2nd)
Slow Horses - (Oct 2nd)
Bad Monkey - (Oct 2nd)
Midnight Family - (Oct 2nd)
Wheres Wanda - (Oct 2nd)
Alex Wagner Tonight - (Oct 2nd)
The ReidOut with Joy Reid - (Oct 2nd)
All In with Chris Hayes - (Oct 2nd)
The Bold and the Beautiful - (Oct 2nd)
Lets Make a Deal - (Oct 2nd)
WWE NXT - (Oct 2nd)
Deadline- White House - (Oct 2nd)
The Beat with Ari Melber - (Oct 2nd)
Murder in a Small Town - (Oct 2nd)
Deadliest Catch - (Oct 2nd)
Chiseler's and Smouldering Redheads. Slightly Scarlet is directed by Allan Dwan and adapted to screenplay by Robert Blees from the novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit written by James M. Cain. It stars John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Kent Taylor and Ted de Corsa. A Technicolor/SuperScope production, music is scored by Louis Forbes and cinematography by John Alton. June Lyons (Fleming) is "secretary" to anti-crime campaigner Frank Jansen (Taylor), so with Jansen in the running for mayor, mob boss Solly Caspar (Corsa) looks for a way to smear Jansen. The chance arises by way of June's sister, Dorothy (Dahl), a Kleptomaniac just released from prison. So Caspar puts his main man on the case, Ben Grace (Payne), but bossing Grace around and then putting him in the middle of two fire- cracker sisters could prove detrimental to all. The story is altered from Cain's source and in truth what reads like a tricky plot, actually isn't all that it can be. Yet it's a feverish Technicolor noir, proof positive that in the right photographic/director hands, noir can thrive away from the monochrome. It plays out its tale in a whirl of simmering passions and wonderfully lurid suggestions, sparkled by eye scorching photography and a deliriously devilish production design. Psychological smarts are in the mix, with no easy answers put forward to character's outcomes, while in true noir fashion all principal characters are hard to like or are intriguingly flawed. John Alton is the key hand here, he brings rich colours to the fore whilst ensuring that light and shadow techniques are not compromised. Macho conversations are spun out in darkened rooms, the colour black prominent, foreboding like, while the home of the two flame haired sisters is adorned with purposely garish blues, reds, oranges and greens. Clothes are important to the sexuality pulsing in the piece. The girls dressed up in a number of fetching (colourful obviously) ensembles, with wide V necked sweaters, figure hugging skirts, bullet bras, leopard skin bikini and see-thru nighties! While a couple of phallic symbols form part of the art design just in case you need reminding that sex is a big issue here. Suggestive scenes are within, usually involving Dorothy who mixes Kleptomania with an obvious kink for Nymphomania. Watch how she strokes a pillow in the background as her sister engages Ben in heated conversation, how she looks as she holds a Harpoon Spear Gun in her hands (in that leopard skin bikini), or a quite delicious sequence on a couch, legs akimbo and a back scratcher used to tantalising effect. Wow! It has flaws for sure, mind. The Kleptomania/Nymphomania angle is not fully explored (ineviatbly for the period), Corsa barely convinces as the head villain, Forbes is not sure how to score it! And there are missed opportunities unbound as regards triangles involving Ben, June and Frank and also Ben, June and Dorothy. But this is still a delightful Technicolor noir, lush, lurid and deftly sordid. 8/10
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind clues, but police efforts have been fruitless. Constructing a life-size dummy of the murderer, police Lt. Harry Grant is growing obsessed with capturing him, and always following Grant is the relentless reporter Ann Gorman looking to break the story, but the hunt continues.
A man wanted for negligent homicide returns to his hometown after 15 years, only to be haunted by his past, and getting mixed up in a scheme involving the daughter of his victim.
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.