Great dialogues
Cast: Gene Hackman, Harris Yulin, Jennifer Warren, Janet Ward, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith, Edward Binns, Susan Clark, James Woods, Melanie Griffith
Directed by Arthur Penn
Produced by Robert M. Sherman
Screenplay by Alan Sharp
Photographed by Bruce Surtees
Edited by Dede Allen
Written by Alan Sharp
Actors: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writers: Jay Presson Allen (screenplay), Sidney Lumet(screenplay) | 1 more credit »
Music by Paul Chihara
Cinematography by Andrzej Bartkowiak
Film Editing by Jack Fitzstephens
Great ‘film noir’ atmosphere and expressionist settings, but paper thin personages and simplistic script
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples
Music by Vangelis
Cinematography by Jordan Cronenweth
Film Editing by Marsha Nakashima, Terry Rawlings
Director: Vincent Sherman
Writers: David Goodis (original screenplay), James Gunn (original screenplay)
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
Same year, same director, same actress, same infidelity theme as precedent movie (Nora Prentiss) but this one with a more traditional approach. As in Nora Prentiss, a film noir with no real bad guy (or bad girl), except for the greedy Martin Barrow (Steven Gearey).
Eve Arden steals the show, a feminine counterpart to George Sanders.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Writers: Paul Webster (story), Jack Sobell (story)
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Nice film noir without any bad guy (or bad girl), just a man who “reached for something, going about it the wrong way.” CineMaven’s ESSAYS from the COUCH