teddecorsia &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:teddecorsia @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:07:29 +0200 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-lady-from-shanghai-1947 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Lady from Shanghai (1947)/div div class="caption" Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr../div div class="txt" "You need more than luck in Shanghai." ### – Elsa Bannister /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #OrsonWelles #SherwoodKing #RitaHayworth #EverettSloane #TedDeCorsia #WilliamCastle #HeinzRoemheld #CharlesLawtonJr #RudolphMaté #JosephWalker #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #mirrors #FilmNoir #Chinatown #USA #1940s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

Aug

9

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) and husband Arthur Bannister (Everett Sloane) in the dizzying modernist finale. DP: Charles Lawton Jr..

“You need more than luck in Shanghai.”

– Elsa Bannister

#FilmDuJour #August #OrsonWelles #SherwoodKing #RitaHayworth #EverettSloane #TedDeCorsia #WilliamCastle #HeinzRoemheld #CharlesLawtonJr #RudolphMaté #JosephWalker #BookAdaptation #drama #romance #mirrors #FilmNoir #Chinatown #USA #1940s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-lady-from-shanghai-1947 Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200 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 Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-naked-city-1948-1kq1 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 10/div div class="occasion" Popsicles/div div class="img" The Naked City (1948)/div div class="caption" A New York precinct. Across the street an ice cream vendor. Several kids are standing around the man's cart while one of them – a chunky monkey – leans against the nearest fire hydrant. A scruffy man in fedora walks past holding a Popsicle. DP: William H. Daniels; still photographers: Bert Anderson & Arthur "Weegee" Fellig./div div class="txt" "Another day, another ball of fire rising in the summer sky. The city is quiet now, but it will soon be pounding with activity. This time yesterday, Jean Dexter was just another pretty girl, but now she's the marmalade on 10,000 pieces of toast." ### – narrator\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #Popsicles #IceCream #JulesDassin #BarryFitzgerald #HowardDuff #TedDeCorsia #DorothyHart #WilliamHDaniels #BertAnderson #ArthurWeegeeFellig #Weegee #crime #drama #thriller #NewYork #USA #1940s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948)

Feb

10

Popsicles

The Naked City (1948)

A New York precinct. Across the street an ice cream vendor. Several kids are standing around the man's cart while one of them – a chunky monkey – leans against the nearest fire hydrant. A scruffy man in fedora walks past holding a Popsicle. DP: William H. Daniels; still photographers: Bert Anderson & Arthur “Weegee” Fellig.

“Another day, another ball of fire rising in the summer sky. The city is quiet now, but it will soon be pounding with activity. This time yesterday, Jean Dexter was just another pretty girl, but now she's the marmalade on 10,000 pieces of toast.”

– narrator

#FilmDinner #Popsicles #IceCream #JulesDassin #BarryFitzgerald #HowardDuff #TedDeCorsia #DorothyHart #WilliamHDaniels #BertAnderson #ArthurWeegeeFellig #Weegee #crime #drama #thriller #NewYork #USA #1940s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-naked-city-1948-1kq1 Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:49:05 +0100 Crime Wave [The City Is Dark] (André De Toth, 1953) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/crime-wave-1953 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Crime Wave [The City Is Dark] (André De Toth, 1953)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" dinner for two/div div class="img" Crime Wave (1953)/div div class="caption" Ellen Lacey (Phyllis Kirk) serving a bunch of punks (Bronson (2nd from the left, and Ted de Corsia (right) the food she prepared for herself and her husband Steve (Gene Nelson). DP: Bert Glennon./div div class="txt" "You know, it isn't what a man wants to do, Lacey, but what he has to do. Now take me - I love to smoke cigarettes, but the doctors say I can't have them. So what do I do? I chew toothpicks, tons of them." ### – Det. Lt. Sims\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #AndréDeToth #SterlingHayden #PhyllisKirk #GeneNelson #TedDeCorsia #CharlesBronson #DavidButtolph #BertGlennon #FilmNoir #crime #heist #drama #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Crime Wave [The City Is Dark] (André De Toth, 1953)

Jan

29

dinner for two

Crime Wave (1953)

Ellen Lacey (Phyllis Kirk) serving a bunch of punks (Bronson (2nd from the left, and Ted de Corsia (right) the food she prepared for herself and her husband Steve (Gene Nelson). DP: Bert Glennon.

“You know, it isn't what a man wants to do, Lacey, but what he has to do. Now take me – I love to smoke cigarettes, but the doctors say I can't have them. So what do I do? I chew toothpicks, tons of them.”

– Det. Lt. Sims

#FilmDinner #AndréDeToth #SterlingHayden #PhyllisKirk #GeneNelson #TedDeCorsia #CharlesBronson #DavidButtolph #BertGlennon #FilmNoir #crime #heist #drama #USA #1950s ★★★½

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