#Brian Donlevy

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Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972)

#brian donlevy #old hollywood

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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) - Trade ad

#the quatermass xperiment #brian donlevy #jack warner #margia dean #1955 #1950s movies #val guest #sci fi horror #trade ad #vintage movie ads

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The Quatermass Xperiment will be released on Blu-ray on December 12 via Kino Lorber. The 1955 British sci-fi horror film includes reversible artwork featuring its alternate US title, The Creeping Unknown.

Val Guest (The Day the Earth Caught Fire) directs from a script he co-wrote with Richard H. Landau (The Black Hole), based on the 1955 BBC serial from Nigel Kneale. Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth, Jack Warner, David King-Wood, Margia Dean, and Maurice Kaufmann star.

Special features - including an interview with master of horror John Carpenter - are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Gary Gerani (new)

Audio commentary by director Val Guest, moderated by film historian Marcus Hearn

Interview with filmmaker John Carpenter

Interview with director Val Guest

QX: From Reality to Fiction featurette

QX: Comparing the Versions featurette

Trailers From Hell with Ernest Dickerson

Alternate main title

Theatrical trailer

A spacecraft returns to Earth with a frightening surprise on board. Two of the ship's three astronauts have mysteriously vanished, while the third is sick with an unidentifiable illness. While doctors try to help the third man recover, an investigation takes place to figure out just what happened to his comrades. As it turns out, the survivor’s body has been taken over by an alien fungus that needs blood to survive. After the astronaut escapes from the hospital, he transforms into a monster, attacking everyone who gets in its way. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard detective Lomax (Jack Warner) and Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), a determined scientist, attempt to track down the creature before it finds new victims.

Pre-order The Quatermass Xperiment.

#the quatermass xperiment #val guest #nigel kneal #horror #british horror #50s horror #1950s horror #brian donlevy #the quatermass experiment #dvd #gift #kino lorber #jack warner #50s sci fi #1950s sci fi #john carpenter

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A Cry in the Night (1956) Frank Tuttle

March 3rd 2024

#a cry in the night #1956 #frank tuttle #natalie wood #raymond burr #brian donlevy #edmond o'brien #richard anderson #carol veazie #irene hervey #herb vigran #mary lawrence #alan ladd

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American poster for "Enemy from Space" AKA "Quatermass II" (1957)

#quatermass poster #quatermass II #enemy from space #brian donlevy #val guest #sci fi horror #50s sci fi #horror movie poster

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favourite movies wached in 2022

3. The Big Combo (1955) dir. Joseph H. Lewis

First is first and second is nobody.

#cornel wilde #richard conte #brian donlevy #jean wallace #robert middleton #joseph h lewis #joseph h. lewis #crime #noir #drama #1955 #1950s #50s #classic hollywood #oldhollywoodedit #favourite 2022

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San Francisco street scenes - including the iconic Brocklebank Apartments and its Brocklebank Garage - are featured in the film noir picture Impact (1949).

#film noir #brian donlevy #san francisco #the brocklebank apartments #nob hill #san francisco filming locations #anna may wong

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒐 (1955): Brian Donlevy was an actor who could work successfully in any genre. Here, he's a backstabbing hood with a hearing problem. 

#vintage #movies #old hollywood #golden era #brian donlevy

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Brian Donlevy-Ella Raines "Impacto" (Impact) 1949, de Arthur Lubin.

#Ella Raines #Brian Donlevy #Arthur Lubin

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From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

Dangerous Assignment - The Alien Smuggler Story - NBC - February 13, 1950

Action / Adventure

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Robert Ryf

Produced by Harold E. Knox

Directed by Bill Karn

Stars:

Brian Donlevy as Steve Mitchell

Herb Butterfield as Commissioner

Jane Adams as Maria Delgada

Paul Marion as Bogota

Ralph Moody as Pimentel

Jan Arvan as Lt. Vierra

Tiny Stowe as Perez

#The Alien Smuggler Story #TV #Dangerous Assignment #1950's #1950 #Action #Adventure #NBC #Brian Donlevy #Herb Butterfield #Jane Adams #Jan Arvan #Paul Marion #Series Premiere

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Quatermass 2 (1957) aka Enemy From Space Hammer Film Productions Dir. Val Guest

Brian Donlevy as Professor Bernard Quatermass

#quatermass #quatermass 2 #brian donlevy #professor quatermass #hammer horror #1950s science fiction #nigel kneale

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Arthur Lubin’s IMPACT, starring Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, and Anna May Wong, hit theaters 75 years ago today.

Arthur Lubin’s IMPACT, starring Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker, and Anna May Wong, hit theaters 75 years ago today.

#brian donlevy #ella raines #charles coburn #helen walker #anna may wong #old hollywood #classic movies

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Hangmen Also Die

Because we were at war with Germany, Bertolt Brecht was credited with the less Teutonic “Bert” for Fritz Lang’s HANGMEN ALSO DIE (1943, TCM, Hulu, Prime, Tubi, YouTube). He was only credited for co-writing the story with Lang, though later scholars have suggested he had much more influence over the writing than previously thought. Shot when the public had no knowledge of who had killed Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi’s commander in Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic), the film ascribes the assassination to a Czech doctor (Brian Donlevy) who’s unwittingly helped in his initial escape by the requisite sweet young thing (Anna Lee). When the Nazis fail to find the killer, they take hundreds of Czechs hostage, including Lee’s father (Walter Brennan), and start executing them until the killer comes forth.

There are lengthy discussions of whether Donlevy should sacrifice himself to save the hostages that smack of Brechtian philosophizing, particularly since there’s no right answer. There are also places where the Resistance is shown to be almost as ruthless as their occupiers, particularly a scene in which a crowd tries to stop Lee from going to the Gestapo with what she knows. But there are also a lot of complications involving Lee’s fiancé (Dennis O’Keefe), who thinks she’s having an affair with Donlevy, that reek of Hollywood. Fortunately, whenever the action flags, there’s a Lang touch — a quirk or gesture that gives a minor character more of an identity, rapid cutting to capture the plot’s repercussions on the city, a murder committed in silence and depicted through details— to liven things up.

Lee is lovely, as usual. She’s both natural and committed. Donlevy has good moments but suffers in the debate scenes, where he doesn’t seem to know what to do. The film also has strong support from Brennan along with Nana Bryant as his wife, Margaret Wycherly as his sister, Gene Lockhart as a Nazi informant, Alexander Granach as head of the Gestapo, Jonathan Hale and Byron Foulger as Resistance leaders and Lionel Stander as a Resistance fighter. German actor Hans Heinrich von Twardowski only has a few moments as Heydrich, but his body language as he sadistically dominates his underlings provides everything you need to understand the monster who helped craft the Final Solution. James Wong Howe did the cinematography and captures some wonderfully stark black-and-white images. And Brecht’s frequent collaborator, Hans Eisler did the effective score, including music for a Resistance song that runs through the film’s latter half.

Co-writer John Wexley appealed to the Writer’s Guild for sole credit and won, although at least one member of the jury called him a “credit-stealer” and said he’d only won on a technicality. Years later, HUAC labeled the film Communist propaganda, and its sole credited screenwriter was blacklisted. I think there’s a moral there somewhere.

#fritz lang #bertolt brecht #brian donlevy #anna lee #walter brennan #james wong howe #gene lockhart #lionel stander #hans eisler #reinhard heydrich #film noir

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the glass key |1942|

#gif #the glass key #film noir #veronica lake #brian donlevy #stuart heisler #1942 #black and white #classic hollywood

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The Big Combo (1955) Joseph H. Lewis

December 10th 2023

#the big combo #1955 #joseph h. lewis #cornel wilde #richard conte #jean wallace #brian donlevy #lee van cleef #earl holliman #robert middleton #helene stanton #jay adler #helen walker #the hoodlum

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“I’m gonna do you a favor. You won’t hear the bullets.”

The Big Combo (1955) dir. Joseph H. Lewis

#the big combo #1955 #joseph h lewis #cornel wilde #richard conte #brian donlevy #jean wallace #lee van cleef #earl holliman #helene stanton #1950s #screencaps #noir #november 2023 #noirvember