Film Noir

[Mike]

i've been watching and collecting a lot of old "noir" films lately. they just don't make 'em like they used to! my favorite actress of the period is RUTH ROMAN!, who was in several. what a woman! what an actress! ruth had "class"! lol.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/david.dell/ruth/110ruth1.jpg

co-starring with steve cochran, she was in a TERRIFIC movie called "tomorrow is another day." this is one of those rare finds, a GREAT one if you haven't seen it. another fave actor is john garfield, who was great in "the postman always rings twice," but i think he's even better in a lesser known film called "he ran all the way" with shelley winters. that was his last film before the commie investigations, and i think he knew his career was coming to an end, and he really gave it his all in that movie. i got most of these old flix from my "secret source", lol, a guy named rob in tennessee, who has a giant list of old noir movies on the cheap, (and he's having a summer sale for only $5 each). if you are looking for an old crime / detective / noir type film, rob probably has it. tell him "mike in L.A." sent you lol. rob's email:

filmnoirfilms@aol.com
filmnoirfilms at aol dot com

AND DID YOU KNOW ?... that ruth roman and her infant son were rescued (seperately and later reunited) from the andrea doria shipwreck in 1956!

[krledu]

What era movies are we talking about here? I would love to get some classic films. Would he have any comedy and would he ship overseas? Always nice to find someone who likes the classics. They are few and far between.

[Maxwell]

What era movies are we talking about here? I would love to get some classic films. Would he have any comedy and would he ship overseas? Always nice to find someone who likes the classics. They are few and far between.

Most of the stuff he's talking about are post WWII. Film noir kind of petered out with the Cinemascope and Technicolor productions that became dominant when Hollywood decided it had to go huge to compete with TV. So I'd say the period would be roughly mid-'40s to early '50s.

When I think of classic film noir, I generally think of late '40s/early '50s RKO with guys like Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan and directors like Edward Dmytryk.

[Yhtapmys]

AND DID YOU KNOW ?... that ruth roman and her infant son were rescued (seperately and later reunited) from the andrea doria shipwreck in 1956!

There's a nice story about that in the history of The Today Show I bought some years ago.

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