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  • Season 2: The Lady In The Lake

    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

    1 hr 24 min
  • Season 2: Identity
    Identity is a 2003 American ensemble neo-noir slasher film directed by James Mangold from a screenplay by Michael Cooney and Mangold, who both derived from Cooney's original story. The film stars John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall and Rebecca De Mornay.
    Loosely based on Agatha Christie's 1939 whodunit And Then There Were None, the film follows ten strangers in an isolated hotel, who are temporarily cut off from the rest of the world, and are mysteriously killed off one by one. Several events which take place in the hours before the characters' arrival are introduced at key moments in the film using reverse chronology structure, and in a parallel story, a murderer awaits a verdict at a crucial trial that will determine whether he will be executed for his crimes.
    Directed by James Mangold
    Screenplay by Michael Cooney & James Mangold 
    Story by Michael Cooney 
    Based on And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
    Produced by Cathy Konrad
    Starring John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, Rebecca De Mornay, John Hawkes, John C. McGinley, William Lee Scott, Jake Busey, Pruitt Taylor Vince
    Cinematography Phedon Papamichael Jr.
    Edited by David Brenner
    Music by Alan Silvestri
    1 hr 49 min
  • Season 2: The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

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

    This week:

    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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    1 hr 1 min
  • Season 2: Touch of Evil (1958)

    On this weeks Speakeasy Noir Cast:

    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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    49 min
  • Radio Theatre - A Curious Case of Murder! - 2020 BONUS EPISODE

    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.

    If you would like to check out the live action version you can view it here:

    https://youtu.be/130DChCNS5s


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    37 min
  • Season 2: SHOCK! (1946)

    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.


    40 min
  • Season 2: The 39 Steps (1959)

    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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    40 min
  • Season 2: Detour (1945)
    In this episode we talk Spiders, name badges, rescue Jason from a vortex of bourbon research and discuss Detour! In New York, piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) laments when his singer girlfriend, Sue Harvey (Claudia Drake), leaves for Hollywood, Calif. When Al gets some money, he decides to hitchhike to California to join Sue. In Arizona, Al accepts a ride with Charles Haskell (Edmund MacDonald), but during a storm in a freak accident, Haskell is killed. Frightened, Al assumes Haskell's identity and car, but soon comes upon the mysterious Vera (Ann Savage), who seems to know all about his true identity.
    50 min
  • Season 2: Lost Highway (1997)
    We are so happy to welcome Joseph Maddrey to the Speakeasy! Joe is the author of ten books,  including Nightmares in Red, White and Blue;  Not Bad for a Human; and the graphic novel To Hell You Ride. He has also researched, written and produced over 100 hours of documentary television, focusing on true crime and the paranormal. Joe is a member of the International Horror Writers Association.
    Lost Highway is a 1997 neo-noir film directed by David Lynch and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford. It stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, and Robert Blake. The film follows a musician (Pullman) who begins receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife (Arquette) in their home, and who is suddenly convicted of murder, after which he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic (Getty) leading a different life.
    Lost Highway was financed by the French production company Ciby 2000 and was largely shot in Los Angeles, where Lynch collaborated with frequent producer Mary Sweeney and cinematographer Peter Deming. Lynch has described the film as a "psychogenic fugue" rather than a conventionally logical story, while the film's surreal narrative structure has been likened to a Möbius strip. The film's soundtrack, which was produced by Trent Reznor, features an original score by Angelo Badalamenti and Barry Adamson, as well as contributions from artists including David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails and The Smashing Pumpkins.
    1 hr 13 min
  • Radio Theatre - A Curious Case of Murder! - 2020 BONUS EPISODE

    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.

    If you would like to check out the live action version you can view it here:

    https://youtu.be/130DChCNS5s


    Support us by subscribing and leaving a review!

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    Call us at:

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    https://twitter.com/SpeakEasyNoir

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    http://resurrectionfilms.co.uk/home/index.php/speakeasy/

    37 min

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