#Lucien Ballard

[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/29/2023: THE LODGER (1944)

If I may briefly shill for the org I volunteer for: I have been meaning to see this movie ever since I caught this incredibly great lecture from the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies' London branch, by Dr. Clare Smith, a curator at Scotland Yard's crime museum. Dr. Smith deftly dissected the Jack the Ripper iconography that is internationally accepted today, even though we have no idea what the killer actually looked like. Attention was paid to the many adaptations of Marie Belloc Lowndes' 1913 novel The Lodger, about a naive couple who take in a boarder who may or may not be Jack the Ripper. Dr. Smith's lecture was unfortunately so compelling that it gave me inflated expectations of this movie, which is only pretty-good I feel, though it certainly has its charms.

The main charm is Laird Cregar as the titular lodger, Mr. Slade, whose secret identity is hardly in doubt. He sashays into the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bonting (Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Sarah Allgood), who are at first bizarrely trusting of him despite the fact that practically everything he says and does makes him out to be Count Dracula. He also manages to hypnotize another boarder, cabaret singer Kitty (Merle Oberon), who is so oblivious to Slade's overtly deranged behavior that it threatens to transform John Brahms' gothic thriller into a comedy. Thankfully, Brahms is supported in his efforts by cinematographer Lucien Ballard, who has made a lot of movies you've heard of including THE WILD BUNCH and TRUE GRIT. With his help, THE LODGER is frequently terrific-looking and atmospheric, in spite of the comic threat several of the leads pose to the film's dramatic tension. Cregar himself is a bit of a ham, for sure, but he's a tasty ham, so he's exempt from my charges of horror treason. With all this forewarning, you might enjoy this movie more than I did!

#blogtober #2023 #the lodger #1944 #adaptation #horror #thriller #drama #jack the ripper #laird cregar #john brahms #lucien ballard #marie belloc lowndes #mystery #slasher

[dweemeister]

Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)

On social media, there are certain actors from Golden Age Hollywood whose imagery, on occasion, seeps through the Internet’s algorithmic modern biases. Too often, those posts are from individuals who have never seen such actor’s movies. Chief among those actors are James Dean, Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe. Against the grain, I hold that James Dean’s posthumous legacy has overshadowed three performances I am no fan of and Brando’s airbrushed reputation leaves him overvalued in the popular written histories of American cinema. By contrast, Audrey Hepburn’s standing in modern times feels just about correct (although more people should seek out her films beyond 1953’s Roman Holiday and 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s). For Marilyn Monroe, a recent film like Andrew Dominik’s Blonde (2022) follows decades of works that have exploited her image – oftentimes simplifying her to a tragic sex symbol. Monroe, of the four aforementioned Old Hollywood actors who show up from posts from non-film buffs, is the only one whose talents I consider underrated.

There is no better showcase of her early-career dramatic abilities than in Roy Ward Baker’s film noir Don’t Bother to Knock, released by 20th Century Fox. Up to this point, Monroe had starred in more than a dozen films in supporting roles. In a time when actors and film crewmembers were contracted to a studio, Fox loaned Monroe early in her career to Columbia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and most recently to RKO. Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck was still not entirely sure what to make of her, despite a strong performance in RKO’s Clash by Night (1952). Offering Monroe the lead role in Don’t Bother to Knock, Zanuck gave her the opportunity to prove herself (in addition to ascertaining British director Roy Ward Baker’s skills for his first Hollywood picture). Wary of the risks of pushing an actress to her first lead role as well as working with an unfamiliar director, Zanuck allowed a budget that, by Fox’s standards in the early ‘50s, was a trifle. Yet, because of these limitations, Don’t Bother to Knock is a decent noir and a solid Marilyn Monroe vehicle.

One night in a New York City hotel, airline pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark, one of Fox’s brightest stars at this time) approaches his ex-girlfriend Lyn Lesley (Anne Bancroft in her film debut), the hotel club’s singer. Lyn broke up with Jed recently by letter, and explains to her ex that her reasoning is due to his attitude. Jed, flustered, heads back to his room. On the same floor Jed is on but across the air shaft, elevator operator Eddie Forbes (noir mainstay Elisha Cook Jr.) introduces his niece Nell (Marilyn Monroe) to guests Peter (Jim Backus) and Ruth Jones (Lurene Tuttle). Nell will serve as babysitter to the Jones’ daughter, Bunny (Donna Corcoran), while the couple attend a reception downstairs. All is set in motion when Jed first sees Nell across the way.

Also in the cast is Don Beddoe as Mr. Ballew. And Disney fans might recognize Verna Felton – the Elephant Matriarch in Dumbo (1941) and the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (1950), among others – playing Mr. Ballew’s meddling wife, Emma.

Don’t Bother to Knock’s categorization as a film noir comes from its storyline, rather than its visuals. Bar one scene involving Jed believing someone on the other side of the room to be asleep, the film lacks the shadowy aesthetic one comes to expect from noir. Shot and lit conventionally, Don’t Bother to Knock never quite escapes the fact it is obviously soundstage-bound. The small number of different locations for the film’s various scenes also does not help matters. From a perspective of style, this is a disappointing effort from cinematographer Lucien Ballard, who had ample experience in film noir by this point – see The Lodger (1944) and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) in this collaboration with Baker.

Yet it is the two central performances that elevate the material. The audience is witnessing Marilyn Monroe before sporting her platinum blonde locks. The natural brunette keeps her natural hair color for this film; not truly transforming into the Marilyn that most casual film audiences know about until Niagara (1953). Unlike the typecast dumb blonde roles that she received later in her career, her role in Don’t Bother to Knock is neurotic, restless, and wide-eyed not in a sexual way. Monroe brings a level of internal strife strewn across her face, a measured gait, and a nervous avoidance of eye contact with Richard Widmark and other actors opposite her. To yours truly, having seen Monroe in so many other roles, it was difficult for me to connect her speaking voice – high-pitched, like a streetwise Snow White living in urban America – to this character’s neuroses. She does not attempt much modification in her delivery or register, whether in this role or others. But given that this is early in her career, this can slide. It is otherwise a solid turn that justifies Zanuck’s supposed gamble on her as a lead actress.

After his debut in Henry Hathaway’s Kiss of Death (1947) for 20th Century Fox, Richard Widmark became one of the studio’s prize actors. His role as the sneering, misogynistic, and psychopathic Tommy Udo brought instant notoriety, as well as spawning fan clubs in American colleges and universities known for their sexism. Early in his Fox career, he would largely play villains, but cinephiles knowledgeable of classic Hollywood know that Widmark was equally capable in more honorable roles. In Don’t Bother to Knock, his Jed sits somewhere squarely in the middle – deeply unlikeable, abrasive, yet with glimmers of compassion and helpfulness. That Tommy Udo sneer finds its way onto Widmark’s face, if only for a few passing moments, due to the pain of his recent separation from Anne Bancroft’s Lyn. Despite Jed’s less-than-virtuous qualities, the viewer – because of the situation that transpires between him and Nell – will find themselves rooting for that elusive happy ending in a film noir. Widmark’s performance in Don’t Bother to Knock is not as remarkable as that in Kiss of Death or No Way Out (1950), but he complements Monroe’s performance wonderfully.

Adapted from the little-read and slender book Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong, Don’t Bother to Knock received its adapted screenplay treatment from Daniel Taradash (1953’s From Here to Eternity, 1955’s Picnic). The pulpy screenplay takes place over a few evening hours, refusing to show its entire hand until a little more than halfway through. Eventually, discussion and a depiction mental illness – as it was understood in the 1950s – becomes prominent in the film. By today’s standards, the script’s understanding of mental illness is deficient. It is used more as a plot device rather than something to inspire dialogue about how the individual in question is coping or how the mental health professional have utterly failed them. Some might argue this might detract from the narrative at-large (and noir is very much a narrative-driven subgenre), but I contend that noir with a social conscience only adds depth to the noir tradition.

Director Roy Ward Baker and co-star Richard Widmark, initially frustrated with Monroe’s habits – requiring acting coach, Natasha Lytess, to be on set constantly; frequently asking to take breaks between takes; and constant tardiness – changed their minds when viewing the film’s rushes (the raw unedited footage played back for the director and editor after the film’s shoot is completed for the day). Monroe brought a rawness appropriate for her role in Don’t Bother to Knock, and her inexperience contributed to her believability in the role. As Don’t Bother to Knock made its theatrical premiere in July 1952, some of the nation’s leading movie critics only added to Darryl F. Zanuck’s unease about framing Marilyn Monroe as a lead actress. Ignoring the plaudits from the audiences, Baker, Widmark, and less-prominent critics, Zanuck instead fixated on the likes of The New York Times’ Bosley Crowther claiming that, “Monroe is being groomed by Twentieth Century-Fox for razzle-dazzle stardom… if they also expect her to act, they’re going to have to give her a lot of lessons under an able and patient coach.”

These reviews (that Zanuck spent too much time thinking about) from Crowther and his fellow contemporaries drip with condescension, misogyny, and language more appropriate for a gossip column. For Monroe – only in her mid-twenties and whose shyness and insecurity followed her through all of her life – one can only imagine how hurtful these words and Zanuck’s perceptions must have been. The crafting of the culturally dominant image of Monroe – as a voluptuous and ditzy blonde plaything with no interiority – was beginning to take shape. In the final year that any American could reasonably not have known the name of Marilyn Monroe, Don’t Bother to Knock represents the end of her status as a Hollywood afterthought.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog (as of July 1, 2020, tumblr is not permitting certain posts with links to appear on tag pages, so I cannot provide the URL).

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

#Don't Bother to Knock #Roy Ward Baker #Richard Widmark #Marilyn Monroe #Anne Bancroft #Donna Corcoran #Jeanne Cagney #Lurene Tuttle #Elisha Cook Jr. #Jim Backus #Verna Felton #Don Beddoe #Daniel Taradash #Charlotte Armstrong #Lucien Ballard #Darryl F. Zanuck #Lionel Newman #TCM #My Movie Odyssey

[sesiondemadrugada]

Moontide (Fritz Lang & Archie Mayo, 1942).

#moontide #moontide (1942) #fritz lang #archie mayo #ida lupino #jean gabin #charles g. clarke #lucien ballard #william reynolds #james basevi #richard day #thomas little #guy pearce

[notesonfilm1]

Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, 1958).

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#Ben Casey #Irving Lerner #Lucien Ballard #Murder by Contract #Perry Botkin #Vince Edwards

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

The Undying Monster

Hairpin that I am, I watched John Brahm’s Gothic trilogy in reverse order. That also means I watched in descending order in terms of quality. It’s not that THE UNDYING MONSTER (1942, YouTube) is all that bad. It’s just not as good as THE LODGER (1944) and nowhere near as good as HANGOVER SQUARE (1945). Still, it’s a lot of fun as a mix of horror and Sherlock Holmes mystery and tremendously atmospheric. Brahm also deserves credit for making it look like an A picture even though it was shot on a B budget. When a mysterious monster linked to a family curse attacks a wealthy man (John Howard), his dog (THE ONLY PERMISSABLE SPOILER: it dies) and a nurse, Scotland Yard scientist James Ellison and his assistant (Heather Thatcher) travel to the estate to poke around the dark corners and cobwebs. The castle set is a wonder, and Lucien Ballard

films it beautifully. He and Brahm also do a great tracking shot for the first attack and shoot part of it from the killer’s point of view (a trick Brahm would use in all three films in the trilogy). There’s a lot going for the picture; it just needs to go further. It would help to get more of Thatcher, who’s one of those delightful English eccentrics, and the forbidding housekeeper (Elly Malyon), who would be right at home on Indian Island or in Muldoon Manor. There could also be a lot less of Ellison’s patronizing attitude toward Thatcher, who’s treated as unattractive (as if he were any golden trophy) and flighty. Maybe his insults would sound better had he attempted a British accent, and that failing makes him seem out of place among the largely British cast. Heather Angel is delightfully plucky as Howard’s sister, and there’s a wonderful Great Dane that manages to survive.

#horror films #john brahm #heather angel #heather thatcher #james ellison #john howard #lucien ballard

[troncelliti]

“…I thought you might regret it when you woke up…”

#life begins with love #1937 #ray mccarey #jean parker #douglass montgomery #edith fellows #lucien ballard #viola lawrence #morris stoloff #columbia pictures #Youtube

[bigspoopygurl]

The Killing (1956)

“You'd be killing a horse - that's not first degree murder, in fact it's not murder at all, in fact I don't know what it is.”

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard

#The Killing #Stanley Kubrick #Lucien Ballard #telelizion

[cultfaction]

Preview- Murder By Contract (Standard Edition Bluray)

Preview- Murder By Contract (Standard Edition Bluray)

Starring Vince Edwards (City of Fear) and Herschel Bernardi (The Front), Murder by Contract is a bleak investigation into the mind of a professional killer. Tasked with murdering a witness in a criminal trial, contract killer Claude has second thoughts when the target turns out to be a woman… because women cost double. Killing is just a business to Claude, but when he tries to quit, the hunter…

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#Ben Maddow #Herschel Bernardi #Irving Lerner #Lucien Ballard #Murder By Contract #Vince Edwards

[facesofcinema]

The Killing (1956)

#1950s #actor elisha cook jr #dir stanley kubrick #dp lucien ballard #cat crime #cat noir #cat thriller #american #monochrome #hand #ear #shadow #collar #focus #the killing #the killing 1956

[junior-stargazer-goke91]

The Killing (1956)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard

#classicfilmsource #the killing #stanley kubrick #sterling hayden #film noir #noir

[thursdaygrl]

my drafts aren't at an overwhelmingly big number & i have new muses i'm itching to use so let's do a redo on this starter call. they'll likely be short/one liners. i'm gonna put a list of preferred muses under the cut to select from.

alexandria hernandez, 21, lesbian, she/they, lizeth selene fc

booker ballard, 22, straight, switch, he/him, asa germann fc

dominique ouma, 24, bisexual, she/her, laura kariuki fc

ellis jiang, 26, bisexual, he/they, derek luh fc

jacob welch, 21, straight, he/him, milo manheim fc

joss yao, 24, bisexual, she/her, havana rose liu fc

kyra porter, 19, bisexual, she/her, whitney peak fc

lachlan murphy, 21, straight, he/him, josh macqueen fc

letha barclay, 26, bisexual, she/her, jaz sinclair fc

lucien olivier-moss, 24, bisexual, he/him, mason gooding fc

niamh bradshaw, 23, lesbian, she/her, erin kellyman fc

renata ornellas, 25, lesbian, she/her, alba baptista fc

river im, 24, lesbian, she/they, london thor fc

rory medina, 23, lesbian, she/her, ruby cruz fc

stevie poole, 21, lesbian, she/her, erana james fc

+ literally any canon or fantasy muse if they strike your fancy

#indie rp #indie bi rp #indie lesbian rp #indie smut rp #indie fantasy rp #😶‍🌫️ if this flops im going back to bed

[citizenscreen]

Merle Oberon and her husband Lucien Ballard, drinking tea at their beach home in Malibu, circa 1947.

#merle oberon

[pozimek]

Hi! Welcome to my Tumblr dedicated to screen caps from movies, series, as well as from interviews and music videos!

Here's what you can already find here:

TV SERIES:

- Alice In Borderland (Queen of Spades, Yuzuha Usagi, Akane Heiya, Chisiya Shuntaro, Hikari Kuina, Rizuna Ann)

- American Crime Story (Catherine Allday Davis)

- Bleach (Kuchiki Rukia, Urahara Kisuke, Hidetomo Kajomaru, Kurosaki Ichigo, Ishida Ryuuken, Hitsugaya Toshiro, Zaraki Kenpachi, Kurosaki Masaki, Shiba Isshin)

- Conversation With Friends (Frances Flynn, Nick Conway, Bobbi Connolly, Melissa Conway)

- Demon Slayer (Muzan Kibutsuji, Kamado Tanjiro, Kamado Nezuko, Mitsuri Kanroji, Muichiro Tokito, Zenitsu Agatsuma)

- Den Sista Sommaren (Amalia Holm Bjelke’s character)

- Delete Me S1 (Marion Løvås)

- Dragon Age Absolution (Roland, Miriam, Tassia, Qwyndion)

- Druck (Isi Inci, Sascha Belin, Zoe & Nora Machwitz, Kieu My Vu, Josh Zimmermann, Fatou Jallow, David Schreibner, Finn Nguyen)

- Euphoria (Rue Bennett, Jules Vaughn)

- First Kill (Theo Burns, Apollo Burns, Elinor Fairmont, Ben Wheeler, Calliope Burns, Oliver Fairmont, Juliette Fairmont)

- Gannibal (Daigo Agawa)

- Gåsmamman (Edvin Ryding’s character)

- Gen V (Marie Moreau, Emma Meyer/Little Cricket, Jordan Li, Cate Dunlap)

- Ginny & Georgia (Marcus Baker)

- Heartstopper s1 & s2 (Tao Xu, Elle Argent, Charlie Spring, Darcy Olsson, Tara Jones, Nick Nelson, Ben Hope, Isaac Henderson, Imogen Heaney, Mr. Ajayi, Mr. Farouk, Sarah Nelson)

- Hell’s Paradise (Gabimaru, Yamada Asaemon Sagiri)

- Kontrola (Majka Podgórska, Natalia Sokół)

- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SCH’s character)

- Love And Anarchy (Max Järvi)

- Mina Problem (Amalia Holm Bjelke’s character)

- Moon Knight (Steven Grant, Marc Spector, Layla El Faouly)

- Motherland Fort Salem (Scylla Ramshorn, Raelle Collar, Adil, Willa Collar, Abigail Bellweather, Tally Craven, Nicte Batan, Sarah Alder, Basque Shepherd)

- Never Let Me Go (Palm & Nuengdiao)

- New Amsterdam (Elizabeth Wilder, Helen Sharpe)

- Normal People (Connell Waldron, Marianne Sheridan)

- Playground (Amy Seely)

- Pajęczyna / The Spider’s Web (Michalina Olszańska, Hubert Miłkowski)

- Ragnarok (Magne Seier, Gry Isungset, Isolde Eidsvoll, Fjor Jutul, Saxa Jutul, Laurits Seier)

- Shadow And Bone (Matthias Helvar, David Kostyk, Inej Ghafa, Wylan Hendriks, Jesper Fahey, Kaz Brekker)

- Skam France (Max Bernini, Maya Etienne, Jo Benezra, Bilal Cherif, Redouane Bedia, Tiffany Prigent, Anaïs Rocha, Lola Lecomte, Clément Iniesta)

- Skam OG (Christoffer Schistad)

- Skitlycklig (Amalia Holm Bjelke’s character)

- So Fit (Freen Sarocha’s character)

- Special Ops: Lioness (Cruz Manuelos, Aaliyah Amrohi)

- Stupid Wife (Luiza & Valentina)

- Stranger Things (Robin Buckley, Max Mayfield, Eddie Munson, Dmitri Antonov, Chrissy Cunningham, Peter Ballard/001, Eden Bingham, Will Byers, Joyce Byers, Nancy Wheeler, Eleven)

- The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself (Nathan Byrne, Annalise O'Brien, Gabriel, Jessica Byrne)

- The Bear (Carmen/Carmy Berzatto, Sydney Adamu, Claire, Chef Luca, Michael Berzatto, Chef Terry, Michelle Berzatto)

- The Glory (Joo YeoJeong)

- The Inspector And The Sea (Silke Aspelin)

- The Last Of Us (Ellie Williams & Joel Miller)

- The Uncanny Counter (So Moon, Do Hana)

- The 100 (Lexa)

- Titans (Gar Logan)

- Vampire Academy (Lisa Dragomir, Rose Hathaway, Christian Ozera, Dmitri Belikov, Meredith Beckham, Adrian Ivashkov)

- Vida (Lyn Hernandez, Nico)

- Warrior Nun (Ava Silva, Sister Lilith, Sister Camila, Sister Beatrice)

- Wednesday (Wednesday Addams, Enid Sinclair, Marilyn Thornhill, Morticia Addams, Ajax Petropolus, Larissa Weems)

- Willow (Jade Claymore, Kit Tanthalos)

- Young Royals (Prince Willhelm, Simon Eriksson, August Horn, Sara Eriksson, Henry, Fredrika, Stella)

- You (Love Quinn)

- You Raise Me Up (Do Yongsik, Lee Ruda, Do Jihyeok)

- 12:13 (Amalia Holm Bjelke’s character)

- 1899 (Lucien, Krester, Clémence, Maura Franklin, Eyk Larsen, Olek, Ling Yi)

MOVIES:

- Aftersun (Calum)

- A Ghost Story (C & M)

- Alena (Amalia Holm Bjelke’s character)

- All Too Well (Sadie Sink)

- Atonement (Robbie Turner, Cecilia Tallis)

- Barbarian (Keith Toshko + BTS)

- Black Widow (Yelena Belova, Natasha Romanoff)

- Blade Runner 2049 (Officer K, Joi, Luv, Mariette)

- Bottoms (PJ, Josie, Hazel, Isabel, Brittany, Sylvie)

- Catch And Release (Fritz Messing)

- Crush (Aj Campos, Gabriela Campos)

- Dark Was The Night (Steven Lang)

- Do Revenge (Drea Torres, Carissa Jones, Gabbi Broussard, Eleanor Levetan, Russ Dara, Montana Ruiz)

- Easy Virtue (John Whittaker)

- Fanfik (Tosiek, Konrad, Leon)

- Fear Street (Ziggy Berman, Nick Goode, Sam Fraser, Kate Schmidt, Simon Kalivoda, Heather Watkins, Deena Johnson)

- Fresh (Sebastian Stan, Daisy Edgar Jones)

- Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Cedric Diggory)

- Heroes Of The Baltic Sea (Amalia Holm Bjelke’s character)

- Intercourse (Amalia Holm Bjelke’s character)

- John Wick: Chapter 4 (Marquis)

- Kill Your Darlings (Lucien Carr)

- Mars (Yasmin Finney)

- Nope (Angel Torres)

- Ready Or Not (Grace Le Domas)

- Red, White & Royal Blue (Alex Claremont-Diaz, Prince Henry, Ellen Claremont, Zahra Bankston, Nora Holleran, Princess Beatrice)

- Scream (Mikey Madison, Ethan Landry, Tara Carpenter, Sam Carpenter, Mickey Altieri, Laura Crane)

- Shattered Glass (Stephen Glass)

- So Damn Easy Going / Så Jävla Easy Going (Audrey & Joanna)

- Spider-Man: No Way Home (Peter Parker)

- Star Wars (Anakin Skywalker)

- Terrifier 2 (Sienna Shaw)

- The Amazing Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

- The Boogeyman (Sadie Harper)

- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (Debbie Glatzel)

- The Fallout (Vada & Mia)

- The Flash (Kara ZorEl)

- The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (Charlie Kelmeckis, Sam Button)

- The Thing (MacReady, Windows)

- Werewolf By Night (Jack Russell)

- You Can Live Forever (Jaime & Marike)

CELEBS:

- Alba Baptista

- Angelina Jolie

- Amalia Holm Bjelke

- Connor Swindells

- Edvin Ryding

- Eren M Güvercin

- Frida Argento

- Hubert Miłkowski

- Imani Lewis

- Jack O’Connell

- Joseph Quinn

- Malte Gårdinger

- Melina Benett Paukkonen

- Omar Rudberg

- Park EunBin

- Rhian Blundell

- Sarah Catherine Hook

- Sohan Pague

- Talia Ryder

- Tony Giroux

- Victoria Pedretti

- William Gao

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#oli’s screencaps #screen caps

[ink-and-blood-goddess]

New List for Character Fanfic Requests

ATENTTION ALL FANFIC READERS! ATENTTION ALL FANFIC READERS!

I’m releasing a new list of characters from fandoms that I’ll write for. My other list of characters is still open for requests, I’m providing a link below for you to see

List of Characters List I

I do get really busy with my job and other things I do, so I’ll write your requests whenever I get the chance to when I’m not really busy at the moment. If I get overwhelmed, I’ll close my requests for the moment and open them back up after I finish writing them...

List of Characters II

Richard B. Riddick-Chronicles of Riddick  🌸❤️‍🔥👐��💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Harry Osborn-The Amazing Spider-Man 2  🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Lyutsifer Safin-No Time To Die 007  🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Eddie Munson-Stranger Things S4 🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Henry Creel/Peter Ballard/Vecna-Stranger Things S4  🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Hannibal Lecter-Hannibal (NBC TV Series)  🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Paul Atreides-Dune 2021  🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Michael Morbius-Morbius 2022  🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Lucien Crown/Milo Morbius-Morbius 2022  🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Karl Heisenberg-Resident Evil Village 🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Jake Lockley-Moon Knight 🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

John Wick-John Wick Franchise  🌸❤️‍🔥👐🏻💐💘🖤🔪🩸🔞

Symbols:

🌸-Fluff 

❤️‍🔥-Smut 

👐🏻-General 

 💐-Dating 

 💘-Romance 

🖤-Angst 

🔪🩸-Violence 

 🔞-NSFW

Citrus Scale: 

🍑 (Peach)-No Sexual Interactions 

🍎 (Citrus)-Romantic hug/or kiss 

🍊 (Orange)-Romantic hug/or kiss with a hint of sexual interaction 

 🍈 (Lime)-Heavy making out with light groping 

 🍋 (Lemon) Actual Sexual Intercourse

#Richard B Riddick #riddick #harry osborn #lyutsifer safin #safin #henry creel #peter ballard #vecna #hannibal lecter #hannibal #paul atreides #michael morbius #milo morbius #karl heisenberg #john wick #The Chronicles of Riddick #the amazing spider man 2 #no time to die #stranger things #hannibal tv #morbius #resident evil village #john wick franchise #fanfiction #fanfic #eddie munson #marc spector #steven grant #jake lockley #Moon Knight

[filmnoirfoundation]

Check out our TV listings page to see all the noirs playing this #Noirvember on Turner Classic Movies: TCM. https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/news-tv.html

NOIR ALLEY:

Saturday, November 5, 9:00 PM & Sunday, November 6, 7:00 AM FNF Prez Eddie Muller presents CITY OF FEAR (1959): Vince Ryker (Vince Edwards) breaks out of the big house taking along what appears to be a container of heroin. Must be his lucky day. Except it's not heroin, it's Cobalt-60, a radioactive isotope, and his exposure to it will eventually kill him. As he tries to find a buyer for his 'heroin', two detectives (John Archer and Lyle Talbot) try to find him before he dies and/or causes a civil disaster. Lensed by the renowned cinematographer Lucien Ballard. Dir. Irving Lerner

#city of fear #noir alley #eddie muller #tv listings #tcm #noirvember

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Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews in Swamp Water (Jean Renoir, 1941)

Cast: Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Mary Howard, Eugene Pallette, Ward Bond, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, based on a novel by Vereen Bell. Cinematography: J. Peverell Marley. Art direction: Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright. Film editing: Walter Thompson. Music: David Buttolph.

Swamp Water has a few things working against it in addition to its title. For one, having a cast of familiar Hollywood stars pretending to be farmers, hunters, and trappers living on the edge of the Okefenokee swamp, and saying things like "I brung her" and "He got losted," makes for a certain lack of authenticity. And at 32, its leading man, Dana Andrews, is about a decade too old to be playing the callow youth he's supposed to be in the movie. Add to that the director, Jean Renoir, is a wartime exile from France, making his first film in Hollywood, and you might expect the worst. Fortunately, it has a screenplay by a master, Dudley Nichols, and an eminently watchable cast that includes Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, John Carradine, Ward Bond, and Eugene Pallette, who while they may never quite convince us that they're Georgia swamp-folk, do their professional best. It turns out to be a thoroughly entertaining movie that, while it doesn't add any luster to Renoir's career, doesn't detract from it either. This was Andrews's second year in movies, and he gives the kind of energetic performance that mostly overcomes miscasting. Born in Mississippi and raised in Texas, he also seems to know the character he's called on to play, perhaps a little better than the city-bred Baxter, whose efforts at being the village outcast are a bit forced. Brennan as usual plays an old coot, but without overdoing the mannerisms -- it's a slyly engaging performance. Much of the footage was shot by cinematographer J. Peverell Marley and the uncredited Lucien Ballard in the actual swamp and environs near Waycross, Georgia. There is some obvious failure to match the location footage with that shot back in the 20th Century-Fox studio, but it's not terribly distracting.

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