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m in a series of westerns that director ray enright made with legendary horse opera star randolph scott the previous three were trail street 1947 albuquerque 1948 and coroner creek 1948 most modern viewers will know randolph scott primarily for his final role in sam peckinpah s ride the high country 1962 and be blissfully unaware of the roughly one hundred films he appeared in prior to it ride the high country is a great western it co stars joel mccrea but it s not scott s only claim to fame the westerns he made in the 50s with director budd boetticher are highly regarded among connoisseurs of western cinema he also appeared in plenty of workmanlike westerns like the ones directed by ray enright that aren t great works of art but are well made entertainment and a cut above the average b western return of the bad men takes place in 1889 in the oklahoma territory the u s government has just opened up two million acres of prime land for settlers at high noon on april 22 1889 the great oklahoma land rush will begin on the tails of the settlers however are a bunch of no good outlaws the bad men of the title who only hope to prey on honest folks the land run sequence is exciting although i suspect that most of the footage is taken from an earlier rko picture the oscar winning cimarron 1931 one of the settlers is a beautiful young widow named madge allen jacqueline white who has a young son named johnny gary gray she also has a boyfriend vance cordell randolph scott who only wants to marry his sweetheart and move her and her son out to california but when madge s father john pettit gabby hayes the folksy and tough talking president of the local bank picks up stakes and moves from braxton oklahoma to guthrie oklahoma vance madge and johnny follow once in guthrie a cavalry officer appoints vance u s marshal as a former texas ranger and peace officer he s the most suitable man to keep order madge just wants her son to grow up in a peaceful law abiding world her deceased husband was a peace officer killed in the line of duty and she refuses to marry vance until he puts things right in guthrie trains officers to take his place and retires meanwhile a whole mess of outlaws is amassing against the peaceful homesteaders of guthrie they re led by wild bill doolin robert armstrong and there s even a woman among them doolin s niece cheyenne anne jeffreys when the rough and tumble bad men tell her that busting banks is man s work she responds that belle starr did ok the crew of outlaws includes plenty of famous names the younger brothers cole steve brodie jim tom keene and john robert bray the dalton brothers emmett lex barker bob walter reed and grat michael harvey billy the kid dean white the arkansas kid lew harvey wild bill yeager tom tyler but the only member of the crew who has much of a chance to distinguish himself besides cheyenne is robert ryan as the sundance kid sundance is the most vicious of the lot and becomes vance s archenemy over the course of the film robert ryan was on his way to becoming a big star after his memorable role in crossfire 1947 there s nothing particularly remarkable about his role in return of the bad men but he plays a charming villain well and the growing antagonism between ryan and scott provides the dramatic push of the film enright keeps the pace fast in return of the bad men the editing is quick and the camera frequently moves within shots which is not the case with a lot of b westerns for a b western the production values are good the acting is solid and the characterizations are well done below is a clip from the film i suppose i have to put a spoiler warning on it since it s the climactic fight of the film i think the biggest potential spoiler about it is a single line of dialogue that alludes to the fate of a couple of characters because if you consider finding out whether the guy with the white hat or the guy with the black hat wins the final fight in a b western a spoiler well let s just say i envy your childlike naïveté 3 comments posted in 1948 july 1948 and tagged anne jeffreys george gabby hayes jacqueline white randolph scott ray enright rko radio pictures robert ryan westerns bookmark the permalink the street with no name july 14 1948 posted on december 2 2012 by adam lounsbery by the time william keighley s the street with no name was released noirish docudramas were practically a genre unto themselves the docudrama craze began with the house on 92nd street 1945 which was loosely based on a real case of nuclear espionage during world war ii and was produced by louis de rochemont the creator of the march of time newsreels more ripped from the headlines stories followed spy thrillers like 13 rue madeleine 1947 and the iron curtain 1948 tales of miscarried justice like boomerang 1947 and call northside 777 1948 and even films like kiss of death 1947 which wasn t based on any single real event but presented its crime story as realistically as possible by eschewing a musical score and filming all the action on location in prisons schools and city streets the street with no name begins with the following words the motion picture you are about to see was adapted from the files of the federal bureau of investigation wherever possible it was photographed in the original locale and played by the actual f b i personnel involved then a quote from j edgar hoover appears as it is pounded out by invisible hands on a sheet of paper stuck in a typewriter the street on which crime flourishes is the street extending across america it is the street with no name organized gangsterism is once again returning if permitted to go unchecked three out of every four americans will eventually become its victims wherever law and order break down there you will find public indifference an alert and vigilant america will make for a secure america the docudrama that i think the street with no name most closely resembles is anthony mann s t men 1947 which uses the same kind of government approved patriotic opening but eventually devolves into a film noir in which the underworld setting and stylistic elements are more interesting than the clean shaven protagonists t men however showed its protagonists becoming drawn deeper into their undercover roles while the street with no name doesn t really develop its protagonist beyond his play acting heroics the street with no name opens with a murder at the meadowbrook night club a typical road house in a typical city called center city the street with no name was filmed in and around los angeles and while there is a neighborhood of san diego called center city i think that center city was just meant to be a generic name for anytown usa a second crime by the same masked gang the murder of a bank guard draws the fbi into the case since bank robberies are a federal crime leading the investigation is fbi inspector george a briggs who is played by lloyd nolan briggs is the same character nolan played in the house on 92nd street according to briggs these new gangs are the juvenile delinquents of yesterday and they are even more ruthless than the pre war gangs the only way to break this gang is to send in an undercover agent enter mark stevens as fbi cadet gene cordell who we know is a prime candidate for the assignment because he knows exactly which targets to shoot and which ones not to shoot in a hogan s alley sequence filmed at quantico va stevens goes undercover as george manly in the skid row section of center city which is full of pool halls boxing gyms and peep show machines and where apparently the only song anyone ever plays on the jukebox is an instrumental version of i m looking over a four leaf clover despite stevens s total lack of proficiency in the boxing ring he looks less competent than charlie chapin was meant to in city lights the robbery gang he s after is impressed with his skills and takes him in as one of their own the gang s leader is named alec stiles and he s played by richard widmark this was widmark s second big screen role and it s similar to his first the psychopathic tommy udo in kiss of death stiles s teeth aren t quite as big as udo s were but his maniacal leer is the same widmark delivers a good performance but character details like stiles s germaphobia and wife beating aren t quite enough to make you forget udo if you ve recently watched kiss of death but character details and plot points aren t what makes the street with no name a standout docudrama film noir what makes the film memorable is the overriding sense of tension and the dark shadowy cinematography of joseph macdonald stevens isn t as strong a protagonist as dennis o keefe and alfred ryder were in t men and the most memorable sequences in the street with no name are completely wordless the first is a chase in a ferryboat station filmed at the municipal ferry in san pedro ca and the second follows stevens as he tries to get ballistic evidence by breaking into the gang s weapons cache in a warehouse with widmark hot on his heels despite a generic story and a bland protagonist the street with no name has great pacing lots of suspense style to spare and a solid villain i recommend it to all fans of fbi stories and film noir leave a comment posted in 1948 july 1948 and tagged 20th century fox docudramas film noir lloyd nolan mark stevens richard widmark william keighley bookmark the permalink man eater of kumaon july 1 1948 posted on december 1 2012 by adam lounsbery man eater of kumaon 1948 directed by byron haskin universal pictures jim corbett was the archetypal great white hunter he was born edward james corbett in 1875 in nainital in the kumaon region of northern india now known as uttarakhand and was the eighth of 13 children corbett would go on to work for the bengal and north western railway he also attained the rank of colonel in the british indian army between 1907 and 1938 corbett killed a documented 33 man eating tigers and leopards the first tiger he brought down was responsible for more than 400 deaths despite his fearsome reputation as a hunter corbett was committed to conserving endangered bengal tigers and their natural habitats and india s first national park was renamed in his honor in 1957 his book the man eaters of kumaon was published in 1944 and was a great success so it was natural that a hollywood movie would soon arrive that bore little resemblance to it that movie is man eater of kumaon and it stars wendell corey as dr john collins a successful but disillusioned physician who has given up the manhattan rat race for the thrill of big game hunting dr collins bears no resemblance to jim corbett and he s not meant to for better or for worse the screenplay by jeanne bartlett and lewis meltzer is mostly an invention and not directly based on any of corbett s stories the director byron haskin was a hollywood veteran and the film looks great despite obviously having been filmed on soundstages and at the corriganville ranch in simi valley california william c mellor s cinematography is dramatically lighted and ominously shadowed and the nighttime scenes look especially good the story and dialogue are overly serious to the point of ridiculousness however and wendell corey has neither the acting chops nor the charisma to carry a mediocre film corey s facial expressions range from glum to deeply depressed and voiceover narration strings together much of the film more than one scene involves corey smoking a cigarette pacing back and forth and looking pensive as the narrator explains to the audience what he is feeling indian actor sabu plays a young man named narain and he acquits himself well but he doesn t have very much to do sabu does get top billing over corey although i m pretty sure corey has more screen time morris carnovsky s performance as the village elder ganga ram is overly mannered and soporific but part of the blame can be placed on the stilted dialogue joanne page who plays narain s wife lali acts her part well but she isn t given much to do either the most interesting thing about man eater of kumaon is the bengal tiger who is shot by corey at the beginning of the film throughout the film the tiger is wounded and tracking the man who has harmed him leaving a path of death and terror in his wake as one character in the film says a tiger will not forget the man who wounded him the footage of the tiger is really spectacular and it seems to be mostly original unlike most jungle adventure pictures which rely heavily on stock footage 5 comments posted in 1948 july 1948 and tagged byron haskin jim corbett joanne page morris carnovsky sabu shaff productions universal pictures wendell corey bookmark the permalink recent posts beyond a reasonable doubt sept 13 1956 the violent years 1956 on the bowery september 1956 i vitelloni aug 26 1953 rock around the clock march 21 1956 search for 18th academy awards 19th academy awards 20th academy awards 20th century fox 21st academy awards 22nd 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