All Blog Posts Tagged 'noir' (1)

I watched a good Western on the Encore Channel this weekend, one of the interesting, rare examples of the genre with film noir elements. Directed by Andre de Toth, who specialized in Western and crime films, the movie features Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake as the leads. While the plot could be characterized as the standard Western land-grab by an unscrupulous, evil rancher, the usually clear moral divide is considerably muddied by the presence of Lake (de Toth's wife at the time) who uses her… Continue