This week brings a bonus episode we recorded somewhere in a haze of our 23rd lockdown restriction change? Who's keeping track, right?! In this episode, we talk Gin slush, banana leaves, and Key Largo!

Key Largo is a 1948 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and Lauren Bacall. The supporting cast features Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. The film was adapted by Richard Brooks and Huston from Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play of the same name. Key Largo was the fourth and final film pairing of actors Bogart and Bacall, after To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Dark Passage (1947).

Directed by John Huston, Screenplay by Richard Brooks & John Huston

Based on Key Largo 1939 play by Maxwell Anderson

Produced by Jerry Wald

Starring - Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor

Cinematography Karl Freund

Edited by Rudi Fehr

Music by Max Steiner

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Merry Christmas Noir Fans!

We hope you enjoy our Christmas set noir pick for this episode, in which Carly yet again confuses Jason with her pigs in blanket crisps and Jason is unveiled as a closet Downton Abby fan.

Lady in the Lake is a 1947 American film noir that marked the directorial debut of Robert Montgomery, who also stars in the film. The picture also features Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames and Jayne Meadows. The murder mystery was an adaptation of the 1943 Raymond Chandler novel The Lady in the Lake. The film was Montgomery's last for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), after eighteen years with the studio.

Montgomery's ambition was to create a cinematic version of the first-person narrative style of Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels.[notes 1] With the exception of a couple of times when Montgomery (in character) addresses the audience directly, the entire film is shot from the viewpoint of the central character. The audience sees only what he does. MGM promoted the film with the claim that it was the first of its kind and the most revolutionary style of film since the introduction of the talkies. The movie was also unusual for having virtually no instrumental soundtrack, the music in the film being instead provided by a wordless vocal chorus.

The film did not use Raymond Chandler's own 195-page screenplay adaptation dated July 5, 1945 which he wrote for MGM, but instead used a 125-page version written by Steve Fisher, which was filmed two years later.[2] The film's script changes the novel's midsummer setting to Christmastime, frequently using holiday themes as an ironic counterpoint to the grim aspects of the story. The opening credits are shown on a series of Christmas cards, which turn out to be concealing a gun.

Directed by Robert Montgomery

Screenplay by Steve Fisher

Based on The Lady in the Lake 1943 novel by Raymond Chandler

Produced by George Haight

Starring Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames, Jayne Meadows, Richard Simmons, Morris Ankrum

Cinematography Paul Vogel

Edited by Gene Ruggiero

Music by David Snell

Welcome to the erratically posted season two of The Speakeasy Noir Cast!

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The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American film noir heist film directed by John Huston.[4] Based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett, it tells the story of a jewel robbery in a Midwestern city. The film stars Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Jean Hagen,[1] and features James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, and John McIntire. Marilyn Monroe also appears, in one of her earliest roles.

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards. In 2008, The Asphalt Jungle was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel Badge of Evil (1956). The cast included Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, and Marlene Dietrich.

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This week we bring you the audio dramatized version of our short film The Curious Case of the Murder that Wasn't!

We know switching things up isn't always a good thing but we are excited to present to you one of our own creations in audio form as a bonus episode.

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In this weeks episode Carly's sick and we discover how utterly useless Jason would be if he witnessed a murder.... oh and we discuss the classic 1946 film noir Shock! 

Directed by Alfred L. Werker, Produced by Aubrey Schenck, Screenplay by Eugene Ling and Martin Berkeley, Story by Albert DeMond and stars Vincent Price, Lynn Bari and Frank Latimore.

A young woman named Janet Stewart is anticipating the arrival of her husband and attempts to check into a hotel. They are meeting after years apart and have planned to meet at the hotel. During his military service he was presumed dead, but was a prisoner of war. Unfortunately, her cable requesting the reservation never arrived. The staff, after hearing her story, agree to provide a room for the night. Restless, she isn't sleeping. She hears a loud argument and goes to the balcony window where she witnesses a man repeatedly striking his wife with a candlestick. The woman is killed.

The next morning, her husband arrives and attempts to surprise Janet. Instead, he discovers her sitting on the couch, staring into space. She has gone into a state of shock as a result of seeing the murder. The hotel doctor is called, but he suggests she see a specialist.

What can we say...Carly and Jason cover another...another 39 Steps!

Get prepared for a charming but painfully casual Kenneth Moore!

In the film, diplomat Richard Hannay returns home to London, only to become inadvertently embroiled in the death of a British spy investigating the head of an organization planning to sell the secret of a British ballistic missile. Hannay thus travels to Scotland to escape the police and attempts to complete the spy's work.

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