A flawed film in some ways; but there are great moments in #BritNoir The Dark Man (1951). #FilmNoir
Directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Edward Underdown, Maxwell Reed and Natasha Parry with Cinematography by Eric Cross.
On @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this morning at 10:40am!
Get yourselves ready for #BritNoir The Challenge (1960) (aka It Takes a Thief) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 10:45PM. Directed and written by John Gilling and starring Jayne Mansfield and Anthony Quayle. #FilmNoir
Hey! There’s a #BritNoir double bill on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today! #FilmNoir
Starting with:
10:15am: Forbidden (1949), Directed by George King, starring Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court and Patricia Burke.
12:00pm: Suspected Person (1942), directed by Lawrence Huntington.
Starring Robert Newton and Sally Gray and directed by the great Edward Dmytryk it’s #BritNoir Obsession (aka The Hidden Room/ 1949) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social first thing tomorrow (Friday) morning at 6:30am! #FilmNoir
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming in June on Blu-ray in the US from @kinolorber.com: #BritNoir Volume II!
• Home at Seven (1952) aka Murder on Monday
Ralph Richardson | Jack Hawkins | Margaret Leighton
Shot by Jack Hildyard (The Bridge on the River Kwai) & Edward Scaife (The Dirty Dozen)
You know the face, you know the theme tune, you’ve probably even seen the film plenty of times.
But if you haven’t, Carol Reed’s #FilmNoir #BritNoir masterpiece The Third Man (1949) is on #BBCTwo today at 1PM and on #BBCiPlayer there after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Lance Comfort directs The Break (1963); it’s not quite #FilmNoir but it has its moments. Written by Pip and Jane Baker (#DrWho fame) and starring Tony Britton, William Lucas and Christina Gregg. On @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today (Tuesday) 11:55am. #BritNoir
Head over to @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this evening at 9:05PM for #BritNoir The October Man (1947). Directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood.
Worth noting that this #FilmNoir is no way connected to Harvey (1950) starring Jimmy Stewart! 🐰
A much underrated #BritNoir appears on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 12:35pm today.
The Shop at Sly Corner (1946/ aka Code of Scotland Yard) stars Oskar Homolka, Kenneth Griffith, Muriel Pavlow, Derek Farr and was directed by George King. Keep an eye out for Diana Dors as well. #FilmNoir
***RELEASE DETAILS***
Coming on May 26th on Blu-ray in the US from @kinolorber.com: #BritNoir Collection I (1950-1961)!
Dive into the dark side of postwar British cinema with three gems of film noir, each featuring the great Herbert Lom (Inspector Dreyfuss of Blake Edwards’ Pink Panther films).
While talking about #FilmNoir and physical media. If you haven’t already. Get yourself a copy of this fantastic #BritNoir boxset from @indicator.bsky.social! 👇
If you missed it during #FilmNoirFest (as part of the #BritNoir double bills) you can see 13 East Street (1952) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this evening at 5:20PM. #FilmNoir
Do check out Confession (1955) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 4:35PM starring Sydney Chaplin, Audrey Dalton and John Bentley . Written and directed by Ken Hughes. #BritNoir #FilmNoir
Over on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this afternoon, 4:30PM, #FilmNoir from Hammer Studios, A Stranger Came Home (1954). #BritNoir
Directed by Terence Fisher and starring Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester and Patrick Holt.
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming soon on Blu-ray in the US from @kinolorber.com: #BritNoir Collection I (1950-1961)!
• Cage of Gold (1950)
Jean Simmons | David Farrar | Herbert Lom | James Donald | Bernard Lee
Shot by Douglas Slocombe (Raiders of the Lost Art) | Directed by Basil Dearden (The Blue Lamp)
Only a few more days left to win a copy of the BFI's new Blu-ray release of the great #BritNoir #FilmNoir Strongroom (1962): www.southwestsilents.com/post/strongr...
We review the latest release from #BFI of #BritNoir #FilmNoir Strongroom (1962) with a whole host of amazing extras including the great The Man in the Back Seat (1961)! Plus a chance to win a copy: www.southwestsilents.com/post/strongr...
Trench coats at the ready for #BritNoir A Woman of Mystery (1958) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 12:25PM.
Produced by The Danzigers Brothers, directed by Ernest Morris and starring Dermot Walsh and Hazel Court.
There are plenty of clichés in this (even for 58) but it’s still fun!
#BritNoir #FilmNoir Fortune Is a Woman (aka She Played With Fire) directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Jack Hawkins and Arlene Dahl on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight, 9:10PM.
British crime film A Woman of Mystery (1958) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social this afternoon (3:50PM). Directed by Ernest Morris; keep an eye out for a young Micheal Caine. #BritNoir #FilmNoir
#BornOnThisDay #BOTD Alexander Knox (1907-1995); one of our favs who turns up in Two of a Kind (1951) + #BritNoir The Sleeping Tiger (1954).
You can see him in the BBC's classic Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) which is on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
A Mancunian #FilmNoir classic capturing a lost city. An excellent article by Manchester Mill about Val Guest’s #BritNoir Hell is a City (1960) : manchestermill.co.uk/a-mancunian-...
Head over to @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 1PM for a lunchtime #BritNoir screening of Powell & Pressburger’s excellent The Small Back Room (1949). #FilmNoir
On #BBCTwo today at 11:25am classic #FilmNoir #BritNoir The Third Man (1949) then on #BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
#BornOnThisDay Freda Jackson (1907-1990) star of British crime films such as Lewis Gilbert's The Good Die Young (1954) (on the right in the pic below; that’s Joan Collins’ back to the camera by the way) and Women of Twilight (1952). #FilmNoir #BritNoir
Well, it’s really a #BritNoir.
Jigsaw (1962) is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 6PM. Directed by Val Guest and starring Jack Warner and Ronald Lewis. Highly recommend! #BritNoir #FilmNoir
One of our favourite #BritNoir titles is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 6:15PM! Get yourselves ready for two excellent performances by both Peter Cushing and André Morell in Cash on Demand (1961). Directed by Quentin Lawrence and @hammerfilms.bsky.social. Enjoy this Christmas #FilmNoir
