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Re: you are appreciated!!! (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Thank you, Chris.
Any comment from you is always appreciated.
Alex
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Jul 23 '09
2:06 pm PDT
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you are appreciated!!! (Reply to this comment)
by ChrisJarmick
a good review and wonderful background piece on Payton. Thanks again for taking the time and effort to create something interesting and readable. Bravo.
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Jul 22 '09
12:43 pm PDT
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Re: Alex (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
My advice, Paul, is to go to my fellow San Franciscan:
www.eddiemuller.com
He knows his stuff.
There are some good collections, and Eddie is often behind the best of them.
Hope you have some time freed up to watch.
Alex
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May 22 '09
11:44 am PDT
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Alex (Reply to this comment)
by colonialpara
You and George Chabot have written about several of these noir collections and this particular review made me stop short because you did NOT recommend it.
This review also made me wonder if I should even bother to buy some of these noir collections.
Your thought?
Paul
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May 21 '09
9:15 am PDT
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Re: not recommended, huh? (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Now, Jan . . . .
In the time period, few lives could have been more -- I wouldn't say, "interesting" -- emblematic than that of Barbara Payton. Even, a great film noir would come off as a sort of docudrama.
BAD BLONDE is not a bad noir, but I don't recommend it. Proceed with caution. I've seen worse.
All the best.
Alex
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Apr 15 '09
1:49 pm PDT
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not recommended, huh? (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
After telling us how interesting Payton's life was, you tell us not to watch the movie. Hmmm. Such a build-up, such a let-down!! :-)
Jan
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Apr 14 '09
8:55 pm PDT
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Re: Minnesota (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
We both stand in awe of Minnestota -- you because of your natal ties, I because the best friend of my middle life (unto this day, really) is BAMBO-BAMBO Christianson, an old colleague and adventurous pal, who comes from St Paul. How I wish we all might meet!
Caveat: Have you explored, Stephen, the white slavery ring, which supposedly went on for decades, whereby blonde, blue eyed Scandinavian or Germanic beauties, the abused daughters of old farmers who had little use for them, were lured from non-noir Minnesota to LA and other major American cities? There were promises of great jobs, solid marriages, the good life, etc., but rather like the plot of TAKEN (set in Paris), they were met at bus stations by Hollywood pimps, debauched, and set up as call girls, in time as common prostitutes.
Remember the reference to that well documented trade made in LA CONFIDENTIAL?
IT CAN HAPPEN IN MINNESOTA!
It really can, Stephen.
I understand your reluctance, but Barbara Payton's story is really a high profile example of these tragedies.
But I thank you for your generous rating, sir.
Alex
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Mar 21 '09
9:01 pm PDT
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Minnesota (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
is so un-noir a state — though I wonder about Paul Wellstone's fatal crash.
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Mar 21 '09
12:21 pm PDT
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Re: As solid (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Alas, Andrew, I have only seen BAD BLONDE. The other film, MAN BAIT, seems to have been an even more genteel noir, in which George Brent did not rise to the heights of, say, Edward G. Robinson in WOMAN IN THE WINDOW. The fact that MANBAIT is considered inferior to BAD BLONDE (though Diana Dors gets sexy marks for her relatively small role) says something about its quality, sight unseen.
[I shall add a note to that effect.]
Robert Lippert and other American B-film producers seem to have sent abroad over the hill or troubled American actors to trade on their former reputations in British films like these. A few years later, it would be Italian films providing the haven.
There is no single listing for BAD BLONDE, and so I was left with a difficult choice. I appreciate your criticism fully, but I happen to have seen BAD BLONDE in a public setting, and for some reason, I was inspired to write this review.
Thank you, Andrew, for a most ethical comment.
Alex
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Mar 20 '09
12:50 pm PDT
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As solid (Reply to this comment)
by andaryl, in Movies
detailed and insightful as your review is as always I didn't mark it because you don't review the second movie, other than a single line. If Bad Blonde is available as a single package you should try and get it listed. Of course if I'm wrong or you move this please drop me a message so I can delete my comment.
Andrew
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Mar 19 '09
4:04 pm PDT
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