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‘THE BIG COMBO’–A JOSEPH LEWIS JOINT

I recently re-watched an excellent, not-too-well-known noir from 1955 called ‘The Big Combo’. It was directed by Joseph Lewis who most film buffs know as the man who directed the famous one-take bank robbery sequence in the 1949 noir ‘Gun Crazy’. In ‘Big Combo’, Lewis takes his limitations–it’s clearly a

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May 11, 2026 No Comments

RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP–THE MOTION PICTURE EVENT

Per yesterday’s post in which I discussed and summarized the Sunset Strip riots of late 1966, above is the trailer for ‘Riot On Sunset Strip’, the movie that was hustled into existence in order to capitalize on the riots national coverage. Since the first (main) ‘riot’ occurred on November 12,

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March 2, 2023 1 Comment

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