An opportunity to discover some new titles then.Besides STRAWBERRY BLONDE, there isn't a title here I am familiar with. Great that more Cagney is coming, but I'd sure love to be able to tick off at least a few more from my WAC wish list before I go to the great movie palace in the sky. Thanks to everyone at
WAC, though, for sticking with it and going full speed ahead.
Yes. I'm totally surprised. The WAC MOD was pretty ragged and dupey, and I figured it was far, far away from Blu-Ray standards. Plus who, other than a few hundred hardcore pre-code enthusiasts, had ever heard of it? But this is a blistering, monumental (aesthetically, not budget-wise) eye-peeling, brain-shattering, tough-as-nails piece of cinema, the absolute apogee of Warners' and Wild Bill Wellman's muck-racking, social conscious phase, with a visceral, damned if I do or don't and the hell with it anyway, performance by Dorothy McNaill, a female varition of I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang leavened with a side helping of perversity, that almost reaches Bunuelian proportions. If you're looking for comparisons, you might call it Moana meets Faster Pussycat. Scary as can be while also wildly entertaining. It's one of those pre-codes where you blink and think, did they really just do that? It's a film that continually undermines all your expectations. In terms of the story and raw, emotional content, it out Noirs any Noir. Forget Scarface, Public Enemy, even Wild Boys of the Road. This is the real deal.
