Category: Samuel Fuller
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Noir After World War II: Damaged Vets Strain to Re-enter Civilian Life as America Stares Down Fascist Conspiracies and a Seething Nuclear Nightmare
Gaby Rodgers, “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955). This Post Contains Spoilers By Paul Parcellin American films noir changed a lot after the end of World War II. The standard setups — a guy, a girl, a gun, a pile of cash, gave way to new storylines and different kinds of characters. We began to see G.I.s…
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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…