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Sometime in the mid to late sixties, Doris Day got saddled with the “Oldest Living Virgin” label, something which seemed somewhat a propos considering her squeaky clean, almost asexual screen persona. Day was always the girl next door, even when she traversed in unusual territory like Julie or the 1956 Hitchcock remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much. With her slightly raspy voice and inherently sweet disposition, Day was the Eisenhower Era’s answer to Marilyn Monroe, another stunningly beautiful blonde that you wouldn’t be worried about bringing home to meet Mom. This generic labeling of Day often underestimates her real skill as an actress. She was never showy, and she frankly never really was cast in anything totally demanding, but she always managed to perfectly capture the flavor of whatever film she was in, whether that was the growing hysteria of the mother in the Hitchcock opus or, perhaps more memorably, her lighter than air comedy pairings with the likes of Rock Hudson and James Garner in the late fifties and early sixties. Day excelled at these fluffy comedy films, and the fact is she is sexy in them, in her own down home, unpretentious way. Day probably had no finer showcase in this genre than the film that rather improbably brought her her only Oscar nomination for Best Actress, the fondly remembered 1959 Ross Hunter quasi-farce Pillow Talk. Day had begun her film career in some middling musicals which hoped to capitalize on her immense popularity as a vocalist, but by the mid-fifties she had started stretching out, at least a little, including in what might arguably called her finest performance (and one perhaps more deserving of Academy recognition than Pillow Talk), that of Ruth Etting in the biopic Love Me or Leave Me (which did receive an Oscar nomination for Day’s frequent Columbia records music director, Percy Faith, who arranged the music for the film). But the late fifties saw Day shift almost exclusively to breezy comedy fare, and it seemed to suit her to a tee, at least based upon the then stellar box office receipts of Pillow Talk, a film which became something of a pop cultural sensation when it was released in 1959.

Pillow Talk.1959.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Subtitles:English, Spanish, French, Russian

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A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife’s terminal cancer.

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I find it interesting that An Act of Murder, The Third Man (Carol Reed), Obsession (Edward Dmytryk), The Set-Up (Robert Wise), Act of Violence (Fred Zinneman), House of Strangers (Joseph Mankiewicz) and Without Honor (Irving Pichel) were all in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1949 – about one quarter of the competition were films that show up these days on classic film noir lists.

Though I wouldn’t really call An Act of Murder a noir at all — it’s really a social issues film, and a one-note one at that. Director Michael Gordon has some fun with a couple of scenes, especially with a funhouse maze of mirrors, and his more showy scenes are what stood out for me. But the central ethical question in the film is not going to be interesting for contemporary audiences. The film also attempts to make a larger but painfully obvious point about the distinction between morality and legality, justice and the law. No great insight there.

I really like two of Michael Gordon’s films from around the time he made this one – The Web (1947) and The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) – and was really looking forward to this. But it’s very missable.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/59F76F8BE1A271C/An.Act.of.Murder.1948.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

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Subtitles:English

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When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she “borrows” David’s expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.

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https://nitro.download/view/0E6E9D49ECE548E/The_Lady_Gambles_(1949)_–_Michael_Gordon.mkv

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Subtitles:English, Russian (muxed)

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