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Tag Archives: Dan Duryea
QuickPix (18): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 6”
> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, brief capsule reviews of very worthy films- not a stinker in the lot. Culled from my monthly compendiums, every title here is a 4 to 5 star movie. It don’t get any better than this. … Continue reading
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Tagged 50/50, art, Bette Davis, cancer, Cherry Blossoms, Christianity, cinema, criticism, cults, Dan Duryea, death, dramas, entertainment, faith, families, films, German cinema, grief, Herbert Marshall, Higher Ground, ideas, illness, Japan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lillian Hellman, movies, opinion, QuickPix, reviews, Seth Rogan, solace, The Little Foxes, time, Vera Farmiga
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FLIX PIX (1093): “CRISS CROSS: It Doesn’t Get Any More Noir Than This”
CRISS CROSS (directed by Robert Siodmak, 1949) ***** (out of 5) . > Burt Lancaster + Yvonne De Carlo + Dan Duryea = diamond hard noir! . Lancaster is a fallen man who still carries a torch for the dangerous vixen … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, Burt Lancaster, cinema, classics, crime, Criss Cross, criticism, Dan Duryea, drama, entertainment, Esy Morales, film noir, films, Flix Pix, ideas, John Doucette, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, Percy Helton, reviews, Robert Siodmak, romance, violence, Yvonne De Carlo
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KPK on the CINEMA (128): “The Films of October 2022”
. > I was really not watching many movies in Rocktober of ‘22, as I focused on finishing, fine-tuning and polishing the storytelling project I’ve been working on for 42 years of my life. The 9 monologue opus GROWING UP … Continue reading
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FLIX PIX (850): “Fritz Lang and Edward G. Robinson Take a Sordid Stroll Down SCARLET STREET”
SCARLET STREET (directed by Fritz Lang, 1945) ***** (out of 5) . > Fritz Lang kicks noir ass again in this classic black-and-white tale of a wronged man, gone wrong. . Trapped in an unhappy marriage, milquetoast bank cashier Christopher Cross … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, cinema, classics, crime, criticism, Dan Duryea, drama, Edward G. Robinson, entertainment, exploitation, film noir, films, fraud, Fritz Lang, ideas, Joan Bennett, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, Scarlet Street
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KPK on the CINEMA (102): The Films of August 2020
. AUGUST 2020: A sombre time, but a great crop of movies! So many 4-and-a half and five-star films! Oh, the bounty, amid all the horror! Just pinch me. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic … Continue reading
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