135: Call It A Noirlodrama

About this episode

The episode discusses a moody and dark film directed by Frank Borzage, focusing on themes of crime and suspicion.

The son of a man convicted of murder faces bullying, then suspicion when he is accused of a crime, too. Directed by Frank Borzage, the film is moody, dark and a bit gothic. Dane Clark and Gail Russell are your leads, with a late-film appearance by Ethel Barrymore. And you’ll hate young Lloyd Bridges. Noir czar Eddie Muller calls Borzage ‘relentlessly romantic,” which is a huge contrast to this film, which Muller ranks it among his top 25 noir films....

Topics covered

• noir
• film
• bullying
• suspicion
• gothic

Keywords

• Dane Clark
• Gail Russell
• Ethel Barrymore
• Lloyd Bridges
• Eddie Muller

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