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Double Feature: Dragstrip Girl AND Hot Rod Girl.

Double Feature: Dragstrip Girl AND Hot Rod Girl.

Dragstrip Girl Directed by: Edward L. Cahn Released: April 1957 Cast: Fay Spain, John Ashley, Steve Terrell, Tommy Ivo, Judy Bamber, Russ Dender, Grazia Narciso, Tito Vuolo, Don Shelton, Dorthy Bruce, and Frank Gorshin as Tommy. Hot Rod Girl Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson Released: July 1956 Cast: Lori Nelson, Chuck Connors, John Smith, Mark Andrews, Roxanne Arlen, Fred Essler, Carolyn Kearney, Eddie Ryder, Del Erickson, Russell Thorson, and Frank Gorshin as Flat Top. You don’t really see double features…

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Crime of Passion: A Film with Two Great Leads, Very Little Spark.

Crime of Passion: A Film with Two Great Leads, Very Little Spark.

Directed by: Gerd Oswald Released: January 1957 Cast: Barabra Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Virginia Grey, Royal Dano, Robert Griffin, Dennis Cross, Jay Adler, and Stuart Whitman as Laboratory Technician. First-time viewing. Crime of Passion is a noir film that indeed begins with a crime of passion. Concludes with a crime of passion. But lacks spark, despite the performances of the two leads. Kathy Ferguson (Barbara Stanwyck) is a big time San Francisco columnist who is draw into…

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Kanał: A Most Extraordinary Anti-War Film.

Kanał: A Most Extraordinary Anti-War Film.

Released: 1957 Dir.: Andrzej Wajda First time viewing reaction.               A few days ago, I had never heard of the Polish film Kanał, and now I can’t forget it. Which is a good thing. The film is about a nightmare, but not the nightmare of our dreams. This nightmare is real, it’s a nightmare about war. It is also, in a way, a horror film.               In late September 1944 the Warsaw Uprising is in its final days, as German…

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