Andrew Morton directed the colorful adventure, The Wild North, starring macho actor Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, and Cyd Charisse in a dramatic role as a nameless Indian.
Cannes Film Fest 1949: Year 3–(No Festival in 1948), Third Man Top Prize, Hollywood Movies and Actors Dominate; Film Noir Runs Supreme
April 11, 2022 by
The festival opened with L’Arroseur Arrosé by Louis Lumière, an 1895 French short-film, paying tribute to cinema’s first comedy.
Fantastic Beasts 3: Flop in China
April 11, 2022 by
Warner’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore cruised to an easy win during its opening weekend in China, but the gross was much smaller than usual.
Cannes Film Fest 1947: Year 2–Disney’s Dumbo Wins Major Award; American Film Noir Rules (Crossfire, Possessed, Strange Love of Martha Iver)
April 10, 2022 by
In the second edition, awards were divided by genre. Thus Minnelli’s Ziegfeld Follies (rather mediocre compilation) won Best Musical Comedy and Dmytryk’s Oscar nominated message noir (about anti-Semitism) Crossfire received the Best Social Film.
Ivy (1947): Sam Wood’s Crime Film Noir, Starring Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall Richard Ney (Cannes Film Fest 1947)
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Sam Wood directed Ivy, a crime film noir written by Charles Bennett, based on Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes’s 1927 novel, The Story of Ivy.
