Sudden Fear is a Hitchcock-influenced drama starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance. A little background on Jack Palance: In 1964 Jack Palance was protesting the segregation of a move theater in Tuscaloosa Alabama by attending a movie along with both white and black spectators. He had his wife and children with him. Several Klansmen came…
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Missile to the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBr-EJfeQmY&has_verified=1
Madam Satan
Lengthy preposterous premise leading up to – drum roll/spoiler alert: a masquerade party on a zeppelin! Check out the trailer. As of 4/5/20, this film was available for streaming from various sources at a small price.
Rififi
Rififi Rififi (French: Du rififi chez les hommesa) is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton‘s novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin.
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Bob le Flambeur
Bob (pronounced Buuub) is a washed-up-ish gambler who is uncool enough to be friends with a police inspector. Bob is portrayed as a semi-honorable because he doesn’t take sexual advantage the young woman he befriends — it’s not that he just doesn’t dig women, OK? Other French films with a harebrained heist schemes: Rififi and…
Tati Shorts
Reasonably-sized morsels of Tati’s slapstick humor. Little description of one of the films to whet your appetite.
Throne of Blood
Macbeth + Noh drama The film really doesn’t involve Noh masks, but here’s some info about Noh masks anyway.
Ministry of Fear
A must see for hardcore Fritz Lang fans. Everyone else — not sure you’ll love it, or even have a chance to watch it. Last check, it is not on Kanopy, YouTube, Netflix, or Amazon for streaming. The library has the DVD, but who knows when the library will be open again. Rating: 🐢⭐🤔