Criminally Unknown William Castle Tribute Double Feature: April 4th, 2010
HOLLYWOOD STORY, 1951, Universal, 76 min. Dir. William Castle. Richard Conte plays a wannabe independent producer who buys a vacant studio lot and gets embroiled in the mystery of a film director murdered there many years before. NOT ON DVD
UNDERTOW, 1949, Universal, 71 min. Director William Castle brings panache to this impoverished B-production, enlivening a fairly routine tale of a framed ex-con (Scott Brady – Lawrence Tierney’s “little” brother) looking for revenge in the Chicago underworld. Hot dishes Dorothy Hart and Peggy Dow complicate matters in time-honored tradition. NOT ON DVD. Special guest appearance by actress Julie Adams! Part of Lust and Larceny: Noir City -12th Annual Festival of Film Noir at the Egyptian Theatre.
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