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Post by mortsahlfan on Jun 15, 2022 18:13:24 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_Death_(1947_film)On IMDB, there are no halves, and I gave it an 8 on there.. From the very beginning, I was into it, and remained interested the entire way. In the last month or two, I haven't been able to find this, and within 10-15 minutes, I'm "done". My only criticism of noir is that it's kinda self-limiting, and not so unique. "The Long Goodbye" (Altman) makes a good effort, to reach further, to be free, instead of the marketing thing. It's like the movie, "Mikey and Nicky" being advertised as a gangster pic, when it's an artistic dialogue driven gangster comedy/tragedy, but people might have been expecting "The Godfather" (Cassavetes and Falk are excellent - it's on YouTube). One thing I noticed is that this movie doesn't have a femme fatale, so some might not consider this a real noir, but man, it's really good. Visual editing, sound editing - so much tension. The writing is economic (just like the editing), and really good. Some good entendre. And Richard Widmark is excellent - and it was his first movie. Thank you WPA Federal Theatre (for Orson, Lillian Hellman, Burt Lancaster, etc)
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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Jun 16, 2022 3:47:15 GMT
I thought it was rather lame. Richard Widmark's performance was the sole highlight.
Its 1995 remake actually improves upon one or two of its flaws. But then it shoots itself in the foot by creating a number of idiocies of its own.
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Post by movielover on Jun 16, 2022 4:12:16 GMT
I like both the original and the remake.
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Post by politicidal on Jun 16, 2022 13:59:13 GMT
I liked it better than the remake.
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