The trailer for Scandal Incorporated is up at YouTube, which is more than you get for most of these titles.
Lonnie is of interest as a rare starring role for Scott Marlowe (A Cold Wind in August).
The Big Break stars James Lipton of Inside the Actors Studio (!) and Gaby Rodgers (Kiss Me, Deadly), and was the first feature directed by Joseph Strick. (A similar NYC street film is Art Ford’s Johnny Gunman; that one exists.)
Code of Silence is a rare directing credit for Mel Welles, semi-famous for his acting as the shop owner in Little Shop of Horrors.
Street of Darkness is set in New Orleans, presumably shot there?
The High Powered Rifle comes at the start of Maury Dexter’s prolific decade, the Sixties. An even more out-there candidate for a retrospective than Cahn.
The interestingly cast Third of a Man offers James Drury and Simon Oakland as brothers, the latter mentally challenged.
Of course, films do turn up; hope never dies. Another morph of late noir is found in blaxploitation movies, and I was startled to recently discover that Henry Hathaway’s long-lost Hangup (1974) has emerged in a shortened (by about 15 minutes) re-titled cut, Super Dude. This gives me hope for the only feature that Yaphet Kotto directed, The Limit (1972). Maybe Kotto’s family has a copy.
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