Former Special Counsel Jack Smith underwent several hours of stupidly aggressive and just plain stupid and just plain aggressive questioning from Republicans at a hearing of the Judiciary Committee on...

The 2026 Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs will spotlight a dozen films over four days, many of them new restorations or rarities.

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Alan K. Rode interviews Wyatt McCrea about his grandfather Joel McCrea before the screening of THE UNSEEN (1945) at the Art Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs. Topics include: early Hollywood, the McCrea Ranch, Will Rogers, Frances Dee, westerns, THE UNSEEN, Veronica Lake and SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941).

With this spectacular romantic adventure, a new era of Hollywood swashbuckling was born, as was a devilishly dashing star named Errol Flynn. He brings boundless charisma to the role of an idealistic I...

“I don’t think I could have made ‘On the Waterfront’ if I hadn’t done ‘Panic in the Streets.’ -- Director Elia Kazan

When George Stevens set out to make Shane in 1951, he couldn’t possibly have had any idea of the challenges that he would face during the production—or of the impact that his film would end up having ...

Of the movies that writers and historians call 'Noir Westerns,' none is more celebrated than 1948's Blood on the Moon. The comingling of the Western genre and the noir style crystalized...

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An appreciation of the late Kathleen Hughes, of 'It Came From Outer Space' and film noir fame, by Hollywood historian and author Alan K. Rode.

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