Out of the Podcast - A Film Noir Conversation

Get in the car! Our BIG AUGUST continues with director Don Siegel's 1949 road noir The Big Steal, starring one of the lads' all time favorite duos: Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer!

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We're kicking off our BIG AUGUST with one of the biggest of the bigs: today we're talking Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep based on the 1939 novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler. Starring Humphrey Bogart as the classic private detective Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall as Vivian Rutledge. Strap in, it's going to be a wild ride!

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Hold onto your jewels, today the lads are headed to The Asphalt Jungle! Join us for this ensemble noir heist directed by John Huston and starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Jean Hagen with James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire and Marilyn Monroe.

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Hop in! The lads are taking the boat out on the lake while we discuss 1945's technicolor noir Leave Her to Heaven, directed by John M. Stahl and starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain and Vincent Price!

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The lads hop a bus to Hudson and stakeout the perfect movie: today we're talking 1959's Odds Against Tomorrow, directed by our old pal Robert Wise and starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley and Gloria Grahame!

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Get dizzy with the lads we enter the spinning world of San Francisco to cover Alfred Hitchcock's technicolor yarn Vertigo, starring James Stewart  and the mysterious Kim Novak.

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The lads head to Los Angeles to chase the old haunts and check in on some old flames - we're discussing Robert Siodmak's Criss Cross, starring Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo and Dan Duryea.

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The lads are on the line and making hard choices as they watch director Akira Kurosawa's High and Low (天国と地獄), starring the always stellar Toshiro Mifune with a very, very large cast. Pick up the phone, we're on the hunt!

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Get ready to put a serial lover on trial because today the lads are talking about Warner Archive's recent release of 1947's They Won't Believe Me on Blu-Ray - with 15 minutes restored for the first time! You've got Robert Young, Susan Hayward and Jane Greer, so of course it's going to be a great ride - BELIEVE US!

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Hop in, noir-o! The lads are covering the landmark 1953 film The Hitch-Hiker, directed by Ida Lupino. Hear us gush over this terrifying film, starring Frank Lovejoy, Edmond O'Brien and the very, very evil William Talman in the role of a lifetime.

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