Sunday, May 19, 2013

DEATH, DECEPTION AND JUST PLAIN BAD GUYS

MURDER, INC. 1960
this is the first original story of how the syndicate
 
runs and controls every racket and vice in the nation
 
based on the bullet-riddled pages of the best seller
 
by former NYC assistant district attorney burton turkus
 
the hoods, the sleazy babes, the blond bombshells
 
and the wanton gunmen who accounted for an estimated
 
1000 previously unsolved murders in new york
 
and all were executed by murder, incorporated
 
this was peter falk's silver screen debut
 
and it was magnetic while being electrifying
 
- a two bit hood who cleaned up nice and then shot first
 
in the best scene from almost any movie - he screams
 
'what you get your hands on ya take, ya take and ya take'
 
the star of this classic, stuart whitman introduced the film

and took questions afterward

watching an old whitman watching himself as a younger man

in a movie he made 53 years ago

is what makes this film festival so intriguing thus successful

Arthur Lyons FilmNoir Festival is in its 13th season and
 
better than ever and continues until today's 4pm finish
 
the festival is held in one convenient location in beautiful
 
palm springs at the Camelot Theater