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Spotlight on the 1951 “M”: A Remake Worth Watching

Published November 15, 2020November 16, 2020 by Privilege Of Legends in film noir, hollywood blacklist, hollywood remakes, joseph losey films

Enterprise Studios: The Story of a Short-lived Independent Utopia

Published October 24, 2019October 24, 2019 by Privilege Of Legends in 40's film, 50's film, academy awards, Enterprise studios, hollywood blacklist, independent hollywood, john garfield, Uncategorized

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Crime and Crane

Published February 22, 2019May 7, 2019 by Privilege Of Legends in crane wilbur, crime fiction, crime film, eagle-lion films, film essay, film genre, film noir, film posters, film production code, film studies, film theory, john alton, organised crime, postwar films, propaganda films, pulp crime fiction, Uncategorized

Film Censorship & Pre-Code Hollywood

Published August 12, 2018August 16, 2018 by Privilege Of Legends in 30's films, al capone, barbara stanwyck, british board of film censors, charles laughton, crime fiction, crime film, edward g. robinson, ernst lubitsch, fatty arbuckle scandal, femme fatale, film censorship, film production code, gangster films, george raft, h.g wells, hays code, hollywood court cases, horror, island of lost souls, james cagney, jean harlow, joan crawford, john dillinger, lewis milestone, little caesar, mccarthyism, murders in the zoo, organised crime, paul muni, pre-code hollywood, pre-code horror, privilege of legends, pulp crime, pulp crime fiction, realism in film, red-headed woman, scarface, science fiction, silent films, sonny and his pen, sonny syah, stock market collapse 1929, the great depression, the island of dr. moreau, the jazz age, the public enemy, tod browning, Uncategorized, w. somerset maugham, walter huston, warner brothers, william desmond taylor, william hays, william wellman

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Hollywood And The Nuclear Age

Published September 2, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 50's film, 60's film, 80's film, academy awards, AFTRS, alex cox, anti-war film, art in film, auteurs, bfi, black comedy, cinematography, classic film, cold war, crime fiction, directing, film art, film essay, film genre, film noir, film production, filmmaking, hard boiled, london film, mickey spillane, peter sellers, politics, privilege of legends, pulp crime fiction, ralph meeker, robert aldrich, satire, science fiction, shooting technique, sonny syah, stanley kubrick

Keep On Truckin’

Published June 24, 2015January 9, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in 50's film, acting, anthony quinn, auteurs, bfi, blog essay, classic film, clouzot, creative writing, cult film, dassin, directing, fellini, film art, film blog, film noir, film production, film studies, film theory, french cinema, giulietta masina, italian neo-realism, lee j cobb, mccarthyism, privilege of legends, richard conte, screenwriting, sonny syah, tennessee williams

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The Long Take

Published October 3, 2014January 10, 2017 by Privilege Of Legends in auteurs, cinematography, classic film, creative writing, directing, directors, editing, film blog, film noir, filmmaking, long takes, privilege of legends, screenwriting, shooting technique, sonny syah

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