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"Are you not entertained?!"
Yes, yes I was.

Amazing martial arts choreography. Less keen on the romance aspect of the story, although I can relate to having repressed desires.

Mostly dull and unfunny.

🎵Hey ladies, when ya man wanna get buck wild
Just go back and hit 'em up style
Get your hands on his cash and
Spend it to the last dime for all the hard times🎵

A decent enough Pre-Code comedy with good, saucy bits but nowhere near as racy as others I've seen, especially considering the infidelity theme. Charlotte Greenwood was excellent, though, and got a couple hilarious sequences of physical comedy.

Was it the greatest comedy ever? Nah, not by a long shot. Did I laugh a lot? Yes. (But that psycho journalist, Gwen Wilde? Yikes...)

'Lovers on the run' is not exactly my favorite crime/noir subgenre, but the presentation here still felt well-developed and executed. The leads were likeable, and the cinematography --particularly the aerial camerawork-- was impressive. And while I wouldn't put this in my top favorite noirs, it was nevertheless an excellent directorial debut for Nicholas Ray.

In this film, 'jailhouse rock' would be the jagged stone you use to bludgeon the warden to death during a riot... This was as bleak and oppressive as any prison movie I've seen, and as a noir. Did a great job of humanizing its characters.

🎵The water's gonna rise and pull you under
In your eyes I'm staring at the end of time
Nothing can change us
No one can save us from ourselves🎵
(Scorpions, 'Humanity')

The most videogame-like of the series so far and also the laziest. Stumbles listlessly from exposition dump to action setpiece, rinse, repeat, etc. Still, I will give it credit for remaining at least visually interesting, and with enough slo-mo you'd be forgiven for thinking that Zack Snyder was the co-director.

An interesting, fairly well-executed (and unusual) concept for a noir. Joan Leslie and Louis Hayward were quite good in it, as were the rest of the principal cast. Overall, a nice gem rescued from obscurity by Flicker Alley and the Film Noir Foundation.

I sees Sterling Hayden and Gloria Grahame in a noir, I watches. And while it doesn't really do anything extraordinary, it had a lived-in quality and was still really compelling. [I also wonder if Orson Welles was inspired by this one when he made Touch of Evil.]

Rosanna Arquette was the real killer for murdering that French accent.
#RIPMatthewPerry

Another workmanlike but effective noir from the same creative team behind The Guilty.