on 12/26/2022, 7:42 am
January
1/7 DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK
1/14 THUNDER ROAD
1/21 THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS
1/28 HIGHWAY 301
February
2/4 HANGOVER SQUARE
2/11 KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS
2/18 LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE
2/25 HUNT THE MAN DOWN
Big names in January (Marilyn, Mitchum, Bogie); more culty/marginal in February.
According to my records, the screening of LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE will mark the 250th episode of NOIR ALLEY. Assuming those records are accurate and complete, that would indicate that as of 2/2523, Eddie will have shown 233 different noirs, with 18 repeats. As we always look for ways to get folks to participate here, we'll open the floor to guesses with respect to the films that have been show twice. (Thus far, there are no "three-peats" at Noir Alley.)
To make that guessing game a bit easier for you, here are the years in which those eighteen films were released...to play along, just copy the list of years over into your reply and use them to list the films:
1945
1947 (4 films)
1948 (4 films--according to IMDB!)
1949 (3 films)
1950 (2 films)
1951
1953 (2 films)
1959
To help just a bit more, IN A LONELY PLACE is NOT one of the 1950 films that has been repeated. We should expect that one soon, however--and what is striking about the list as it currently stands is that it could a good proxy for what constitutes Eddie's list of personal favorites. (That's not necessarily an ironclad conclusion, but there is a lot of overlap there...so make your guesses accordingly!)
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