aka 'Deadly Is The Female', some film noir that everyone should see at least once, it's CRAZY
ooh, film noir... l dig Gun Crazy, but to me it falls into that campish noir category, w/ films like "Kiss Me Deadly", where when you see them in the theatres, too many people are giggling and shit... don't get me wrong, i dig both films, but i prefer my Noir a little more serious...
3 i always recommend to people:
The Killers ...ava gardner as the femme fatale and burt lancaster as the doomed man...
not THAT great a film, but Richard Widmark "chews up the scenary" as they say, in his first role...
he makes cagney's charector in White Heat seem like a reasonable well adjiusted guy... his charector is a loose collection of nervous tics and malevolent laughter who revels in throwing a woman in a wheelchair down a flight of chairs... i mean, this is in 1947... people just didn't act like that...
this movie reminds me what i love of about film noir, the sense that the charectors are doomed, that misfortune is inevitable, and the little guy can't win... mitchum manages to project this sense of fatalism, while looking really fucking cool...