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Film Noir?
Mike Hammer was 56, and M Squad was 57. Yes they had jazz influenced scores M Squad in particular. All three shows aired around the same time. But the Peter Gunn theme was a HUGE hit recording and was in juke boxes, and played on the radio. Mike Hammer and M Squad were a year or two before Peter...- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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George Hurrell 40s style photography
Wow great shots! I'm envious of your Speed Graphic camera! Doug- Atomic Age
- Post #40
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Film Noir?
Maybe he didn't want him dead until he got there and it made him nervous. Perhaps he had only been calling him at his office to try and find out what he knew. However to be perfectly honest, DOA has such a convoluted plot, that I can't really remember all the twists and turns. Doug- Atomic Age
- Post #135
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir?
Of course Hollywood logic never really works in the real world. However I think its safe to assume that the killer didn't live Bigelow's small desert town. Bigelow chooses to vacation in the city where the killer lives. (coincidence or fate) Of course he doesn't know that the killer lives...- Atomic Age
- Post #133
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir?
Yes while the plot revolves around him knowing something that he was unaware that he knew, but that is really only the MacGuffin of the film. Film noir is often about people who want to break out of their ordinary boring lives. They are attracted to fast living, dangerous living, and taking that...- Atomic Age
- Post #131
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir?
I loved your clip. Very few people (even in Hollywood) get how to light in B&W these days. Ironically the kind of music that most people think of when they think film noir (the bluesy saxophone) is not the kind of music that is in most films noir. The films of the 40's and 50's that we think...- Atomic Age
- Post #129
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Disney's Miramax closes
Well to be fair, Bob and Harvey Weinstein left Miramax to form The Weinstein Company in 2005. Disney has been running the company directly for the last 5 years and intentionally phasing it out of business. Doug- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir?
I saw The Big Sleep (1946) when I was 16 and I was hooked on film noir. In fact film noir held a gun to my head and forced me to make one. Hopefully it will be coming to a DVD near you someday. Here is a trailer for it that I've put together. I posted this in another thread, but this seems an...- Atomic Age
- Post #128
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir?
I disagree. The mistake he makes in D.O.A. is taking the woman who loves him for granted. He takes a vacation (he didn't take a job) to the big city to get away from the woman who he considers boring and provincial. It's only later when he knows he is dieing, that he realizes what he has thrown...- Atomic Age
- Post #127
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Film Noir?
Great observations.....I'll add one. In Out of the Past the moment of Robert Mitchum's downfall is: He is doomed from the moment he says that. Doug- Atomic Age
- Post #126
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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George Hurrell 40s style photography
These are very nicely done!- Atomic Age
- Post #34
- Forum: The Golden Era
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George Hurrell 40s style photography
I actually found a "residential" hotel (IE flop house) in downtown Phoenix that was built in 1919 that would be perfect, however they had a bad experience with a movie shooting there before, and they want an outrageous amount of money to shoot there. I'm still looking a little closer to...- Atomic Age
- Post #33
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The most EFFECTIVE television ads?
I love the Plop Plop Fizz Fizz add! Okay then there is the Slinky commercials. This is the longest running jingle for a consumer product ever used. In fact they still use this song on Slinky commercials. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie"...- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The most EFFECTIVE television ads?
I remember that one. Also the Johnny Smoke PSA.- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The most EFFECTIVE television ads?
The Pepsi Challenge adds starting in the mid 1970s, eventually let to Coke creating "New Coke". <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWEhc1Lb30s&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param...- Atomic Age
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The most EFFECTIVE television ads?
Probably the most effective (and some would say dirty) political add in the history of television. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Tf-MEdAPhYA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param...- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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George Hurrell 40s style photography
Great clips. I actually did a couple of shorts for a local church, that look like 1950's educational films. They were fun to do. Fortunately the folks at the church had a good sense of humor! :) Doug- Atomic Age
- Post #29
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Favorite McQueen flic?
Bullitt is my favorite McQueen film, however I love the aging McQueen still doing action in The Hunter. Also great to see McQueen doing a little comedy in The Reivers Doug- Atomic Age
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Favorite McQueen flic?
Well McQueen's Mustang wasn't exactly a factory car. It had upgraded suspension, which the Charger didn't have. Plus the Mustang had a custom tuned 390-cubic-inch V8. Add to that the Mustang was a much lighter car than the Charger. In the winding streets of San Fransisco, its not so much...- Atomic Age
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