Directed by Raoul Walsh "It's infernally cold up here, maybe it's nerves. The rock above, where Earle is hiding looks like a huge ice berg. Whenever the flares are lit, the faces of the crowd gathered around here look like great masts of snow. They look dead, all but their eyes..." - Radio Reporter at … Continue reading High Sierra (1941)
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On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Directed by Nicholas Ray The first third of On Dangerous Ground is a film noir. Filmed almost exclusively at night on the slick, sparsely-populated streets of New York, the story follows three detectives led by our unsympathetic antihero Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan). The black and white film is harsh all over. Jim acts more like a … Continue reading On Dangerous Ground (1951)
