Kino’s Noir boxes offer interesting noir-adjacent crime and mystery pix. This seventh return to the well of darkness brings up the organized crime ‘meller’ Chicago Confidential with Brian Keith and the more ambitious The Boss, starring John Payne and written by Dalton Trumbo. The third show The Fearmakers is a real oddity. Starring Dana Andrews and directed by Jacques Tourneur, it’s a political conspiracy tale about manipulating opinions with fraudulent polls. It sounds a lot like the fractured state of modern America, 65 years later. With commentaries by Jason A. Ney and Alan K. Rode.
Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema VII
The Boss, Chicago Confidential, The Fearmakers
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1956-1958 / B&w / Street Date June 7, 2022 / 249 min. / available through Kino Lorber / 49.95
Starring: John Payne, Gloria McGehee, Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dana Andrews, Marilee Earle.
Directed by Byron Haskin, Sidney Salkow, Jacques Tourneur
Kino treads the dark...
Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema VII
The Boss, Chicago Confidential, The Fearmakers
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1956-1958 / B&w / Street Date June 7, 2022 / 249 min. / available through Kino Lorber / 49.95
Starring: John Payne, Gloria McGehee, Brian Keith, Beverly Garland, Dana Andrews, Marilee Earle.
Directed by Byron Haskin, Sidney Salkow, Jacques Tourneur
Kino treads the dark...
- 5/31/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The 1958 film The Boss looks like a movie that would be right at home on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The movie tries to be a gritty gangster film, but instead, the audience is treated to endless exposition, shoot-outs with no blood, and characters who make decisions that make no sense whatsoever. At the beginning of the film, there is a title card stating that it is up to local communities to be vigilant and stop these bosses, but by the end of the film, I was more concerned about protecting innocent audiences from The Boss.
The Boss opens with a military parade. World War I has just ended, and a small town is welcoming home its soldiers. Matt Brady (John Payne) is the town's big war hero as well as the mayor's brother, and he has a schoolteacher girlfriend Elsie (Doe Avedon) waiting for him. In his first night home,...
The Boss opens with a military parade. World War I has just ended, and a small town is welcoming home its soldiers. Matt Brady (John Payne) is the town's big war hero as well as the mayor's brother, and he has a schoolteacher girlfriend Elsie (Doe Avedon) waiting for him. In his first night home,...
- 7/5/2011
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
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