Barbara Stanwyck is back for her second appearance in this year’s Alphabet challenge in the dark film noir thriller from 1948 – Sorry, Wrong Number. The film begins with a crossed wire phone call between a bedridden Leona Stevenson (Stanwyck) who through this overhears two men seemingly planning a murder. With a start that is straight out of the gates
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N in the Alphabet Challenge, is No Man of Her Own, the 1950’s film noir drama starring Barbara Stanwyck in the main role and was directed by Mitchell Leisen. The film is based on the novel ‘I married a dead man’ by Cornell Woolrich. The film sees Stanwyck as Helen Ferguson, a pregnant lady disowned by the baby’s father Stephen
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For ‘G’ in the Alphabet challenge, we head off to the Boston based crime thriller Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck and starring his younger brother Casey. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island, The Drop, Mystic River), is a crime thriller with strong film noir feel to it following the
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For the 13th day of the Alphabet Challenge (https://filmgeeky.com/2016/01/31/the-february-alphabet-challenge/) we’re off to ‘M’ and more specifically ‘Miller’s Crossing’, the second film by the Coen brothers in the challenge so far. The film is very much in the tradition of film noir. It’s the 1930’s and our anti-hero is Irish Tom Reagan (played by Gabriel Byrne). Reagon works for a local gangster
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The third day of the Alphabet Challenge (Alphabet Challenge) sees us shaking off the disappointment of ‘B’ and moving to ‘C’ and more specifically, the Roman Polanski masterpiece – ‘Chinatown’. The film was made in 1974 and follows the exploits of Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson), Private Detective. Based in Los Angeles, Gittes is well known across the city – in fact
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