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Aug 11, 2024 · Phil Karlson’s 99 River Street is, along with Kansas City Confidential, an exemplar of the director’s brutal, cynical, economical approach to noir. We first meet boxer Ernie Driscoll (John Payne) in the middle of a heavyweight title fight, in which his potential victory is hijacked by a knockdown that leaves him bleeding from a huge cut above his eye.
Jul 24, 2024 · Last week, I spotlighted the noir work of director Phil Karlson on 99 River Street and Kansas City Confidential. Karlson helmed a series of crime movies in the 1950s that rank with the best of the era. Nobody in the classic noir era of the late 1940s and 1950s depicted truly frightening and menacing criminals better than Karlson.
Aug 13, 2024 · Director Phil Karlson (1908-82) is a curious figure in the annals of American cinema. A failed song-and-dance man who was strong-armed by his father into studying law, Karlsen took a job at Universal Studios “washing toilets and dishes and whatever the hell they gave me.”
Aug 8, 2024 · Pressbook for the film The Young Doctors, directed by Phil Karlson and distributed by United Artists. Skip to main content We’re fighting to restore access to 500,000+ books in court this week.
2 days ago · The most distinctive films of Phil Karlson (The Phenix City Story [1955] and The Brothers Rico [1957]) tell stories of vice organized on a monstrous scale. [75] The work of other directors in this tier of the industry, such as Felix E. Feist (The Devil Thumbs a Ride [1947], Tomorrow Is Another Day [1951]), has become obscure.
Jul 26, 2024 · Because of this, The Silencers director Phil Karlson returned to the series with this entry. The Wrecking Crew was released on Christmas Day 1968 in Canada and February 5, 1969, in the United States. The film’s box office was extremely poor when compared to the other films in the Matt Helm series.
4 days ago · Phil Karlson's film noir thriller Kansas City Confidential stars John Payne as ex-convict Joe Rolfe who becomes entangled in a dangerous web of criminality after being framed for a bank heist orchestrated by mysterious mastermind Tim Foster (Preston Foster). As Rolfe seeks revenge against those responsible for his plight while simultaneously attempting to clear his name, viewers are treated to ...
