Jimmy Cagney in White Heat

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:03 pm

watched this last night for the first time in probably 10 years. there's a "movie poster" for it in V's crib in V for Vendetta....and I figured it wasn't an accident. and there's a connection. but, what a great gangster flick!

that and Huston's Asphalt Jungle (which i also watched last night) are fantastic film noir/gangster films.

Funkywhiteboy · Post by **Funkywhiteboy** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:47 am

RACK you for paying that much attention to a movie! :P

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:51 pm

there''s some cool noCal shots in the film noir "Out of the Past" with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas. up near Tahoe and such.

i'd also recommend the Big Combo and Kiss Me Deadly (which is a dark, grimy spillane number, that clearly influenced some of Pulp Fiction)....

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:53 pm

Toddowen wrote:

I just absolutely love this film....can't praise it enough.

i've seen it again since my original post, it's just awesome.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:31 pm

I don't know about Mitchum...the movie version of the Big Sleep is pretty bad.

check out Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows....with the Miles Davis soundtrack. second only to Oliver Nelson's score for Last Tango in Paris as a "cool" jazz soundtrack.