Category: Raoul Walsh

  • Noir Directors and their Eyepatches

    Noir Directors and their Eyepatches

    An eyepatch can make a director look like a badass and that’s a good thing in the famously brutal movie biz. Sure, a lot of them are scary enough without a patch, but put a piece of black fabric over an eye and your game is automatically upped exponentially.  Cranky, spoiled actors, pushy studio execs…

  • It Took Two Directors to Tell the Murder, Inc. Story

    It Took Two Directors to Tell the Murder, Inc. Story

    Humphrey Bogart as Dist. Atty. Martin Ferguson “The Enforcer” is one of the lesser appreciated Bogart films, but it deserves more attention than it gets. Granted, it’s no “Maltese Falcon.” It would be a tall order equaling “Falcon” director John Huston’s artistry. But “Enforcer” directors Bretaigne Windust  and Raoul Walsh (uncredited) pull off an impressive…

  • Raoul Walsh Biographer Intros Two at Egyptian

    Raoul Walsh Biographer Intros Two at Egyptian

    If you live in the L.A. area you’ll want to be at the Egyptian Theater Friday, June 10, when two of director Raoul Walsh’s towering achievements in crime cinema, “High Sierra” and “The Roaring Twenties,” will be screened. And to celebrate the first book-length biography of Walsh, Marilyn Ann Moss, author of “Raoul Walsh: The…