Force of Evil (1948)
Many have written long and more eloquently than I ever could on this great film from Abraham Polonsky, which transcends the noir genre and is as close as Hollywood ever got to social realism. John Garfield brings his signature honesty and gritty complexity to the film. That the careers of these artists were destroyed in their prime by rabid political hacks and the narrow bigotry of Hollywood moguls is tragic.
Force of Evil
These are some of the best scenes in the movie:
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[...] screenplay was written by Abraham Polonsky, the writer of Body and Soul (1947) and director of Force of Evil (1948), two of the great films noir of the 1940s, which both starred John Garfield, who was also [...]
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These are interesting Abraham Polonsky interviews and articles by David Walsh of swsw.org:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/oct1999/pol-o30.shtml
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/feb1999/polo-f24.shtml
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/oct1999/sile-o30.s
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — April 6, 2008 @ 4:48 am
Listen to this interesting podcast on Force Of Evil from Clute and Edwards, http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/2558792, centered on Polonsky’s social critique. Though there is a tendency for hyperbole, and I am not sure I agree that Marie Windsor plays a femme fatale… she attempts seduction but nothing more.
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — April 19, 2008 @ 6:49 am