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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/BENEATH and get on your way to being your best self. EPISODE 47 - “Laird Cregar (Star of the Month) ” - 08/05/2024 With his sad, dark eyes, hulking frame, and aristocratic speech, actor LAIRD CREGAR often played the complex villain tortured by a sinister past or an unrequited love that turns into an obsession. No one played characters with suppressed anguish, a tortured soul, or darkness lingering beneath the surface better than he did. While he only made 16 films in a period of five years, he is unforgettable. His desire to be thin was his achilles heel that turned tragic. This week join us as we take a deep dive into the short life and career of this amazing actor.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy (2017), by Gregory William Mank; “Atlas With A Grin,” by Fredda Dudley, December 1941, Screenland magazine; “Setbacks To Fame,” by Dorothy B.Haas, June 1942, Silver Screen magazine; “Bold, Bad, (Bluffing) Cregar,” by Barbara Berch, January 1945, Screenland magazine; “Ripping Tales: Laird Cregar: The Forgotten Ripper,” by Kevin G. Shimick, Fall 1991, Scarlett Street; “Queers In History: Laird Cregar,” December 9, 2012, by Elisa Rolle, livejournal.com; “Heavy: The Life and Films of Laird Cregar,” October 7, 2013, by Jennifer Garland, Virtual Virago; IMDBPro.com; Wikipedia.com; Movies Mentioned:  I Wake Up Screaming (1941), starring Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, and Laird Cregar; The Lodger (1944), starring Merle Oberon and Laird Cregar; Charley's Aunt (1941), starring Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, and Laird Cregar; Rings On Her Fingers (1942), starring Gene Tierney, Henry Fonda, Laird Cregar, and Spring Byington; Hudson Bay (1940), starring Gene Tierney, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, and Laird Cregar; Blood and Sand (1940), starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Laird Cregar; This Gun For Hire (1942), starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, and Laird Cregar; Ten Gentlemen From West Point (1942), starring George Montgomery, Maureen O'Hara, and Laird Cregar; The Black Swan (1942), starring Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, and Laird Cregar; Heaven Can Wait (1943), starring Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main Spring Byington, and Laird Cregar; Hello Frisco, Hello (1943), starring Alice Faye, John Payne, Lynn Bari, and Laird Cregar; Hangover Square (1945), starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, and George Sanders; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us this week on Vintage Classic Radio for our "Sunday Night Playhouse" feature, as we revisit a captivating performance from the archives of "Lux Radio Theatre." This week, we present "This Gun For Hire," originally broadcast on January 25, 1943. Dive into the gripping world of film noir with this radio adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, showcasing the dark tale of Phillip Raven, a ruthless assassin with a conscience, played by the iconic Alan Ladd. This drama was based on a film that put Ladd on the map. Alongside him, Joan Blondell stars as Ellen Graham. The plot centers on Raven, a hitman seeking vengeance after being betrayed by his employers. He crosses paths with Ellen Graham, a nightclub singer secretly working as a spy to uncover a dangerous espionage ring. Other in the cast include Laird Cregar, Jack LaRue, Paula Winslowe, Joe Latham, Vicki Lang, Jeff Corey, W.R. Burnett and Arthur Q. Bryan. Tune in to experience the suspense and shadowy intrigue of "This Gun For Hire," brought to life by some of Hollywood's legendary stars in one of radio's most cherished formats.

The Asphalt Jungle came out of MGM (yeah, MGM. Not exactly a wonderful musical as we shall see) in 1950, the classic era of film noir in the US. But Jungle might also be pegged with a label that someone walking down the street would now recognize: it's a heist film. The story comes from the wonderful author of crime, W. R. Burnett, and his 1949 novel. Burnett came up the hard way, working as a night clerk in a hotel while learning writing, exposing him to all sorts of characters and situations, seedy or not. His first novel, Little Caesar, established the gangster story in America, followed quickly by the film adaptation, starring Edward G. Robinson. Burnett made a habit of writing about a novel per year and rapidly turning around and selling the rights to Hollywood, sometimes writing the screenplay himself. He came up with the novels or screenplays that formed the basis for such classics as Scarface, with Paul Muni, memorably remade with Pacino, High Sierra, with Bogart and Ida Lupino, King Of The Underworld, The Dark Command, This Gun For Hire, which made diminutive Alan Ladd a star, The Great Escape, and Ice Station Zebra. Burnett's novels were unusual, not for the protagonists' helpless fall into crime in the big dirty city, but a contrast with their desire for a simpler, rural, straight life, one which they seldom achieve. As we shall see in Jungle. email: David@thosewonderfulpeople.comWebsite and blog: www.thosewonderfulpeople.comIG: @thosewonderfulpeopleTwitter: @FilmsInTheDark

I veckans avsnitt av Filmskolan avhandlar vi Vittorio De Sicas italienska neorealistiska Cykeltjuven (Ladri di biciclette) från 1948 samt Carl Theodor Dreyers danska filmatisering av Hjalmar Söderbergs teaterpjäs Gertrud. Den filmen kom ut 1964. Dessutom rapporterar Måns om segmentet Storia di Caterina från italienska L'amore in Città från 1953. Andra filmer som omnämns i avsnittet är Happy Together, This Gun For Hire, Cocaine Bear och American Psycho. Kommentera avsnittet på Henkes filmblogg: Fripps Filmrevyer.

Welcome to It's A Wonderful Podcast!! A formative early Noir that, while having a bunch of the typical elements found in those movies, still feels stylistically fresh and unique on this week's main show as Morgan and Jeannine talk the first pairing of one the great 1940s Noir couples, Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake in Frank Tuttle's THIS GUN FOR HIRE (1942) also starring Robert Preston & Laird Cregar! A star-making role for Alan Ladd as the double crossed hired killer out for revenge in this entirely deceitful movie with its weak-willed cowards, immoral plotting and a casually sizzling charm from our leading two! Our Youtube Channel for Monday Madness on video, Watchalongs, Live Discussions & more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvACMX8jX1qQ5ClrGW53vow The It's A Wonderful Podcast Theme by David B. Music. Donate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ItsAWonderful1 Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItsAWonderful1 IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST STORE: https://its-a-wonderful-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Sub to the feed and download now on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Amazon Music & more and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!! Keep up with us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1 Morgan: https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDon Jeannine: https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean Keep being wonderful!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

I discuss my new episode schedule, recent gaming, Noir November, the Sci Fi Horror Contest, give the final installment of movies I watched for Scary Movie Month, and open the mail bag! Stay after the end theme song for spoilers on selected films listed below plus The Decent (2005) and Invaders From Mars (1953) Games mentioned: The Hateful Place, Corporia, ICRPG Vigilante City, Starships & Spacemen, FASA Star Trek Bill Barsh admits he just took the name Pacesetter Games for market recognition here: https://www.acaeum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?cache=1&p=145772&highlight=pacesetter&c=1#145772 Final batch of movies for Scary Movie Month: One Body Too Many (1944) The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) I Married a Witch (1942) Scanners (1981) Near Dark (1987) Cat People (1982) The Hunger (1983) Lord Shango (1975) Barbarian (2022) This week's Noir November movie: This Gun For Hire (1942) Shows on The Hateful Place: Bandit's Keep https://anchor.fm/daniel-norton/episodes/the-Hateful-place-OSR-October-e1pogmn/a-a8oeru3 Infiltrating the BrOSR https://anchor.fm/brosr/episodes/The-Hateful-Place-e19mbks and one by the author of the game https://anchor.fm/the-hateful-place Calls from Safer (Safer Fantasy Crafting) https://anchor.fm/sfc-saferfantasycrafting Karl (The GMologist Presents) https://anchor.fm/karl-rodriguez Joe (Hindsightless) https://anchor.fm/joe-richter9 Spencer aka Free Thrall (Keep Off The Borderlands) https://anchor.fm/free-thrall Joe (Raven God Games) https://ravengodgames.blogspot.com/ Come to DaveCon in Bloomington, MN on 13-16 April, 2023 https://www.davecon.net/ Proud member of the Grog-talk Empire having been bestowed the title of The Governor Most Radiant Grandeur Baron The Belligerent Hero of The Valley. https://www.grogcon.com/podcast/ You can contact me through my Google Voice Number for US callers: (540) 445-1145, using Speakpipe for international callers: https://www.speakpipe.com/NerdsRPGVarietyCast through the podcast's email at nerdsrpgvarietycast 'at' gmail 'dot' com or find me on a variety of discords including the Audio Dungeon Discord. Home page for this show https://nerdsrpgvarietycast.carrd.co/ Home page for Cerebrevore, the TTRPG panel discussion podcast https://cerebrevore.carrd.co/ Ray Otus did the coffee cup art for this show, you can find his blog at https://rayotus.carrd.co/ TJ Drennon provides music for my show. Colin Green at Spikepit https://anchor.fm/spikepit provided the "Have no fear" sound clip. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jason376/message

A deadly hitman with nothing to lose.... A beautiful nightclub entertainer who's on a secret mission... such is the plot of This Gun for Hire. Paul and Steve plumb the depths of this noir feast. Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, and Laird Cregar.

Graham Greene was a master of pulp fiction and a great “literary” novelist, and THIS GUN FOR HIRE (originally A GUN FOR SALE) is one of his sharpest. Can you really put up a wall between two aspects of your own talent? And what makes a man a murderer? Big questions. --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Twitter: @pendantweb Facebook: facebook.com/pendantaudio Tumblr: pendantaudio.tumblr.com YouTube: youtube.com/pendantproductions

Im aktuellen Spin-Off legen sich Heiko und Marco mit den “Raiders of Atlantis / ” (1983) an, einer berüchtigten mordlüsternen Gang, die nach einem nuklearen Zwischenfall vor der Küste Floridas nicht nur die Überlebenden in Angst und Schrecken versetzt, sondern mit der Macht des neu auferstandenen Atlantis sogar nach der Weltherrschaft greift. Italo-Endzeit-Action nach Marcos Geschmack! Danach schauen die beiden "Il Sorpasso / Verliebt in scharfe Kurven / The Easy Life" (1962), Dino Risis meisterliches Charakterdrama um zwei gegensätzliche Männer, deren Leben sich an an einem schicksalshaften Sommertag überkreuzen. Weitere Sichtungen, die in dieser Folge erwähnt werden: “Eternals”, “The Vampire Lovers”, “Light Sleeper”, “Don't Look Up”, “Zach Snyders Justice League”, “Island of Fishmen”, “High Crime”, “Scream”, “Ebola Syndrome”, “This Gun For Hire” und “Deja Vu”. Marco bei Letterboxd Alle Filme, die in dieser Folge erwähnt werden bei Letterboxd Mitmachen: Habt ihr Filmtipps, Kommentare oder Kritiken? Dann schick uns doch einen Audioclip, den wir in der nächsten Folge spielen können. Das geht ganz einfach auf http://www.anchor.fm/filmkammer Emails könnt ihr uns an filmkammer@buddelfisch.de senden Hört die Filmkammer auf Apple Podcasts, auf Spotify und anchor.fm Music from https://filmmusic.io "Inner Sanctum" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/filmkammer/message

For our 43rd episode, Austin goes solo to present a movie lesson about classic film noir. This installment covers nine noirs during America's involvement in WWII (1941-1945), including The Maltese Falcon (1941), This Gun For Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), The Seventh Victim (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), Ministry of Fear (1944), Laura (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944), and Murder, My Sweet (1944). All that and more on this episode of Medium Cool! Enjoy!0:00 - Introduction3:45 - Movie Lesson: WWII-Era Film Noir7:35 - The Maltese Falcon (1941)14:03 - This Gun For Hire (1942)19:57 - The Glass Key (1942)25:22 - The Seventh Victim (1943)33:06 - Double Indemnity (1944)47:24 - Ministry of Fear (1944)54:30 - Laura (1944)1:02:37 - The Woman in the Window (1944)1:11:25 - Murder, My Sweet (1944)1:21:50 - OutroPlease subscribe to Medium Cool: A Movie Podcast wherever you get your podcasts! Also, follow us on social media to get updates on all of the exciting things we have coming up!Facebook: www.Facebook.com/mediumcoolpodInstagram: MediumCoolPodTwitter: @MediumCoolPod / Host's Twitter: @AustinGliddenLetterboxd: www.letterboxd.com/AustinGliddenYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCloDyC7c094vxCxUDlc0-XQEmail: MediumCoolPod@gmail.com

Set post-Vietnam in a Big Apple at its filthiest, Martin Scorsese's Best Picture-nominated TAXI DRIVER is very much of its time, but the film's troubled anti-hero, "God's lonely man" Travis Bickle, is a figure we've become all too used to—on social media, at political rallies, or storming the U.S. Capitol. Adam and Josh continue the 7 From '76—Best Year Ever series with a 45th-anniversary review. Plus, Rd. 2 of Filmspotting Madness and the second film in the '40s Noir Marathon, THIS GUN FOR HIRE starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. 0:00 - Billboard 1:13 - 7 From '76—Best Year Ever: "Taxi Driver" Bernard Herrmann, "Thank God For The Rain" 47:57 - Next Week / Notes 55:53 - Filmspotting Madness, Rd. 2 1:17:44 - '40s Noir Marathon: "This Gun for Hire" 1:36:30 - Outro  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, I focus on the story behind the 1990 live compilation album NYC SKA LIVE.   It's hard to believe its been 30 years since it was recorded and released. The NYC SKA LIVE concert was originally organized by Moon Records so that the crop of bands then on the NYC ska scene could be filmed by director Joe Massot for New York City Ska Craze, a planned sequel to his 2 Tone era film Dance Craze released in 1981.  The show was taped live at the Cat Club, which was located on 13th Street and Fourth Avenue in Manhattan on March 26th, 1990.  The dawn of the 90s NYC ska scene was marked by the release of the Toasters third full-length album 'This Gun For Hire' -- the first without co-front men Sean Dinsmore and Lionel Bernard who had left and signed a record deal as The Unity 2 -- and the New York Citizen's seminal 'Stranger Things Have Happened' EP which it can be argued was the first American ska album to feature ska core.  Don't believe me? Give “Hell Town” a listen. Nearly five years on from the release of the N.Y. Beat: Hit & Run compilation which captured the sound of mid-80's New York City ska, NYC SKA LIVE documents the evolution of New York City ska into a diverse, post-2-Tone mix of sounds with more of an emphasis on roots reggae, traditional ska, rocksteady and dancehall reggae. While The Toasters and The New York Citizens are evolving sound wise, newer bands including my band Bigger Thomas, King Django's post-Boilers band Skinnerbox, The Steadys, Skadanks and Long Island's Scofflaws all offer their unique takes on American ska at the start of the 1990's.Please note: The music clips included in this podcast fall under the “Fair Use Doctrine” as defined by Section 107 of the Copyright Act. The law allows for use of music clips for purposes of criticism, comment, and news reporting.

This week, Zoey and Jason watch 1942's "This Gun For Hire” and which is a very complicated movie about a super not nice guy with an iPad case, and also we find out how much it would cost to get Zoey to murder someone.

For the NOIR CITY 16 film festival, we broke out of the studio and went on location with numerous guests from the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco: Annabelle Zakaluk, Ms. NOIR CITY 2018, talks about the Castro Theatre, how she became Ms. NOIR CITY, the making of this year's festival poster, and her glamorous vintage outfits for each night of the festival. (1:45) Bill Arney, the voice of NOIR CITY in San Francisco since 2006, on introducing the festival's shows, how his mom's pies helped him meet Eddie Muller, and living in the apartment where Dashiell Hammett wrote The Maltese Falcon. (16:40) Brian and Stacey Homan of Jacksonville, FL on what's inspired them to attend NOIR CITY every year since 2009, plus a special guest appearance on opening night of this year's festival. (25:20) Bill Selby, art director for the NOIR CITY film festival, on building the original Noir City website before the festivals began, as well as designing the festival posters over the years and working with the women who've been Ms. NOIR CITY. (34:45) Matthias Merkelbach, creator of the largest European database for film noir and neo-noir, on how he first learned about film noir growing up in Germany, traveling from Stuttgart to attend NOIR CITY, and Address Unknown, the terrific 1944 film set in 1930s Germany that was shown in this year's festival. (45:45) Greg Andrew, who's been attending NOIR CITY from England since 2013, on film noir in Britain and the international noir festival from 2014. (58:00) Marya Gates, assistant manager at Turner Classic Movies, on TCM's presence at the festival promoting Noir Alley, her own experience attending NOIR CITY and meeting an iconic Hollywood star, and doing a month-long noir immersion each year during "Noirvember." (1:04:50) Monica Nolan, a San Francisco-based writer and contributor to the FNF's NOIR CITY e-magazine, on attending NOIR CITY every year since it started in 2003, the festival's place within the local repertory movie culture, some highlights from this year's festival, and the massive showing every year from devoted Bay Area noir fans. (1:14:20) Images and info about previous NOIR CITY posters at these links: http://filmnoirfoundation.tumblr.com/tagged/NOIR-CITY-poster-week http://www.noircity.com/noircityware.html Matthias Merkelbach's German-language film noir database: http://www.der-film-noir.de/ Annabelle Zakaluk sings vintage harmonies as part of The Century Sisters: https://www.centurysisters.com/ Please send us any feedback you have on our show to podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org, and rate/review us on iTunes. Music: Themes from This Gun For Hire, Night Editor, I Wake Up Screaming, Shadow Of A Doubt, The Blue Dahlia, I Walk Alone, and The Unsuspected. "Laura" sung by Annabelle Zakaluk. Dialogue from The Underworld Story.

The co-authors of the classic Hollywood mysteries "Design For Dying" and "Dangerous To Know" join us to talk noir, costume design, and mystery writing. We start with their appearance at NOIR CITY Hollywood to introduce This Gun For Hire (2:30), as well as some of this year's movies at their hometown festival of NOIR CITY Seattle, including The Taking Of Pelham 123 and The Ladykillers (4:00). We also discuss the editing and production of the Film Noir Foundation's NOIR CITY e-magazine, where Vince is the co-managing editor (13:20), plus Vince's long-running "Cocktails And Crime" e-magazine column (17:45). Then it's on to legendary costume designer Edith Head. We talk about the Keenans' e-magazine article exploring her career and her work on film noir (21:00), her partnerships with Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly (28:20), plus her work designing clothes for the Academy Awards and for Bette Davis (32:10). Edith Head co-stars in the Keenans' books written under the pseudonym Renee Patrick. We discuss the origins of writing mystery novels centered around costume design in classic Hollywood, plus Edith's partner in fighting crime, Lillian Frost (37:40). Then we talk about the mechanics of mystery writing (where Vince explains the term "pantser") (43:50), choosing the books' titles (46:50), some of the amazing true Hollywood stories and real-life people who appear throughout the novels (51:00), inventing names for a fictional movie studio and some particularly entertaining fake movie titles (1:05:40), and what's next for Lillian and Edith in more novels to come (1:12:55). Contribute to the FNF to receive a year-long subscription to the quarterly NOIR CITY e-magazine: http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircityemag.html More information on the Renee Patrick novels at their website reneepatrickbooks.com, including the origin of the pseudonym here: http://reneepatrickbooks.com/blog/faq-3 Design For Dying: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Dying-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381842/ Dangerous To Know: https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Know-Lillian-Frost-Edith/dp/0765381869/ Vince's classic cocktail book "Down The Hatch" is available on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Down-Hatch-Odyssey-Through-Cocktail-ebook/dp/B00FIU1IQC/ Please send us feedback on the podcast at podcast@filmnoirfoundation.org. Music: Themes from The Sniper (by George Antheil), Double Indemnity (Miklos Rozsa), The Ladykillers (Tristram Cary), and Rear Window (Franz Waxman). Edith Head's narration from the Motion Picture Academy short film "The Costume Designer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmXDnneSlg

Old Hollywood REALNESS - Join Kathleen Noll and Philip Estrada as they gab, gush and recap the film noir masterpiece from Paramount Pictures, "This Gun For Hire" (1942) starring Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Laird Cregar and Robert Preston. Alan Ladd stars as Raven, a hit man for hire who gets double crossed by one of his clients. This get complicated when Veronica Lake get mixed up in his run from the law while working her own angle. Directed by Frank Tuttle and with Costumes by Edith Head

Feat album in review 'Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine'. New music from We Ride, Life in 24 frames, Valley and This Gun For Hire. Plus the usual news & chat from the alternative world.  Audible - audibletrial.com/machogrande Big Cartel - https://machogrande.bigcartel.com Voicemail - 05603 689 842 contact us - info@machograndepodcast.co.uk Twitter - @machogranderock merch - http://www.machogrande.bigcartel.com/ 'This podcast is intended for promotional purposes only' Macho Grande Podcast' does not claim to own copyright etc, all copyright is respected to the artists and labels.

Someone is missing... That's what happens. Anyhoo... The title of this episode is 'Guns for Hire' which is named after the achievement/trophy in Fallout 4. FYI: The name refers to the classic 1942 gangster/Film Noir-movie "This Gun For Hire" starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, directed by Frank Tuttle.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/southarcadia/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/southarcadia/support

What do a contract killer, a bumbling night club owner, a corrupt chemical company CEO, and a magician/singer/patriot all have in common? Find out as we review “This Gun For Hire” starting Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd and directed by Frank Tuttle. Great directing, acting and cinematography all combine to elevate this noir thriller above the average film.