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'Boobs, booze, bigotry and bullets': 1947 book

‘Boobs, booze, bigotry and bullets’: 1947 book

Every month on Past Offences I gather together blog posts about crime fiction written or filmed in a particular year. Regular contributor Santosh picked 1947, which proved to be something of a challenge for lots of us – it seems like ’47 was a lean year for books.

Still, there’s always the movies.

Brad offered up three films noir from 1947, Out of the Past, Dark Passage, and The Unsuspected.

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The Saint’s Return [The Saint's Girl Friday] *** (1953, Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Jane Carr) - Classic Movie Review 3228

The Saint’s Return [The Saint’s Girl Friday] *** (1953, Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Jane Carr) – Classic Movie Review 3228

‘When he hits London…blondes…bullets…and blackmail…set him up FOR THE KILL!!’

Director Seymour Friedman’s 1953 crime mystery thriller for Hammer Films (released in the US as The Saint’s Girl Friday) is a very watchable British stab at reviving the series, with Louis Hayward cast once again after a 15-year gap as Simon Templar after his very first appearance in the RKO series of eight.

This time…

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