My fave is 1961's "A Raisin in the Sun." Others include "Imitation of Life" (1934); "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather" (1943); "Home of the Brave" and "Pinky" (1949); "No Way Out" (1950); "Cry the Beloved Country" (1951); "Member of the Wedding" and "Lydia Bailey" (1952); "Bright Road" (1953); and "Carmen Jones" (1954); "Something of Value" and "Island in the Sun" (1957); "The Defiant Ones," "Anna Lucasta" and "St. Louis Blues" (1958); "Porgy and Bess," "Odds Against Tomorrow" and "The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (1959); "Pressure Point" (1962); "Purlie Victorious" (1963) and "Nothing But a Man"; and "One Potato, Two Potato" (1964). Others include "Imitation of Life" (1934); "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather" (1943); "Home of the Brave" and "Pinky" (1949); "No Way Out" (19...
Memorable deaths include Burt Lancaster blasted by hit men in Ernest Hemingway's short-story-turned-noir classic "The Killers" (1946); Sterling Hayden amidst grazing horses in John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950); and Gregory Peck ambushed by a young hothead in "The Gunfighter" (also 1950); Robert Walker thrown from a speeding merry-go-round in Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951); Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan blown sky-high in 1959's "Odds Against Tomorrow"; and mortally wounded Donald Sutherland collapsing in a rowboat in 1981's riveting "Eye of the Needle. In his salad days, [Marlon Brando]-cinema's first "method actor" - was badly beaten in "The Wild One" and in his Oscar-winning "On the Waterfront" (both 1954), "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961) and "The Chase" and "The A...
Along with Sidney Poitier and William Attaway (a writer and the novelist of "Let Me Breathe Thunder," who went on to be first Black screenwriter for film and TV) he opened "a hamburger joint" in the Village, which was located "down the street from the Village Vanguard." This provided [Harry Belafonte] with the opportunity to hear and learn traditional songs "of the Irish, the Jews as well as Spirituals" from singers like Woodie Guthrie and Leadbelly. Belafonte subsequently decided to audition at the Vanguard, where he got a job for 2 weeks that turned into a 22-week gig. RCA soon signed the singer. However, when he wanted to record his second album, regional songs of the Caribbean, he was told that these songs "had no meaning to America." Belafonte went on to record "Calypso," in 1956, ...
... films include "Island in the Sun" (1957), "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959), "Buck and the Preacher" ...
Highlights of the April program included the opening film of the series, "Mickey One" (1965), directed by Arthur Penn, music by Eddie Sauter, with saxophone solos by Stan Getz; "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), with Alex North's Academy Award-nominated score (which is "generally credited with opening up jazz scoring to a new generation of composers including Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Elmer Bernstein and Henry Mancini"); "Paris Blues" (1961), directed by Martin Ritt, music by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn; and "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959), directed by Robert Wise, with music by John Lewis and starring the great Harry Belafonte, Ed Begley and Robert Ryan. The May series began with the always-fascinating "Dangerous Liaisons" (1960), which continues to resonate uniquely for its ...
His movie career resumed by the late 1950s. He had roles in films including "Odds Against Tomorrow," "Wild River," "The Sting" and "Witness" in a career that lasted into the 1990s. In all, he appeared in more than 20 films.
HB: Some people loved it, obviously. A lot of people didn't because they felt it wasn't the way Black people should look on the screen. Having this race conflict on the screen around a caper plot was for them quite alien. (Being made) conscious about social inequities was a harsh pill for them to swallow because they were not only being entertained, they were also being brought to the table of conscience. Most go to the movies to escape from social truth; you go to the movies to live in the world of the abstract, and great films don't do that. Great films are quite the contrary. They make you think, they stimulate you. So that's what we did, and since no Black producer had existed up until that moment, and nobody was setting out to make a "theme" picture that was rooted in the black exp...
...His film Odds Against Tomorrow, which he produced and had a star...
ISTANBUL, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- AllWorld Network released Now (www.allworldlive.com) a strategy for immediate action to unleash growth, creativity and jobs in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA), and beyond on the eve of the 2nd Global Summit on Entrepreneurship taking place in Istanbul, Turkey (December 3- 6). Now focuses on the AllWorld Arabia Fast Growth 500, a group of 500 innovative private companies that will be announced tomorrow during the Global Summit on Entrepreneurship in Istanbul, Turkey. The Arabia500 are succeeding against the odds of a global recession, growing an average of 40 percent yearly. They invest in education and training, are fiscally sound, well-managed and in tune with the global environment. By contrast, Now exposes the forces of inefficien...
Noir is a lot of things: a dark place, a darker mood, an even darker style. It's the sense that something's going to go wrong and that you might be responsible for it. Noir is about people trying to get away with stuff they shouldn't get away with -- though sometimes you want them to. It's a film genre that has picked up steam over the past decade or so, and that's one reason Jerry Barron and Brent Kliewer present Summer in the Dark, Santa Fe's annual film-noir festival. For the past 10 years, the fest has taken place in July, but this year the weeklong event begins on Friday, Sept. 19 (which is still three days before the end of summer, for the record).
... with The Maltese Falcon and ending with Odds Against Tomorrow. But neo-noir, British noir, Euro...
The Brink's Job" (1978) An authentic, hilarious recounting of the famous 1950 break-in of the Boston armored car company, once called the crime of the century. "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (1973) Robert Mitchum does some of his best work in the title role as an everyman loser who secures guns for a gang of vicious bank robbers in a Boston suburb.
...Simply not to be missed. Odds Against Tomorrow' (1959) Harry Belafonte and Rober...
With its traits of postwar pessimism, undisguised social/sexual themes, psychological candor, political progressivism and that frequent shadow-draped nightmare visual style derived from the classics of German Expressionism, film noir is a genre that has always been especially attractive to Jewish filmmakers - from Billy Wilder ("Double Indemnity"), Otto Preminger ("Laura"), Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca", "Mildred Pierce"), Max Ophuls ("Caught"), Joseph Mankiewicz ("Somewhere in the Night"), Edgar Ulmer ("Detour") and writer Ben Hecht ("Kiss of Death", "Spellbound"), to Stanley Kubrick ("The Killing^), Roman Polanski ("Repulsion", "Cul de Sac") and the Coen Brothers ("Blood Simple", "The Man Who Wasn't There").
...'s moody, jazzy 1959 American heist thriller "Odds Against Tbmorrow", which was one of Melville's thr..."Odds Against Tomorrow", based on a novel by popular 1950s American suspe...
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