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We are excited to have radio personality, producer and writer Jason Hewlett as a guest for the show to discuss the 2005 Neo_noir film Brick!

Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson in his directorial debut, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Brick was distributed by Focus Features, and opened in New York and Los Angeles on April 7, 2006.

The film's narrative centers on a hardboiled detective story set in a California suburb. Most of the main characters are high school students. The film draws heavily in plot, characterization, and dialogue from hardboiled classics, especially those by Dashiell Hammett. The title refers to a block of heroin, compressed roughly to the size and shape of a brick.

The film won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival,[1] and received positive reviews from critics. It has come to be regarded as a cult classic.[3]

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Happy New Year!

This week's episode is Blonde Ice, a crime film noir released on July 24, 1948, directed by Jack Bernhard with music by Irving Gertz. 

The film was originally released as a B movie. This means the film is a low budget commercial film along with a feature movie. The film stars Leslie Brooks as Claire Cummings Hanneman, Robert Paige as Les Burns, and Michael Whalen as Stanley Mason. It is based on the 1938 novel Once Too Often by Elwyn Whitman Chambers. Claire is a society reporter and serial killer who is willing to go to extremes if it means publishing a story. She manages to keep herself in the headlines by marrying and seducing a series of wealthy men. However, all of these men die under certain mysterious circumstances. In order to protect her reputation, as well as deflect suspicion from herself, Claire frames her former boyfriend, the sportswriter Les Burns.

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Welcome back to season 2 of The Speakeasy Noircast!!!

This week we find Laura!

Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel Laura by Vera Caspary.

In 1999, Laura 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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Welcome back for another dose of mayhem and noir!

This week, we shake up a storm as we take a look at The Man Who Wasn't There!

The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role. Also featured are Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, James Gandolfini, and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins and Jon Polito.

Ed, who runs a salon owned by his brother-in-law Frank, comes across an opportunity to make quick money. He then blackmails Doris's boyfriend Big Dave to give him the cash.

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Welcome to season two of the Speakeasy Pandemic Noircast!

Ready to talk film and get drunk? Great! So are we...actually we already did..for this episode...so now it's your turn!

In the premiere season two episode we discuss The Red House...

The Red House is a 1947 American film noir horror film film directed by Delmer Daves, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun, Allene Roberts, and Julie London. Its plot follows a young woman whose adoptive parents are concealing a secret involving an abandoned farmhouse located deep in the woods on their sprawling property. It is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Agnew Chamberlain.

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SEASON FINALE!

Carly and Jason take a stroll into old L.A. and crack open the diabolical water diverting case with Jake Gittes in Chinatown and the 16 year later follow-up The Two Jakes where Gittes uncovers another cover-up concerning mineral rights and the Big O...not that big O...we're talking Big OIL.

Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The film was inspired by the California Water Wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century, by which Los Angeles interests secured water rights in the Owens Valley.[4] The Robert Evans production, released by Paramount Pictures, was the director's last film in the United States and features many elements of film noir, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama.

The Two Jakes is a 1990 American neo-noir[2] mystery film, and the sequel to the 1974 film Chinatown. Directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, it also features Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly and Madeleine Stowe. Reprising their roles from Chinatown are Joe Mantell, Perry Lopez, James Hong, Allan Warnick and, in a brief voice-over, Faye Dunaway.

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Dark Passage is a 1947 American crime thriller film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The film is based on the 1946 novel of the same name by David Goodis. It was the third of four films real-life couple Bacall and Bogart made together.

For its initial scenes, the film was shot subjectively from the male lead's point of view to avoid showing the face of Vincent Parry (Bogart), prior to the point in the story at which he undergoes plastic surgery to change his appearance. In those scenes shot from other perspectives, the camera is positioned so that the field of view does not include his face. The story follows Vincent's attempt to hide from the law and clear his name of murder.

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Green For Danger

Green for Danger is a 1946 British thriller film, based on the 1944 detective novel of the same name by Christianna Brand. It was directed by Sidney Gilliat and stars Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard, Sally Gray and Rosamund John. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in England. The title is a reference to the colour-coding used on the gas canisters used by anaesthetists.

Tonight’s Drink:

Dark 'n' Stormy

Dark 'n' Stormy was invented in Bermuda after World War II by Gosling Brothers Ltd. The cocktail is made with a combination of dark rum and ginger beer. It is a protected trademark of Gosling Brothers Ltd since 1991, so similar drinks are often named Safe Harbor in order to avoid litigation.

Dark 'n' Stormy is traditionally prepared by pouring the ingredients over ice in a highball glass that is garnished with a lime wedge.

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