BAILEY ON ROSSON ON ASPHALT

The excellent cinematographer John Bailey (click here for credits too numerous to mention) was also a fine film theorist. Witness this unusually perceptive break-down of the shooting style that John Huston and his cinematographer Harold Rossen (click here for credits too numerous to mention, although I will offer-up ‘Wizard Of Oz’ and ‘Singing In The Rain’) developed for the great 1950 noir ‘The Asphalt Jungle.’ I can’t linger right now so that’s all he (me) wrote. Oh, Rosson was briefly married to Jean Harlow. Apparently he gave good lighting…

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