If you get Turner Classic Movies on cable, tonight they are showing a great old New Orleans movie, Walk on the Wild Side, from 1962. Starring Lawrence Harvey and a young Jane Fonda in one of her first screen roles, it is the story of two Texas drifters who make their way to New Orleans during the depression. A great noirish drama based on a Nelson Algren novel and also famous for the opening credit sequence by Saul Bass, one of few people to make a career on this sometimes under-rated component of movies. You can watch a grainy copy of the title sequence here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHLgUyE9pfI
Those were either some well-trained cats or this required a LOT of takes!
(Oh, and there is NOTHING "more" to read - can't we get rid of that "Read More" link below for these short posts?)
27 June 2007
Walk on the Wild Side on TCM - Thurs. 6/27
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Sorry, I've tried to get rid of that annoying "Read More!" when there's nothing more but is either live with that or the long posts. Unless someone knows how to fix it.
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