A ★★★★ review of Terror in a Texas Town (1958) Odd but engrossing Western noir. A whaler (Sterling Hayden) arrives to take over a Texas farm after his father (also a former whaler) is gun downed. He befriends a Mexican family who hold two secrets:...

#Western #JosephHLewis #SterlingHayden boxd.it/1mUs1T

Gun Crazy (🇺🇸 1950). Joseph H. Lewis directed this crime thriller about two lovers on a violent spree. 🎬

#filmnoir #noir #crime #thriller #cultcinema #moviesky #1950s #JosephHLewis #meatlocker #blackandwhite #shadowplay #classicnoir

A ★★★★ review of The Big Combo (1955) Joseph H. Lewis (GUN CRAZY) takes the the standard noir cop obsessed with taking down a crime lord and turns it upside down. Cornel Wilde attempts to use mob boss Richard Conte's suicidal girlfriend a...

#FilmNoirFriday #FilmNoir #JosephHLewis #CornelWilde #RichardConte #BrianDonlevy #LeeVanCleef #EarlHolliman boxd.it/W7Ddz

A ★★★ review of Bombs Over Burma (1942) Anna May Wong is schoolteacher who is assigned a mission to safeguard supply caravans crossing China to Burma. She is further motivated when one of her students is killed in a Japanese bombing attack....

#JosephHLewis #AnnaMayWong boxd.it/XTZ9f

Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman in THE BIG COMBO (1955).
#Noirvember #TheBigCombo #FilmNoir #JosephHLewis #JohnAlton #NoirAlley @noirfoundation.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’d rather be insane and alive than sane . . . and dead.”
Helen Walker in The Big Combo
#TheBigCombo #JosephHLewis #PhilipYordan #HelenWalker #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

1:20pm TODAY on @Film4

The 1955 #Western film🎥 “A Lawless Street” directed by #JosephHLewis from a screenplay by #KennethGamet

Based on #BradWard’s 1953 novel📖 “The Marshal of Medicine Bend”

🌟 #RandolphScott #AngelaLansbury #WarnerAnderson #JeanParker
#WallaceFord #JohnEmery #JamesBell

The Legend of Wagon Wheel Joe (Version 2.0) When filming the cheapy Westerns he made early in his career, director Joseph H. Lewis used to tote around a box of wagon wheels. Whenever a...

Joseph H. Lewis was one of the great b-movie artists of Golden Age Hollywood, a director with an unique visual flair who put his stamp on nearly every genre.

An appreciation:
#filmsky #moviesky #JosephHLewis #filmnoir #Western #PovertyRow
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Gun Crazy (1950)

Directed by #JosephHLewis
Starring #PeggyCummins #JohnDall

Cinematography by #RussellHarlan
Music by #VictorYoung

#GunCrazy #oldHollywood #filmnoir #thriller #1950s #1950smovies #1950sfilms #classichollywood
#classicfilm #classiccinema #crimemovie #crimefilm #heistfilm

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Two people dead, just so we can live without working. Why? Why did you do it?”
John Dall in Gun Crazy
#GunCrazy #JosephHLewis #DaltonTrumbo #MacKinlayKantor
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

11:05am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1948 #Comedy film🎥 “The Return of October” directed by #JosephHLewis from a screenplay by #MelvinFrank +#NormanPanama & story by #KarenDeWolf + #ConnieLee

🌟 #GlennFord #AlbertSharpe #TerryMoore #JamesGleason #DameMayWhitty #LloydCorrigan

5:10pm TODAY on @Film4

The 1955 #Western film🎥 “A Lawless Street” directed by #JosephHLewis from a screenplay by #KennethGamet

Based on #BradWard’s 1953 novel📖 “The Marshal of Medicine Bend”

🌟 #RandolphScott #AngelaLansbury #WarnerAnderson #JeanParker
#WallaceFord #JohnEmery #JamesBell

11:10am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1955 #FilmNoir #Crime #Thriller film🎥 “The Big Combo” directed by #JosephHLewis from a screenplay by #PhilipYordan

🌟 #CornelWilde #RichardConte #BrianDonlevy #JeanWallace #RobertMiddleton #LeeVanCleef

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir

John Dall, BOTD 1920
Unfortunately, only three major works from this phenomenal actor:
Rope #AlfredHitchcock
Gun Crazy #JosephHLewis
The Corn is Green #IrvingRapper

9:05pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1955 #FilmNoir #Crime #Thriller film🎥 “The Big Combo” directed by #JosephHLewis from a screenplay by #PhilipYordan

🌟 #CornelWilde #RichardConte #BrianDonlevy #JeanWallace #RobertMiddleton #LeeVanCleef

#filmnoir #filmsky #filmnoirclub #classicfilm #JosephHLewis

Peggy Cummins
Gun Crazy, 1950

Episode 363: Terror In A Texas Town (1958) - THE STATES It's A Wonderful Podcast · Episode

Pure, pulpy, political revenge on the NEW #ItsAWonderful1 as @thepurpledon.bsky.social & @jeanninedabean.bsky.social talk #JosephHLewis' blend of #Western & #FilmNoir; TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958) w #SterlingHayden

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A ★★★½ review of The Halliday Brand (1957) Watched this on Ward Bond's birthday. He's a total asshole here. Bond is a prominent rancher who also serves as sheriff. When it comes to his family, he's a total control freak. It gets bad when daugh...

#WesternWednesday #Western #JosephHLewis #JosephCotten #WardBond 🤠 boxd.it/9mx5Qn

A ★★★★★ review of Gun Crazy (1950) Joseph H. Lewis' best film and one of the best of the genre. Bart is a kid who just wants to shoot, but when he kills a baby chick with a bb gun, he's traumatized and vows never to kill again. The ado...

#FilmNoir #JosephHLewis boxd.it/14ozTH

Happy (𝟭𝟭𝟴th) birthday, Joseph H. #Lewis [°Apr. 6, 1907 – Aug. 30, 2000]🌹😔

#GunCrazy #DeadlyIstheFemale #TheBigCombo #MyNameIsJuliaRoss #SoDarktheNight #TheJolsonStory #JohnAlton #KingBrothersProductions #PhilipYordan #ErnestineMiriamson #JosephHLewis

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I couldn’t swallow any more salami.”
Earl Holliman in The Big Combo
#TheBigCombo #JosephHLewis #PhilipYordan #EarlHolliman #moviequotes
#MovieQuoteOfTheDay

Episode 363 - April 25

TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958) dir. #JosephHLewis

Perhaps the perfect balance between the spiritual sisters that are #FilmNoir and #Westerns, #SterlingHayden is out for revenge in this #DaltonTrumbo penned slice of nastiness!

#TerrorInATexasTown

The Legend of Wagon Wheel Joe Director Joseph H. Lewis used to tote around a box of wagon wheels when shooting the cheapy Westerns he made early in his career. Whenever ...

The nickname this earned him, "Wagon Wheel Joe," was meant, at the time, as a put-down. In retrospect, it's emblematic of why Joseph H. Lewis should be a lot more widely remembered than he is.

An appreciation:
#JosephHLewis #WagonWheelJoe
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International posters for #GunCrazy, screening at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne this Friday.

#FilmNoir
#bmovies
#peggycummins
#johndall
#josephhlewis
#guncrazy1950

11:25am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1948 #Comedy film🎥 “The Return of October” directed by #JosephHLewis from a screenplay by #MelvinFrank +#NormanPanama & story by #KarenDeWolf + #ConnieLee

🌟 #GlennFord #AlbertSharpe #TerryMoore #JamesGleason #DameMayWhitty #LloydCorrigan

Black and white still of Peggy Cummins as Annie Starr and John Dall as Bart Tare hiding out in the tall grass

WFH rewatch:
Gun Crazy (1950)
#peggycummins
#johndall
#daltontrumbo
#mackinlaykantor
#josephhlewis
#filmsky
📽️🎬📺

Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman in THE BIG COMBO (1955).
#Noirvember #TheBigCombo #FilmNoir #JosephHLewis #JohnAlton #NoirAlley

My Name is Julia Ross (1946)

Directed by #JosephHLewis
Starring: #NinaFoch #MayWhitty
#GeorgeMacready
#RolandVarno

Cinematography by #BurnettGuffey
Music by #MischaBakaleinikoff

#MyNameisJulliaRoss #FilmNoir #Classicfilm #Filmnoir #classicmovies #ClassicHollywood #thriller #Gothic

Gun Crazy (1950)

Directed by #JosephHLewis
Starring #PeggyCummins #JohnDall

Cinematography by #RussellHarlan
Music by #VictorYoung

#GunCrazy #oldHollywood #filmnoir #thriller #1950s #1950smovies #1950sfilms #classichollywood
#classicfilm #classiccinema #crimemovie #crimefilm #heistfilm

Peggy Cummins e John Dall in La Sanguinaria (1949) per la regia di Joseph H. Lewis
#film #movie #cinema #cinefilo #JosephHLewis #PeggyCummins #JohnDall #RussellHarlan #GunCrazy

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