Sep 5, 2009 | Freerepublic.com
“Angels Wash Their Faces”
TOPICS: History ; TV/Movies KEYWORDS: milhist ; moviereview ; realtime ; worldwarii n/c Included Included n/c Included Priceless First session: September 1, 2009.
Tonight's Movie: Nora Prentiss
Respectable San Francisco doctor Richard Talbot leads a rather humdrum life. He has a successful practice with another doctor , and he has a wife, Lucy , who is simultaneously devoted and distant.
Often overlooked in favor of more well-known pictures directed by the acknowledged masters of film noir, Woman on the Run is an exquisitely moody and involving entry in the noir pantheon.
Good news for film noir fans. Glass Key is releasing 54 of the shadowy, paranoid thrillers that constituted the genre, mostly from the mid-1940s to the mid-50s, when European refugees and hard-drinking, hard-boiled crime writers collaborated to radical effect.
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