Category: Dennis O’Keefe
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Alton and Mann: A Partnership in Post-War Noir
Dennis O’Keefe, Marsha Hunt, Claire Trevor, “Raw Deal” (1948). They made only a handful of films together, but John Alton and Anthony Mann’s work threw a new light on film noir, police procedural dramas and documentary filmmaking Silhouettes, fog, great pools of inky blackness — that’s a king-sized portion of the visual drama in store…
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A SIMMERING ‘RAW DEAL’ IS COOKED TO PERFECTION
From left, Pat Cameron (Claire Trevor), Ann Martin (Marsha Hunt) and Joe Sullivan (Dennis O’Keefe) in ‘Raw Deal’ (1948).Be forewarned, there are many SPOILERS contained below. In film noir, it’s unusual for the femme fatale to act as narrator. But in “Raw Deal,” the dilemmas of conscience are seen through the eyes of the morally challenged…