This TCM documentary is by film critic and historian Richard
Schickel. (I just saw the new cut of Sam Fuller's THE BIG RED
ONE that Schickel supervised -- powerful.) Scorsese talks
about his great love of noir, and how happy he was that
Warner Brothers picked up MEAN STREETS because they made the
best gangster movies.
It strikes me as strange, then, that Scorsese's one overt
attempt at making a film in that mode -- CAPE FEAR, from
MacDonald's THE EXECUTIONERS -- is such a misfire. Overheated
and overwrought, with direction that calls attention to
itself. The 1962 version, filmed by journeyman J. Lee
Thompson, is simpler, cleaner, and better.
Vince Keenan
www.vincekeenan.com Pop culture, high and low, past and
present. One day at a time.
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