Another one I voted for :
#61 Act of Violence - I saw this one in a film noir Hall of Fame and I liked it well enough to include it on my list. Starts with a real sense of mystery - what did Frank R. Enley (Van Heflin) do during World War II that would have Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunt him down the way he does, resolutely and without mercy? The unalterably damaged veterans of the Second World War get some acknowledgement here for what they went through - there probably wasn't enough attention paid to the psychological scars war gives the men who participate in it when it came to that conflict. 1946 documentary Let There Be Light dealt with it directly, but it was still an issue that was swept under the carpet a little because mental health was a bit of a taboo subject - men were men, and in the culture of those days men just had to deal with it by trying to bury it or push it aside. Act of Violence gives audiences a glimpse of how a person is never the same after going through the torment, and in doing so Fred Zinnemann also turned the issue into a compelling and exciting film. I had it at #21 on my film noir list.
I know nothing of any of the other films revealed since my last post here.
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Seen : 6/40
I'd never even heard of : 31/40
Movies that had been on my radar, but I haven't seen yet : 3/40
Films from my list : 2
#61 - My #21 - Act of Violence (1949)
#67 - My #18 - The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
#61 Act of Violence - I saw this one in a film noir Hall of Fame and I liked it well enough to include it on my list. Starts with a real sense of mystery - what did Frank R. Enley (Van Heflin) do during World War II that would have Joe Parkson (Robert Ryan) hunt him down the way he does, resolutely and without mercy? The unalterably damaged veterans of the Second World War get some acknowledgement here for what they went through - there probably wasn't enough attention paid to the psychological scars war gives the men who participate in it when it came to that conflict. 1946 documentary Let There Be Light dealt with it directly, but it was still an issue that was swept under the carpet a little because mental health was a bit of a taboo subject - men were men, and in the culture of those days men just had to deal with it by trying to bury it or push it aside. Act of Violence gives audiences a glimpse of how a person is never the same after going through the torment, and in doing so Fred Zinnemann also turned the issue into a compelling and exciting film. I had it at #21 on my film noir list.
I know nothing of any of the other films revealed since my last post here.
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Seen : 6/40
I'd never even heard of : 31/40
Movies that had been on my radar, but I haven't seen yet : 3/40
Films from my list : 2
#61 - My #21 - Act of Violence (1949)
#67 - My #18 - The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
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