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Blonde Ice (1948) Jack Bernhard

September 8th 2023

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Leslie Brooks-Robert Paige "Blonde ice" 1948, de Jack Bernhard.

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Released on this day in 1948: THE HUNTED Steve Fisher's original screenplay for this bargain-basement B film offers a clever twist on the typical femme fatale. Laura Mead (Belita) has served her time for robbery and still claims her innocence. She returns to the city where her former cop lover (Preston Foster) sent her up. Was she guilty, or was he just jealous? Is she back for a fresh start, or revenge? A strange, hypnotic noir from Poverty Row director Jack (Decoy) Bernhard. We are proud to have funded a new 35-mm print of the film in 2011.

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Robert Paige-Leslie Brooks "Blonde ice" 1948, de Jack Bernhard.

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Decoy (1946) Jack Bernhard

November 15th 2020

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Decoy (1946)

“One can only wonder the sensation Decoy might have created had it been given proper studio treatment and if it had more than 74 minutes to get its point across that some women are even more wicked than Phyllis Dietrichson.  But it gets the job done, and considering that leading actress [Jean] Gillie would die just three years later from pneumonia only solidifies the movie’s amalgamation of the strange, the nightmarish, and the tragedies of the missed opportunity.”

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Blonde Ice (1948)

“Even with plot holes abounding, it’s hard to much discredit anyone involved with Blonde Ice.  Fact of the matter is is that money-making is the name of the game and we should be grateful that there’s even a morsel to be savored.  That morsel, of course, is [Leslie] Brooks, who possesses a poker face so convincing that the eventual reveal that she’s actually a ruthless brute manages to shock even though the film in which she’s starring is called, after all, Blonde Ice.”

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