When was the last time I posted a faux ‘Noir Alley’? Was it a year ago, or was it yesterday? I don’t remember! You’ll have to tell me, as I’m suffering from a sudden case of amnesia, like the protagonist in The Crooked Way.
Attacking a Partisan Hack
Paul Krugman is more direct than David Wessel in his criticism of Kevin Warsh, Trump’s “sock puppet” nominee for Fed chairman.
Cheap Man’s Noir
Continuing to lack Turner Classic Movies, for the previously explained reasons, I’ll put together another faux ‘Noir Alley’ installment with Eddie Muller. This time it’s The Killers, with Burt Lancaster’s screen debut. The outstanding cinematography was by Elwood Bredell.
Extra Added Attraction! Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror. Photographed by Bredell four years before The Killers, the results are equally impressive.
Fed Head
Another nominee on Capitol Hill, playing to an audience of one, named Donald. This time it was Kevin Warsh, sitting in front of the Senate Banking Committee.
Warsh thinks the Federal Reserve Bank needs reform, and not in returning to tighter banking regulation, as Elizabeth Warren rightly wants. His idea of reform will likely be whatever Donald wants.
Get High With Speed
Let’s go for a ride in Speed Racer’s Mach 5, hiding in the trunk with Spritle and Chim-Chim.
The series as it was originally presented in Japan.
Super Kissing Cousins
With Krypton and its laws gone, Superman seemed to be suggesting the taboo idea to Supergirl more than he was rejecting it.
