Murder, My Sweet (1944)

opinion: This is the second version of the Raymond Chandler´s "Farewell, My Lovely", but Mr. Powell did not achieved (in my humble opinion) the expected level. It´s a god Film-Noir, but no more then that. He doesn´t look like a though hard boiled PI (sorry guys). Starts with the voice of Marlowe (Powell) using the flashback …

Bob, Le Flambeur (1956)

opinion: He looks like a gentleman. He behaves like a gentleman. He gambles like a gentleman. He is a broken gentleman. He is a gentleman-gangster. He is police-friend-gangster. Off course you hope that everything goes well for Bob (even the robbery), since he is a very nice guy. You don´t care about right or wrong. You …

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

opinion: Everyone is cheating everyone and they are aware of that immoral non-stop lying... The plot is a hard-boiled detective story, a complex web of lies, a tough hard-boiled PI (Spade/Humprey) whose moral code it´s not in accordance with society rules of conduct, his cuckolded associated (Archer/Jerome), the Spade´s lover and unfaithful wife (Mrs Archer/Gladys), a duplicitous lady (Miss Wonderly/Mary), a exotic …

High Sierra (1941)

opinion: Mr. Bogart was not so happy having the beautiful rising star Ida Lupino as top billing. It was the first and last time they paired together on a movie 😦 but make Bogart a star himself! Roy (Bogart) is a complex human being, friendly, nice and a competent professional of the crime. He is just released …

Le Corbeau (1943)

opinion: Before Film-Noir became Film-Noir, Mr. Couzot already did Noir movies... he was the master of thrillers in France. Le Corbeau is about the cuckolded village old doctor, forcing the young and good looking new doctor to have an affair with his very attractive and unfaithful young wife (simple as that). But since the guy is looking …

The 13th Letter (1951)

opinion: The old doctor wants his attractive young and unfaithful wife to be seduced by the young doctor, who doesn´t give a shit about her ... I have been curious to watch this movie after watching the original "Le Corbeau" by Clouzot. It was not easy to get a copy and the one I got was not …

Colorado Territory (1949)

opinion: Watching a original movie and it´s remake in a sequence, while your memory is fresh on details can be interesting. Special if both movies have the same director. Walsh transformed the claimed Lupino-Bogart Film-Noir "High Sierra (1941)" on a Western Film-Noir eight years later. It´s almost a direct remake on the plot with very similar lines. …

M (1951)

opinion: Twenty years later, the German society conditions of the 30:s could be applied to the America of the 50:s. Both M-Land and M-Losey are not about the murders or the criminal him self, but how society reacts to a treat. This version is a remake that follows almost 100% of the original version. All the …

Pepe le Moko (1937)

opinion: Inspecteur Slimane (Gridoux) is the poisoned spider providing the web to catch Pepe (Gabin) the famous thief from Paris, hiding himself inside the Casbah, so the local cops could not touch him... only Inspecteur Slimane who has a friendly relation to Pepe and is always around him, not hiding what are his intensions, to get …

Get Carter (1971)

opinion: It´s raining, it´s wet and it´s grey in Newcastle, the coal mining city! In the local narrow pubs, working class people mixes with ruthless crooks in a ambient full of smoking, lies, double-crossing and drinking...  After watching "Get Carter" it´s difficult to imagine any other movie star then Michael Caine for the role. He is Carter himself, …