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Post by darksidebeadle on Aug 15, 2021 6:01:35 GMT
I went on a quest to watch the film noirs and thrillers from the film noir period (1940-59) by writer/director Andrew L. Stone. I managed to locate all but one so far (Confidence Girl 1952) Of the others I rank them… 1. Highway 301 (1950) (this one jumped right into my top 20 film noirs) 2. The Steel Trap (1952) 3. A Blueprint for Murder (1953) 4. The Night Holds Terror (1955) 6. Julie (1956) 7. Cry Terror! (1958) I liked them all to one degree or another but I’d highly recommend Highway 301 or the steel trap to anyone  |
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Post by movielover on Aug 15, 2021 6:05:38 GMT
I enjoyed Julie. I’ll have to check out the others.
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Post by darksidebeadle on Aug 15, 2021 6:13:16 GMT
I enjoyed Julie. I’ll have to check out the others. I enjoyed them all. He’s an interesting guy this writer director. I also noticed he used a lot of internal narration. For his characters in every movie. Something that a lot of people think is poor story telling but he makes it work for the most part.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 15, 2021 13:17:17 GMT
A Blueprint for Murder (6/10)
Cry Terror (7/10)
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Post by petrolino on Aug 15, 2021 13:17:21 GMT
I like 'The Steel Trap' and 'Cry Terror!'.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 16, 2021 2:34:30 GMT
Unlike some silent film directors, Andrew Stone embraced the possibilities of natural sound and location shooting.
'As a maverick, he was scornful of the power of the cameramen. “Cameramen have the biggest racket next to producers,” he said. “Studio heads don’t seem to worry, which seems fantastic. I insist on naturalistic lighting — not the sort where a room is uniformly lit by enormous lights in gantries. If a guy moves, the whole lot needs realigning — it takes hours, and the result is lousy. We could shoot by matchlight if we wanted to — yet cameramen are using the same number of lights they used in the days when stock was so slow.”
He rejected back projection, process work and even post-synching (dubbing). The technique paid off because whereas most studio pictures averaged eight setups a day, Stone routinely shot 20, shooting all night if he thought it would help the picture.'
- Variety
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 16, 2021 4:22:42 GMT
I have only seen The Night Holds Terror. I remember liking it and the ending--I know there was something unusual about--funny or something.
I have a few others bookmarked
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