RichardConte &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:RichardConte @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:32:08 +0200 The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k396 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 15/div div class="occasion" 1946/div div class="img" The Big Combo (1955)/div div class="caption" A man's hand holds up a photo negative of a black-and-white picture, showing two men and a woman, and the date 11-15-46 underneath. DP: John Alton./div div class="txt" "I'm trying to run an impersonal business. Killing is very personal. Once it gets started, it's hard to stop." ### – Mr. Brown\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #November #JosephHLewis #CornelWilde #RichardConte #BrianDonlevy #JeanWallace #RobertMiddleton #LeeVanCleef #EarlHolliman #DavidRaksin #JohnAlton #crime #drama #FilmNoir #mystery #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)

Nov

15

1946

The Big Combo (1955)

A man's hand holds up a photo negative of a black-and-white picture, showing two men and a woman, and the date 11-15-46 underneath. DP: John Alton.

“I'm trying to run an impersonal business. Killing is very personal. Once it gets started, it's hard to stop.”

– Mr. Brown

#FilmDuJour #November #JosephHLewis #CornelWilde #RichardConte #BrianDonlevy #JeanWallace #RobertMiddleton #LeeVanCleef #EarlHolliman #DavidRaksin #JohnAlton #crime #drama #FilmNoir #mystery #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-k396 Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0100 The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2q45 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" spaghetti/div div class="img" The Big Combo (1955)/div div class="caption" A man in a bathrobe (Ted de Corsia) lifts undrained, slightly overcooked spaghetti from a white enamel pan onto a plate. The overcookedness may be caused by this movie's horrible horrible AI "restoration". DP: John Alton./div div class="txt" "I couldn't swallow any more salami." ### – Mingo\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #spaghetti #JosephHLewis #CornelWilde #RichardConte #BrianDonlevy #JeanWallace #RobertMiddleton #LeeVanCleef #TedDeCorsia #EarlHolliman #DavidRaksin #JohnAlton #crime #drama #FilmNoir #mystery #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)

Jun

24

spaghetti

The Big Combo (1955)

A man in a bathrobe (Ted de Corsia) lifts undrained, slightly overcooked spaghetti from a white enamel pan onto a plate. The overcookedness may be caused by this movie's horrible horrible AI “restoration”. DP: John Alton.

“I couldn't swallow any more salami.”

– Mingo

#FilmDinner #spaghetti #JosephHLewis #CornelWilde #RichardConte #BrianDonlevy #JeanWallace #RobertMiddleton #LeeVanCleef #TedDeCorsia #EarlHolliman #DavidRaksin #JohnAlton #crime #drama #FilmNoir #mystery #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2q45 Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:25:03 +0200 The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, 1953) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-blue-gardenia-1953 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, 1953)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" International Hangover Day/div div class="img" The Blue Gardenia (1953)/div div class="caption" Norah (Anne Baxter) and Harry (Raymond Burr) sharing a meal – and a drink (or two) – at the Blue Gardenia Club. DP: Nicholas Musuraca./div div class="txt" After a horrible birthday alone followed by a lovely night out, Norah wakes up with a terrible hangover and a hunch of being a murderess. "How about you slip into something more comfortable, like a few drinks and some Chinese food?" ### – Harry\ The Blue Gardenia is Lang's hard-bitten take on the gruesome Black Dahlia murder case and part of his newspaper noir trilogy together with While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, both from 1956./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalHangoverDay #FritzLang #VeraCaspary #AnneBaxter #RichardConte #AnnSothern #RaymondBurr #NatKingCole #RaoulKraushaar #DaveKahn #NicholasMusuraca #BookAdaptation #birthday #crime #drama #mystery #hangover #PearlDriver #cocktails #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, 1953)

Aug

5

International Hangover Day

The Blue Gardenia (1953)

Norah (Anne Baxter) and Harry (Raymond Burr) sharing a meal – and a drink (or two) – at the Blue Gardenia Club. DP: Nicholas Musuraca.

After a horrible birthday alone followed by a lovely night out, Norah wakes up with a terrible hangover and a hunch of being a murderess.

“How about you slip into something more comfortable, like a few drinks and some Chinese food?”

– Harry

The Blue Gardenia is Lang's hard-bitten take on the gruesome Black Dahlia murder case and part of his newspaper noir trilogy together with While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, both from 1956.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #InternationalHangoverDay #FritzLang #VeraCaspary #AnneBaxter #RichardConte #AnnSothern #RaymondBurr #NatKingCole #RaoulKraushaar #DaveKahn #NicholasMusuraca #BookAdaptation #birthday #crime #drama #mystery #hangover #PearlDriver #cocktails #NewspaperNoirTrilogy #FilmNoir #USA #1950s ★★★½

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