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Little Miss Marker, Spanish lobby card. 1980 Submitted by @videorecord

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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Blood on My Hands, 1948)

"Listen to me. There's nobody else I wanna be with. Nobody else I wanna talk to. What's wrong with that?"

"I'll tell you what's wrong, you're wrong. You're a coward. There was one of him and one of you; he was a much older man, I suppose if you - if you hit a child, you'd say the same thing. What's the matter with you? Why can't you be decent? Why can't you be like everybody else? You're nothing but a cheap, vicious bully."

#kiss the blood off my hands #blood on my hands #film noir #american cinema #1948 #norman foster #leonardo bercovici #ben maddow #walter bernstein #joan fontaine #burt lancaster #robert newton #lewis l. russell #aminta dyne #grizelda hervey #jay novello #colin keith johnston #reginald sheffield #miklós rózsa #gerald butler #american depictions of London are always a tricky thing and this is no different; Hollywood sound stages draped in fog and cobbles #(and street organs of course) just don't convince in the same way that simply finding an anonymous bit of city might have. some creaky #artifice aside‚ this is a pretty competent little noir; Lancaster was still a newcomer but this was his first film as a producer too (he #really was an artist in film‚ right from the beginning). the script doesn't always serve Fontaine well‚ but the few good bits she gets she #absolutely seizes onto. it should be no surprise to anyone who's come across his work tho that Bob Newton steals this; he's a minor crook #whose presence is merely an awkward annoyance for most of the film‚ until this amazingly chilling transformation into something altogether #more seedy‚ more threatening and more dangerous in the final act. plotting doesn't offer much new or different and even by 1948 this feels #little overly familiar‚ but Foster does some great work with light and shadow‚ and it all has a very handsome‚ classical look #also: what a great title?? no film could live up to that kind of moniker alas. actually it got the film in some hot water with over zealous #censors‚ including here in the uk where it was released as the slightly less sordid Blood on my Hands

Walter Bernstein, August 20, 1919 – January 23, 2021.

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The Magnificent Seven was released in the US on 12 October 1960.

Yul Brynner wanted to remake Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai, and producer Walter Mirisch secured the rights, with associate producer Lou Morheim hiring blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein to adapt the script. Walter Newman and William Roberts re-wrote some of Bernstein’s script, mostly to accommodate Mexican censors (the film was shot in Mexico). Roberts received sole credit.

Steve McQueen was under contract for his TV series Wanted Dead or Alive, but staged a car accident, which made him “unable” to work, so he joined the cast of Mag Seven during his “recuperation.” When he returned to the TV series, his character’s hat notably changes, with McQueen wearing the one he wore in the film.

Brynner and McQueen famously did not get along during filming, with McQueen deliberately annoying his co-star.

Robert Vaughan suggested his friend James Coburn, after Sterling Hayden and others rejected the part of the (very) quiet Britt.

The Magnificent Seven was a box office failure in the US on its initial release, but a big hit in Europe. Most reviews were negative, especially in comparisons to Kurosawa’s (”a pallid, pretentious and overlong reflection of the Japanese original”). Akira Kurosawa loved it, and presented director John Sturges with a sword.

Elmer Bernstein’s score received the only Academy Award nomination (which was awarded to Ernest Gold for Exodus).

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Walter Matthau-Julie Andrews “El truhán y su prenda” (Little miss Marker) 1980, de Walter Bernstein.

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The Molly Maguires (1970). In the Pennsylvanian coal mines of 1876, a group of Irish immigrant workers begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment.

In a lot of ways, this film feels older than it is. There’s just something about the plotting and the pacing that’s dated, which is a shame, because it’s not a bad movie. Sean Connery is particularly good in it, and I think it really is trying to tell an interesting story. Unfortunately, it falls flat more often than it doesn’t. Still, it’s not a bad movie exactly, and there are elements that make it a fairly interesting watch. 6.5/10.