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4 C losed C ap- from the Movie Classics The Bigamist A Film-Makers Cooperative Production 1953 - B&W - 79 minutes Corinth Collection The subject of bigamy is well handled in this man-with-a-double life film noir, starring Edmond O’Brien, a few years after his signature role in the noir classic D.O.A. Director Ida Lupino brings a woman’s perspective to the taboo subject and is to be credited for making Graham a somewhat sympathetic character. Graham is seemingly happily married to his wife, Eve (Joan Fontaine), but the couple’s inability to have children and his work as a travelling salesmen bring him into a chance encounter with Phyllis Martin (Ida Lupino), and he can’t help but take up with her to fill the void in his life. It is a most interesting technique director Lupino uses to make the audience concerned that he is going to be found out when a social worker, Mr. Jordan (Edmond Glenn), as part of his investigation to see if the Grahams are suitable parents to a child they wish to adopt, discovers his double life. It is as if this could happen to anyone in similar circumstances, and we feel sympathy towards O’Brien’s character. The Big Combo An Allied Artists Picture 1954 - B&W - 87 minutes This Film Noir classic has all the key elements that define the genre. A nasty mob boss, played to perfection by Richard Conti. His sadistic behavior and possessive obsession with his girl, Susan Lowell, defines the role of the Noir heavy. Another defining theme is the tension between underlying sexual frustration and overt violence. Conti can’t have a meaningful relationship with his girl and his feeble attempts at connecting sexually is shown when he grabs Susan by the throat and forces a kiss. Although Detective Diamond is not physically violent in his encounters with his sexy dancer girlfriend, Rita, he can’t connect emotionally, prompting her to comment, “..Hoodlums, Detectives...a woman doesn’t care how he makes his living... only how he makes love.” Above all it is the excellent, terse and provocative dialogue by Philip Yordan that makes this Film Noir one of the best of the genre. Black Tights 1960 - Color - 125 minutes Produced by Joseph Kaufman; directed by Terrence Young; cinematography by Henri Alekan; choreography by Roland Petit; music by Marius Constant; costumes by Yves St. Laurent and Christian Dior. The title to this four ballet anthology does not do justice to the excellent performances and entertaining presentations which are a feast for the eyes. The real gem in this collection, aside from the four great dancers, Zizi Jeanmaire, Moira Shearer, Cyd Charisse and Roland Petit (who also did the choreography), is the ballet of Carmen. It is superbly danced by Zizi Jeanmarie as Carmen and Roland Petit as Don Jose. Of course Moira Shearer is great to watch as Roxanne in the excellent ballet version of Edmond de Rostand’s Cyrano De Bergerac, choreographed and starring Roland Petit as Cyrano. Cyd Charisse is also a pleasure to watch as she dances with Roland Petit in A Merry Mourning. The Big Trees “Pleasing old fashioned outdoor drama with a plot which allows the star much opportunity for derring do..” ** -Halliwell’s Film Guide A Warner Bros. Picture - 1952 - Technicolor - 89 minutes Kirk Douglas is Jim Fallon, a larger than life logging entrepreneur who will stop at nothing to make his schemes succeed. He meets his match with the beautiful and pious Alicia Chadwick (Eve Miller), the driving force behind the Quaker sect who owns and reveres the very redwoods he wants to timber. When a logging syndicate more ruthless than Fallon’s takes over his failing enterprise, he is suprised to find Alicia on his side, willing to forgo her non-violent teachings to help Fallon take what is rightfully hers. Edgar Buchanan (an old Hopalong Cassidy sidekick) gives a great performance as Yukon Burns, who becomes Fallon’s conscienous and dies trying to protect him. A Merry Mourning 3117 Bursonville Rd., Riegelsville, PA 18077 Phone: (610)346-7446 Fax: (610)346-6345 Email: sales@corinthfilms.com CREDITS Edmond O’Brien, Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Jane Darwell, Ken Tobey, Peggy Maley, Mack Williams, James Todd, Lilian Fontaine, Producer ... Collier Young Director ... Ida Lupino Screenwriter ... Collier Young From a story by Lawrence B. Marcus, Lou Schor. Cinematographer ... George E. Diskant, A.S.C. Musical Director ... Leith Stevens With songs by Matt Dennis, David Gillam. CREDITS Cornel Wiled, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Earl Holliman, Lee Van Cleef, Robert Middleton, Helen Walker, John Hoyt, Whit Bissell, Ted De Corsia, Helene Stanton, Jay Adler, Roy Gordon, Steve Mitchell, Philip Van Zandt Producer ... Sidney Harmon Director ... Joseph Lewis Screenwriter ... Philip Yordan Cinematographer ... John Alton, A.S.C. Composer ... David Raksin A Dance Anthology of 4 Ballets from the Ballets of Paris of Roland Petit The Diamond Cruncher starring Zizi Jeanmaire as La Croqueuse, Dirk Sanders as Le Jeune Homme, Raoul Celada as Gerard LeMaitre starring Cyd Charisse as L’espouse, Roland Petit as Le Seducteur, Hans Van Manen as Le Mari. CREDITS Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Edgar Buchanan, Patrice Wymore, John Archer, Alan Hale, Jr., Roy Roberts. produced by Louis F. Edelman directed by Felix Feist screenplay - John Twist & James R. Webb, from a story by Kenneth Earl cinematography - Bert Glennon, ASC music by Heinz. Roemheld. Cyrano De Bergerac starring Roland Petit as Cyrano, Moira Shearer as Roxanne, Georges Reich as Christian, Joslane Consoli as Lise Bagueseau. Carmen starring Zizi Jeanmaire as Carmen, Roland Petit as Don Jose Write-Ups © Corinth Films, Inc. 2006
Write-Ups © Corinth Films, Inc. 2006 C losed C ap- from the Movie Classics The Black Book ( a.k.a. The Reign of Terror ) A Walter Wanger Production; 1949 - B&W - 89 minutes Bride of the Monster an Edward G. Wood, Jr. Picture 1956, b&w; 68 minutes. Corinth Collection With talent like Anthony Mann as director and Richard Basehart as Robespierre, you would expect something extraordinary from this period film about the bloody aftermath of the French Revolution known as “The Reign of Terror.” What you get is something even more unexpected, a film noir rendering of the bloody events which makes for great historical drama. The story hinges on Robespierre’s machinations to become dictator of France and his dreaded “Black Book,” which contains the names of those he plans to send to the guillotine. A group of political moderates, backed by the exiled Marquise de Lafayette, engage Charles D’Aubigny (Robert Cummings) to retrieve the black book prior to the revolutionary committe convention where Robespierre will seek approval to become dictator. With the help of his former lover, beautiful Madelone (Arlene Dahl), he locates the book. When they circulate it at the convention, the delegates see that they are on Robespierre’s death list and turn on him. In a brutal scene, Robespierre is shot in the mouth so he can speak no more, then guillotined! Blood on the Sun A United Artists Picture; 1945 - B&W - 93 minutes Dubbed “The Oriental Hitler”, Baron Giichi Tanaka has formulated a sinister plan for world conquest which will eventually lead to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. American newspaperman Nick Condon (James Cagney) has been brought in to run the Tokyo Chronicle which, unbeknownst to Condon, is under the yoke of the Japanese militarists. When Condon not only runs a front page article revealing the existence of the Tanaka Plan, but tells the owner he authored it, he is hounded by the Japanese Secret Police. After his trusted employee, Ollie Miller, mysteriously comes into loads of money, and he and his wife are suddenly killed before leaving Tokyo, Condon knows trouble is brewing. Even more troubling is the explosive document Ollie gives Condon before dying, an original copy of the Tanaka Plan. Condon’s apartment is raided by the police, but Condon hides the envelope containing the plan behind a portrait of the Emperor, which the police don’t dare violate. When Condon goes back to retrieve it, it is gone and later turns up in the possession of the beautiful Iris Hilliard (Sylvia Sidney). Condon is distrustful of her but has fallen in love. When she turns over the document, Condon convinces her to get the document into the right h ands to warn the free world. “Incredibly inane two-bit shocker.. a strong contender for any list of the worst Bride of the Gorilla films of all time.” -Halliwell’s Film Guide A Jack Broder Production; 1951 - B&W - 66 minutes This occult jungle classic has a steamy atmosphere and cast to mach with sexy blonde Barbara Payton as the wife of a wealthy plantation owner (Raymond Burr) in the South American jungle. And what is a Gorilla to do when he spys a lovely blonde on a steamy night...grab her, that’s what and who wouldn’t. And none other non Chaney,Jr. (the original Wolfman) is the police officer called in to the investigate the strange goings on, which just can’t be explained by pure logic. Witchcraft is the only expanation to explain how the plantation owner see himself in the mirror as a gorilla! Interestingly, this film marked the debut of Woody Strode who would go “Incredibly inane two-bit shocker, a strong contender for any list of the worst films of all on to do battle with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus. time.” -Halliwell’s Film Guide “A perfectly terrible movie, on par with this directors other works.” -Halliwell’s Film Guide This is one of Camp King, Ed Wood’s better films (in relation to some of his pretty bad movies) and one of horror legend, Bela Lugosi’s, final roles. Lugosi is the evil Dr. Vornoff, who along with his crazed man-beast servant, Lobo (b-movie icon Tor Johnson) is conducting radiation experiments on humans in an attempt to create a legion of atomic super men. But you have to look for the classically bad latex octopus “monster” scene where Ed reportedly told the actor wrestling with it to “flop that octopus more to make it look like it’s attacking you!” After this movie, Ed directed the notoriously worst (and most entertaining) film of all time, Plan 9 From Outer Space. British Intelligence A Western Electric-First National Picture; 1940 - B&W - 63 minutes In this double-agent counter-espionage thriller, Boris Karloff, as the suspicious butler Valdar, is the key to unlocking the identity of the Strendler, the master German spy. Margaret Lindsay ( star of Anne of Seven Gables) plays opposite Karloff as a German agent who is given the password “Always forward” and “Never Backward” to identify herself to fellow agents. Is she working for the Germans or is she a counter-agent working for the British? And is Boris Karloff’s Valdar a German spy or a double agent? Or could he be Strendler? The twists and turns of this spy thriller make this a most challenging and rewarding film to watch! 3117 Bursonville Rd., Riegelsville, PA 18077 Phone: (610)346-7446 Fax: (610)346-6345 Email: sales@corinthfilms.com CREDITS Robert Cummings, Richard Basehardt, Arlene Dahl, Arnold Moss, Jess Barker, Wade Crosby, William Challee, Georgette Windsor, Charles McGraw, Beulah Bondi, John Doucette, Ellen Lowe Producer ... Walter Wanger Director ... Anthony Mann Story and Screenwriters ... Philip Yordan and Aeneas MacKenzie. Cinematographer ... John Alton, A.S.C. Composer ... Sol Kaplan CREDITS James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Wallace Ford, Porter Hall, Robert Armstrong, John Emery, Rosemary de Camp, Leonard Stone, Frank Puglia, John Halloran, Hugh Ho, Hugh Beaumont, Rhys Williams, James Bell Producer ... William Cagney Director ... Frank Lloyd Screenwriter ... Lester Cole From a story by Garrett Ford. Cinematographer ... Theodor Sparkahl, A.S.C. Composer ... Miklos Rozsa CREDITS Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney, Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh, Woody Strode, Giselle Werbisek, Carol Varga. Cinematography: Charles Van Enger, ASC. Music: Raoul Kraushaar. Producer: Jack Broder. Writer and Director: Curt Siodmak. CREDITS Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Loretta King, Tony McCoy, Dolores Fuller, Paul Marco Producer... Edward. D. Wood, Jr. Director ... Edward. D. Wood, Jr. Screenplay ... Edward D. Wood,Jr. and Alex Gordon Cinematography... William C. Thompson and Ted Allan CREDITS Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudie, Holmes Herbert, Lester Matthews. directed by Terry Morse screenplay by Lee Katz, based on a play by Anthony Paul Kelly; cinematography by Sid Hickox, ASC music by H. Roemheld. 5
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