Welcome back
to this bi-monthly (and arguably bi-sexual) column about my second-hand smut
findings (both films and literature). I review treasures (or trash, depending
on how you look at it) and I provide you with high resolution scans of their
covers. The reviews are kept short in order to have as many as possible each
time.
I hope you
enjoy as much as I do!
A man [Edmond
O'Brien from 1984 (1956)] is walking at a police station,
during the fabulous credit sequence. He finds the captain and says that he has
been murdered. The rest of the movie is a series of flashbacks that will let us
know how did this happen. The protagonist was poisoned while he was partying,
but even though we know he’s about to die (the doctors say he could live up to
two weeks at the most) the film [directed by Rudolph Maté,
cinematographer of La passion de Jeanne
d'Arc (1928)] is
still very interesting, because everybody in it seems to know more than he or
she would like to admit (it is sort of an interesting whodunit). The story is
very clever and I demand a remake.
This PAL DVD was released here through a
newspaper and I bought it at a secondhand store for 1 euro, so I wasn’t
expecting much, but still the copy’s quality was shit. Is it me or every low
budget black & white flick from this era lacks proper restoration?