Archive for November, 2011

 

Foreign Intrigue (1956)

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

“The most startling spy hunt ever filmed!” shouted the ads. Based on Sheldon Reynolds’ popular TV series, this Cold War thriller with a noir-ish look was shot in Vienna, Paris, the Riviera, Stockholm and nearby Swedish islands. Robert Mitchum’s employer, a mysterious multi-millionaire living on the French Riviera, dies and suddenly everyone is extremely interested [...]

Special Agent (1935)

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Bette Davis stars with George Brent and Ricardo Cortez in this fun, fast-moving and well-paced Warner Brothers gangster picture. Local efforts to put gangsters in jail are ineffective, but the federal government has some success by charging criminals with evading taxes on their ill-gotten gains.