It's Noirsville, a visually oriented blog celebrating the vast and varied sources of inspiration, all of the resulting output, and all of the creative reflections back, of a particular style/tool of film making used in certain film/plot sequences or for a films entirety that conveyed claustrophobia, alienation, obsession, and events spiraling out of control, that came to fruition in the roughly the period of the last two and a half decades of B&W film.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Noirsville Update - The Beat Generation (1959)
Updated the screencaps and review for late Classic Noir - The Beat Generation (1959) see here. or click image.
Interesting film. Not really a noir but touches some of the bases. No femme fatales but some bad girls. Our protagonist ends up on his feet and with a smile on his face. I thought for a moment he was going to take the bait and fall for Mamie Van Doren and take a walk down the slippery slope to self destruction. But it was not to be. Nice contrast between the early counterculture types and their off beat language and manufactured mannerisms against the more traditional mores of the era. I had never heard of Steve Cochran before this film. He reminded me of Edmond O'Brien in DOA. Thanks for the post.
I look at Noir as a Style coupled to a Dark "noir stained" Story, it's got the story but not a whole lot of the style. Femme Fatales are not essential, "In A Lonely Place" for example has no Femme Fatale.
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Interesting film. Not really a noir but touches some of the bases. No femme fatales but some bad girls. Our protagonist ends up on his feet and with a smile on his face. I thought for a moment he was going to take the bait and fall for Mamie Van Doren and take a walk down the slippery slope to self destruction. But it was not to be. Nice contrast between the early counterculture types and their off beat language and manufactured mannerisms against the more traditional mores of the era. I had never heard of Steve Cochran before this film. He reminded me of Edmond O'Brien in DOA. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteI look at Noir as a Style coupled to a Dark "noir stained" Story, it's got the story but not a whole lot of the style. Femme Fatales are not essential, "In A Lonely Place" for example has no Femme Fatale.
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