Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on February 19, 2008 at 21:56:47

In Reply to: RE: Robert Wise's, "Born to Kill" stars the truly terrifying posted by tinear on February 19, 2008 at 14:00:28

...which is a pretty good thing, no? Tierney is freakey in this role.

Robert Wise isa bit underrated these days. Respected, but not hip. Yet the man who made The Sound Of Music also made this tense thriller plus another fine noir, The Set Up, starring Robert Ryan in one of the best boxing pictures ever. The House On Telegraph Hill is another good one from this era, often classified as a noir, although it seems more a mystery/thriller to me.

Wise made movies in almost every genre: sci-fi, thrillers, war movies, dramas, noirs, musicals. He edited The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Citizen Kane, and he did his best to salvage the trainwreck that became The Magnificent Ambersons. He was always very much a Hollywood director but he madew many intelleigent, finely crafted films.

Credits include The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Andromeda Strain, The Sand Pebbles, West Side Story, The Haunting (one of the best ghost movies ever), Somebody Up There Likes Me (starring a young, vibrant Paul newman), Executive Suite and others I can't quite recall.

I don't hold Julie Andrew's haircut in Sound of Music against him.

BTW, have you delved into the Fox boxed noirs yet? TCM has a bunch of noirs coming up for broadcast in March and April. I think.