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Such groovy people - ❤️ #midcenturycinema
December 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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News and Commentary.
Bob Dylan at 80:
Eighty Transcendent Songs.

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News and Commentary – Bob Dylan at 80: Eighty Transcendent Songs – MidCenturyCinema
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May 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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One of my all time favorites: midcenturycinema.org/2021/03/12/5...
50 Years Ago This Week – Just Before Nightfall – MidCenturyCinema
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January 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Teri Garr was a champ. @MidCenturyCinema offers a great list below, and I'll throw in the Monkees movie Head as well, though just a little, tiny cameo. Young Frankenstein for the win!
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BOTD Teri Garr!! The Conversation, Young Frankenstein, Tootsie, After Hours ++; great spots on Odd Couple, Bob Newhart, Star Trek + Most awesome Late Night w/Letterman guest
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December 12, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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Last night's #film was the tough crime drama Chicago Confidential (Sidney Salkow, US 1957)
with Brian Keith, Beverly Garland and Elisha Cook

#FiftiesFilm #midcenturycinema #blackandwhitefilm #50sFilm
#movienight

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Chicago Confidential (1957)
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
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December 28, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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You can find a ton of my stuff here: midcenturycinema.org
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September 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I could not agree more.

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News and Commentary: Kojak!! – MidCenturyCinema
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July 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Last night's #film was the cracking #noir Crime Of Passion (1956)
with Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden and Raymond Burr all on top form and splendidly directed by Gerd Oswald.

Rattling good fun!

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#50sFilm #midcenturycinema #blackandwhitefilm #movienight
Crime of Passion (1956)
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes h...
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December 7, 2024 at 10:38 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last nights first watch #film was the solid #FilmNoir B Movie Crime Against Joe (Lee Sholem, US 1956)

with John Bromfield, Julie London and Henry Calvin

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#50sFilm #MidCenturyCinema #blackandwhitefilm #FiftiesCinema
Crime Against Joe (1956)
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
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July 23, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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Last night's #flm was Joseph Losey's excellent dark thriller The Prowler (US 1951)
with Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes (and a voice cameo by Dalton Trumbo!)
A young Robert Aldrich was the assistant director

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#50sFilm #FlmNoir #blackandwhitefilm #MidCenturyCinema
The Prowler (1951)
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
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October 9, 2024 at 10:10 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last nights #film was Sam Fuller's remarkable crime drama The Crimson Kimono (US, 1959)

starring Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett and James Shigeta but also with a scene-stealing turn from Anna Lee

#FiftiesFilm #MidCenturyCinema #SamuelFuller #50sFilm

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The Crimson Kimono (1959)
A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1998.
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February 2, 2024 at 12:30 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last night's #film was the excellent crime #noir Johnny O’Clock (Robert Rossen, US 1947)
starring Dick Powell & Evelyn Keyes with great support from Lee J Cobb the superb Ellen Drew.

#Forties #film #MidCenturyCinema #noirvember #40sCinema

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Johnny O'Clock (1947)
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and…
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November 24, 2023 at 10:42 AM
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Last night's #film was the entertaining crime drama Vice Squad (US, 1953)
with Edward G. Robinson and Paulette Goddard

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#FiftiesFilm #blackandwhitefilm #midcenturycinema #50sCinema
#movienight
Vice Squad (1953)
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
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December 26, 2024 at 9:44 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last nights first watch #film was the British 'black widow' crime #thriller Bedelia (Lance Comfort, 1946)
starring Margaret Lockwood & with Ian Hunter and Barry K. Barnes

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#40sFilm #FortiesCinema #blackandwhitefilm #midcenturycinema
Bedelia (1946)
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chan...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:09 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last night's #film was Robert Siodmak's dark melodrama Time Out of Mind (US, 1947)
with Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, the remarkable Ella Raines & Eddie Albert

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#MidCenturyCinema #blackandwhitefilm #40sFilm
Time Out of Mind (1947)
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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July 6, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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Last night's #film was Robert Bresson's excellent claustrophobic thriller Un Condamné à Mort s'est échappé (1956)

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#50sCinema #blackandwhitefilm #MidCenturyCinema #FiftiesFilm
A Man Escaped (1956)
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
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September 10, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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Last night's #film was the gritty #western set drama The Halliday Brand (US, 1957)
with Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors & Ward Bond

very well directed by Joseph H. Lewis.

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#50sCinema #blackandwhitefilm #midcenturycinema #FiftiesFilm
#movienight
The Halliday Brand (1957)
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
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December 30, 2024 at 10:06 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last nights first watch #film was the fairly routine #western Springfield Rifle (US, 1952)

Massively improved by the stylish direction of André de Toth and a very strong central performance by Gary Cooper.

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#SnowWestern #50sFilm #FiftiesCinema #midcenturycinema
Springfield Rifle (1952)
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war ...
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January 3, 2026 at 9:58 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Freeview (UK) #film of the day :

Henry Hathaway's thriller 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956 98 mins.)
starring Van Johnson and Vera Miles.

[Film 4 15.55 & +1]

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#50sFilm #MidCenturyCinema #blackandwhitefilm #fifties
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Thriller starring Van Johnson and Vera Miles. Blind playwright Phillip Hannon overhears a kidnap and murder being planned, but when he approaches the
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November 22, 2024 at 1:32 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last night's #film was the revenge #western Coroner Creek (Ray Enright, US 1948)

starring the excellent Randolph Scott and with good work from Marguerite Chapman and George Macready

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#forties #cinema #MidCenturyCinema #40sFilm
Coroner Creek (1948)
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
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November 17, 2023 at 12:32 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last night's #film was the routine #western The Nevadan (Gordon Douglas, US 1950)
starring the reliably good Randolph Scott with excellent support from Dorothy Malone and Forrest Tucker.

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#fifties #film #MidCenturyCinema #50sCinema
The Nevadan (1950)
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
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December 2, 2023 at 12:35 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last nights #film was Edward Dmytryk's spiky #western take on King Lear, Broken Lance (US, 1954)
with Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark & Katy Jurado

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#50sFilm #midcenturycinema #Cinemascope #FiftiesCinema
Broken Lance (1954)
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt...
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October 8, 2024 at 9:47 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last night's #film was the entertaining #western The Lone Gun (Ray Nazarro, US 1954)
with George Montgomery and a subdued role for the normally electric Dorothy Malone.
Good support work from Frank Faylen & Neville Brand.

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#cinema #midcenturycinema #50sFilm
The Lone Gun (1954)
Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. First the brothers kill a rancher while framing another man. But when the jailer is murdered, Cruze ...
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November 25, 2024 at 12:33 PM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last night's #film was the undercooked #noir Apology For Murder (US 1945)
with Hugh Beaumont and Ann Savage

An unapologetic Double Indemnity knock-off that needed a LOT more work!

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#40sFilm #blackandwhitefilm #MidCenturyCinema
Apology for Murder (1945)
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another bus...
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October 11, 2024 at 10:11 AM
dukenfield.bsky.social
Last night's #film was William Castle's flimsy but entertaining nor-ish thriller Hollywood Story (US 1951)
with Richard Conte, Julie Adams and Richard Egan

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#50sFilm #MidCenturyCinema #FilmNoir #50sCinema
Hollywood Story (1951)
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life…
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December 12, 2023 at 12:28 PM