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Written by James M. Tate / 5/12/2024 / No comments / alexander scourby , andy williams , cop , fifties , film noir or melodrama , fritz lang , glenn ford , gloria grahame , jeanette nolan , jocelyn brando , john crawford , lee marvin , peter whitney , revenge

GLENN FORD, LEE MARVIN & GLORIA GRAHAME IN 'THE BIG HEAT'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-lFXZTduUiqdF3fnGWYpfG_u63EdvKtR7Vmj_MS_ONhkDvg4DfUb6h9IrdovA5yfUxlm86laqp11_eGUY93Vt2N1EUokLg0L7DEt5NINtNz_TeXaXOP2nPZD4t9Rh1Xw5TVaLsECx3ieGN1xWIlVIQjecCpmDU4UZMYhtYe890zHULsu_vLenLtALnyC/s968/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="968" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-lFXZTduUiqdF3fnGWYpfG_u63EdvKtR7Vmj_MS_ONhkDvg4DfUb6h9IrdovA5yfUxlm86laqp11_eGUY93Vt2N1EUokLg0L7DEt5NINtNz_TeXaXOP2nPZD4t9Rh1Xw5TVaLsECx3ieGN1xWIlVIQjecCpmDU4UZMYhtYe890zHULsu_vLenLtALnyC/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE BIG HEAT Shown: Glenn Ford Year: 1953 Rating: *****</td></tr></tbody></table>On posters for Fritz Lang's classic film noir THE BIG HEAT there's what looks like an impassioned couple raging with sensuality in Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame, which is misleading since neither care about each other within most of the story, and yet, perhaps no other actor and actress have ultimately shared so much energy and chemistry on screen... She's the beautiful, animated moll of chief gangster's thug Vince, played by Lee Marvin, who, before his days of tough anti-heroes, played neurotic, borderline sociopath hoods: and literally sizzles here as the title becomes too real for scene-stealing Graham, getting scalding coffee thrown on her face, punishment for having visited Ford's hidden cove apartment behind his back...

alexander scourby, andy williams, cop, fifties, film noir or melodrama, fritz lang, glenn ford, gloria grahame, jeanette nolan, jocelyn brando, john crawford, lee marvin, peter whitney, revenge

GLENN FORD, LEE MARVIN & GLORIA GRAHAME IN 'THE BIG HEAT'

Title: THE BIG HEAT Shown: Glenn Ford Year: 1953 Rating: ***** On posters for Fritz Lang's classic film noir THE BIG HEAT there's wh...

Written by James M. Tate / 3/01/2022 / No comments / andy williams , ben gazzara , broderick crawford , death row , drama , prison , rod steiger , sammy davis jr. , sixties , stuart whitman , timothy carey , warner archives

WARNER ARCHIVES MELODRAMA 'CONVICTS 4' WITH BEN GAZARRA

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNUXT7Vjqn9Jgh2hAek_dogirXD5QCgKnVAhWa7_TaINaAjs7cwSlc7mAoL5UBtkYuk_Pcf48VjcQQuOcBUKOa7A4yoIYTgmon8-irrvvLLItKNo4-U750xbfKx1QCzl8r68mtD0WWcV_PasVGAeeaBdzS2WbPU5Cw1Ulvmpr2U5ZwOM0YtZQaWxOTbA=s1178" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNUXT7Vjqn9Jgh2hAek_dogirXD5QCgKnVAhWa7_TaINaAjs7cwSlc7mAoL5UBtkYuk_Pcf48VjcQQuOcBUKOa7A4yoIYTgmon8-irrvvLLItKNo4-U750xbfKx1QCzl8r68mtD0WWcV_PasVGAeeaBdzS2WbPU5Cw1Ulvmpr2U5ZwOM0YtZQaWxOTbA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben Gazarra and Sammy Davis Jr. in CONVICTS 4 Year: 1962 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>There's a point in the prison drama CONVICTS 4 when Ben Gazzara, after standing-through a rowdy lecture from one-scene-only chief guard Rod Steiger, complains about bedbugs in his cot: Which wouldn't seem all that questionable if the film actually began with Gazarra's John Resko being thrown into this not-so-cleanly prison...But what the audience and main character had suffered through during an entire first act was a waiting game for impending execution on death row, harboring the most suspenseful and effective scenes and making those gripes about the next prison's subpar prison-conditions seem outright ludicrous...

andy williams, ben gazzara, broderick crawford, death row, drama, prison, rod steiger, sammy davis jr., sixties, stuart whitman, timothy carey, warner archives

WARNER ARCHIVES MELODRAMA 'CONVICTS 4' WITH BEN GAZARRA

Ben Gazarra and Sammy Davis Jr. in CONVICTS 4 Year: 1962 Rating: ** There's a point in the prison drama CONVICTS 4 when Ben Gazzara, aft...

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