Black Widow (Fox Film Noir)
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Actor: Harry Carter, Mabel Albertson, Peggy Ann Garner, Reginald Gardiner, Richard H. CuttingBrand: BLACK WIDOW
Cinematographer: Charles G. Clarke
Composer: Leigh Harline
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Black Widow (Fox Film Noir)
Movie Review: '"50'S MURDER MYSTERY IN CINAMASCOPE,STEREO&COLOR"
Summary: 5 Stars
AN ALL STAR CAST WITH A CARDBOARD SKYLINE BACKGROUND VIEW FROM THIS RITZY APARTMENT
BUILDING WHERE SOME OF THE CHARACTERS RESIDE+SOME OUTDOOR SHOTS. VAN HEFLIN
IS BLAMED FOR A MURDER HE DID NOT COMMIT .
LOTS OF SUSPECTS,AND LOTS OF FUN FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE AND OLD FASHION MYSTERY.
IT'S MADE FOR REPEATED VIEWING,EVEN THOUGH BY THEN YOU KNOW WHO THE KILLER
IS . IT'S MOVIE COMFORT FOOD. MORE MYSTERY THAN NOIR.( PEGGY ANN GARNER'S
WAIST IS THE TINIEST I'VE EVER SEEN.) PS;EXTRA'S;FILMOGRAPHY;GENE TURNEY,GINGER
ROGERS +MORE.
Summary of Black Widow (Fox Film Noir)
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 03/11/2008 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: NrGinger Rogers steals the show as a selfish, snide Broadway superstar in Nunnally Johnson's Black Widow, preening, snooping, gossiping, and bestowing air kisses in equal abundance. This late-era (1954) color film noir is as delicious for its fabulous performances as for its dishy look at showbiz, fangs and all. Think of it as All About Eve with murder. Rogers is Carlotta Marin, a grande dame of the thea-tah, married, it would seem happily, to Brian Mullen (Reginald Gardiner). Discussing friends whose marriage is threatened by an alleged affair, Brian assures Lottie they wouldn't face such disgrace. "After all," he deadpans, "we have an understanding." "What kind of understanding?" Lottie asks warily. "The understanding that if you catch me with another woman, you'll break my neck." The two collapse in laughter. Yet at the heart of Black Widow is something grim, the death of a young, ambitious writer named Nancy (Peggy Ann Garner), who gloms onto a theater producer (Van Hefflin), who's in love with his wife, Iris (Gene Tierney, heartbreakingly lovely). Nancy's death appears to be self-inflicted, and yet as each piece of evidence--a weird suicide note, a threatening letter received in the mail--piles up, things begin to point to murder.
The cast is excellent, especially delivering the great backbiting dialogue. And the plot contains more twists than Lombard Street in San Francisco, and will keep viewers guessing, and riveted, to the end. Extras include a great commentary by Alan K. Rode, an expert in film noir, as well as two wonderful featurettes, on the careers of Ginger Rogers and Gene Tierney respectively. Robert Osbourne offers his always insightful thoughts on the roles of Rogers, especially, as she sought to carve out a career after being paired with Fred Astaire. These solo steps are not to be missed.--A.T. Hurley
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