More or less ignored for 75 years, this curious ‘B’ program picture now finds its way directly to a Warner Archive Blu-ray release. Cult actor Lawrence Tierney has an atypical ‘swell guy’ role as a Marine veteran thrust into a murder mystery and made the fall guy for nefarious foreign spies. Anne Jeffreys becomes his co-fugitive when the villains frame him for murder. It’s like a fancy 1960s romantic thriller, except on a micro scale. Just the same, Phil Rosen’s movie crams a lot of incident into its brisk 62 minutes. Consider it a gift to Lawrence Tierney fans — they might like him in a role that Cary Grant could play.
Step by Step
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1946 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 62 min. / Street Date July 20, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Lawrence Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Lowell Gilmore, Myrna Dell, Harry Harvey, Addison Richards, Ray Walker, Jason Robards Sr., George Cleveland, Lee Bonnell, Robert Clarke,...
Step by Step
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1946 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 62 min. / Street Date July 20, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: Lawrence Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Lowell Gilmore, Myrna Dell, Harry Harvey, Addison Richards, Ray Walker, Jason Robards Sr., George Cleveland, Lee Bonnell, Robert Clarke,...
- 7/27/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“A Senator, Nazi Spies, And A Dog”
By Raymond Benson
Want a fast-paced action thriller, starring attractive leads and a precocious dog, that deals with Nazi spies in the political climate immediately following the war, and be done with it in only 62 minutes? This 1946 potboiler directed by Phil Rosen and starring notorious Lawrence Tierney is for you!
Step by Step is not a film noir, which was what most crime pictures ended up stylistically becoming in the period after World War II. Instead, it’s a rollicking good action drama that packs what today might be two hours’ worth of plot into a don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-something single hour. The picture is not only well-written and well-shot, it has a superb cast that functions quite well in this tight little ride.
Perhaps most interesting for today’s audience is the leading man presence of Lawrence Tierney, who had burst onto the...
By Raymond Benson
Want a fast-paced action thriller, starring attractive leads and a precocious dog, that deals with Nazi spies in the political climate immediately following the war, and be done with it in only 62 minutes? This 1946 potboiler directed by Phil Rosen and starring notorious Lawrence Tierney is for you!
Step by Step is not a film noir, which was what most crime pictures ended up stylistically becoming in the period after World War II. Instead, it’s a rollicking good action drama that packs what today might be two hours’ worth of plot into a don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-something single hour. The picture is not only well-written and well-shot, it has a superb cast that functions quite well in this tight little ride.
Perhaps most interesting for today’s audience is the leading man presence of Lawrence Tierney, who had burst onto the...
- 7/23/2021
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Deb Verhoeven.
Deakin University's Deb Verhoeven and Stuart Palmer crunch the numbers.
The 2016 Aacta nominations were announced last week to the usual gamut of responses ranging from delight to disappointment and dismay. This year the absence of women nominees in a number of categories has been especially singled out for attention..
A cursory critique would direct frustration at the AFI but this would be misplaced. Women constituted 40 per cent of Aacta accredited members that expressed interest in participating in the jury process in 2016. According to AFI CEO, Damian Trewhella, .We consciously made an effort to improve on that, and the final percentage of women on juries was 47 per cent.. Film categories, on the other hand, are voluntarily voted for by accredited Aacta members and specific data for the breakdown of voters by gender is not made public.
Our issue is not so much with the lack of women nominated in categories like film screenwriting,...
Deakin University's Deb Verhoeven and Stuart Palmer crunch the numbers.
The 2016 Aacta nominations were announced last week to the usual gamut of responses ranging from delight to disappointment and dismay. This year the absence of women nominees in a number of categories has been especially singled out for attention..
A cursory critique would direct frustration at the AFI but this would be misplaced. Women constituted 40 per cent of Aacta accredited members that expressed interest in participating in the jury process in 2016. According to AFI CEO, Damian Trewhella, .We consciously made an effort to improve on that, and the final percentage of women on juries was 47 per cent.. Film categories, on the other hand, are voluntarily voted for by accredited Aacta members and specific data for the breakdown of voters by gender is not made public.
Our issue is not so much with the lack of women nominated in categories like film screenwriting,...
- 10/31/2016
- by Deb Verhoeven and Stuart Palmer
- IF.com.au
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