Leave Her to Heaven
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Sophienoire — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 07:48 PM)
i have seen
Body Snatchers
, yes, but i'm not really that interested in prison movies with an all-male cast 🥱 bc there's nothing more boring than that nor am i particularly interested in the director. i've also read it's not canon noir so… that's a nah, i'm afraid
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sheetsadam1 — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 07:59 PM)
Well, they're usually not as bad as prison movies with an all (or mostly) female cast lol. Ugh, I feel so bad for Pam Grier having had to make such ****. Her badass heroine phase was so much better. But yeah, I don't really like prison movies as a genre, just that one, Siegel's
Escape from Alcatraz
and
The Shawshank Redemption
. Sort of like
The Green Mile
too, but it's a little schmaltzy.
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Sophienoire — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 08:10 PM)
they're usually not as bad as prison movies with an all (or mostly) female cast lol.
sir, i beg to differ!
Caged
(1950) is amazing!
and i don't like
Shawshank Redemption
at all myself, so there!
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sheetsadam1 — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 08:16 PM)
I haven't seen that one, only some misogynistic exploitation films on the topic from the '70s lol But a blacklisted director? Yeah, I'm in.
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Sophienoire — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 07:47 AM)
see my reply in the other thread:
https://www.filmboards.com/board/p/22750124/permalink/#p22750124
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Sophienoire — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 07:45 AM)
from those i've seen, probably…
Force of Evil
(1948) its director, Abraham Polonsky, was persecuted by McCarthy.
also:
Crossfire
(1947)
Body and Soul
(1948)
House of Strangers
(1949)
All the King's Men
(1949)
The Lawless
(1950)
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sheetsadam1 — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 12:24 PM)
A leftist magazine in the U.S. actually did a great article on this very topic recently:
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/hollywood-blacklist-criterion-lang-dassin
"All films about crime are about capitalism because capitalism is about crime." - Abraham Polonsky
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sheetsadam1 — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 07:36 PM)
Have you watched the Kate Winslet version? I've heard it's more faithful to the novel, but haven't watched it myself. I like the Joan Crawford version quite a bit despite the fact that it only adapted maybe half of the novel and made major changes to those portions.
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sheetsadam1 — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 07:47 PM)
Yeah, I'm a bit reluctant to. I'm afraid it would be similar to del Toro's
Nightmare Alley
in that it's a better adaptation of the source material but completely missing the vibe that made noir so special.
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️ — 7 months ago(August 18, 2025 07:15 AM)
altho i did like del Toro's version, it's just not the same. you gotta accept that tho