If you love classic Hollywood crime films and their famed yet not famous character actors, this book is for you.
Award-winning Film Noir cultural analyst Bernie Dowling makes a deep dive into the career of legendary character actor Elisha Cook Jr. Cookie stunned generations of film fans with remarkable support roles as the perpetual loser, the man of a thousand fails.
What's Inside:
Reviews of twenty-five Cook films, and more than 250 photographs of Elisha, classic Hollywood films, and the people who created them.
The forgotten masterpiece: Dowling examines the 1937 proto-noir with Elisha and Lana Turner as bit players in a genre in which they would craft careers.
Stranger on the Third Floor 1940: The true first film noir, 60 minutes of saturation in German Expressionist acting, direction, photography, set design, and music.
The Maltese Falcon 1941: The film that launched the great expeditions into the dark of noir by director John Huston and actors Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Elisha Cook Jr.
The Big Sleep 1946: The film that gave us Bogie and Bacall at their most magnificent, and Elisha as Harry Jones in the most compelling seven minutes of screen time of a bit player ever recorded.
Born to Kill 1947: A film so dark, even by tough noir standards, that critics refuse to recognize it as the masterpiece that it is.
The Killing 1956: The noir that gave Stanley Kubrick the discipline to temper his arthouse elitism to become one of the greatest cinematic auteurs in history.
Throughout, Dowling's sly humor and sharp cultural analysis make this more than just a film history book-it's a reverential applause for Elisha, the actor named after a miracle worker.
A treat for cinephiles who understand the essence of the bit player in noir. Entry through a different door of perception for cinema students. Essential reading on the journey into the heart of noir.外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
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