Tuesday, August 13, 2024
On this day in movie history - Hard Times (1975)
On this day in movie history - The Big Country (1958)
On this day in movie history - Too Late for Tears (1949)
Too Late for Tears
directed by Byron Haskin,
written by Roy Huggins,
inspired by the April 1947 serial in the Saturday Evening Post,
and the July 1947 novel by Roy Huggins,
was released in the United States on August 13, 1949.
Music by R. Dale Butts.
On this day in movie history - Kiss of Death (1947)
directed by Henry Hathaway,
written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer,
based on a story by Eleazar Lipsky,
was released in the United States on August 13, 1947.
Music by David Buttolph.
Born on this day – Neville Brand:
Born on this day – Charles Williams:
Credits:
Books:
A Touch of Death / aka Mix Yourself a Redhead; based on 1953 novella And Share Alike (1954); Aground (1960); All the Way / aka The Concrete Flamingo (1958); And The Deep Blue Sea (1971); Big City Girl (1951); Dead Calm; based on the novella Pacific Honeymoon (1963); Girl Out Back / aka Operator; based on 1957 novella entitled either Operator or Operation (1958); Go Home, Stranger (1954); Hell Hath No Fury / aka The Hot Spot (1953); Hill Girl (1951); Man on a Leash (1973); Man on the Run / aka Man in Motion (1958); Nothing in Her Way (1953); River Girl / aka The Catfish Tangle (1951); Scorpion Reef / aka Gulf Coast Girl; based on novella Flight to Nowhere (1955); Talk of the Town / aka Stain of Suspicion (1958); The Big Bite (1956); The Diamond Bikini (1956); The Long Saturday Night / aka Confidentially Yours; Finally, Sunday! (1962); The Sailcloth Shroud (1960); The Wrong Venus / aka Don't Just Stand There (1966); Uncle Sagamore and His Girls (1959).
Movies and television:
Banana Peel
(1963); Confidentially Yours (1983); Dead Calm (1989); Diamond Bikini (1971);
Don't Just Stand There (1968); Folio (1955); Joy House (1964); La fille des
collines (1990); Le gros coup (1964); Mieux vaut courir (1989); The 3rd Voice
(1960); The Deep (1970); The Dictator's Guns (1965); The Hot Spot (1990); The
Man Who Wouldn't Die (1975); The Pink Jungle (1968).
Born on this day – Alfred Hitchcock:
Born on this day – Sam Taylor:
Director
Writer
Born on this day – Mary Duncan:
Born on this day – James Van Trees:
Recommended reading - In a Lonely Place (1947)
In a Lonely Place (1947).
by Dorothy B. Hughes.
Published by NYRB Classics.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1681371472
ISBN-13: 978-1681371474
Description:
“In a Lonely Place blasted my mind open to new ways of reading.” – Sarah Weinman, Los Angeles Review of Books.
Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of
promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to
matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with
loneness in the sky.” He prowls the foggy city night – bus stops and stretches
of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out – seeking solitary young
women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the
good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up
with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens
to be on the trail of the strangler who’s been terrorizing the women of the
city for months...
Written with controlled elegance, Dorothy B. Hughes’s tense novel is at once an early indictment of a truly toxic masculinity and a twisty page-turner with a surprisingly feminist resolution. A classic of golden age noir, In a Lonely Place also inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1950 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.
“Crime was never Hughes’s interest, evil was,
and to be evil, for her, is to be intolerant of others... With her poetic
powers of description, she makes that evil a sickness in the mind and a
landscape to be surveyed.” – Christine Smallwood, The New Yorker’s Page-Turner
Blog.
“A tour de force laying open the mind and motives of a killer with extraordinary empathy. The structure is flawless, and the scenes of postwar LA have an immediacy that puts Chandler to shame. No wonder Hughes is the master we keep turning to.” – Sara Paretsky.